Daily Scroll: March 25, 2010

Today on the Scroll: razzing Atom Egoyan; financing Fucked Up; running Rob Ford.

Chloe Turns From Quiet Family Drama To Loudly Awful Erotic Thriller [The Playlist]: Looks like Atom Egoyan has finally made one of those movies that is more enjoyable to read about than it is to watch — here, its storyline inspires comparisons to both Mike Judge’s recent turkey Extract, and Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction. The two-star local alt-weekly reviews are more or less polite — but they’re still two stars. No scruples from Entertainment Weekly’s Owen Gleiberman, who cuts to the chase: “We’re a step ahead of Egoyan’s tricks, and that’s because we’ve seen them — all of them — before.”

SXSW WHY? [Looking For Gold]: Fucked Up explain in a bunch of words about why an anti-corporate sponsorship punk act would play at an increasingly corporate environment for indie rock at last week’s South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas — it’s all about gaming a music industry system gone loco: “If you are a band, and are offered to play the Dewars Pampers Ultra Soft stage, it may be a legitimately good decision to take part in, if you can get a good slot and play for a few hundred people, and maybe even walk away from the show with a cheque. But is it worth playing in the middle of nowhere to no people if the only meaningful economic relationship created by the show is between a few companies that won’t pay you, and a few hundred people that are still asleep while you are playing?”

Right-winger Rob Ford really a social liberal, brother says [Globe and Mail]: And, with the official announcement that he’s running for mayor, we also learn that his campaign manager sibling is not much of a web designer — although his instantly problematic “MAYOR ROB FORD” logo instantly endears him to Toronto’s population of Comic Book Guys.

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