![]() ![]() What the modern reader can learn from his warnings is that film and by extension film criticism can save the world by supplanting an alpha dog mentality with empathy. That is, the swirling mass of film critics and their followers on Twitter.Įllison’s contrast of old school print critics versus television critics is a cautionary tale against the clickbait that is modern online film journalism, and anti-intellectualist commentators that consume and rebuff said material. ![]() His writings over two decades, collected in 1989 as Watching, presciently anticipate “Film Twitter”. Writing for Cinema Magazine, the Los Angeles Free Press, Starlog and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, he built a contrarian reputation, panning such classics as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Star Wars while propping up novelties like Big Trouble in Little China. ![]() ![]() Known for novels, short stories and screenplays, Harlan Ellison also worked as a film critic. ![]()
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