Slant Magazine

''Slant Magazine'' is an American online publication that features reviews of movies, music, TV, DVDs, theater, and video games, as well as interviews with actors, directors, and musicians. The site covers various film festivals like the New York Film Festival.

History

''Slant Magazine'' was launched in 2001. On January 21, 2010, it was relaunched and absorbed the entertainment blog ''The House Next Door'', founded by Matt Zoller Seitz, a former ''New York Times'' and '' New York Press'' writer, and maintained by Keith Uhlich, former '' Time Out New York'' film critic, who was the blog's editor until 2012.

In the media

''Slant''s reviews, which A. O. Scott of ''The New York Times'' has described as "passionate and often prickly", have occasionally been the source of debate and discourse online and in the media. Ed Gonzalez's review of Kevin Gage's 2005 film '' Chaos'' sparked some controversy when Roger Ebert quoted it in his review of the film for the '' Chicago Sun-Times''; ''The New York Press'' quoted another ''Slant'' writer, Keith Uhlich, in a review of the Michael Bay film '' The Island''; and Gonzalez, who wrote regularly for ''The Village Voice'' film section, was praised by former ''Voice'' critic Nathan Lee for his attention to politics and pop culture in a lively and interesting way.

KillerStartups.com, a web community that reviews websites for both entrepreneurs and investors, called ''Slant'' "one of the most influential online sources of news, comment, opinion and controversy in the world of indie, pop and mainstream entertainment."

On January 21, 2010, '' MovieMaker'' named ''Slant Magazine''s blog, The House Next Door, one of the "50 Best Blogs for Moviemakers", and on January 26, 2010, The House Next Door was named one of "18 obsessive, cantankerous, and unstoppable Gotham blogs worth going ape over" by the '' Village Voice''.

Rating system

''Slant Magazine'' employs two different rating systems for its reviews:

* Films and television programs are rated using the traditional four-star system.
* Albums, DVDs and video games are rated using a five-star system.

References

External links

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Online magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 2001
American review websites