Slant Magazine
{{Short description|American online entertainment magazine}}
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{{Infobox website
| name = Slant Magazine
| logo = Slant Magnazine logo.svg
| location = Brooklyn, New York{{cite web|url=http://www.buzzfile.com/business/Slant-Magazine-917-599-7135|title=Slant Magazine|work=Buzzfile|publisher=Buzzfile Media LLC|location=New York City|access-date=August 3, 2017|archive-date=August 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170804014325/http://www.buzzfile.com/business/Slant-Magazine-917-599-7135|url-status=dead}}
| url = {{URL|slantmagazine.com}}
| type = Film, music, TV and video games webzine
| language = English
| registration = No.
| owner = Slant Magazine LLC
| editor = {{hlist|Ed Gonzalez|Sal Cinquemani}}
| launch_date = {{Start date and age|2001}}
| current_status = Active
}}
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",{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/movies/17scot.html|title=Say 'Brian De Palma.' Let the Fighting Start.|first=A. O.|last=Scott|date=September 17, 2006|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=February 23, 2017|archive-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227044721/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/movies/17scot.html|url-status=live}} 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;{{cite news |last=Ebert |first=Roger |url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050811/REVIEWS/508110303/1023 |title=Chicago Sun-Times: "Chaos" Review |publisher=Rogerebert.suntimes.com |date=2005-08-11 |access-date=2014-02-11 |archive-date=March 17, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130317065114/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20050811%2FREVIEWS%2F508110303%2F1023 |url-status=dead }} The New York Press quoted another Slant writer, Keith Uhlich, in a review of the Michael Bay film The Island;{{Cite web|url=http://www.nypress.com/18/30/film/seitz.cfm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061117144447/http://www.nypress.com/18/30/film/seitz.cfm|url-status=dead|title=New York Press: "Supersonic Strap-On"|archive-date=November 17, 2006}} 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.{{cite web |last=Yamato |first=Jen |url=https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/meet-a-critic-nathan-lee-weighs-in-on-leaving-the-village-voice-why-critics-are-ineffective-and-whats-next/ |title=Meet a Critic: Nathan Lee Weighs in on Leaving the Village Voice, Why Critics are Ineffective, and What's Next |publisher=Rotten Tomatoes |date=2008-04-23 |access-date=2014-02-11 |archive-date=March 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190322220806/https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/meet-a-critic-nathan-lee-weighs-in-on-leaving-the-village-voice-why-critics-are-ineffective-and-whats-next/ |url-status=live }}
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."{{cite web |url=http://www.killerstartups.com/Site-Reviews/slantmagazine-com-indie-entertainment-and-arts/ |title=SlantMagazine.com – Indie Entertainment And Arts |publisher=KillerStartups.com |access-date=2014-02-11 |archive-date=June 12, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612132947/http://www.killerstartups.com/Site-Reviews/slantmagazine-com-indie-entertainment-and-arts |url-status=live }}
On January 21, 2010, MovieMaker named Slant Magazine{{'}}s blog, The House Next Door, one of the "50 Best Blogs for Moviemakers",{{Cite web|url=http://www.moviemaker.com/producing/article/50_best_blogs_for_moviemakers_moviemaker_magazine_20100121/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100127015642/http://www.moviemaker.com/producing/article/50_best_blogs_for_moviemakers_moviemaker_magazine_20100121/|url-status=dead|title=MovieMaker: "50 Best Blogs for Moviemakers"|archive-date=January 27, 2010}} 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.{{cite web |author=Roy Edroso |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-01-26/news/i-blog-new-york-your-guide-to-gotham-s-lesser-known-best/7 |title=I Blog New York: Your Guide to Gotham's Best |publisher=The Village Voice |date=2010-01-26 |access-date=2014-02-11 |archive-date=May 20, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150520052110/http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-01-26/news/i-blog-new-york-your-guide-to-gotham-s-lesser-known-best/7/ |url-status=dead }}
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
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External links
- {{official|http://www.slantmagazine.com}}
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Category:Online magazines published in the United States