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Type of site | Film,music,TV andvideo gameswebzine |
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| Available in | English |
| Headquarters | Brooklyn,New York[1] |
| Owner | Slant Magazine LLC |
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| URL | slantmagazine |
| Registration | No. |
| Launched | 2001; 24 years ago (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.
Slant Magazine was launched in 2001. On January 21, 2010, it was relaunched and absorbed the entertainment blogThe House Next Door, founded byMatt Zoller Seitz, a formerNew York Times andNew York Press writer, and maintained by Keith Uhlich, formerTime Out New York film critic, who was the blog's editor until 2012.
Slant's reviews, whichA. O. Scott ofThe New York Times has described as "passionate and often prickly",[2] have occasionally been the source of debate and discourse online and in the media. Ed Gonzalez's review of Kevin Gage's 2005 filmChaos sparked some controversy whenRoger Ebert quoted it in his review of the film for theChicago Sun-Times;[3]The New York Press quoted anotherSlant writer, Keith Uhlich, in a review of theMichael Bay filmThe Island;[4] and Gonzalez, who wrote regularly forThe Village Voice film section, was praised by formerVoice critic Nathan Lee for his attention to politics and pop culture in a lively and interesting way.[5]
KillerStartups.com, a web community that reviews websites for both entrepreneurs and investors, calledSlant "one of the most influential online sources of news, comment, opinion and controversy in the world of indie, pop and mainstream entertainment."[6]
On January 21, 2010,MovieMaker namedSlant Magazine's blog, The House Next Door, one of the "50 Best Blogs for Moviemakers",[7] 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 theVillage Voice.[8]
Slant Magazine employs two different rating systems for its reviews:
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