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Thursday, May 21, 2015 at 11:01AM The Wrap Maggie Gyllenhaal is "too old" at 37 to play onscreen love of a 55 year old actor? Gross!
Empire Juno's mom and daughter Janney & Page reuniting for the comedy Tallulah
Antagony & Ecstasy shares a killer review of one of my fav Best Picture winners Grand Hotel - loved every sentence of this
Nick's Flick Picks revisits Georgia (1995) as part of its Cannes retrospective. Have you ever seen it? It's a goodie. Mare Winningham, guys
Nick's Flick Picks and the terribly underseen Angels & Insects - amazing costumes
Awards Daily handicaps Oscar chances of Cannes players with Carol and Youth getting top marks for AMPAS likelihood
The Film Stage looks at Lucretia Martel's next one, Zama, as it begins filming
Salon compares the first seasons of Daredevil & The Flash. Which show wins?
Towleroad plans are afoot to make a stage musical of the Elton John biopic starring Tom Hardy called Rocket Man. Um... shouldn't they actually make the movie first before worrying about adapting it?
Variety in case you hadn't heard: Roger Deakins will shoot the Bladerunner sequel (so at least it will look pretty and get one Oscar nomination)
CHUD has an index of photo glimpses of Suicide Squad from Harley getting wet to the Joker at gunpoint
Mad Mania
Gothamist the last scene of every Mad Men season. Matthew Weiner approached each season with its last visual in mind
Slate 10 great images from Mad Men over the years - the show that always looked more like a great movie than "television"
Film School Rejects where to see the Mad Men cast members next - new projects!
AV Club an illustrated guide to Mad Max warlords from the Toecutter to Immortan Joe
Jezebel offers up hilarious mocking of vulnerable masculinity in the face of Mad Max Fury Road
Charlize Theron menstruated all over my masculinity!
....and finally the Imperator Furiosa tribute fans of both Mad Max Fury Road and The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt didn't know they wanted but now can't live with out.
They alive, damnit!
Reader Comments (6)
Patriarchal institution marginalizes women according to age, and people want to carry on with outrage? Hollywood is not your friend film fans. It simply is an artificial place with illogical and prejudicial values.
I love Georgia. All the actors are so great in it, especially Leigh and Winningham (who should have won Supporting Actress that year). No shade to Stone, who certainly did her thing in Casino and I get why she was nominated. But, if you could somehow replace Stone with Leigh in the Best Actress lineup for 1995, that would have been a roster for the ages.
What I love about the Jezebel send-up is how it acknowledges the heavily homoerotic tones of iconic uber-masculine action vehicles. So straight men don't want TOO much women, even sexy supermodels, playing a large part in their movies, but they love homoerotic subtext as long as it remains subtext. Straight cis men are the most confused people in the world.
I have a theory that in Hollywood a leading man's leading ladies remain the same age they were when he first became a leading man, no matter how much he ages. The only exceptions are the instances in which he plays either a grandfather or a father of an adult, provided the character isn't a widower, in which case he still gets a much younger love interest.
@Troy, it's not a theory, it's actually well-documented fact! Take a look at these famous Vulture charts: http://www.vulture.com/2013/04/leading-men-age-but-their-love-interests-dont.html
Maggie too old to play a 55-year old man's love interest? BULLSHIT!!!!!!