May you get the gift you want the most tomorrow or today (depending on when you're reading this)! Or in the next week. Don't rush Santa. Since the next two months we'll be jampacked with awards festivities televised and otherwise -- and the Film Bitch Awards comin' up real soon and daily -- there will be precious little time to recap. So herewith an ICYMI roundup so that Team Experience can take a 24 hour break for gifting and egg-noggy boozing before we're back to the holiday-movie-Oscar-buzzing-year- in-review madness. If you've only recently been tuning in for awardage and are catching up with the year's movies frantically and wanting to read about them, catch up!
Don't Miss These Dozen Baked December Goodies
• Jessica Chastain - an interview with Miss Sloane herself
• Golden Globe Gaiety - imaginary parties with the nominees
• La La Land Fact - It's an absolute rarity
• Where is Kyra? - and how should we celebrate La Pfeiffer's return?
• The Wolf Man (1941) - all movie werewolves are in its debt
• The Ladies Who Lush - cheers to these wine-loving ladies
• Rogue One - reviewed
• Edward Scissorhands (1990) - a Christmas classic
• Yes No Maybe So - Spider-Man: Homecoming AGAIN?!?
• Asghar Farhadi Returns - an Oscar finalist again for The Salesman
• Avocado's Hate-F***ing Other Avocados - aka the Makeup Oscar finalists
• Florence Foster's Aesthetic -from ersatz Valhallas to potato salad bathtubs
Happy Holidays from Ava Gardner and The Film Experience!
Newish or Brand New in theaters but some we wrote about long ago in case you're like "what about..." Jackie, La La Land, Fences, 20th Century Women, Lion, Julieta, Neruda, Toni Erdmann, and Live by Night.
Highlights from Previous Months
Jan | 88th Oscars | March | April | May | June | July | Aug | Sept | Oct | November