Yaaas, Link!
Guardian Daisy Ridley won't apologize for how thin she is! (Great. First she stole Keira Knightley's voice and face and now she's stealing her "too skinny!" controversies)
/Film interviews Anthony Mackie about playing the Falcon and finding out he was going to be an Avenger
Pajiba gets excited about the new true story movie Hidden Figures (due January 2017) starring Janelle Monae, Taraji P Henson, and Octavia Spencer.
i09 swears that Elektra (2005) is worse than you remember. That would be difficult to be!
Film School Rejects on the fascism that Rotten Tomatoes breeds
Facebook Russell Tovey wants to know which pic of him you like best
A Fistful of Films has a great piece on seeing your own private moments in Carol
Interview talks to Mary Elizabeth Winstead about Mercy Street, Scott Pilgrim, and 10 Cloverfield Lane
Our Friend Teo
Teo Bugbee is one of our favorite friends and people and she contributed to The Film Experience a few times in the past. But alas, MTV snatched her up for their rebooted blogging and such and they don't share! But check out two of her latest beauties.
"Thirty, Flirty and Thriving" - on Daniel Day-Lewis's 30 years of movie fame: the man, the myth, the legend.
"15 Movies to Freak Ya Boy Out" So funny and true from The Exorcist (1973) through Fatal Attraction (1987) and on to The Diary of a Teenage Girl and Carol (2015)
Off Cinema
Towleroad a heartwarming story about a penguin and the man who saved his life. Awwww
Facebook Russell Tovey wants to know which pic of him you like best
Tracking Board Anna Paquin starring in a new series called Broken. Another legal drama show ARGHHHHH the genre that just won't die or even take a wee break.
I was going to end with a few words on RuPaul's Drag Race but it deserves its own post, henny.
Reader Comments (5)
I'm glad that people are questioning "Rotten Tomatoes" ratings, and the aggressive misogynists who seem to dominate the comments. I avoid the site completely, I tell friends to do the same. I'm hoping it will become more unpopular and less influential.
So sorry to see that Daisy Ridley has encountered the "body shaming" brigade, hopefully she won't have to go through years of abuse and a lawsuit for slander like Keira Knightley endured.
I treat Rotten Tomatoes much as I treat Yelp reviews...if the rating is very high, it's probably worth checking out and may pique my interest in something I wouldn't ordinarily be interested in; if it's very low, probably best avoided; but if it's somewhere in between and I'm interested already, I'm still going to go regardless. I pay more attention to particular film critics than the aggregate anyway.
Haven't visited rotten tomatoes in quite some time; I prefer the vastly superior metacritic.
Daniel Day-Lewis doesn't even realize how handsome he is.
The second I read Andrew's fab review of Carol I knew you will link it :)