Into the Link-Verse
Thursday, December 14, 2017 at 3:20PM • Dim the House Lights a conversation about those Sondheim auditions in Lady Bird
• /Film why is Big Little Lies still competing as "Limited Series" when it has a second season order. The controversy is starting to bubble up
• Cartoon Brew I didn't even know that there was ANOTHER new awards show but come to think of it there's always another new one, isn't there? We now have the European Animation Awards and they gave their top prize to Loving Vincent. This is not to be confused with the European Film Awards which also gave Loving Vincent Best Animated Feature
• Cartoon Brew on the key points of that giant Disney/Fox deal. It's scary people. Now basically only 4 American-owned entertainment companies have control over America’s cultural identity.
• Forbes on the teaser for Into the Spider-Verse with Miles Morales finally making it to screen...
• Indie Wire talks to the great actress Lesley Manville about Phantom Thread and Hollywood for women over 40
• The Wrap ack. I totally forgot to link to this last week. In an unprecedented move The Academy added 'Standards of Conduct' to membership details after the explosion of sexual misconduct news this past month
• Coming Soon the first poster and teaser for New Mutants
• Out January 25th is when RuPaul's Drag Race returns
• Vogue Philip Seymour Hoffman's partner Mimi pens an essay with Adam Green about living with an addict and the actor's final sad year.
List-Mania
• EW a timeline of Nicole Kidman's most iconic 2017 moments
• After Ellen a list of the best lesbian or bi movies of the year
• GQ Top ten books of the year and each author chosen gets to recommend a book, too. Fun angle! Do you have a library card? You might need one after this.
• Variety Owen Gleiberman and Peter DeBruge's top ten lists
• EW best and worst tv shows of the year
• Out most iconic looks of 2017. It's heavy on music video ladies for some reason but there's some fun surprises like "Allison Janney with a parrot on her shoulder" from I, Tonya
• CBC an A-Z guide to the year in queer: God's Own Country, Melina Matsoukas, and much more
• THR top ten movies of the year from Todd McCarthy and staff. Call Me By Your Name all over the place.
Reader Comments (12)
If only "Avian Glam Nicole" was sitting on Allison Janney's shoulder in I, TONYA.
I love that I have lived long enough to see Peak Nicole Kidman become a thing again.
Or a gay intern at EW has just been promoted.
I'd choose Gotham or Runaways for the bottom 5 shows before Inhumans or Iron Fist. Oh, all four of those would likely be in my bottom 10, but I can at least understand how Iron Fist and Inhumans turned out like they did. Everything about how Gotham and Runaways are turning out is just baffling. In particular, Gotham has Barbara Kean and Runaways has their seeming desire to turn two issues of forward motion into an entire season.
Volvagia -- see I think Inhumans is atrocious. I ended up not so much hatewatching as train wreck rubbing necking for 8 hours. I have never stayed with a show that long that was that bad but I kept being like "but how is this possible that EVERYTHING is bad: production design, costumes, acting, screenplay, directing, EVERYTHING." to me is it some kind of terrible that has to be seen to be believed albeit without the joy of so terrible they're good things (like, oh, Ed Wood movies or that sorta thing.
That Mimi O'Donnell piece was harsh, terribly honest and beautiful.
Nat: Inhumans and Iron Fist are really bad. I did mention I'd view both of them as definite Bottom 10 contenders. But no one aspect of either made me rage as hard as Barbara Kean has in EVERY. SINGLE. SCENE. she's had after the end of Gotham Season 1. Nothing about either has made me seethe as much as Runaways replacing "Superhero version of The Breakfast Club" as their tone for a much more generic feeling modern teen drama.
Unrelated to this: Now that 3 new accusation of abuse and misconduct have surfaced against Dustin Hoffman, I wonder what Hollywood will do. If they expect to be "fair", they should act as they did with Kevin Spacey. Hoffman's career should come to an abrupt end.
Hoffman's too old for his career to end abruptly. Opportunities to work are less for him because of age.
/3rtful He is in a Netflix series.
God, that PSH article. I need to get out to breathe.
God's Own Country is a lovely movie. Glad to see it mentioned anywhere in a positive light.
Nat - is Manville going to be a contender? Will she grab a BAFTA nomination if the film rises between now and January? I'm intrigued - everyone apart from Metcalf and Janney in that category seems to be on shaky ground (even Blige and especially Hunter)...