• E News First look at Tom Hanks as Mr Rogers in You Are My Friend
• Variety Hugh Jackman getting the celebratory treatment at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, which has become such an Oscar stop to promote contenders, especially in the lead acting categories
• Film Comment Nick Davis, brilliant as ever, looking at some artful highlights from TIFF including Claire Denis High Life, Julianne Moore as Gloria Bell, and Rithy Panh's Graves Without A Name, a follow up to his earlier Oscar nominated doc
after the jump White Boy Rick, A Simple Favor, Alita Battle Angel, Sixteen Candles, Michelle Williams in Venom and Lee Pace as thirst trap...
• Variety Robert De Niro will be honored at the Marrekech Film Festival and James Gray will be presiding over the competition jury.
• Vox really good piece clarifying rape culture in the 1980s using Sixteen Candles (1984)
• Deadline Bruce Dern is taking over the role originally intended for Burt Reynolds (RIP) in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
• MNPP celebrating the unnerving beauty of Franz Rogowski (Transit, Happy End)
• W Magazine on Blake Lively's suits in A Simple Favor
• THR Alita Battle Angel and Dark Phoenix both pushed back months into 2019 but strangely another Deadpool movie of some kind has been added to the December 2018 pile of releases.
• Coming Soon First poster for the new Hellboy starring David Harbour
• The Playlist Michelle Williams admits she took Venom for the paycheck. She words it more eloquently, though
• Awards Daily clues about season 2 of Mindhunter
• /Film Charlies Angels reboot keeps adding stars. Now Djimon Hounsou joins Patrick Stewart and Elizabeth Banks among the multiple Bosleys cast
• Criterion on the seminal Raisin in the Sun
• Thompson On Hollywood tracks what went wrong with the release of White Boy Rick and why it took Yann Demange (such a good director) four years to follow up '71
And Lee Pace just shared this photo on Instagram and we bless you with it, too.
