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Friday, March 30, 2018 at 8:09PM • Mashable badly seeded March Madness brackets are terrible storytelling
• Film School Rejects picks the 18 best movies of 2018 thus far (weird-ass rankings if you ask me, especially with Isle of Dogs below A Wrinkle in Time... and the kind of obnoxious indie supernatural ovie The Endless)
• Decider looking back at an old Tiny Toons episode about representation in 1990
• Screen Crush man died when head got stuck in seat at movie theater (I'm going to have nightmares)
• E! Online Arnold Schwarzenegger has emergency open heart surgery
• Tracking Board Twice delayed X-Men adjacent movie The New Mutants has been a nightmare to make; Fox keeps changing their mind about what they want it to be. While we all might complain from time to time about Marvel Studios (who are far from perfect -- especially in regards to gender) at least they seem to know what they want every time and how to get there. Even if what they want has been a bit formulaic until recently.
• Cartoon Brew it only took 32 years (oy!) for a woman to get to direct a Pixar short
• AV Club here's another cute report about that movie which is called Bao and about a dumpling that comes to life
• My New Plaid Pants Klaes Bang, of The Square fame, made a gay short film
• Jim Carrey I somehow missed that in his spare time the seemingly retired movie star has become a political cartoonist. A pretty good one, too. This reminds me of the first time I saw him. Anyone remember his short-lived sitcom Duck Factory in which he played a cartoonist?
• Vanity Fair a good pilot season for South Asian actors - lots of roles in all sorts of shows
• Deadline the cast of Sex & the City supporting Cynthia Nixon's run for NY Governor
• Theater Mania Desperate Measures, which was so so wonderful in its premiere engagement (we talked about it here) is getting an open ended run off Broadway soon. Here's hoping the hilarious original cast is available.
Reader Comments (3)
The New Mutants is one of the most brilliant Marvel franchises, and it breaks my heart to see it so mistreated... the buzz is that the reshoots are to include 1 or 2 characters, and buzz says one of them is certainly Warlock. It makes sense that the other one would be Cypher, but TNM is looking like a disaster, in advance, because if you need to reshoot almost the entire film, adding 2 main characters to the plot (that were NOT int he story you're actually adapting!), it means that Fox - again - had no idea of what property they hired. If I look back at Fox's Marvel run, only 2 great films - Deadpool and Logan - and one really good one - The Wolverine - and the rest is full of disappointments in bigger or lesser degree - or directly, disasters like Daredevil, Elektra...
I think I’m too confused to have nightmares about the movie chair seat thing. How exactly does that even happen?!? I read the story and I’m still confused.
Yeah, Jim Carrey's cartoons are really good. And of course he is a bit of a creative genius. Some of the things he did in The Mask and Liar, Liar...brilliant.
Sad that his career just disintegrated, that he couldn't adjust his comedic repertoire as he grew older. Because he was never good enough as a serious actor.