• The Guardian interviews Anya Taylor-Joy on her passion for acting, Emma, and The Queens Gambit
• AV Club Oscar Isaac to play Solid Snake in the film adaptation of video game Metal Gear Solid
• Atlantic a wonderful interview with David Fincher about grievances with Hollywood, the death of midbudget movies, and Mank
After the jump our streaming future, Catherine O'Hara, rising Egyptian cinema, MTV Movie Awards, new Christmas albums, and more...
• Coming Soon 10 best Catherine O'Hara faces. She does pull indelible comic faces though sadly this post doesn't really screencap the best ones.
• Variety India's Milestone and Georgia's Beginning (an Oscar submission) win the Singapore Film Festival
• Variety why an all streaming movie world won't look how you think it will
• The Guardian it was a big year for lesbian love at the movies
• Deadline MTV Movie Awards pivoted this year to be about "all time" rather than the film year which basically mean giving prizes to Nineties and Aughts movies and very recent Marvel and DC movies
• Advocate ... and speaking of these GOAT awards: Selma Blair and Sarah Michelle Gellar reenact their infamous Cruel Intentions kiss for MTV
• AV Club Disney+'s Hawkeye series is revving up adding Vera Farmiga and Florence Pugh to its cast list
• Coming Soon 20 new cast members revealed for Lord of the Rings series (geez, how large is this cast anyway?) including Benjamin Walker
• Variety despite US problems, some theatrical markets are booming. Saudi Arabia opening to cinemas has resulted in bigger audiences and bigger budgets for Arabic language and Egyptian fare. Kira and El Gen, about the Egyptian resistance to British occupation in 1919, is set to be the biggest budgeted of them all but before that, three of the current Arabic language Oscar submissions have found local distribution, too.
Tis the Season
• Broadway World best stage star Christmas albums this year including new records from actors Leslie Odom Jr and Megan Hilty
• Slate okay this book sounds like a great gift for the 80s music lover in your life "Can't Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop's Blockbuster Year"
• Theater Mania an interview with Matthew Morrison about making the NBC musical The Grinch, airing on December 9th