• /Film Florian Zeller has already lined up the cast for his follow up to The Father. It's called The Son, also based on one of his stage plays, and will star Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern as ex-spouses dealing with a troubled kid. No word yet on who will be playing the step-mom or the kid
• Cinea If you've been missing Cláudio, here's an essay he just wrote on Jennifer Jones and David O. Selznick for a Flemish film culture site. (It's in English so happy reading!)
• /Film Trailer to Barry Jenkins upcoming Amazon series Underground Railroad
• MNPP They made a Funko Pop of John Waters?! On a related note The Film Experience will be doing a week long celebration of John Waters starting Sunday. Stay tuned!
Carey Mulligan, Billy Magnussen, Mariel Hemingway, another Let the Right One In adaptation, and more after the jump...
• Hyperallergic Kevin B Lee's new video essay on Minari and recent anti-Asian violence
• InStyle Billy Magnussen interviewed with a gorgeous photoshoot
• New Yorker a fun piece on both actress Oscar races from Michael Schulman which kicks off with Bette Davis's 'bunny theory' and gripes about her first Oscar win
• Deadline We thought Hollywood was done picking the carcass of the classic Swedish vampire flick Let the Right One In but we were very wrong! Next up it's becoming a Showtime series. Anika Noni Rose and Demián Bichir will star in the adult roles, a detective and the 'father' of the pre-teen girl vampire respectively. We love Anika and Demián but (sigh). No new stories eh?
• Coming Soon This is not quite terrible enough news to lose her the Oscar (it's a tight race so who knows) but Carey Mulligan has just signed on for what will surely be a lame role as Adam Sandler's wife in his next Netflix project. UGH. Hope the money is great.
• Deadline Gabriel Luna to play one of the main characters in HBO's The Last of Us, a video game adaptation. We keep waiting for Luna to be in something we're dying to see because we sure liked him in the first couple of things we saw him in.
• NYT Wesley Morris on this year's Oscar race, two films that didn't make it (Palm Springs and The 40 Year Old Version), and the looming crises of yet more cultural shifts around the movies
• Better Together Anne Heche's podcast talks to Mariel Hemingway about her Oscar-nominated work on Woody Allen's Manhattan (1979)
• Reverse Shot Matthew Eng on All About My Mother (1999) and the Italian American grandmother he often thinks of while watching Almodóvar films
• Towleroad Chris Crocker, who parlayed their viral YouTube fame into a gay porn career, has come out as transgender (a bit shocking considering the career if not surprising otherwise) and is funding their gender-affirmation care by selling their classic "Leave Britney Alone" video as an NFT
• The Verge ...explains what an NFT is and wow, I couldn't even begin to explain this so I can only link up. I can barely understand what they are after reading this and definitely can't understand why someone would pay thousands (or even millions) for videos or tweets which are free for everyone to view and embed.
Finally... How's this for a bizarre niche (and nude) story.
Brian Ferrarri's blog has naked pics of the very popular 1950s comedy film stars Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis together in both the sauna and shower. Though there are a gazillion bad fake nudes clogging up the internet and making any celebrity (even the ones who have posed for legitimate gorgeous artistic nudes) look like botched porn star frankensteins, these are apparently bonafide. They sold at auction from a collection of a friend of Lewis's. The most revealing of the photos (above) went for almost $4,500. The only telltale sign of photoshop interference in the online version is an attempt to remove a watermark that was placed across Dean Martin's dick. (That sentence just typed. *smh*)