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Monday, May 8, 2023 at 9:00AM by Nathaniel R
Your assignment should you choose to accept it is this: Choose a few of these fine talents this year and investigate the riches of their filmographies while they're still walking the Earth. Here's the list...
200 OLDEST LIVING SCREEN STARS
as of 05/14/23
100 years old
Friday, June 4, 2021 at 6:48PM • Deadline Master and Commander (2003) is finally getting a sequel... or rather a prequel based on an earlier book so new actors will be in the Crowe/Bettany roles
• Vanity Fair an interview with screenwriter Michael Waldron who is helping to shape Marvel's Phase 4
• The Guardian profiles After Love director Aleem Khan. We really want to see this film. The mother role sounds like a great part for undervalued and excellent Joanna Scanlon
More after the jump including Billy Magnussen, Borderlands, Cruella, Dick Van Dyke, The Conjuring franchise, and rumors about The Color Purple movie musical...
Sunday, December 13, 2020 at 7:40AM 
4 random things that happened on this day, December 13th, in showbiz history
1956 Historical drama Anastasia is released starring Yul Brynner and Ingrid Bergman. It will bring Bergman back into Hollywood's graces after her banishment due to her extramarital affair and win her her second Best Actress Oscar (though she doesn't attend the ceremony).
1957 Peyton Place which we discussed quite a bit this past summer premieres in NYC, becomes a smash hit and Oscar contender. The soapy drama about a mother and daughter and a small gossipy town is quickly adapted into a TV series...
Sunday, August 2, 2020 at 1:06PM 
Time has lost all meaning. What is a weekend? How long will the vestiges of taking stock of the last "work week" or weekend of new movies on a Sunday last only because that's when we used to take stock of things in the pre-pandemic world? At any rate... how is your movie or TV watching these days? Tell us in the comments, won'cha? I'll share two of my own screening adventures after the jump...
Tuesday, January 15, 2019 at 8:00PM by Lynn Lee
Among the sharper observations I’ve seen regarding Mary Poppins Returns is that it is to Mary Poppins what The Force Awakens was to Star Wars: A New Hope. In each case, the sequel feeds shamelessly off fans’ nostalgia by recreating every beat of the original film – the plot arc, the character dynamics, even the distinctive look of the original, tweaked to reflect the changing mores of the past several decades. In short, it’s the same movie, just repackaged.
Setting aside whether it needed to be made at all, does Mary Poppins 2.0 improve at all on the original formula? In The Force Awakens, the one real added value was the new characters. In many ways they felt like rebooted archetypes from A New Hope, yet for the most part they also felt fresh and intriguing. Is the same true for Mary Poppins Returns? Let's do a side-by-side comparison...
