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Variety Cher has dropped out of her expected return to acting with Flint, a TV movie about the water crisis in Michigan citing "serious family issues" (sending her good vibes) Coming Soon Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Channing Tatum will team-up for an R rated jukebox musical called Wingmen about two pilots who crash land in Vegas Variety Lola Albright film actress of the 1940s and 1950s and know for TV's Peter Gunn has died at 92
NPR there's a way to search IMDb now for movies that are female created or female focused... but it's tricky Vanity Fair life tips from Shirley Maclaine /Film Soderbergh's Cinemax series The Knick has been cancelled. :( AV Club Wonder Woman pees fire Interview shares an old interview / photo session of Penélope Cruz from '99 Playbill recaps 'everything we know (so far) about Mary Poppins Returns' but they leave out the most important news that we covered here that the world's best costume designer is behind the new magical nanny looks Playbill Kelli O'Hara singing "Toyland" - staged concert version coming up in April Guardian can Hollywood fight back against Netflix who wants us to get over our "romantic" notions of moviegoing. NEVER, NETFLIX, NEVER. CHUD 'movies no one mentions' on Copycat (1995). Uff, I miss Sigweavie & Holly leading movies Screencrush new Spider-Man: Homecoming poster, Spidey just chilling (note Avengers tower in the background) Tracking Board Robert Rodriguez to direct a remake of John Carpenter's Escape from New York (1981)
Anya Taylor-Joy photographed by Gregory HarrisThe Washington Post interesting visual analysis of Tom McCarthy's Oscar winner Spotlight Interview M Night Shyamalan interview Anya Taylor-Joy from The Witch PajibaAgent Carter in limbo after second season finale. (Is limbo the new code word for cancelled? I've never seen a network burn off that many episodes that quickly if they weren't going to cancel something) My New Plaid Pants "I would like to talk about... Madeline Ashton." YES. Death Becomes Her is getting a special edition BluRay next month KotakuGhost in the Shell finally adds a famous Asian actor to its cast list, Beat Takeshi. Playbill This is cool 15 ambassadors from the UN saw a special performance of Fun Home The Musical. Can we please get a film version? That show is sublime Film School Rejects looks back at Oliver Stone's The Doors (1991) for its 25th anniversary NY Times profiles Sarah Paulson who talks about her Marcia Clark role, her romance with Holland Taylor, and why she's drawn to older people in her life. The Playlist Matthias Schoenarts will star in Kursk, a Russian submarine survival drama MNPP on Kenneth Lonergan's new play Hold on to me, Darling starring Timothy Olyphant MTV briely, with wit, on Leo's Oscar win Tracking Board Joseph Gordon-Levitt developing a movie called K Troop, about a US Army division assigned to take the Ku Klux Klan down during their rise.
Finally... By know you've probably read that Amy Adams has confirmed what those leaked Sony emails suggested that she was quite unhappy on the set of American Hustle. It was her second film with David. O. Russell but I suspect there won't be a third given what she told British GQ.
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I was really just devastated on set. I mean, not every day, but most. Jennifer [Lawrence] doesn’t take any of it on. She’s Teflon. And I am not Teflon. But I also don’t like to see other people treated badly.. It’s not ok with me. Life to me is more important than movies. It really taught me how to separate work and home. Because I was like, I cannot bring this experience home with me to my daughter.
BFI Check out the Sight & Sound poll for 2015. Not pleased that The Assassin topped the immeasurably finer twofer of Carol & Mad Max Fury Road but it is what it is. Perennial critical darling peculiarities abound like Blackhat placing about Ex Machina. Oh please. I didn't hate the former like some but one must assume that's solely on Michael Mann's reputation, the way some filmmakers get a competition spot at Cannes simply because they directed something. HuffPo Reid Ewing from Modern Family talks about body dysmorphia and getting frequent plastic surgery The Guardian on a Carol gift-wrapping promotion - it breaks my heart that people keep thinking this is a watch it on DVD film. It's SO breathtakingly cinematic. GO TO THE THEATER. /FilmGremlins may take a page from Jurassic World/Creed and continue the story decades later
Coming Soon latest Star Wars The Force Awakens news & rumors if you're into that sort of thing. We made a very conscious choice not to watch anything beyond the teaser or to cover it until ti opens. We want to preserve the mystery and thus the possible joy. Antagony & Ecstasy reviews the original Star Wars trilogy MNPP Matt Bomer may play The Last Tycoon for Amazon Vanity Fair Ryan Gosling may play Neil Armstrong for Damien Chazelle In Contention how the critic awards can boost players in the Oscar race /Film there are competing Evel Knievel movies on the way one from (possibly Martin Scorsese) and one from Channing Tatum. Do kids today know who Knievel is? AV Club Michael B Jordan is up for another Creed movie. The movie is set to make back its budget this Thanksgiving weekend Serving Cinema in defense of Angelina Jolie's By the Sea Lip Sync Battle Anthony Mackie "2 Legit 2 Quit" versus Joseph Gordon-Levitt's "Rhythm Nation" New York Times ABC actually cancelled a show! But this is a rare with TV's new ratings math Towleroad two Brazilian actors share a kiss on live tv to combat homophobia. Our Brazilian readers should tell us if these two are as famous as this article implies. The Hollywood Reporter has an articles about LGBT cinema losing its edge. That's a topic that can be argued about certainly but Carol is an absolutely terrible example since Todd Haynes hasn't lost one iota of his power or daring and the "frostiness" that people complain about with that movie is hardly pandering, you know. Kevin O'Keefe skewers the article with one well placed barb.
"Category Fraud" Has Gone Mainstream I can't remember if I coined the term -- let's just say I did -- but I've been preaching against its evil like an obnoxiously pious mad prophet the entire time I've been Oscar blogging... which is quite a long time now. I've been seeing articles about it everywhere this year including this new one from The Hollywood Reporter. You know how when you love an obscure band and then everyone "discovers" them after the fact and you feel kind of betrayed? That. Don't get me wrong: I'm glad people are paying attention now -- perhaps we reached some sort of peak fraudulence where it became impossible to deny the problem anymore? But I also do not like that articles about this never address the media's own hand in creating this monster. (For this next sentence you'll remember that Nathaniel is playing the role of a mad pious prophet in this story and forgive his superiority complex). Other than The Film Experience practically every awards pundit / site has actively encouraged this 'all fraud all the time / end justifies the means world we're living in by regularly rationalizing leading roles as supporting in articles and actively encouraging studios and publicists to pursue fraudulent campaigns for "better Oscar chances"
Weekend Watch Jake Gyllenhaal discussses his progressive upbringing and Brokeback Mountain. I love this. Yes, we'll be celebrating the movie soon for its 10th anniversary in December.
Sir Ian McKellen talks Dame Maggie Smith and Oscar good luck charms from his stage show in Los Angeles last weekend "Women I've Filmed With"
Huffington Post a live-blogged review of critical punching bag Pompeii Pajiba on Lupita Nyong'o on Ellen. We already knew Ellen was a perfect talk show host but Lupita is a natural at talk show guesting as well Gurus of Gold top threes in each category from the Gurus. Looks like I'm way off consensus on Adaped Screenplay and Editing Slate Turns out "Chivo", cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, has an instagram feed and Slate is crazy besotted with it Pop & Hiss P!nk added to performers list at the Oscars. We're guessing aerial acrobatics but they already had those really recently at an Oscars ceremony... like I think just two years ago, right?
NY Times Manohla Dargis delivers an impassioned ode to Jennifer Lawrence's huge career... and thinks she's going to win Sunday night /Film reports on the Live Read of Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction in LA. Lizzy Caplan did the Uma/Amanda parts and Joseph Gordon-Levitt did Vincent Vega and, yes, they got up and danced NY Times honestly I take issue with this report that Oscar nominations didn't do much for the box office of the nominees. While I agree that the expanded Best Picture field has seriously diluted the marketing pull of "Best Picture!" a lot of these movies would not have done even half of what they did without Oscar buzz. I'm talking ALL of the non-star driven ones Culture Monster was 2013 really a great year at the movies or does social media just exaggerate all the love? Playbill oh dear. Lea Michele hasn't given up on starring on Funny Girl on Broadway just yet. Her #1 accomplice Ryan Murphy aims to help her Keyframe have you seen the video essays on who deserves the Oscars. I thought Best Actress was fairly interesting In Contention talks to the sound team on All is Lost Awards Daily talks to Steven Price about Gravity
Finally, in case you haven't heardThe LEGO Movie will be getting a sequel 1190 days from now on May 26th, 2017. Everything will probably not still be awesome -- I loved the movie but it seems like the perfect one-off rather than anything sustainable -- but franchise culture, Lord Business, and the grosses demand it.
Usually when Hollywood does biopics every actual person gets hotter by way of movie stars. But Robert Todd Lincoln was kind of a looker, yes? Anyway... I know who My Daguerreotype Boyfriend is voting for.
Saturday, March 25, 2017 at 1:15PM 
