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So hard to keep up each December! But we get by with a little help from our links...
Variety we hadn't noticed this but it's true - Major studios were nearly entirely shut out of the Best Picture lineups. TFE in case you missed it our SAG Ensemble predictions... they announce tomorrow morning AV Club talks to 80s funny lady Terri Garr of Tootsie and Mr Mom fame Screencrush forever undervalued Patrick Wilson just got a possibly big deal role. He'll play the villain of sorts Orm in Aquaman
Lots more after the jump including the NAACP Image Award nominations, Madonna, men's tuxes on the red carpet, and The Accused...
Autostraddle "How to Dress like Cate Blanchett's Oceans 8 Character Who is Definitely Queer, Right?" Comics Alliance Pixar's Coco gets concept art and a voice cast - Gael García Bernal! Sydney Morning Herald Australia's own version of the Oscars goes big for Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge with 9 wins from its 13 nominations. The New Yorker "the fate of cinephilia in the age of streaming"
Awards Daily interviews the production design team on Loving EW Ryan Reynolds as Entertainer of the Year Boy Culture Hunky Van Williams, discovered by Liz Taylor of people, who came to fame on TV's The Green Hornet has died at 82. His last movie role was as homage to his friend and co-star Bruce Lee in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993) The Wrap Madonna raises $7 million for Malawi with a little help from Sean Penn who she offers to marry again THR Harsh words for Amazon with the cancellation of Good Girls Revolt
The World Has Lost Its Mind Twitter protesters of the lack of gender equality in the Australian film industry dressed as sausages at the AACTAS. "End the Sausage Party!"... they were not talking about the animated movie. Daily Beast Sofia Vergara sued by her own embryos Time has released their Person of the Year stuff. I shan't type his name anymore ever (vomiting ∞). Beyoncé was apparently runner up. So that makes the second strong woman he who shall not be named has grossly defeated in this awful no good terrible when will it end year (except for at the movies. So many good movies)
List-Making. Tis the Season Vulture David Edelstein's top 16 includes 20th Century Women and The Fits Vanity Fair Richard Lawsom's top 10 includes Jackie, The Lobster, and Fire at Sea Time Stephanie Zacharek's top 10 includes The Shallows, Loving, and Paterson
And we'll end with David Ehrlich's annual Top 25 Video Countdown. It's always a pleasure to watch this even if you don't agree on the films or their ranking though this year is a far more worthy selection than last year's!
There are 120+ titles leaving either Netflix or Amazon Prime this week as December arrives so if you've been meaning to see any of these, now's your chance. As is our practice we'll freeze frame a few selected titles at random and display what we found. Which will you be watching?
Playlist on the complicated issues of "separate the art from the artist" in today's social media court of public opinion and 24/7 news cycles and Birth of a Nation's release Gold Derby titles their article "OFFICIAL" and then claims to have inside intel on "hints" that Silence is actually opening this year despite no poster, trailer, release date, etcetera. This is not what the word "official" means. It will only be official when Paramount makes a statement. I'm hopeful, as the film has been in post forever, but it's definitely not official yet. MNPP Jason offers to teach a course on "The Nudity of Jake Gyllenhaal 101" and we would like to audit the course -- Jake is always having nude breakdowns in showers.
The New Yorker has an interesting take on Bridget Jones's Baby's refusal to engage with some of the elements of the genre it helped define Variety Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal will co-star in a movie called Wildlife based on the novel by Richard Ford about a boy witnessing his parent's marriage falling apart. The fun (?) part is that it's cowritten by real life couple Zoe Kazan and Paul Dano who we hope aren't falling apart. Dano will also direct AMPAS they've uploaded all the speeches from the 2016 Student Academy Awards if you're interested. Perhaps one day some of these men and women will win normal Oscars? Does anyone have any stats on that? E! Online congratulations to Idina Menzel who is engaged to her boyfriend Aaron Lohr (who had a bit part in the movie Rent) Interview talks to Zachary Quinto about Snowden and more I Like Things that Look Like Mistakes Kyle Turner on Sia's new video "The Greatest" The Stake on the many remakes of Seven Samurai with The Magnificent Seven in theaters The New Yorker looks back at the obsessive photographer behind iconic 50s magazine Physique Pictorial - was he the early Robert Mapplethorpe or the gay Hugh Hefner? Boy Culture Madonna reads ageist commenters to filth on her Instagram account. I have loved this woman so much and for so long that I find a kind of regular joy that she's so endlessly superior to all the litte minds that have been trying to bring her down for the past 32 years. But on the other hand, probably best for celebrities not to acknowledge all the people that hate them. Don't give them that power! MNPP Thursdays Ways Not To Die' memorializes generic Christoph Waltz villain in The Legend of Tarzan
Tuesday, December 13, 2016 at 11:00PM 
