Would you rather?

Jena Malone is expressing herself!Because we need an excuse to waste time following way too many celebs on Instagram, our biweekly poll. Would you rather?

• do bonding activities w/ your partner like Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody do? 
• visit elephants with Lupita Nyong'o?
• fall asleep in a compromising position with Kate Beckinsale?
• get all dressed up with LaKeith Stanfield?
• indulge in soft sleepy sensual stretches with Jena Malone?
• parachute out of a balloon with Pom Klementieff?
• relate to JLo with Sandra Bernhard?
• flip around with Aaron Taylor-Johnson?
• take a private jet ride with Keke Palmer?
• travel to Greece with Molly Ringwald?
• eat birthday cake with Michelle Yeoh?
• befriend a cat with Garret Dillahunt?
or
• have a pilates session with La Pfeiffer?

Pictures are after the jump to help you decide.

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Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Yentl (1983) and Ex Machina (2014)

In Hit Me With Your Best Shot we choose a favourite images from selected films. Click on the images herein to be taken to the corresponding article from the participants.

Bronze - a star very much in control of her own image and its various crescendos into iconography

by Nathaniel R

Is there any generation that was so deprived of the movie musical as Generation X? The eighties and nineties were so bereft of live action musicals that whenever one did arrive it felt like both an anachronism and an event. Yentl (1983), as it turns out, still feels like both...

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Cláudio's Best Shot Pick: Yentl (1983)

The next episode of our series, 'Hit Me With Your Best Shot,' arrives Thursday night. This week's film is Barbra Streisand's directorial debut, Yentl. In 1983, she was infamously snubbed for a Best Director Oscar nomination after winning the Golden Globe. You still have time to participate! Here's Cláudio's entry:

This isn't the first or second time I've explored the wonderful world of Yentl on The Film Experience. First, when writing about two instances when the same performance got nominated for both an Oscar and a Razzie, I defended Amy Irving's work, concluding she deserved the former rather than the latter. Then, when revisiting all of Babs' work as a director, Yentl emerged as her most passionate project as well as the best showcase for the star's behind-the-camera talents. Check out those other articles if you're interested.

My positive feelings about Yentl haven't changed with this Hit Me With Your Best Shot-prompted revisit. In other words, I'm still a fan…

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Tweetweek Tussauds

In an effort to love Twitter again, despite its toxicity, we must savor Tweets that are enjoyable and share them. After the jump Mandy Patinkin, Liza Minnelli, In the Heights, Mare of Easttown, and more... 

jean smart played her own wax replica in hacks? emmy NOW pic.twitter.com/C6bpg35ca3

— character actress georgie rae (@georgie_rae_) June 15, 2021

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Tweetweek

2020 is giving off real “series finale” vibes, gotta be honest.

— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) August 22, 2020

What the world needs now is MORE MOVIE MUSICALS!

— MKB (@MatthewKBegbie) August 18, 2020

Truer tweets were never tweeted and you know it.

After the jump: Miley Cyrus, Batman ubiquity, Courtney Cox losing, Faye Dunaway being evil, and cinephile rage...

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