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It's time to play our new favorite fantasizing rather than dealing with awful reality game. So where and with whom would you like to be doing what right about now. Would you rather...
...hug a tree with Goldie Hawn? ...decorate Milla Jovovich's face with jelly stickers? ... float in the sea with Nico Tortorella? ... see Hamilton with Ashton Sanders? ... go vegetable shopping with Kristin Scott Thomas? ...hit the stables with Naomie Harris? ... "go heavy" with Orlando Bloom? ... do a shot with Leonardo Nam and Ptolemy Slocum as Westworld season 2 begins filming? ...F@*# Up some homophobes with Haaz Sleiman?
Cartoon Brew it turns out the new animated film Leap is actually a previously internationally released animated film named Ballerina, reworked by the Weinsteins for the US with a new voice cast. The difference: the reviews are terrible this time Variety Orland Bloom to star in and produce an urban fantasy series called Carnival Row which has humans and mythological species interacting (sounds a smidge like the new Will Smith project Bright) The Guardian James Cameron interview on Terminator 2. But the part that's getting quoted is his dismissal of Wonder Woman (though he says he enjoyed it) Variety... but naturally Patty Jenkins has fired back
IndieWire lots of female directors hitting the festivals this year. Here's a list of 20 Nerdist we haven't heard anything about that ill-advised movie remake of The Birds (1963) in a while. But now there's news that another adaptation of the source novella is aiming to be a dramatic BBC miniseries Mental Floss extensive piece on the costumes of Game of Thrones Boy Culture Jay Thomas of Mork and Mindy and Murphy Brown fame has died of cancer /Film casting for the live action version of Teen Titans (which will just be called Titans) has begun with Anna Diop nabbing the Firestar role. /Film The best recent Asian action movies you probably haven't seen Like Hacker Movie Pass is suddenly seeing a huge influx of subscribers. You guys I love the service so much. If you don't have it you really should get it. It saves you so much money if you like seeing movies regularly.
OffScreen The Atlantic interesting piece on Taylor Swift's persona-shifting new single "Look What You Made Me Do" The Stage Stephen Sondheim on what directors should and shouldn't do when restaging musicals The New Yorker read this brilliant piece, please... "Louise Linton isn't mad. You're mad."
Exit Video Ever wonder what it would be like to hang out with Madonna for a whole day on your birthday? Dennis Hensley enlisted his comedienne friend Nadya Ginsburg to play her all day and find out. "C'mon" hit play. Ginsburg is a brilliant Madonna impersonator and proves it again.
A photo posted by Baz Luhrmann (@bazluhrmann) on Dec 16, 2016 at 3:05pm PST
...reminisce about the first time you saw Star Wars (1977) with Baz Lurhmann (can you believe how young he was here!) ...celebrate the 15th anniversary of Lord of the Rings with Orlando Bloom? ...go roller skating with Elle Fanning? ...visit Warsaw in the winter with Ewan McGregor? ...or take your lunch from a RuPaul bag with Cheyenne Jackson?
The Matinee on the trouble with "classics" and drawing timelines in the sand Kenneth in the (212) the Mommie Dearest mansion is on the market The Stake on why blockbuster franchises are all boring now. Even the good ones National Post pop culture power rankings best and worst in method acting from Daniel Day Lewis to Jared Leto Uproxx movies have sucked this summer - well, the big ones have. Lots of goodies in limited release
MNPP * NSFW* Orlando Bloom made the internet all sweaty with his nude paddleboarding adventure MNPP I love the "Siri Says" series Jason does. She picks a number, he delivers his favorite films from that year. Variety Maya Rudolph to co-star in Melissa McCarthy's Life of the Party (2018) The Tracking Board Hollywood is planning to remake Mexico's Miss Bala (sigh). Good luck finding a lead to match Stephanie Sigman in the 2011 original Coming Soon Angelina Jolie has opted not to take the lead role in Murder on the Orient Express. Charlize Theron is the new possibility. And ICYMI... TFE... we held a Cast This about the other roles in that remake recently. Film Stage new Antonio Banderas movie is coming called Finding Altamira. I hadn't heard of this but it's directed by Hugh Hudson who I've suddenly realized is still alive. He hasn't made a movie in 16 years. I was just watching his Greystoke movie the other day AV Club Antonio Sabato Jr hilarious thinks his career is over because of his support of Trump. Oh babe, it's been over for a long time. That's like blaming Obama for the death of Captain Khan who died four years before he was in offic-- oh wait. Esquire In case you had forgotten that Clint Eastwood is an old guard conservative/misogynist, they have a new interview he does in tandem with his son Scott in which he uses "pussy" as a pejorative, disses Hillary and Obama, and tries that old chestnust "both sides" argument about Trump's behavior. Nope. Sorry Clint. Only one party tries to motivate voters with bigotry. (He also talks movies and at least he loves Sunset Blvd so he's not 100% a terrible person.) Women and Hollywood Ava Duvernay to become the first black woman to helm a $100 million budgeted film with A Wrinkle in Time - this is news because she's quite successful already and men with a lot less success have been handed blockbuster budgets often. Crossing our fingers that it's a financial and artistic success!
Dunkirk Teaser Here's the very quick new tease for Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk which seems certain to net him that Best Director nomination that's eluded him so long if it's any good at all, it being a WW II movie and him being "overdue" and such. And he knows how to direct spectacle films after all.
Off Cinema Buzz Feed "every time President Obama lost his chill around kids" if you need something adorable to look at The Guardian Leonardo DiCaprio is "with her". He's hosting a $33,400 a plate fundraiser The Daily Good Yes the media does play favorites in politics, but as this study shows, it isn't the people complaining about it who are getting the unfavorable treatment
Wednesday, August 30, 2017 at 8:15AM 
...hug a tree with Goldie Hawn?
