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Yes, it’s that time. Even in this, the strangest year of most of our lives, there’s something comforting about knowing that holiday season always rolls around and we can put on our favorite holiday songs and movies to keep us company. Clea DuVall’s new film Happiest Season not only understands that we need this escape, but manages to find humor in a season that can also be high pressure and exasperating for those who don’t adore it.
Abby (Kristen Stewart) is one of these people. While her girlfriend Harper (Mackenzie Davis) seems over the moon for the holiday, it’s always been a tough time for her, connected to the loss of her parents. In a romantic moment, Harper impulsively invites Abby back to meet her family for Christmas. Abby jumps on the opportunity, and doesn’t pick up on Harper’s hesitance the next day… or her nervous vibe as they head out on the trip…
Victor Garber as Thomas Andrews in TITANIC (1997)Happy February 7th! Especially if its your birthday.
We realize that not doing these posts every day possibly defeats the point but after realizing that two sort of infamous men were born on this day who both were featured in Best Picture winners, we kinda sorta had to start this again.
Birthdays and film-related anniversaries after the jump...
Oscars Cometh Awards DailyLove and Mercy is pulling out all the stops for their Oscar campaign including Brian Wilson concerts Twitter everyone is excited that Mad Max Fury Road is getting an Oscar campaign but most hits get this treatment even the ones that have no chance. Academy ConversationsTruth is on the campaign trail, too with this recent conversation in NYC. Pssst. I believe NY's BAFTA chapter also hosted a screening just last night at the theater I was in (though I was there for a different movie) NYT Style "The Gonzo Vision of Quentin Tarantino" like Matt Damon before him he might do his latest Oscar campaign good by just shutting up. In this new profile he infuriates a lot of people with his anger about his racial criticisms of his work and even has the nerve to be chauvinistically condescending about Kathryn Bigelow's beating him at the Oscars
Look, it was exciting that a woman had made such a good war film..."
General Linkage Variety WOW. Meryl Streep, who has never really been a film festival queen like some respected actors will be president of the Berlinale jury in 2016. It's her FIRST film festival jury. Naturally she starts at the top as president of an A list fest AV Club on a fun new instagram movie/tv mocking account "Night Lotion" LOL EW a roundtable with the creatives behind Aladdin for its Blu-ray release TFE did you vote on our Aladdin inspired poll? The Tracking Board collects all the recent Jennifer Lawrence news... which is a lot and frankly we don't have the strength this week. Can we talk about any other actress for a change? She doesn't even have a movie out right now. Can we at least wait for her to be in movie theaters again? Gothamist Lena Dunham's next HBO series in development is called Max about magazines and second-wave feminism in the 1960s Guardian Sir John Hurt's given the all-clear from doctors after his chemo for cancer. Yay! Guardian in extremely confusing Hollyweird news Paramount is developing a remake of The Ten Commandments (1956). Didnt they notice all the money lost on the last one (Ridley Scott's Exodus)? Vulture goes to the set of The Knick NYT Playboy magazine will no longer feature nudity but tone down their pictorials to "suggestive" EW want to be naked with Miley Cyrus and The Flaming Lips? Everyone gets naked (including the audience) for the video for "The Milky Milky Milk" /Film on recent Marvel news - the biggest of which is that Hulk will co-star in Thor: Ragnarok Playbill interviews the huge stage talent Danny Burstein. He is really remarkable on stage but has a low profile on film and TV. I was pleased to see him pop up recently in The Family Fang and Blackhat albeit in tiny roles. If only they were making great screen musicals and casting appropriately. Pajiba collects the best tweets from the Democratic Debate last night. Some really funny ones here Variety Julianne Moore lead Hollywood committee fighting for gun violence prevention
*throws rice* Finally, congratulations to Victor Garber (Alias, Titanic, Argo,The Flash). He married his boyfriend of 16 years, the artist Rainer Andreesen this week. They eloped apparently. Photo via Rainer's instagram
Friday, November 27, 2020 at 9:16PM 
