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Wednesday, December 21, 2016 at 3:15PM Would you rather...
See, everyone loves Star Wars! #flashback
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?
Wednesday, December 21, 2016 at 9:45AM Team Experience has been sharing their favorite Christmas flicks. Here's new contributor Jorge on a Burton special...
Edward Scissorhands, at first sight, not the most Christmassy movie. It is not an iteration of a Charles Dickens’ novella, there are no Santa Clauses, and no one is chasing anyone through a snowed-in airport. Falling snow is a big motif throughout, but only the last third takes places during that time of year.
But it beautifully captures the sentiment of Christmas in the most important sense...
Wednesday, December 21, 2016 at 7:33AM 
Anne Marie has been chronicling Judy Garland's career chronologically through musical numbers...
With only two weeks left in the year, how do we cover the five remaining years of Judy Garland's life? I've tried as much as possible to deliver beautiful numbers and biographical details as near as I could verify in between bits of high-spirited hagiography. Unfortunately, the complicated myth built by talent, timing, and Hollywood studios only amplified after her death, making fact and fiction nearly impossible to untangle...
Tuesday, December 20, 2016 at 7:48PM Another week another big round of critics prizes. As previously noted we only cover about 16 groups (for sanity purposes) so here were a fourth of them as announced these past few days.
CHICAGO FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION
Chicago's association was first established in 1988 with a Best Picture prize for Mississippi Burning of all things. This year they liked The Handmaiden so much that it even broke into their Best Picture nomination, a rarity for the group. The last foreign language film to do so with Chicago was Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon back in 2000. It won three prizes, just shy of what Manchester by the Sea managed...
