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Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 7:50PM Oscar Stuff
NY Post bad press for the lucky Weinsteins. It waited till just after the Oscars to surface. Just like that King's Speech porn set situation happened after voting. Hmmmm.
Your Movie Buddy shows his Oscar night party food. Consider it a sequel to Alexa's Curio on Oscar snacks.
Gold Derby wonders if Hugh Jackman will be back to host Oscar soon. Quotes from Jackman.
Enough about that shiny gold man. Next!
Cinema Blend Is it Jennifer Lawrence vs Hailee Steinfeld for Hunger Games? They're very different choices.
Quiet Earth ranks every Philip K Dick screen adaptation in honor (?) of the opening of The Adjustment Bureau.
Pajiba assesses the career of Michael Biehn (The Terminator) post James Cameron. If you ask me it was super lame of Cameron not to squeeze him into Avatar somehow.
The Ampersand here's one for you TV buffs. "The Ghosts of Sitcoms Past" Can you name these characters?
Finally... Nicks Flick Picks wants your help on a class assignment. He teaches a film criticism course and he wants to know which of these "teasers" would entice you to read a full review and why? So click over and leave your (positive) comments. These are student reviews. They need encouragement. It's a good exercize if you've ever written a review yourself or just to suss out why you respond to the ones you do respond to.
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Reader Comments (10)
That NY Post story annoys me, we could've seen a Social Network win.
As for the Nick Flicks Picks project, I would say the CE Dogtooth review and the Edward Scissorhands review.
I'd be quite happy to see Hugh Jackman back. I thought he did a good job, he was funny and professional and, most importantly, the show he hosted was cohesive and worked pretty well.
I thought Stephen Lang was painfully over the top, but Michael Biehn could have totally owned as Quaritch in "Avatar." Although didn't he play a similar role in "The Abyss"? Or was that Ed Harris? I don't know if I've ever seen that movie from start to finish.
Thanks, Nathaniel, for this link! I'll just reiterate that I'd love as many of your readers as possible to hit that entry for 5 min and leave some encouraging feedback for whichever critics most strike your fancy.
I'd have loved to spot a bald guy raising a wand in the air in that "Ghosts of Sitcoms Past" illustration. That there isn't makes me want to say "Come on!" in a Bale Batman esque voice.
volvagia -- honestly what sitcom are you referring to? i do not know.
So that article about the Weinsteins - surprised, are we? No, no we are not. Alas, but - no. That said, the fact that TKS won Best Picture riles me for that reason alone. (Yes, Nathaniel, I'm finally starting to "get" the Weinstein hate.)
What bothers me just as much if not more is that the directors suing them and making the allegations were willing to keep it hush-hush long enough for the Weinsteins to win another golden gong. What, were they protecting their own careers? Imagining a backlash from other producers/studios ("hey these were the guys that kept TKS from winning the OScar last year; no way will I hire them.") I don't know. That whiff of hyprocrisy I smell is not just coming off the Weinsteins.
I meant "hypocrisy". Argh.
I'm not into biopics, but I'd love to see an honest Weinsteins biopic. I wonder who would direct it, though.
re Hunger games casting on Cinema Blend. Katie has it exactly right. Why are they looking for a skinny white girl for this hoped-for Twilight like fantasy?
I'd hire Ellen Wong, "Knives" from Scott Pilgrim vs the World, Scott's young high school girlfriend. Audiences loved her. She was sweet, funny, intense, full of rage and love. And you know that she can already do all the special effects acting. On the set, they called her the "Ellenator". Although she seems like she's 16, she's actually 25. If I was a producer, that'd be a plus. Stable employee, brings depth to the character, reliable, won't go off the rails.