some say the blog will end in fire, some say in ice
Tuesday, December 23, 2014 at 1:08PM GeekRex on great sounding movies of 2014. So glad they included Wild but I don't understand the defense of Interstellar's sound mix given how difficult it sometimes was to hear the dialogue
Gurus of Gold I believe there's an update today but look at where things stand now in the big Oscar categories
AV Club Sarah Jessica Parker may be returning to HBO sitcom glory via Divorce (no, not from Matthew Broderick. On the show!)
In Contention Antonio Sanchez is not happy about his disqualification from Best Original Score for Birdman and why shouldn't he be. Their rules are so arbitratily enforced. Remember when Gustavo Santaolla won his second consecutive Oscar for a film FILLED with pre-existing music (Babel) and his score only being a small percentage of it.
The Dissolve Robert Rodriguez to helm a live action remake of Ralph Bakshi's Fire & Ice. I used to love that rotoscoped sword & sorcery movie so much but Rodriguez seems like he'll amplify what was already turned up to 11
MNPP I love this review of Mommy by Jason
Newsweek Maggie Gyllenhaal working all the actor mediums
VF Selfie hijinx with Ellen DeGeneres, Meryl Streep, The Baker's Wife and Cinderella
The Atlantic on the year's best trailers
Carpet Bagger looks at the costumes of The Homesman
Playboy Matt Patches goes looking for Martin Brest (Beverly Hills Cop, Midnight Run, Scent of a Woman) in this cinematic true life detective story
Comics Alliance Mike Coulter will play Luke Cage (Power Man) for Netflix's Marvel Series. No word yet on Iron Fist but now would be the perfect time to do that reverse white washing and cast an Asian man in a lead role, since he's white in the comics but his origin story involves growing up in an Asian mystical city in the Himalayas, you know? Please money and Marvel people -- Come correct! It's a whole new world than it was was in 1974.
Happy (?) Christmas
Yikes.
Sorry about that.
Binge Watch Worthy?
I enjoy being an Opinion-Maker but I'll admit I am usually happy to cede that responsibility to others when it comes to TV. There's just too much product to keep up with. So whoever is binge-watching Mozart in the Jungle let me know, will you? The cast includes two of my all time favorites (Gael García Bernal and Bernadette Peters) but this is my single busiest two-month stretch of the year so I need someone else to do such scouting. Report back!
Top Ten Film Critic Frenzy
If you love reading top ten lists, pick an article any article... 'tis the season!
Richard Brody (The Grand Budapest Hotel to Butter on a Latch) | Justin Chang (Boyhood to Interstellar) | Manohla Dargis (Beyond the Lights to well mostly Beyond the Lights) | Peter Debruge (Calvary to Class Enemy) | David Denby (Ida...well, mostly Ida) | Scott Foundas (Goodbye to Language to American Sniper) | Stephen Holden (Boyhood to Only Lovers Left Alive) | Lou Lumenick (Boyhood to Into the Woods) | Omar PL Moore (The Grand Budapest Hotel to The LEGO Movie) | Wesley Morris (Norte the End of History to Stranger by the Lake) | A.O. Scott (Boyhood to The Babadook) | Dana Stevens (The Babadook to We Are the Best) | Stephanie Zacharek (Under the Skin to Top Five)
Reader Comments (9)
Does SJP have anything surprising left in her? She's so gifted but I'm afraid we've seen it all. I wish she'd embrace character actress parts.
Ugh. I used to like Ellen (in her stand-up days) but her over-the-top butt kissing of certain celebs is sickening. I actually watched the segment yesterday with the three ITW leads and it was kind of horrible In fact, all of these TV talk show movie plug moments are dreadful, esp the morning shows. Look what happened with poor Amy Adams, and she's the bad guy??? And what's with Vanity Fair's obsession with Streep anyway. We get it, Graydon. You love Meryl. But do you have to tell us EVERY day?
re Mozart. I've only see the pilot. It's a GREAT show. Planning to watch the others soon.
re Sanchez. It's a damn shame because that was the coolest score! So original.
Adorable typo of the day: "I enjoy being an Opinion-Maker hen..."
The sound at my screening of Interstellar was fine - I heard every single line of dialogue clearly and the music was in balance with everything else. I'm apparently the only person in the world who had that experience? I thought it was just some theaters sound systems being messed up until Nolan started talking about how he did it intentionally (which is weird). So does that mean my theater went against his intentions by having a well balanced sound mix where you could hear everything? This has been confusing me for the past 7 weeks or so.
Yeah I didn't have any sound issues either when watching Interstellar, I guess some theaters responded to the complaints (can they even do anything about it though??)
I didn't have any sound issues either though I wish it would have been completely mute.
Don't miss Maggie in The Honorable Woman. Great performance and gorgeous wardrobe.
Martin Brest is a director I have fondness for. Maybe it's because i haven't seen "Gigli," but "Scent of a Woman" and "Meet Joe Black" are two of my favorites from the 1990's. The latter is a bit bloated, but the performances in it are lovely and the visuals sumptuous. Come back, Martin!
Mozart in the Jungle is worth the 5 hours, but the pilot is SO promising and the rest of the show kind of fails in comparison. It's still good, but I was really knocked out by the pilot when I saw it last year during Amazon's pilot season, hoping that it would be picked up. Now that they did pick it up, I kind of saw the show going in a different direction than I would have hoped. The tone is sometimes a little too quirky for me. Transparent is better.
Streep looks stunning on the campaign trail!