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Sunday, February 1, 2015 at 2:00PM Such Moving Pictures Clayton picks his top 11 of the year
The Film Doctor and his wife discuss Birdman and crisis of identity
The Backlot does a readers poll of the greatest gay movies but YIKES some of the titles and their rankings. It's also very very American movie centric. No Happy Together on a list of 100 greatest gay movies? THAT'S A DEAL BREAKER, LADIES.
20 Weeks to Oscar - David Poland wonders if it's wide open due to preferential balloting which he hates (and explains why)
NY Times Colleen McCullough author of the Thorn Birds dies at 77. My mom was obsessed with that miniseries when I was a little kid so I vaguely remember it.
Variety reviews Lila & Eve starring Viola Davis & Jennifer Lopez. Yes, I realize they're billed the other way round but let's be real, okay? I really wanted to see this one but it did not screen during the first five days when I was there. I'm hoping Michael saw it.
Film School Rejects talks about release / distribution for Sundance films. Sadly some of the biggest hits will undoubtely wait until the fall or winter to try to get Oscar traction. But a few will open before that like Dope (due in June).
Salon "I was an American Sniper, and Chris Kyle's war was not my war."
Art of the Title Sequence takes on Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing (1989)
The New Yorker Richard Brody thinks critics have failed female auteurs
/Film whoa. Martin Starr from Freaks & Greeks is all grown up and is playing a romantic lead in Amira & Sam
THR Oooh, a new leading role for Octavia Spencer in Seacole, a biopic of a Jamaican doctor
/Film Ezra Miller interviewed about The Flash on the street with Billy Crudup his Stanford Prison Experiment co-star. Nobody asks Billy Crudup about the time he turned down the Hulk in the early Aughts
Variety ooh Glenn Close & Frances McDormand are both going to be in a new drama called The Wife (Close is the lead who leaves her literary giant husband (Jonathan Pryce) just as he's about to be presented with the Nobel prize). Co-starring: Logan Lerman, Brit Marling, and Christian Slate
THR Megan Ellison saves Vidiots from closure
The Carpetbagger Clothes and character in The Theory of Everything and more
Allow me to be weirded out for a moment.
Did you know that Kirk (Sean Gunn) from Gilmore Girls played Rocket Raccoon on the set of Guardians of the Galaxy. I am dumbfounded. Perhaps this is common knowledge but I am only just realizing it. That Kirk was always trying new careers on for size in Stars Hollow but who knew he would ever end up like this!?
Reader Comments (11)
The Australian (a newspaper based out of... you guessed it) wrote an obituary on Colleen McCullough which is getting absolutely trashed online (and with good reason). Why? Here's the first paragraph of an obituary talking about the author of the biggest selling Australian novel of all time (and who also taught neuroscience at Yale)
"COLLEEN McCullough, Australia’s best-selling author, was a charmer. Plain of feature, and certainly overweight, she was, nevertheless, a woman of wit and warmth."
I think that all our moms were obsessed with The Thorn Birds
...........dusty pink roses over the water tank and lust for a hot priest...............
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert ranking higher then Angels in America? Are they for real!
My attempts to see Lila & Eve were, alas, unsuccessful. The idea that everything becomes easy to get into after the festival dies down halfway through is largely a myth.
Nathaniel, we are the same age. How could you have not perked up during the thorn birds? This pre-gay was quite intrigued by the not so subtle suggestions to heterosexual anal sex and a tragic gay boy. Not that mention Barbara stanwyck chewing up the small screen.
Wow... when did Kirk grew a beard?
Brandz: they're both pretty much perfect in every way, and one of them is way more fun than the other, so that's not that crazy.
Mike in Canada:
Personally I'd rank Angels in America #1. It was epic.
Isn't Sean Gunn director James Gunn's brother so maybe that's why he did it?
Yes, besides the character he plays in the movie, he was the stand in on set for Rocket Raccoon. He's the director's brother and also came up with the "Bunch of idiots standing in a circle" line in the moment.