One more hot month before Prestige awards-hunting Season. Are you getting excited yet? If you have been away at the beach here are 12 highlights of the month for your reading pleasure.
Halfway Mark - Best of January through June
Rhythm Hunger Nation - Katniss Everdeen does her best Janet Jackson
Blurb Whore - Nathaniel's on a movie poster!
Oldest Living Screen Stars - all 200 of them from de Havilland to Eastwood
Titus Andromedon and the "GBF" investigating the 'type' post Emmy noms
[Safe] & Sunset Boulevard - made for awesome "Best Shot" episodes
Oscars vs. Blockbusters? - Not that simple
Jake vs Jake - which kind of Gyllenhaal?
"CAN SHE BEAT 'THE MRS TOM CRUISE' THING?" (hilarity in old headlines)Nicole Kidman's Breakout Year - part of our '95 retrospective
Omar Sharif (RIP) - we said goodbye twice: once for Hollywood, once for Egypt
The Revenant Buzz - are Oscar campaigns starting early or are they fending off "troubled" buzz?
COMING THIS WEEKEND
The 1995 Smackdown this Sunday
COMING UP IN AUGUST
Ricki and The Flash, Grandma, Mistress America, Shaun the Sheep, Chicken Run, Angels in America, a small screen series, and more. Plus: Jennifer Lawrence turns 25. Viola Davis turns 50. And all month long we'll celebrate THE INGRID BERGMAN CENTENNIAL. P.S. Our year of the month will be 1954 so which movies would you love to read about?