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Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at 7:57PM • MNPP picks 5 favorites from Roger Deakins great filmography - love the write up
• i09 Netflix is going to be the exclusive home for Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and Pixar movies when it comes to streaming
• The Guardian looks back at the career of Burt Kwouk (RIP) who played Cato in The Pink Panther franchise
• Variety looks at the top Emmy races. Where are we guaranteed movement in the often stagnant fields?
• Hypable Disney's gay erasure problem (not the pop band) and why the hashtags #GiveElsaAGirlfriend and #GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend are so popular. (Captain America already has a boyfriend, of course, but why did Disney include that Sharon Carter kiss?)
• Flickering Myth Chris Nolan's Dunkirk shoot has begun (photos from the set). Since he's sick of not being Oscar nominated for directing he's making a World War II picture instead of sticking with sci-fi, magicians, or Batpeople
• Playbill the 61st annual Obie Awards, a prestigious off Broadway prize, have been announced. Winners include Red Speedo (which we briefly wrote about), the musical Dear Evan Hansen, and two shows that have transferred to Broadway and are now up for Tonys: The Humans and Eclipsed.
• Boy Culture on the Madonna Prince tribute at the BBMAs and subsequent fallout - there's always fallout. Haters gonna hate
• MTV Teo Bugbee on the new "tasteful?" nudity in Game of Thrones. I feel bullied by the internet in regards to this show (i don't watch it and don't like it whenever I casually see part of an episode) but this piece is great
In Nostalgia We Trust
Have you seen the new Star Trek Beyond poster? It's pretty but wouldn't this tactic have made more sense for the initial reboot than for a third sequel? Also just how long until we reach peak nostalgia as a culture? Everything is just old things repackaged.
Yes, we've always had remakes and franchises all the way back to the early talkies but it seems much more dominant now, the whole pie rather than two pieces.
When something new is actually super old. Blatant Nostalgia Attack! pic.twitter.com/rbVwbuhGYv
— Nathaniel Rogers (@nathanielr) May 24, 2016
Come to think of it Force Awakens’s poster shoulda been a replica of 1977’s poster? With Poe giving the Leia leg. pic.twitter.com/kA3Ri7AHYK
— Nathaniel Rogers (@nathanielr) May 24, 2016
Reader Comments (20)
OK, anyone who says "haters gonna hate" is just someone who just can't accept criticism or the fact that they really just fucking suck. It's just a poor-ass excuse by someone who just can't deal with the fact that her time has come and gone. Especially as she is in denial in how ridiculous she has become in an age that is very fickle and becomes more and more desperate for relevancy when she doesn't need to. Instead, she just follows trends and do stupid things publicly and look even stupider to the point that everyone is calling her grandma in the worst ways.
for the record i didn't love the Madonna performance but i can't take any criticism of her seriously these days because it's never anything but
a) predictable
b) ageist
c) weirdly obsessed with what teenagers like as the sole barometer of what we should all value.
as soon as i see a critique of her that avoids these three things I will take it seriously. Otherwise I have to shrug it off because it's just simple-minded hating.
Nathaniel, did you read the Almodovar interview in which he says JULIETA was to be at some point his english debut with Meryl playing the titular role?!
WOULDN'T THAT BE SOMETHING.
I'm not really a huge fan of Madonna, but I have to say the "desperate for relevancy" thing is one of the arguments against her I just don't understand. Regardless of one's opinion of her, I think she's got the "relevant" label sewn up for the rest of her life. She doesn't strike me as desperate at all.
Disney is not in the business of creating overt gay characters in their animated features. Sure we can point to coded queer characters and have a laugh. But like Flower in Bambi, it'll be ruined with a heterosexual conversion.
RE: Emmys
I wish they'd recognize Broad City, Ilana Glazer, and Abbi Jacobson. Soooo good.
That article is pretty right on Game of Thrones. I watched the 1st season and part of the second, quit, and then just started watching again this season.
There are now entire episodes with no boobs! HUGE change.
The criticism of Madonna's tribute is valid. Why choose two of the most revered Prince songs, which have been brilliantly covered by other artists and Youtube fans over the past month? Why not "Let's Go Crazy," "1999" or (in true Madonna shock style) "Darling Nikki"? Plus, she was off-key and pitchy, making me wish Sinead was available. And they just tacked on Stevie Wonder to deflect the whitewashing charges. Very uninspiring and disappointing.
Re: Emmys
I've said it since s1, but Eva Green. Especially after this latest episode. Add Rory Kinnear as well. "Blade of Grass" was an experience.
Madonna's career is the template that every major female pop star this century has followed. She still sells out arenas and people are still talking about her. Sounds relevant to me. No one ever accuses any male singer or band her age or older of being desperate for relevancy just because they are still performing and touring.
I thought she did well with the Prince tribute. It wasn't amazing, but reading the downright hostile tone of some people's reactions (like the first post in this thread) is ludicrous. I don't think Madonna always gets it right, but she remains a force to be reckoned with. Her last album in particular was WAY underrated.
Moving on ... that Oscar Isaac photo is delicious.
I mostly agree with NewMoonSun. I couldn't even watch/listen to more than 20 seconds of that tribute, it just sounded bad to me. And I love Stevie and Madonna (when she's doing her own thing). Of course, I'm a Prince superfan, so I'm going to be extremely hard to please, but D'Angelo and Princess set a high bar several weeks ago, as did Springsteen.
The Color Purple cast set the bar so high for Prince tributes with their rendition of "Purple Rain" that I haven't had the desire to watch anyone else's.
For Troy H,
Anthony Hamilton and his crooners do an awesome rendition of Adore.
As much as I would like Roger Deakins to have an Oscar, I have to admit that I don't disagree with the winning films in all of his 13 nominations. Maybe his "best" year was 2007, when he was beaten by Robert Elswith for There Will Be Blood. Probably Deakins split his votes (he was a double nominee) between No Country for All Men and The Assassination of Jesse James... Maybe an Honorary Award down the road. Unless he wins for the sequel to Blade Runner.
Anyone else see the ridiculous Brody review of "The Lobster" in the New Yorker? Among other things he criticizes the film for not being relevant to contemporary politics, which basically suggests that he's angry that he didn't see a different film entirely. Soup doesn't help me do calculus, either, but I don't fault the soup.
Madonna gets more than her fair share of sexism and ageism directed at her (see first comment). Having her for the tribute made perfect sense. That said, the statement that "their voices blended nicely" is a STRETCH. "Purple Rain" is a vocally demanding song that she's simply not up to performance and - I'll say her - the amount of fillers she's had injected was distracting. I know it's hard for women to age gracefully in this society (that is, society doesn't let them), but I wish she could find a happy medium.
The poster ploy for "Star Trek Beyond" must be a wise use of nostalgia, because famously there are nothing but the warmest of feelings towards "Star Trek: The Motion Picture"
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