• New York Times "The artists have been rebuked. Now what about their art?"
• Gr8ter Days which years were the worst for celebrity deaths? A morbid obsessive list that's kind of eye opening. I mean 1977... ouch.
• Los Angeles Times Carol Burnett on the 50th anniversary of her classic show
• The Guardian Guy Lodge wonders about the relative sexlessness of Call Me By Your Name and Moonlight before it and whether that timidity is what it takes for an LGBT film to become a big Oscar player?
Much more after the jump including Justice League credits, Daniel Dae Kim, Michael Apted, Aquaman, an honor for Detroit and the first round of PGA nominations...
• i09 the end credits scene of Justice League and why it's so flat
• /Film "no air bubbles" for dialogue scenes in James Wan's Aquaman like the kind we saw in Justice League. Both of these stories are yet more reminders that the DCEU is f***ed up, failing to show any consistency from film to film or planning any through lines between solo and group outings that make sense or inform the whole as well as the parts
• AV Club Merrit Wever, so wonderful on Nurse Jackie for all those years, talks about her new western show Godless
• Playbill Broadway show performances from the Thanksgiving Day Parade
• Deadline Jane Campion calls this "a fairytale time for women" and seems to be viewing the sexual assault story avalanche from an optimistic standpoint. Silver linings do seem compelling. But I hope we can see them come to fruition.
• Gurus of Gold "nominations I'd be thankful for"... it's weird that my votes aren't listed here but obviously my #1 was Michelle Pfeiffer for mother!
• Awards Daily The Actors fund will honor the casts of Detroit (Movie) and This Is Us (TV) at their "Looking Ahead" Awards on December 5th
• Variety good interview with director, cinematographer, and documentarian Michael Apted about working with actors, documentaries, the slowly closing gap between movies and TV, and the current sexual harrassment client
• Times Daniel Dae Kim's journey from actor to executive producer yielded an unexpected hit for ABC with The Good Doctor (and it's also a happy if unintentional rebuke to CBS who didn't realize what they had in the Asian-American star)
• Instagram True Blood and Queen Sugar star Rutina Wesley revealed (somewhat coyly) that she's queer and engaged to a woman in a new gallery of photos
Finally...
The Producers Guild of America have announced the documentary feature portion of their nominations. The seven films nominated are:
- Chasing Coral
- City of Ghosts
- Cries from Syria
- Earth: One Amazing Day
- Jane
- Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower
- The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee
Only The Newspaperman is not included in Oscar's 170 eligible documentary features. So far the early precursors and sneak peak lists (like Doc NYC's 15 Oscar hopefuls) have not necessarily coalesced around many of the same titles with the exceptions being possibly Chasing Coral, City of Ghosts, and Jane. Here is The Film Experience's current Oscar chart.