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Tuesday, April 25, 2017 at 7:00PM So much news to catch up with. Deep breaths...
Vanity Fair Brie Larson is this month's cover girl. Talks awards season madness, Hollywood friendships, and Captain Marvel
Slate a breathless take on early footage from Marvel's Black Panther including kudos for what sounds like Angela Bassett's best movie part in a long time
Coming Soon Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs, his second animated feature, got a teaser poster and a release date
EW Faye Dunaway breaks her silence on February's Oscar Best Picture mixup
AV Club release dates for upcoming Disney pictures including Star Wars, The Lion King, and the bound to be terrible Frozen 2 (because didn't that story feel complete as is. sigh)
Movie City News David Poland is done apologizing for not liking James Gray movies very much. Here's why.
Deadline Monumental Pictures has announced they're making a big screen version of the Roe v Wade Supreme Court drama that determined abortion rights in the US. Curiously the article doesn't mention that this has already been dramatized. Holly Hunter starred in the TV movie Roe vs Wade (1989) and won the first of her two Emmys (both were in the category Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Special)
Cinematic Corner Sati looks back at Dolores Claiborne (1995)
The Stake an interesting piece about Scarlett Johansson's "embodiment quartet" (Ghost in the Shell, Under the Skin, Her and Lucy) doing work that's explicity about bodies and voices
IMDb has a bajillion casting updates for TV including new roles for Donald Sutherland, Ashley Judd, Teen Wolf star Tyler Posey, Kristin Chenoweth, Susan Sarandon's Feud followup, and a series lead for Miles Teller (who normally leads movies)
Kenneth in the (212) Erin Moran of TV sitcoms Happy Days and Joanie Love Chachi dead at 56
Boy Culture Madonna is NOT pleased about the news about the upcoming biopic on her early years. Calls the filmmakers "charlatans and fools"
...TFE in case you missed that earlier Madonna news
Awards Daily Ranking Hedda Hopper's Hats in Feud. I wanna kill Joey. I was totally working on an article just like this one when I saw this. argh. Must type faster
MNPP do you like Henry Cavill's new moustache?
Boy Culture Whoa! the original Bananarama have reunited for a brief 2017 tour. Even I, who lived through the 1980s have never seen all three of them together. I did catch one Bananarama concert in my day but by that point Siobhan had already left the band.
/Film Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen will be Timon and Pumba in the remake of The Lion King
Variety the Outer Critics Circle nominations are announced. The musical Anastasia and the revival of Hello Dolly! lead. Curiously, though the awards cover Off Broadway as well as Broadway, Sutton Foster wasn't nominated in leading actress for her Sweet Charity. Actors who hop around between Film, TV, and Stage that were nominated this year include Bette Midler, Sally Field, Daniel Craig, Andrew Rannells, Allison Janney, Patti Lupone, Cynthia Nixon, David Hyde Pierce, David Oyelowo, Kevin Kline, and The Lovely Laura Linney
Reader Comments (15)
Is Brie's head in one direction, and her body in a different direction? Maybe her face and hair were put on in Photoshop? I feel like she needs to define her look and not let other people style her, etc. This also applies to Alicia V., as they seem interchangeable to me in their vagueness.
Not feeling Brie Larson's transformation into Hollywood Glamour Girl Movie Star. It feels very...unnatural for her. I liked her better when she was an actress.
Plus, her friendship with Jennifer Lawrence makes me question her character.
"Dolores Claiborne" really should have received some Award season love for it's Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, and the 3 Ladies Performances: Bates, Parfitt, and Leigh. A truly underrated, tragic family thriller.
That's quite a line up for Best Actress for the Outer Circles hard to pick someone to root for, all great actresses.
At first I was checking to see if Sally and Bette were going to go head to head so that the balance could be made even from when Sally won the Oscar for Norma Rae against Bette in The Rose but then I realized that Bette would be in the mix for musical while Sally is up for a straight play. It would be wonderful to see them both take it but then that would mean The Lovely Laura Linney would go home empty handed so I'm torn!
Yes to Henry Cavill and his moustache. Hot. I wonder what he talks about with Tom Cruise.
Someone give Kathy Bates a movie. I feel really triggered that McDormand is getting her second Best Actress nod this year and Bates could never make good on getting a second in the category.
Why is it that all the leading actresses in their 20's are the same basic, interchangeable white girls. Emma Stone, Jennifer Lawrence, Brie Larson; don't we have enough?
If u saw the Nana's in the 80's your oficially old,great to see them back,wonder how Jacqui feels.
mark -- well, i saw them in the early 90s but i am nearing officially old for sure. haha.
bey -- Oh come on. Their onscreen personas are actually quite different (particularly Brie's as she often reads more serious... even in comedies where she tends to do deadpan/cerebral more than awkward/silly, plus she has an interesting throughline of great chemistry with younger co-stars she's mentoring or related to within films which ) The only thing "similar" about those three actresses is that they're fairly close in age, white and have similar body types. They don't even really look all that similar aside from the fact that theyr'e all beautiful.
This is basically like saying 'Taraji P Henson, Nia Long, and Gabrielle Union are the same actress' and NO ONE would say that.
Strange Bey the 3 you mention are totally different effervesent Stone,guarded Larson and charismatic Lawrence
Apparently, Jonathan Demme died today at age 73.
Thanks so much for the link! Dolores Claiborne is such an underrated movie. It blows my mind how many movie fans never heard of it, hope I got some of them to see it
Madonna hates the film. Didn't she work with Brett Rattner on her Beautiful Stranger video?
Marek: And didn't she make...throw a dart at almost all of her filmography?