• MNPP is celebrating Jake Gyllenhaal this week all week. Here's a list of his best nude scenes
• MNPP... and the best Jake Gyllenhaal costumes
• Pajiba drools all over Dev Patel. It was supposed to be his year
• Vulture looks at 8 Christmas-themed horror films including Gremlins and Black Christmas
Tom Cruise, Sir Ian McKellen, Regina King, Josh O'Connor and year in review mania after the jump...
• Brodway World Sir Ian McKellen among the first in the UK to get the COVID-19 vaccine. He's feeling "euphoric"
• The Guardian wonders if 'a year without superheroes' via COVID will break our obsession. Er, good luck with that. More likely to break it is the lack of a theatrical industry where $1 billion revenue can be the norm and justify their hefty price tags
• Deadline Florence Pugh set to star in murder mystery called The Maid
• Deadline Brad Pitt's next film is an actioner called Bullet Train. Latin Grammy winner Bad Bunny has now joined the already stacked cast
• The Wrap great photos from the Power Women Summit featuring Regina King, Aubrey Plaza and many more...
• MNPP Josh O'Connor twenty-one times
• The Sun Tom Cruise goes OFF on crew members violating safety protocols.
Top Ten Season
• Reel Change Noah Gittell's top 20 of the year. Love the writeups on Another Round, Gunda, and Sound of Metal in particular
• People Tom Gliatto's ten including Palm Springs, Soul, and On the Rocks
• Film School Rejects best animated series of the year
• Los Angeles Times Justin Chang's list from Vitalina Varela to Beanpole
• The Advocate 19 best LGBTQ+ tv shows of 2020 (isn't this all of them?)
• Slant chooses 20 great film performances of the year
• THR David Rooney shares his top ten of the year from David Byrne's American Utopia to Bacurau
• Harpers Bazaar Candice Frederick shares her top ten: Minari, Miss Juneteenth and more...