Heads up! At Movie City News the first "Gurus of Gold" charts are up with yours truly along with several other pundits - apparently I'm the only one nervous about Riz Ahmed's Oscar prospects and the one who is most certain about One Night in Miami's prospects. Extremely grossed out that Aaron Sorkin makes the top five in Best Director. Yes, he's a talented writer but come on now... that's a different skill set.
• Vulture an oral history of the making of The Emperor's New Groove
• Variety 'Actors on Actors' gets Steven Yeun and Riz Ahmed talking
• Digital Spy on WandaVision's use of tv tropes to give away its secrets
Amazing cast for HBO miniseries, new Kelly Reichardt, and terrifying Pee Wee after the jump...
• Deadline Scenes from a Marriage, a limited series adaptation of the classic Ingmar Bergman that will star Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac (A Most Violent Year reunion!) now has a truly stellar supporting cast: Nicole Beharie, Corey Stoll, and Tovah Feldshuh
• MNPP Michelle Williams and Kelly Reichardt are reteaming for a fourth time! It's called Showing Up and it's billing itself as "sharply funny" which is not something we normally think of with Kelly Reichardt movies!
• Variety Netflix has 8 songs in contention so they could well land the Original Song Oscar this year
• Deadline Shrill, Aidy Bryant's very good comedy series, will be ending with its next season
• Cartoon Brew looks at the only Brazilian animated short in the running for Oscar this year
• IndieWire CBS got their new series Clarice (yes, that Clarice of Silence of the Lambs fame) by promising carte blanche to the creative team (maybe network TV will improve with fewer notes to combat ttheir many losses to streaming?)
• Vanity Fair Elliot Page is getting a divorce after three years with their wife
• Deadline has a fun photogallery of Cloris Leachman's career
"Pee-Wee Park"
Finally, I can't believe this escaped our notice until now as it was posted in August but if it's new to you too, you MUST watch this 'trailer' from the evil masterminds at Pixel Riot.
It's so beautiful. My only complaint is that the "clever girl" bit didn't use Pee Wee in drag from that hilarious scene in Big Adventure (1985)