• Crime Reads an amazing piece ranking the 100 best, strangest, and worst portrayals of Sherlock Holmes. I LOL'ed several times.
• Deadline icymi the Visual Effects Society awards were held. The Midnight Sky, The Mandalorian, Project Power, Lovecraft Country, and Soul were all winners
• Variety on the absence of Latinos at the Oscars. Rosie Perez speaks out about never being asked back. And she's not even talking about being nominated again.
“Not even to sit in the audience, not to present, nothing—and I’m a member. I love the Academy Awards. I cheer on my peers, but it hurts. It’s like when your home team doesn’t ask you to come back into the stadium after you got up to bat and hit the home run.”
More after the jump including Los Angeles streets during Oscar week, Youn Yuh-jung, Queer as Folk, and more...
• Coming Soon new trailer and poster to The Woman in the Window that movie that seems like it's never going to come out. Just drop it already-- the buzz will not change at this point.
• NPR Youn Yuh-Jung talks about her historic Oscar nomination
• The Telegraph Andrew Scott joins The Crown as Tony Blair
• The Guardian BAFTA predictions from the UK. Given how tiny juries managed the nominations it's anyone's guess what the wide membership will now do!
• Theater Mania watch scenes from Wicked... in Korean! If any of you speak Korean did they do a good job with lyric translation. That's such a skill as it cant be exact due to rhyming and such
• NYT Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II's husband, has died at 99
• Pitchford Rapper/actor DMX has died at 50
• /Film Phoebe Waller-Bridge to star in Indiana Jones 5 opposite Harrison Ford
• Guardian Andrei Konchalovsky interviewed on his BAFTA nominated film Dear Comrades!
• MNPP Queer as Folk being rebooted again. Jason shares feelings that I quite relate to on this
In case you wanted to see Daniel Brühl dance for an hour (!!!) as Baron Zemo from outtakes on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. The show is zzz but we always love seeing Brühl doing anything and this club scene was definitely a surprise in episode 3.
Finally...
If you live in Los Angeles you should be aware of the traffic changes coming due to the change in Oscar venues this year (the Oscars being in Union Station due to the pandemic). The Academy has a helpful document on April street closings and there's also this map...
