Hot Links and Leftovers
Monday, February 7, 2022 at 7:28PM • Vulture Allison Wilmore makes a good case that Don't Look Up is going to win Best Picture (uh-oh)
• The Daily Beast great far ranging interview with Steven Soderbergh - very exciting quote on the third Magic Mike movie "It’s as close to a full-blown musical as I’m ever going to get." And yes he also talks about superhero movies which all the A list directors are required to talk about now in interviews (sigh)
• Vogue "2022 Hollywood Portfolio" features lots of Oscar hopefuls and also some wildcards having a good year. Alana Haim, Simu Liu, Aunjanue Ellis, Dakota Johnson, Rachel Zegler, Dami Judi Dench, Jodie Comer, etc...
Razzie nominations, Plaza Suite, Mothering Sunday, American Born Chinese and more after the jump...
• / Film Immigrant, that poorly titled series about the founder of Chippendales starring Kumail Nanjiani is going to be directed by Matt Shakman who did a fine job with WandaVision so here's hoping it lives up to its potential
• THR interviews Tom Holland about Uncharted and Spider-Man
• Deadline American Born Chinese, a new action comedy for Disney+ will reunite Michelle Yeoh and director Destin Daniel Cretton after their Shang-Chi success
• Plaza Suite, the revival of the Neil Simon comedy starring Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker begins previews on February 25th
• Playbill remember that Marilyn Monroe musical "Bombshell" from the TV show Smash. It's still alive, in dreams, for a stage musical production. There's going to be a workshop this summer
• Deadline The first quarter of every year is when we are reminded of movies that dont exist but somehow are eligible for the Oscar. Sony Pictures Classics is the worst offender among all distributors in this regard. Last season they buried I Carry You With Me in qualifying and then an ever moving release date. And this season they might be doing that with Mothering Sunday. It's Oscar eligible but now arriving, supposedly on March 25th instead of late February. Don't be surprised if it moves to the summer!
These links are are older but we forgot to share them so they might be new to you!
• I Might Be Wrong "Ethan Coen" reviews Joel Coen's Tragedy of Macbeth
• EW Emma Thompson talks about the challenge of filming her nude scenes in Good Luck To You, Leo Grande
• Los Angeles Times a beautiful piece on elitism and awards and Drive My Car's best picture viability. Oh how I long to love this movie as much as most critics do. But alas, I think it's 'merely' quite good :)
• Variety "We Don't Talk About Bruno" has become the first Disney #1 hit since Aladdin's "A Whole New World"
• AV Club makes the case that it's Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) and not any of the new characters that's the central problem of HBO's ...And Just Like That series (that's the Sex & The City sequel if you haven't been paying attention)
Finally the Razzies
We shouldn't care about the Razzies because they're too lazy for words each and every year. This year they've nominated two very good performances for "Worst" awards: Ben Affleck in The Last Duel and Amy Adams in Dear Evan Hansen. The latter in particular is doing pretty Herculean things to make her scenes/character work in that misbegotten musical so this is a case of voters just being a) dumb and b) mean-spirited about middle-age actresses and c) lazy because they've heard that the movie is bad so therefore, actors must be bad in it. But if you want to read the nominees they're here.
The only joy to take out of the Razzie nominations this year is that if House of Gucci's Jared Leto is nominated for an Oscar tomorrow he'll become only the fourth actor to receive Razzie and Oscar nominations for the same role. The other ones were James Coco for Only When I Laugh, Amy Irving for Yentl, and Glenn Close for Hillbilly Elegy
And Just Like That, Coen Bros, Cynthia Nixon, Emma Thompson, Encanto, box office, nudity
Reader Comments (12)
Don't forget that special category for Bruce Willis in getting 8 nominations for being in 8 lame-ass movies that I hope we never saw!
Honestly,I'd prefer they just give it to Spider-Man rather than Don't Look Up...at least Spider-Man was fun.
I liked The Woman in the Window.
The Razzies are a bunch of cowards. They didin't have the balls to nominate Meryl for her awful performance in Don't Look Up.
The Razzies didn't nominate Meryl Streep because her performance was just fine. Geez the internet moviegoing world is a special kind of bubble.
The Razzies are so lame. Anyone who focuses on putting out negative energy is wack … but they’re even worse for not even committing to actually choosing the terrible movies / performances, but just going for the lowest hanging fruit and picking on people. 👎🏻 lol
I’m also convinced that Don’t Look Up will win Best Film. It’s very much more of an Academy film than POTD and Belfast. Also, it seems fresher and never underestimate the recency effects with these attention-deficient airheads.
I also share your lack of enthusiasm for Drive My Car. I don’t dislike it by any means but I’m incapable of partaking in the near-universal praise for it.
The Razzies are a joke! And if we were to include those who want to nominate Meryl Streep in Don't Look Up as worst supporting actress for their sheer hatred oif some actresses then these people are a bigger joke than the Razzies. There are truly horrid performances elsewhere and like one commentor said, they just aim for the low hanging fruits.
American Born Chinese is a sweet, thoughtful book. They better not screw it up!
Interesting that Adams is nominated for Razzie with her great singing skills, but Moore, who is also a great actress, but let's fact it without singing experience/skills, is left out...
I’m really getting sick of all these insinuations that the Oscars need to go with a populist pick for Best Picture in order to escape the irrelevance they’ve dug themselves into. Don’t Look Up would be one of those attempts at a middle-ground compromise that they seem to go with every once in a while, and in that respect I can understand why someone might think it has a chance. But I don’t know, I’m just so done seeing articles and think pieces push the same old “the Academy needs to award movies the general public has actually seen” argument. The sad truth is the general public doesn’t watch movies in the same way or to the same degree that they used to, and that’s not the Academy’s fault. The Oscars haven’t become out of touch with the public; the public has become out of touch with movies outside of mega-franchises. It’s okay to acknowledge that without spinning it as something the Oscars need to fix.
Why do this to Amy Adams?
Hard to believe Don't Look Up could win Best Picture with the preferential ballot system (it would easily be ranked last place on my ballot, and I don't think I'm the only one).