three must reads
• Blood Knife "Everyone is beautiful and no one is horny." Excellent article about the weird symmetry of the perfection of the body and the desexualization of cinema
• Thrillist Chris Feil suggests Oscars clips for this year's acting nominees
• The Ringer "Robert Pattinson has been lying to you for years" investigating the actors self-mythologizing interviews
Sam Elliott mouths off, the cast of Oppenheimer, a restoration of Alligator, Stephen King's next book, and more after the jump...
• IndieWire Sam Elliot mouths off about The Power of the Dog. (Yes, I know I should have written about this but it wasn't meant to be. I had no bandwidth for it and I was depressed because I've always loved Sam Elliott and it sounded like homophobic Ernest Borgnine bitching about Brokeback Mountain all over again)
• Film School Rejects revisits cult movie Alligator (1980) starring Robert Forster which has had a 4K restoration
• THR Alan Ladd Jr, Oscar winning producer (Braveheart, Thelma & Louise, Alien, The Turning Point) has died
• /Film Stephen King's next novel is all about Holly Gibney -- can we please get Cynthia Erivo to reprise that role since she played it so superbly in the miniseries Th Outsider
• /Film ranks the best erotic thrillers. We miss that genre so we're hoping that Deep Water is good
• Deadline the cast of Chris Nolan's Oppenheimer, which is about the making of the atomimc bomb just keeps on expanding
• The Telegraph Hammer horror actress Veronica Carlson (Dracula Has Risen From the Grave) has died
• The Guardian surveys actors who tried their hand at being pop stars. It's only a tiny sampling though. Nice to see kind words for both Scarlett Johansson and Juliette Lewis even if the actual star ratings of the album dont appear to match those kind words
• IndieWire shares 15 facts about Zodiac (2007) for its 15th anniversary