Horror Actressing: Luiza Kosovski in "Sick Sick Sick"

by Jason Adams

Anyone who's ever seen a Horror Movie surely already realizes that this genre is a good place to see Actresses really give it their all. Whatever the reasons are that connect the female experience with cinematic trauma -- and it's not that I don't know the reasons, it's just that there are too many to list -- no other genre has spent more time rooting around in what it means to be a woman than the Horror Genre has. From Carrie White to Rosemary Woodhouse to Mother Abagail and Annie Wilkes -- you name her, she's had her Horror Movie...

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The costumes of “Judy”: Fantasy vs Reality

by Cláudio Alves

When dressing a real-life story, there’s always a complicated relationship going on between a designer and History. The balance of fact and fiction, raw reality and cinematic fantasy, must be achieved and thought through. Depending on the project, the scales might tip towards one or the other, but both are always dancing hand-in-hand. Such sartorial dynamics might reflect the production’s relationship with fact or even contradict that preoccupation, either supporting an idea of History or silently challenging it.

For Judy, costume designer Jany Temime helped transform Renée Zellweger into Judy Garland, a process that was much more complex than simply looking at archival material and reproducing past fashions…

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Oscar Chart Updates

Every category has been slightly revised now that we've seen Irishman, The Two Popes, and more and the buzz on Bombshell is out.

UPDATED CHARTS
INDEX | PICTURE | DIRECTOR
ACTRESS | ACTOR | SUPP' ACTRESS | SUPP' ACTOR |
SCREENPLAYS | VISUAL | SOUND |
ANIMATED & DOCUMENTARY | INTERNATIONAL FEATURE 

A big weekend for Parasite and The Lighthouse

by Nathaniel R

Weekend Box Office [ESTIMATES] Oct 18th-20th 🔺 = New or Expanding / ★ = Recommended
W I D E	PLATFORM / SPECIALTY TITLES
1 🔺  MALEFICENT: MISTRESS OF EVIL  $36 *new*	1 🔺 PARASITE $1.2 on 33 screens (cum. $1.8) PODCAST ★
2 JOKER $29.2 (cum. $247.2) REVIEW	2 🔺 PAIN AND GLORY $463k on 67 screens (cum. $1.1) REVIEW, PODCAST ★

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Photograph by Luke Gilford

Michelle Pfeiffer pfotographed and profiled for The Sunday Times. Still the most beautiful movie star alive.