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Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at 1:00PM by Nathaniel R
on the set of Solo: A Star Wars Story
The Visual Effects Society have released their nominations for the year. Avengers: Infinity War, Incredible 2, and Lost in Space lead the nominations in the movie, animated movie, and television divisions. The full list of nominations, Oscar predictions, and a few comments follow...
Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at 11:15AM The USC Libraries, chaired by USC professor Howard Rodman, that began in 1988. Though they can signify strength moving into Oscar nominations, it's important to remember that they're a juried award from a college so not connected to the Oscar voting body, though perhaps Rodman himself is a member since he as once president of the WGA.
Their nominations as well as our final predictions for Oscar's Screenplay categories are after the jump...
Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at 8:42AM by Chris Feil
These days, the act and art of fandom is self-reverentially chasing its own tail. But tell that to quietly minted cult classic Connie and Carla, one of our few musicals ABOUT musicals. Or at least about the love of the art form. In this jukebox musical repurposing other musicals, Broadway fandom shines because of its capacity for endless streams of references and ouroboros devotion.
It’s flop status ensured that the film got buried fast but it is primed for a revival to a new generation of musical lovers...
Tuesday, January 15, 2019 at 11:00PM by Nathaniel R
RASPBERRIES!
Carol Channing shouted that inexplicable fruit slang out with such gleeful fervor in Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), that this fruit couldn't stop quoting it as a child. It is with a heavy heart that I share the news that Ms Channing has died just two weeks shy of her 98th birthday. Still, Carol wouldn't approve of a heavy heart. She lived a long full life and if she saw anyone frowning, she'd undoubtedly shake out that round white wig in a joy frenzy while shouting something insane to change the mood of the room...
Tuesday, January 15, 2019 at 8:00PM by Lynn Lee
Among the sharper observations I’ve seen regarding Mary Poppins Returns is that it is to Mary Poppins what The Force Awakens was to Star Wars: A New Hope. In each case, the sequel feeds shamelessly off fans’ nostalgia by recreating every beat of the original film – the plot arc, the character dynamics, even the distinctive look of the original, tweaked to reflect the changing mores of the past several decades. In short, it’s the same movie, just repackaged.
Setting aside whether it needed to be made at all, does Mary Poppins 2.0 improve at all on the original formula? In The Force Awakens, the one real added value was the new characters. In many ways they felt like rebooted archetypes from A New Hope, yet for the most part they also felt fresh and intriguing. Is the same true for Mary Poppins Returns? Let's do a side-by-side comparison...
