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It's time to play our new favorite fantasizing rather than dealing with awful reality game. So where and with whom would you like to be doing what right about now. Would you rather...
...hug a tree with Goldie Hawn? ...decorate Milla Jovovich's face with jelly stickers? ... float in the sea with Nico Tortorella? ... see Hamilton with Ashton Sanders? ... go vegetable shopping with Kristin Scott Thomas? ...hit the stables with Naomie Harris? ... "go heavy" with Orlando Bloom? ... do a shot with Leonardo Nam and Ptolemy Slocum as Westworld season 2 begins filming? ...F@*# Up some homophobes with Haaz Sleiman?
With the recent news of Ed Skrein's departure from Hellboy, cinema goers as well as actors are becoming increasingly aware of the sensitivities of depicting race on screen. For 34 years the Orpheum theatre in Tennesse has shown Gone With the Wind in its summer programme. Screening the evening of August 11, just before the racist violence in Charlottesville, the theatre received numerous complaints of screening a work with highly romanticised visions of the Old South, and black characters who exist without any acknowledgement that they are slaves.
The Orpheum has decided to forego screening the film in 2018...
Gurus of Gold pundits make some quick assessments as the new awards season begins Paste Magazine why isn't Billy Eichner a sex symbol yet? THR the new version of It is already causing real clowns to lose work Advocate offers up 17 LGBT tropes that need to be retired from entertainment. This list is so wide-ranging they'll be no queer characters left on TV if they follow it! /Film cool stuff: scratch off poster to track your viewing of 100 classic movies
The Daily collects obituaries and tributes to the acclaimed horror director Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre) IndieWire Dunkirk arranges a special screening at Toronto to celebrate IMAX. Consider that Oscar campaign already ignited Awards Daily new stills for Call Me By Your Name. These are more likely it. The first few were so underwhelming TowleroadHeathers is getting a TV adaptation. Leslye Headland directs the pilot which has updates for the Heathers for themselves (one of them is genderqueer)
Off Cinema • The Cut good deep dive into Kathy Griffin's life post that T***p photo that got her into so much trouble • Vox winners and losers of MTV Video Music Awards • ET literal winners of the MTV Video Music Awards (though, like the Gramys, it's not an awards show that's actually about awards) • AV Club Jason Segel is having a tall person small door problem. Cute • Playbill the 29 biggest grossing Broadway shows of all time from the Cabaret revival with Natasha Richardson and Alan Cumming ($119 million) to Disney's The Lion King $1.3 billion). Hamilton is already at #18 ($242 million) and it's only been open two years! (It should be noted that these are just their Broadway grosses, not touring companies and the like.
Exit Video Seems like there's going to be a few short films about the Blade Runner world before Blade Runner 2049 opens. Here's the first one...
Major Ben Daimio. The part will no longer be played by Ed Skrein
Well here's a delightful righteous first. The British actor Ed Skrein, whose best known to date for being the big bad of the first Deadpool movie, has taken a stand against the frequent white-washing of Asian characters on film. He has dropped out of the Hellboy reboot having learned (via the instant online backlash) that the role in the comics is a Japanese-American man. He wrote a heartfelt public letter about the decision...
It is easy to see why Netflix purchased Icarus for a record five-million dollars. Charting director-and-subject Bryan Fogel’s attempts to prove how easily it is for athletes to dope and how easy it is to get away with it before getting sucked into the Russian Olympic doping scandal of 2015, it’s a premise that swings between two wildly popular forms of documentary. But blending the personality theatrics of Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me with true crime, Icarus ultimately isn’t able to replicate the entertainment and the sheer chutzpah of that 2004 perfect storm of charming lead and grotesquely captivating experiment.
For starters, Fogel greatly overestimates the desire to watch somebody screw the system and (attempt to) get away with it. After all, we live in a world with Lance Armstrong already in it – and it takes Icarus just 58 seconds to feature him in archival sound and video – so there seems little need for a talented, but self-admitted amateur cyclist to muddy the waters and prove how scandalous it all is...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017 at 8:15AM 
...hug a tree with Goldie Hawn?
