Peabody Nominees 2021

by Nathaniel R

There are 60 programs nominated for the prestigious Peabody Award this year. As is tradition the Peabodys are a juried award and the nominating committee of 19 people looked at 1,300 potential honorees in various categories like children's programming, documentary, entertainment, news reporting, and the like. You can see the full list of nominees at The Peabody's Official Site which includes acclaimed limited series or series like I May Destroy You, Ted Lasso, Never Have I Ever, and The Good Lord Bird and more. We're just happy that the documentary feature and documentary short finalists we were most rooting for at the Oscars this year, neither of which were nominated, made the Peabody list.Yes, that'd be Welcome to Chechnya and The Speed Cubers, both of which we had interviews for here at TFE...

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Box Office: "Demon Slayer" is now an international hit

by Nathaniel R

People are slowly trickling back into movies theaters including Team Experience. There was an actual tight contest for #1 this weekend at the box office. How about that?! The anime hit Demon Slayer, which failed to score a Best Animated Feature nomination at the Oscars, is crying all the way to the bank. After breaking recrods in Japan it's now the first anime film to top the US charts since Pokemon back in 1999. That puts Mortal Kombat at #2 which had the disadvantage of also being free on HBO Max (for another two weeks)...

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Lunchtime Poll: Which Lizzie would you rather be axe murdered by?

It will never fail to amuse us how Hollywood can rarely go more than, say, six months without announcing competing projects about the same topic. Today we hear news that Elizabeth Olsen (surely feeling the love from the WandaVision reception) will be playing axe murderer Candy Montgomery in an HBO miniseries called Love and Death based on the non-fiction book "Evidence of Love: True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs". This book was previously adapted into a TV movie A Killing in a Small Town which won Barbara Hershey the Golden Globe in the 1990s. But this miniseries is NOT the same project as the previously announced Candy which is based on the same crime with Elisabeth Moss headlining. But since we haven't heard a peep about the Moss project in several months, maybe that one isn't happening after all. 

Nevertheless it all begs the question: Which Lizzie would you rather be axe murdered by?

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Introducing the Smackdown Panel for '00

Have you lined up your screenings to play along at home with the Supporting Actress Smackdown? The Smackdown and its companion podcast arrive in two weeks time. This next episode discusses the films and performances of 2000 so we'll be watching Almost Famous, Pollock, Chocolat, and Billy Elliot. Your votes count so hurry up and get them in. Let's meet your fellow panelists, shall we?

PLEASE WELCOME NEW GUESTS...

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Back to the Movie Theaters: Lynn Sees "Gunda"

By Lynn Lee

a sad strip mall interior for happy experiences

Until yesterday, the last movie I saw in a theater was Emma – on March 7, 2020, just before the reality of COVID-19 descended on me and most people I knew.  If you’d told me that the next time I’d be in a movie theater would be nearly 14 months later, in a tiny, crappy arthouse joint in a suburban Virginia strip mall, and that the movie would be an idiosyncratic black-and-white documentary about a brood sow, I probably wouldn’t have believed you.  And yet that is exactly where I found myself Sunday afternoon.  

It wasn’t the return to moviegoing I’d envisioned since my husband and I got our second Pfizer dose in early April...

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