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Thursday, December 17, 2020 at 10:16AM • MNPP is celebrating Jake Gyllenhaal this week all week. Here's a list of his best nude scenes
• MNPP... and the best Jake Gyllenhaal costumes
• Pajiba drools all over Dev Patel. It was supposed to be his year
• Vulture looks at 8 Christmas-themed horror films including Gremlins and Black Christmas
Tom Cruise, Sir Ian McKellen, Regina King, Josh O'Connor and year in review mania after the jump...
Thursday, December 17, 2020 at 7:00AM 7 random things that happened on this day, December 17th, in showbiz history
1943 Now forgotten Universal B franchise "The Inner Sanctum" begins with Calling Dr Death featuring Lon Chaney Jr. Intended as a series that would be carried by Chaney and Oscar winner Gale Soondergard, only Chaney actually made it to the screen. There were six films in all.
1965 Judy Garland and the Supremes perform at Houston's then brand new 60,000 seat Astrodome Theater. Wait, what? Judy Garland AND Diana Ross and you could attend for a single dollar...
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 11:30PM Because we're not feeling super productive, here's a random collection of tweets we loved from the past couple of weeks...
im in fuckign hysterics over this pic.twitter.com/0tNypOzcnL
— SAM (@notedchampagne) December 15, 2020
LOL. BUT THAT'S TOTALLY A GOOD QUESTION. More fun tweets after the jump...
Clue, John Waters, Spider-Man, Tom Cruise, Twitter, sequels Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 8:09PM 
In the past decade, Cartoon Saloon has managed to become one of the most important studios of western animation. It all started back in 2009 when the Belgian-French-Irish co-production The Secret of Kells premiered at the Gérardmer Film Festival. That medieval fantasy went on to conquer a surprising, though amply deserved, Academy Award nomination, as have all the studios' subsequent features – 2014's Song of the Sea, 2017's The Breadwinner, and this year's Wolfwalkers.
With that last picture upon us, it feels like an appropriate time to recall the short history of this splendid studio...
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 3:30PM 
As a Streeper myself, what a time to be alive!
Last week, two films starring 21-time Oscar nominee Meryl Streep debuted: the dramedy Let Them All Talk (Dec. 10 on HBO Max) and the musical The Prom (Dec. 11 on Netflix). A double feature in a year is nothing new to her; she just did that in the last two years. However, her films this year could not be anymore different in terms of subject matter and filmmaking style, but both show the wide range, skill, and adaptability that Streep has, proving that her “greatest living actress” title is nowhere near a product of baseless mythologizing...
