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Friday, September 11, 2020 at 6:00PM by Eurocheese
I drove 100 miles (one way!) to see two movies last weekend. Was it worth it? Well… yes and no. Here’s my take on returning to theaters and my thoughts on the two films I went (way) out of my way to see: Tenet and The Personal History of David Copperfield.
First, the moviegoing experience itself...
Friday, September 11, 2020 at 4:30PM 
It's Schitt's Creek vs. Mrs Maisel for the gold.
We here at The Film Experience hope you've all enjoyed our category reviews. The Emmys begin in a few days on the 14th with the Creative Arts awards (i.e. below the line categories) before the big final awards night on September 20th.
Comedy series is the category where, by all visible indications, the winner is already set: Schitt’s Creek. While I don’t love the show, I harbor no ill will against it and am already prepared for it to win. Its two biggest hurdles seem surmountable to me. As far as I can tell, only two shows have won this award only for their final seasons: Barney Miller in 1982 and Fleabag last year. For the former, it was a nominee all eight seasons, and the latter wasn’t nominated in any category for the first of its two total seasons. This is only the second nomination for Schitt’s Creek. The other factor is that most of us – and the Internet – aren’t Emmy voters, and could it be possible that the collective enthusiasm around the show won’t materialize on Emmy night? If it doesn’t, what show wins instead?
I’ll try to avoid major plot details in my analysis – but if you’d like more spoiler-filled descriptions, click on the episode titles. Let’s consider each nominee…
Friday, September 11, 2020 at 2:30PM by Ben Miller
Elvis and his manager Colonel Parker in 1958
Though the coronavirus is still raging in the US, the rest of the world is starting to get back to normal, and that means the restarting of international film productions. One of the most noteworthy of those productions, restarting in Australia, is Baz Luhrmann’s (as of yet untitled) Elvis Presley film, starring Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood’s Austin Butler as the King of Rock and the world’s most famous COVID patient, Tom Hanks as Colonel Tom Parker.
The project itself is relatively unknown, but we do know Luhrmann, so don't expect the typical biopic treatment...
Friday, September 11, 2020 at 12:58PM 7 random things that happened on this day in history
1967 The Carol Burnett Show, which would become a hugely successful influential comedy, premieres on CBS.
1970 Future Oscar and Emmy nominee Taraji P Henson born in Washington DC. Happy 50th birthday to this fine actress. On this same day the classic Five Easy Pieces which will go on to four Oscar nominations world premieres in NYC...
Friday, September 11, 2020 at 9:51AM Please welcome new contributor Josh Bierman...
The trailer for Death on the Nile, Kenneth Branagh’s latest Agatha Christie remake, arrived recently and we haven't discussed. Do we think this will be better than his previous venture Murder on the Orient Express or is it another vanity project? Let’s take a look...
