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Sunday, March 22, 2020 at 12:16PM A little bit of psychomatic musical comedy humor to get you through this anxiety-riddled weekend.
Guys & Dolls, comedy, musicals Saturday, March 21, 2020 at 10:00PM with Nathaniel R and Murtada Elfadl
Everyone's a shut-in so we'll be watching the same movies at home.
Index (33 minutes)
00:01 Updates on health and the NYC self-quarantine
04:20 Cactus Flower (1969) is a delight, though crazy sexist. We both fell hard for Ingrid Bergman and enjoyed Goldie Hawn's Oscar winning debut, too. It's streaming on Criterion Channel. We also talk briefly about our reader's choice series thus far and what's next.
17:38 The latest adaptation of Emma starring Anya Taylor-Joy. Murtada really loves Bill Nighy and Nathaniel loves the look but we both think it's not as strong as the 1996 Gwyneth Paltrow version.
26:30 Bonus randomness - two perfect leading lady star vehicles: Rita Hayworth in Gilda and Cher in Moonstruck.
31:00 Wrap-up
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Saturday, March 21, 2020 at 7:00PM 
The Zodiac calendar begins today so for all of you Aries out there we salute you. Some notable Aries celebrities: Keira Knightley, Reese Witherspoon, Lady Gaga, Elton John, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo, and Ewan McGregor. So... pretty good company.
After the jump a beauty break of ram's horns in the movies. Rank them in terms of who makes you horniest?
Saturday, March 21, 2020 at 10:55AM by Eric Blume
We here at TFE are big fans of Regina King, as you know. She’s been performing in the business for over 35 years, and has weathered career ups and downs as all good working actors do. She's risen to the top of the field in the last few years with three Emmys for very interesting and strong roles in TV.
Personally, I had split feelings about her Oscar win for Best Supporting Actress last year for If Beale Street Could Talk. As a fan of her and her work, I was thrilled to see Regina King get an Oscar. But I found Beale Street to be heavy-handed and unconvincing, and the movie gave her too few notes to play. She brought everything she could to the role and the film, but it would have been more thrilling to see her win for a juicy, complex role.
Which makes what Regina King does on Watchmen so exciting...
Friday, March 20, 2020 at 11:01PM ;)
Upon the US release of Paddington 2 in 2018, film critic David Ehrlich wrote about a new age of optimistic movies. He called this phenomenon, nice core. They were films that emerged in the era of Trump and Brexit, little rays of celluloid sunshine that celebrated the power of kindness and the wonder of humanity from filmmakers living in an increasingly cruel world. If you're looking for formalistic vanguard or challenging experiences, you won't find it in this type of cinema, though that doesn't have to be necessarily bad. Art of modest ambition whose main purpose is comfort shouldn't be undervalued.
One could almost say that, when ironic detachment becomes standard, the exaltation of sincere cinema can be a radical gesture…
