Monday, July 18, 2022 at 12:00PM IF ONLY. Think how many wrongs could be corrected.
What if the Bennifer marriage repairs the timeline and resets us to 2004?
— Julyathan Taylor Thomas (@charles_jensen) July 18, 2022
More after the jump including but not limited to Wile E Coyote's underappreciated talent, Jordan Peele's film titles, Broadway's Funny Girl chaos, and Emmy nomination reactions...
Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 2:00PM This Week's Must Read: Everyone has been talking about the cast changes at Funny Girl on Broadway and it's been very messy. Daily Beast has the gorey details in an inside scoop on how things have played out as Beanie Feldstein announced an early departure and Lea Michele prepares for the iconic titular role.
More after the jump including new projects for Jonathan Bailey, Chris Hemsworth, a second season for The Bear, an Amy Winehouse biopic, and appreciations of Nicole Kidman, the Three Colors trilogy, and the year's best action films...
Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 11:54AM Today's must read
• IndieWire's Eric Kohn has an interesting piece on Jim Carrey's retirement and why A list actors get bored and why they don't pursue more challenging opportunities. Some good theories here even if some of the information shared about how name actors (and their agents) invest time in finding fresh auteurs who could improve their filmographies.
Secret Lynch film, Nicolas Cage reflections, Nimona resurrected, Joel Grey celebration, Mother's Instinct pre-production, and more after the jump...
Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 4:39PM by Nathaniel R
Shery Lee Ralph, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Beanie Feldstein at least season's Tony Awards
The past two years have thrown awards shows (not to mention the whole entertainment industry) for quite a loop. Nowhere was that more true than the Tony Awards with Broadway entirely shut down and most of the presumed contenders never opening in 2020. The Tony Awards for 2019 and 2020 shows were finally held last September, just under a year after nominations were announced!!! With Broadway theaters reopened for some time now (proof of vaccination and masks still required) the American Theater Wing is resuming the Tony Awards as we know them, returning to their usual month (June!) and their usual venue (Radio City Music Hall) so we're getting the 75th Tony Awards just nine months after the 74th.
The Tony Awards will arrive on June 12th and the four hour show will air live, for the first hour on Paramount+ and the final three hours on CBS. from 7-11 PM EST. Productions have to open by April 28th to be eligible and the nomimations will be announced on May 3rd, 2022. A list of eligible productions is after the jump...
Monday, November 22, 2021 at 10:00PM by Jason Adams
Erik (Richard Jenkins), the patriarch of the Blake family, stands staring out a dingy window into the gray light of the alleyway -- excuse me, the "interior courtyard" -- behind his daughter's unfurnished and water-logged Chinatown apartment. His thoughts are clearly elsewhere, new worries freshly lining his already lined face, as something catches his eye, and then another -- is that snow? It's lovely, in its way, but distressing all the same -- having traveled into the big city for this Housewarming slash Thanksgiving dinner from the wilds of distant Scranton he's got to think about getting everybody home at a decent hour, and a snow-storm would have them trapped here, nary a bed in sight. (Having lugged a Mary figure there as their Housewarming gift the soft Biblical allusions to "no room at the Inn" seem let's say non-accidental.) He brings up this his most recent distress to Richard (Steven Yeun), his daughter's boyfriend, who doesn't see snow at all, instead offering the thesis that someone on an upper floor has just emptied their ashtray.
Snow to ash, and just like that beauty to death, a recurring happening in Stephen Karam's Tony-winning play turned A24's darkly funny and emotionally cataclysmic awards-season contender The Humans, out this week...
