Wednesday, February 4, 2015 at 7:35PM Manuel here to talk some more about that actress quintet Nat was just gushing about (we really can't get enough of our fave category!) With news that a certain franchise has nabbed one of our Best Actress nominees for an upcoming film, I figured we should check in and see when we’ll see each of our leading ladies next...
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 at 1:15PM It's a combo post. We start with a random assortment of delightful tweets for those of you who don't use the twitter machine or those who do (it's easy to miss things on twitter. So impermanent!).
This collection features my most popular tweet ever (Spoiler Alert: It's about Best Actress), Joel Grey's coming out, the only Super Bowl tweet that mattered to me as well as a little detour into all time favorite movie villains.
In a related announcement I've updated the Film Bitch Awards with this year's nominees for Best Movie Villain of 2014. It wasn't until I was done writing it that I realized that one could safely say "My what big eyes you have!" to virtually any of them. They range from the literally petrifying Owl Witch (pictured above) in Song of the Sea to the 1/8th* metal Winter Soldier, aka Bucky Barnes gone Russian brainwashed assassin.
*Okay, okay, your arm is probably not an entire 1/8th of your body -- I'm not a scientist!
Here we go...
What the hell willl outgross Jurassic World? Star Wars? So Spielberg and Lucas and American Culture caught in amber. #SuperBowl
— Steven Gaydos (@HighSierraMan) February 1, 2015
This new Wes Anderson movie looks amazing pic.twitter.com/R5Yrzyg5GE
— Max Fisher (@Max_Fisher) January 26, 2015
MORE AFTER THE JUMP
Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 7:33PM 
They are my sunshine... my only sunshine... they make me happy when skies are gray ♪ ♫
Oscar did real good by Best Actress for once, huh?
It's almost like they color-coordinated their outfits and all agreed that Julianne should be the focal point. But will any of them actually vote for her or does everyone in the Academy vote for themselves?
Spice up your life ♪ [From left to right: Posh, Sporty, Ginger, Scary, and Baby]
Have you voted yet on who SHOULD win?
COMMENT FUN #1: Which clip should they use for each Actress at the ceremony?
COMMENT FUN #2: Quick -- trade roles for these actresses. If they had to play someone else's role who would it be? I'm betting Pike could do early onset Alzheimers since she has that ability to completely empty out her face. Enigma! We've already seen Marion in a differently abled wheelchair bound romance so it's easier to picture her as Mrs. Hawkings. Hmmm what else.
I'm the one standing in the background painted gold [/fantasy]
I've also added in the "how'd they get nominated?" percentages* on the chart for your pleasure
*for entertainment purposes only. No one can know the deepest hearts of Oscar voters. Perhaps not even Oscar voters themselves.
Monday, February 2, 2015 at 9:00PM Nathaniel's final review from Sundance
Late last year while interviewing Yves Belanger on his lensing of Wild (2014) and his ongoing working relationship with Jean Marc Vallee I noticed he had a non-Vallee project on his forthcoming filmography called Brooklyn. He spoke highly of the experience, an about face from Wild's all natural light mandate. He said it was much more stylized lighting, an 'old fashioned romantic drama'. He hoped people still wanted to see that sort of thing.
If the reaction at Sundance is any indication (and a word of caution: Sundance fever is 50/50 for the real world at best) the people will welcome it with open arms... and tear ducts.
Friday, January 30, 2015 at 5:35PM Nathaniel reporting from Sundance. Or, rather, from Manhattan, while still thinking of Sundance and possibly my favorite film from that trip...
The first chapter of Grandma, an ornery new female-driven comedy, is called “Endings” a counterintuitive opening title, perhaps, but appropriate. Elle Reid (Lily Tomlin) doesn’t have much taste for beginnings. A year and half before our story begins, this "writer-in-residence," who had a brief period of reknown as a feminist poet, lost her life partner of nearly 40 years to cancer. She’s still bitter about it. We know that her new girlfriend of four months Olivia will soon be shown the door because she's played by Judy Greer who is contractually obliged to never have more than 3 scenes in a movie. [More...]
