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Nathaniel, Nick, Joe and Chris try and catch up with movies the podcast hasn't covered
Index (42 minutes) 00:01 Battle of the Sexes 12:00 mother!, interpretations, Q & A culture 28:30 Michelle Pfeiffer and Darren Aronofsky 34:00 Beach Rats 39:15 silliness and sign-offs
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Your host (c'est moi, Nathaniel) is weeks behind his movie game. So here's part 1 of a massive link roundup to try to catch up. Twenty-five mini stories in this one, let's go...
EW celebrates Idris Elba on their cover The Vulture a profile of the screenwriter of The Post who was inspired to write it after reading Katherine Graham's memoir "Personal History" Meryl Streep will play Graham in the film (which is not based on that memoir but on one event in Graham's career.) Awards Daily laments that big box office hits like Get Out and Wonder Woman are not considers shoo-in for Best Picture nominations Variety Darren Aronofsky tapped as keynote speaker for next spring's SXSW festival The Hollywood Reporter Disney is not moving forward with its Jack and the Beanstalk animated film named Gigantic Playbill Glee's Lea Michele finally met Barbra Streisand People Dan Amboyer who plays the twin of Hilary Duff's deceased fiance on Younger (long story) has come out as gay Mirror Rob Collier believes his gay under-butler role on Downton Abbey has made it difficult for him to find other roles
More after the jump including Weinstein harassment fallout, agressive Netflix recommendations, Jonathan Groff's penchant for singing on set, and more...
With his latest film mother!, Darren Aronosfky immerses us in a hellish landscape of biblical allegories, nightmarish house parties, and scenery-chewing performances. It's his most polarizing film so far, and he takes the audience to emotional and visceral places he hasn’t before (hello, newborn baby).
And yet, something remains hauntingly familiar about it. Aronofsky has mommy issues. Throughout his filmography, mothers are figures of unflinching and painful devotion. Women who lose themselves in the love they have to give, a trait which ultimately becomes their doom. They are designed to bestow upon...
The studio behind mother! has pivoted their second week marketing towards the bad word of mouth that the film has been receiving from moviegoers. They stopped selling it as a home invasion horror thriller and instead decided to embrace how polarizing it is.
Some people love it......some people don’t
It’s a bold move and we like it. What they don’t do though, is mention the F cinemascore that the film recieved. CinemaScore is a company that exit polls moviegoers’ opinions on opening night. They have been storing data since 1986, and in that time only 11 other films received the infamous F. Those so honored include Steven Soderbergh's Solaris (2002) and Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly (2012). And make no mistake Darren Aronofsky thinks it's an honor, he told The Frame:
What's interesting about that is, like, how if you walk out of this movie are you not going to give it an F? It's a punch. It's a total punch. And I realize that we were excited by that. We wanted to make a punk movie and come at you.
Did you enjoy Aronofsky punk move? Where do you stand on the mother! conversation?
During Oscar season awards journalists often receive little bits of swag in the mail, cupcakes when Jennifer Aniston was trying to get nominated for Cake, a lux coffee table book on Los Angeles when La La Land was in the race, a stuffed Olaf during the Frozen year. That sort of thing. My favorite mail came from the creative and memorable campaign for Black Swan. The first thing to arrive was a black envelope with no return address. Inside were three black and white feathers. That was it. No message, no card, no return address, no explanation. Creepy. By the time the season was in full swing and the movie was familiar a mirrored music box was the perfect curio to arrive.
Friday, October 13, 2017 at 2:00PM 
Nathaniel, Nick, Joe and Chris try and catch up with movies the podcast hasn't covered
