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Here are you five mood boosting anniversaries from showbiz history. Do these things today and report back on how they made you feel!
May 15th
2015 At the 68th annual Cannes Film FestivalSon of Saul, Embrace of the Serpent, and The Lobster, all have their world premieres. All three go on to successful awards runs and arthouse releases.
In their honor: Embrace your singular point of view, however strange it seems at first. So many of the greatest movies over the years did this...
Pajiba at what point exactly did Dev Patel get hot? Variety Billy Brown, who previously sexed up Viola on How to Get Away with Murder, will costar with Taraji P Henson in the new thriller Proud Mary which has nothing to do with Tina Turner /FilmVan Helsing reboot gets a new writer Coming Soon Charlize Theron's Coldest City gets a title change. It's now Atomic Blonde NYT Whoa. I thought that little kid (Shailene Woodley's boy) on Big Little Lies looked familiar. Turns out he's that child theater critic who does all the popular Broadway Youtube reviews
Boy Culture interviews old Hollywood actor Carleton Carpenter who talks Debbie Reynolds, Cary Grant and being bisexual in Hollywood in a new memoir called "The Absolute Joy of Work" The Playlist has ranked every best picture nominee of the 21st century. Weirdly they made a huge accounting error that kept Moulin Rouge! out of the #1 spot by a truly embarrassing margin MNPP the King Arthur trailer is obsessed with crotches Interview Evanna Lynch, Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter, is interviewed about her post Potter career by another Potter alum The New Yorker looks at Harry Belafonte's 1956 mega hit "Day-O" and the social power of song i09 a new movie is begin described as "Underwater Armageddon." Kristen Stewart is in talks to headline AV Club the law that allowed actors to have their ages hidden from IMDb is probably in danger of being overturned Comics Alliance the proposed X-Men TV series has not announced a list of characters yet but Blink will be amoung them. Actress Jamie Chung has been cast in the role Screen Crush is stating that Logan has a post-credits scene. If there is one it most definitely did not screen for critics as I waited until the lights came up. (I generally stay for credits... and did so before post-credit scenes were a regular thing) Film School Rejects the use of primary color in La La Land
Video To Go La La Land as directed by David Lynch (file under: the internet is fun) and a iphone rehearsal for La La Land's opening number filmed in a parking lot
We're celebrating the great Laura Dern all week in honour of her 50th birthday. Here's David on the film that sent her down a rabbit hole...
It would be easy for an actor to be a puppet in a David Lynch film, lost as they are in a labyrinthine maze of the mind. The chronology is distorted and the characters’ consciousness is constantly splitting and merging in a kaleidoscope fashion. Laura Dern, though, knows the director better than most, and their most recent collaboration, 2006’s INLAND EMPIRE., places at her at the centre of an intricate puzzle of which she is all of the pieces...
Doc NYC begins this week in (where else?) New York City. This year's festival, running from November 10th to November 17th, features 110 feature titles (now on sale), 44% of which are from women directors proving that #52FilmsByWomen is perfectly achievable if you're a fan of non-fiction.
After the jump notes on four new titles including a horror movie ready documentary and a look at David Lynch's creativity offscreen...
USA’s Mr. Robot wrapped its second season this past week, just after star Rami Malek landed his first Emmy for best lead actor in a drama. The timing couldn’t be better: with the show already renewed for a third season, it should help maintain the buzz factor and maybe pick up more curious viewers.
And yet, among existing fans, season 2 has been remarkably divisive...
Monday, May 15, 2017 at 8:00AM 
