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Monday, November 21, 2016 at 8:40AM Amy Adams double feature (Arrival & Nocturnal Animals), 2016's grimness, Actressy fierceness, and more after the jump...
Not that this is directly relevant to anything happening right now, but I really miss BUNHEADS. pic.twitter.com/yq8Q9WIXGE
— Anne Marie (@WeRecycleMovies) November 16, 2016
Sunday, November 20, 2016 at 7:16PM 
We're back to weekly podcasts! This week Nick, Joe, and Nathaniel discuss the latest films from Tom Ford, Ang Lee, and Paul Verhoeven, only one of which we can recommend.
Index (42 minutes)
00:01-17:22 Ang Lee's awkward Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk starring Joe Alwyn and Garret Hedlund
17:23-29:45 Tom Ford's revolting Nocturnal Animals. We don't understand the initial acclaim at all
29:46-42:00 Paul Verhoeven and Isabelle Huppert's provocative collaboration Elle, France's Oscar submission (mild spoilers)
You can listen to the podcast here at the bottom of the post or download from iTunes. Continue the conversations in the comments.
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 at 12:30PM by Kyle Stevens
I was finishing up the new season of Black Mirror --which is alternately smart and smarmy, somehow managing to exaggerate reality to the point of smugness rather than satire-- when, lo and behold, who should pop up in the finale but Kelly MacDonald. And she's magnificent in it. Not being a Boardwalk Empire watcher, I hadn't really thought about her since her spectral turn as Rowena Ravenclaw in the Harry Potter movies. Then I remembered just how good she was in No Country for Old Men, Gosford Park, and even Nanny McPhee. I surprised myself by starting to fantasize Oscar-winning roles for her -- as one does.
But there are so many worthy actresses without the big award. So to get our minds off the horrors of this past week, let's retreat into some good old-fashioned actressexual playtime. Who are your top five working actresses you'd love to see win an Oscar?
Off the top of my head, and in no particular order, mine are:
CAVEAT: I've not said Viola Davis, because her status will probably change soon!
Sunday, October 30, 2016 at 11:45AM by Nick Davis
Why did I hack into Isabelle Huppert's e-mails? I mean, I do feel bad about it, and I didn't even swipe that much. But if forced to state my reasons:
1. On a long Friday night, I was innocently taking a writing break from some essay revisions, only to discover that everybody is still all about digging into everybody's emails. So, right there, I can plead temporary insanity... though I admit it made me curious if there's anyone whose e-mails I would illicitly want to read.
2. During the same writing break, I was confronted with the info that Nathaniel and Jessica Chastain, who are now on bestie/hugging terms, had spent the day cooing to each other about Isabelle Huppert, as sensible people do. And then I thought: well, there's someone whose e-mails are probably pretty interesting...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016 at 6:02PM Jason reporting from the NYFF on the new film from director Mia Hansen-Løve, currently scheduled to open in limited release on December 2nd
At about the midpoint of Things to Come Nathalie (Isabelle Huppert) says to a friend that she's "found freedom" but we know better. We've been watching freedom thrust upon her in disorienting spasms, as her husband's left her and her publishing house has tossed her old-fashioned intellectualism aside (one of them hurls out the word "classy" like it's going to burn her hands). And in truth Nathalie doesn't quite know what to make of it, this "found" freedom of hers. "Extraordinary," is what she calls it, and that approaches the thing, but not quite the way she's selling it at that moment...
Isabelle Huppert, Mia Hansen Love, NYFF 