Friday, December 27, 2019 at 9:16AM Amusing movie-related tweets curated for you this week...
The most depressing part of LITTLE WOMEN (1869) is not when Beth dies but when Jo's short story wins a prize of $100, reminding any fellow writers reading the book that freelance rates have remained roughly stable SINCE THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA
— Jennifer Morrow (@jenniferemorrow) December 27, 2019
Monday, December 2, 2019 at 10:30AM 
by Cláudio Alves
Martin Scorsese's latest magnum opus is an epic in most senses of the word. It's one of the master's most dense exercises, using biography as a vehicle to explore the great social transformations of post-war American Society. The Irishman is a portrait of Death as an ever-encroaching certainty, a treatise on the painful passage of time and a theatre of memory where the spiritedness of youth is curdled by the self-image of the old men who revisit it.
That's heavy stuff but here's something lighter: As the film's very credits show, this gargantuan feat of cinema isn't called The Irishman at all…
Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 9:16PM a curated batch of amusing or interesting tweets about the movies...
Seeing people complain that Dark Fate brought wokeness to the Terminator is pretty hilarious when you realize that the most beloved installment featured a robot, a buff woman, a kid played by a Latino actor & a black scientist vs. a villain with the appearance of an LAPD officer. pic.twitter.com/3PPFFOEXWU
— Zack Stentz (@MuseZack) November 5, 2019
The indignities we’ve put our ascending queens through... pic.twitter.com/rQ8CSeO9fW
— Patrick Sullivan (@PatchNavillus) November 4, 2019
Sunday, November 3, 2019 at 9:47PM with Murtada Elfadl & Nathaniel R
Index (60 minutes)
00:01 Murtada's New Fest jury duty
03:00 Martin Scorsese's The Irishman and why it should have been called I Heard You Paint Houses. Thoughts on the running time, Thelma Schoonmaker's editing, the de-aging visuals, and the performances of Anna Paquin, Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino. And a trend in 2019: directors revisiting their favourite themes reflectively this year: Scorsese, Almodóvar, and Tarantino
23:30 The Best Supporting Actor Oscar race: Pacino versus Brad Pitt? Plus tangents about Marriage Story, Ford V Ferrari, Dolemite is My Name, Just Mercy and Honey Boy
43:00 Best Actor and Best Director races and what The Irishman's true competition is
50:00 Terminator Dark Fate and Harriet
57:45 The Best Actress race - is Cynthia in?
READ: A thoughtful positive review of Harriet from K Austin Collins
SHARE: Two tweets we mention...
Harriet is not my favorite film of the year but if you gave hours of your life to see Darkest Hour and The Theory of Everything, you have time for a Harriet Tubman movie.
— Murtada Elfadl (@ME_Says) October 29, 2019
TERMINATOR DARK FATE not giving us an ass shot of Gabriel Luna (the first time traveller not to get one in the franchise) is homophobia. pic.twitter.com/5bR2hgcxGl
— Nathaniel Rogers (@nathanielr) October 23, 2019
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Friday, November 1, 2019 at 11:55AM by Jason Adams
It's a big day for Netflix's 2019 Oscar slate, with Martin Scorsese's The Irishman opening in eight theaters in New York (one of them being the famed Broadway theater the Belasco) and Los Angeles -- you can read my thoughts on the movie when it screened at NYFF right here. It's a great film, worthy of all the praise it's gotten and will continue to get. That Marty guy can direct a movie!
But if you're not near those eight theaters (or if you are, even) there's another choice from the streaming giant that I recommend you get your eyeballs on -- David Michôd's The King starring Timothee Chalamet has now hit their online service after its own brief theatrical window, and I suggest you find the biggest screen you can find for it...
