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Index (61 minutes) 00:01 SAG nomination leftover feelings 05:00 None of us liked Vice and the reviews are mixed. We still think it's an awards contender so we discuss the question of latebreakers in each awards season. 11:45 Randomness: Ethan Hawke, Bohemian Rhapsody, and the Florida Film Critics Circle 20:40 Ben is Back starring Lucas Hedges (with sidebars of Boy Erased and Beautiful Boy) 33:40 If Beale Street Could Talk 45:00 Reader Q: A fine element of a buzzy movie that's not being talked up 49:17 Reader Q: Is Best Actress actually set already? 51:00 Reader Q: If there wasn't Category Fraud this year what would be happening in Supporting Actress? 53:30 Reader Q: Reassign an Oscar win - what's the cascading effect? 59:40 Wrap up
Before we get to the final "happy thoughts" Team Experience Globe Reaction finale, I thought I'd ask our contributors and friends of the site questions about the Golden Globe fates of Vice (nomination leader), First Man (2 nominations, Score and Supporting Actress), and Widows (entirely shut out). It's easy to theorize about what's happening with all three of those movies, and theorizing is fun. So let's begin:
1. Why do you think Vice led the nominations?
DEBORAH LIPP: Hating Dick Cheney is a cathartic substitute for hating Donald Trump. I support this.
GUY LODGE (VARIETY): Because it's the newest thing out and, crucially, because it hasn't been reviewed yet -- its on-paper prestige is still undented...
We don't cover every film critics organization at TFE now that there are around 40 of them and half of those are now doing nominations to go along with their winners (exhausting!) but given that your host here originally hails from the Motor City we feel a certain amount of affection. This year the 21 Detroit area or Detroit-connected critics went all in for the adorable summer sleeper hit Eighth Grade and the forthcoming political comedy Vice. Their winners were...
FilmEighth Grade Director Adam McKay, Vice Actress Toni Collette, Hereditary Actor Ethan Hawke, First Reformed...
• /Film Michelle Yeoh may be headlining a Star Trek spin-offseries • Towleroad Greg Berlanti (Love Simon) plans to direct a Rock Hudson biopic • Variety This is so cool. The animation studio Aardman (Chicken Run, Wallace & Gromit, etcetera) is transferring its ownership to its employees. Peter Lord will stay on as creative director
• MNPP Raúl Castillo joins the already amazing cast of Rian Johnson's Knives Out • Awards Daily Adam McKay promoting Vice says something he might regret about the difference between Cheney and Trump • Playbill Did you hear they're releasing another album for The Greatest Showman? This one is all covers. Kelly Clarkson is doing "Never Enough" • Kinja great deal if you're a Potter person. All 8 Harry Potter films on bluray for just $40 • Cinema Eye Honors, which honors documentary films (we guess it's the week for that?), release their nominations for the year with Bing Liu's Minding the Gap leading with 7 nominations and Bisbee '17, Hale County This Morning This Evening and Shirkers each receiving 5. All are eligible for the Oscars this year, too. • Boy Culture what Matt said about this odd quote from Michael C Hall on his sexuality • The Guardian Controversy! German Playboy has published an interview with Ennio Morricone in which he trashes Quentin Tarantino. Now Morricone says he never gave that interview and will take legal action.
R.I.P. • Variety Stan Lee, Marvel's figurehead and comic book legend, has died at 95. One assumes we have four final Stan Lee cameos coming up, though. He gets a bit in Into the Spider-Verse (yes, I've seen it but we're not allowed to talk about it yet). And surely he'll be in Captain Marvel, Infinity War Part 2, and Spider-Man: Far From Home, since they're all in post production already. • The Guardian Douglas Rain, the voice of HAL in 2001 has died at 90.
Exit Video Here's another cover from The Greatest Showman Reimagined from P!nk and her daughter Willow Sage Hart
P.S. Alarming! Grammy winner Beck tweeted out that he was recording a score for Roma. Naturally this is upsetting because the movie has screened for months and actually has no score. The soundscape is so unique and immersive and tons of critics have praised the movie for this craftsmanship exactly. Why would they change it now after all the praise? I'm currently having nightmares of what happened to A Star is Born (1954) and The New World (2005) when the studio kept meddling after screenings with something that was already brilliant and perfect to the point where some people never could see the original version and in the case of A Star is Born it was lost for all time.
Index (65 minutes) 00:01 Bryan Singer's Bohemian Rhapsody, homophobic storytelling, and cat reaction shots 10:25 Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury, the limits and strengths of the performance 14:08 The Best Actor race: Bradley, Ethan, Viggo, Willem, and Rami? Plus floundering campaigns for First Man and The Front Runner and the default possibilities of Vice? 35:00 Lucas Hedges in both Ben is Back and Boy Erased 37:30 Boy Erased in general, Nicole & Russell's fine parental performances, and a bit of The Miseducation of Cameron Post on the side 50:30 Recent DVDs: Mamma Mia 2, Leave No Trace, Skate Kitchen, and Sorry to Bother You 55:55 Return trips to both A Star is Born andBlacKkKlansman 01:02:00 Can You Ever Forgive Me? afterglow and Wildlife fade?
Wednesday, December 19, 2018 at 9:04PM 
