Don't bother telling us that Tilda Swinton isn't the lead in these new Netflix movies! She's always a leading lady. Tilda approaches the mic in Okja AND War Machine. The rest is noise but for our worry that no movies with big stars will ever go theatrical again with Netflix around
War Machine premieres on May 26th and Okja premieres June 28th.
P.S. Is this a silver fox look on Brad Pitt or as blonde as Seven Years in Tibet (1997) or is this some mashup of the two?
Daily Mail Tim Burton's type is hilariously permanent. Now he's on to Eva Green who fits it like a T New Yorker The brilliant Emily Nussbaum on sexual consent and PTSD on Jessica Jones and its Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 6 reflections DGA Chris Nolan interviews Quentin Tarantino about The Hateful Eight which will now enter wide release on January 1st instead of the 8th. Slate reflects on what the Star Wars franchise is given that it's not "sci-fi" Variety has a few old FYC and congratulatory ads for Star Wars from the 70s. Good stuff Vanity Fair today's celebrities all want to be Han Solo
News The Black List If you've got some free time you can wade through Hollywood's favorite unproduced scripts. List was just announced today. ColliderMad Max Fury Road may return to theaters in a black & white version -- Miller's original intention before they opted for super saturated color. Variety Brad Pitt's satire War Machine wraps shooting in the United Arab Emirates. Tracking Board Warner Bros is moving forward with a Speedy Gonzalez feature, date TBD. (He was my second favorite of the Looney Tunes as a child, after Pepe Le Pew... but they both have cultural stereotyping issues. How will they walk that line?) Variety Melissa McCarthy is nearly free of Mike & Molly
List Mania Slant picks the 25 best films of the year from 45 Years through Chi-Raq and on to Mad Max: Fury Road. But since Carol is way down at #19... What? Los Angeles TimesBrooklyn tops Kenneth Turan's otherwise alphabetical top ten Indie Wire critics poll for the year with Mad Max & Carol fighting for supremacy. Fassbender & Rampling take the acting prizes Pajiba celebrates the best 'comfort movies' of the year - not particularly challenging but great watches from your couch in your jammies: Cinderella, The Intern, and more... AV Club on the best film scenes of the year including Creed's continuous shot boxing match and lots of interesting and unexpected choices -- yay for including "Summer in Ohio" from The Last Five Years
Today's Watch If you've got a free two hours you can watch all six previous Star Wars movies at once? It's an art installation.Click on the image if you wish to do this craziness.
MNPP picks five favorite shots from his favorite movie Rosemary's Baby Village Voice wonderful insightful review of Lily Tomlin as Grandma Comics Alliance did you know we almost got a Jurassic Park animated series before Spielberg changed his mind? Coming Soon Christian Bale to star in a biopic about Enzo Ferrari directed by Michael Mann THR might we have another documentary theme nominated in the Original Song category? Lady Gaga & Diane Warren's "Till It Happens To You" from the campus rape documentary The Hunting Ground is a buzzy one
Coming Soon speaking of Lady Gaga, here's our first look at her in American Horror Story: Hotel Out Cheyenne Jackson talks about her, too. She's all up in my internet today! Pajiba on the expanding cast for that Netflix Brad Pitt movie War Machine PlaybillCarrie The Musical being revived again... in Los Angeles this time in October. It never truly dies The Film Stage James Gray has begun production on Lost City of Z starring Charlie Hunman, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller, and Tom Holland. (They don't mention it in the article but this is the first time he's made a movie WITHOUT Joaquin Phoenix since his 1994 debut Little Odessa.) The Film Stage also shares Bong Joon-Ho's 10 favorite films: Recent entries like Zodiac appear alongside stone cold classics like Psycho and South Korean classics like The Housemaid (1960) which you might remember was recently remade. Variety Hugh Jackman may make an Odyssey movie. Final Girl top 20 horror movies of the 21st century. I read stuff about horror by smart horror fans way way more often than I am willing to watch horror. Why is that? Don't know! But it's true. Variety wonders why The Americans still can't catch a break with Emmy voters Variety is the Emmy race for Drama down to Game of Thrones versus Mad Men? i09 ewww Buffalo Bill's creepy house from Silence of the Lambs is for sale (basement not included which makes the news far less creepy)
Off Cinema For Fun Bad Lip Reading takes on the First Republican Debate -heh Zimbio "it turns out posing Nicki Minaj's wax figure on all fours was a bad idea" - ya think!?
Showtune to go... Congratulations to Tony winner Victoria Clark on her recent wedding! Beautiful wedding photos and if you've ever seen her perform you won't soon forget. Her acting and her gorgeous voice are ideally fused together and she gives splendid rich and nuanced musical performances. Lately she's been relegated to featured roles as mothers and grandmothers but she is one fine leading lady. Here she is doing Sondheim's classic "Losing My Mind" from the recent revival of Follies (Bernadette Peters played the role in NYC but Victoria took over for Los Angeles)
Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at 9:34AM 
