Open Thread - Three Questions
I'm a smidge under the weather tonight. So it's your turn to talk. Answer me these questions three: What movie is constantly on your mind lately? What kind of top ten list do you wish your were...
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IndieWire the winners at SXSW Fort Tilden (narrative) and The Great Invisible (doc). You may recall that Short Term 12 was the big discovery last year so let's hope Fort Tilden hits theaters soon. But...
View ArticleNoah Has Some Explaning To Do
Darren Aronofksy's Noah, which opens on March 28th, is expected to open well and is now getting rapturous advance praise with weirdly common references to The Fountain because it's "polarizing" and yet...
View Article"But the World Goes Round"
To any one of you out there having a rough time of it... this too shall pass. Take this electricifying piece of comfort from Liza Minnelli in Martin Scorsese's New York New York (1977) on her birthday....
View ArticleA Year With Kate: A Woman Rebels (1936)
Episode 11 of 52 wherein Anne Marie screens all of Katharine Hepburn's films in chronological order. In which Katharine Hepburn becomes a feminist icon (as if she wasn't already). You are all the...
View ArticleThere Are No Small Parts. Beauty from the Margins
One of my favorite activities each year is compiling a list of actors who really nailed their brief but not necessarily coveted roles. Oh sure sometimes a small part is a true get and key to the...
View ArticleThoughts I Had... While Staring at Lindsay's Lohan's Alleged Sex Partner List
Maybe you're one of those ready-first-thing types? To the rest of you I apologize. If you were online yesterday (and when aren't you?) you probably saw this list which is rumored to be in Lindsay...
View ArticlePfeiffer Leaves Her House!
It's so rare we have to report on it every time. Yesterday Michelle Pfeiffer was on the arm of her husband David E Kelley attending the 23rd Television Hall of Fame Inductee Gala. Kelley was one of a...
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Playbill a Broadway musical of Pretty Woman? They're determined to make every 90s movie hit into a musicalThe Gayest of All Time The Many Tears of Leonardo DiCaprioVanity Fair tries to get Matthew...
View ArticleNew "Under The Skin" Posters in the Order That They Freak Me Out
From a floating iris that seems to have an infinite sclera (aiiiyeeee) to the foggy beauty of Scarlett Johansson. Here they are...
View ArticleRooney Mara pans out
In case you missed the rather glum-making news: it's been newly announced that Rooney Mara has been cast as Tiger Lily, the classic problematic representation of Native Americans as written down by an...
View ArticleWomen's History Month: On the master animator Lotte Reiniger
Tim here, contributing to our ongoing celebration of Women’s History Month with a look at one of the truly pioneering artists in the history of animation. And Lotte Reiniger isn’t important simply...
View ArticleYes, No, Maybe So: "Get On Up"
You is kind. You is smart. You is important." I love The Help (2011). I don't care who knows it. So I'm immediately curious about Get On Up, Tate Taylor's follow up which reunites Minny & Aibileen...
View Article"Carol" Now Filming
First pics of Cate Blanchett filming Carol based on Patricia Highsmith's "The Price of Salt" (which is sometimes called "Carol" or vice versa). I know everyone thinks I'm this huge Cate Blanchett nerd...
View ArticleJamie Bell & Jamie Bell
2 new Jamie Bell films this year. 28 spankings for Jamie Bell. 462 days until Jamie Bell turns into a giant orange rock monster.
View ArticlePosterized: Jake Gyllenhaal
Jake on the set of Everest (2015)With Enemy, Dennis Villeneuve's trippy new thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Jake Gyllenhaal opening this weekend, it's time to look back on this actor we've loved...
View ArticleSarah Jessica Parker Loves "Melancholia"
Who'da thunk it? I love odd celebrity interviews -- the interview not the celebrity -- and this one qualifies. It's rapid fire, 73 questions in 5 minutes while you tour one floor of SJP's brownstone...
View ArticleLink is an Open Door
Cinema Blend Sebastian Stan, the Winter Soldier himself, has a nine picture deal with Marvel Studios (!)Vanity Fair Lee Pace stars in a new series AMC hopes can replace Mad Men. Yeah, good luck with...
View ArticleDay of Rest (feat. Evan Rachel Wood)
Shhhhhhhhhhh. I'm sleeping in today. I promise my bed is more comfortable than the on that Evan Rachel Wood is cavorting on in this old photoshoot (I believe it was from Flaunt Magazine?). Happy Ides...
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A new Saturday tradition since it's the slowest day for the site and some of you don't visit every day *sniffle* and we don't want you to miss anything so catch up over the weekend, why don't you? Save...
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