We Can't Wait #3: Macbeth
Team Experience is counting down our 15 most anticipated for 2015. Here's David to kick off the top 3... Who & What: Yes, there have been countless Shakespeare adaptations through cinematic...
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• Did you know that Debbie Harry was up for the part of "Pris" in Blade Runner? [Kenneth in the (212)]• Will the general public love Crimson Peak as much as Stephen King does? [Cinemablend]• Which SXSW...
View ArticleWe Can't Wait #2: Ricki and the Flash
Team Experience is counting down our 15 most anticipated. Margaret with our runner-up... Rick Springfield & Meryl Streep. Will they make lovely music together? Who & What: Oscar-winning...
View ArticleWomen's Pictures - Ida Lupino's The Bigamist
Joan Fontaine was married to Ida Lupino’s husband. That is both the plot of Ida Lupino’s melodrama The Bigamist and the truth of the two stars’ relationship in 1953. Of course, Lupino had already...
View ArticleThe Rise and Fall of DreamWorks Animation, Part 1: Rise
Tim here. It's not often that we come upon a movie which could be even semi-plausibly described as holding the fate of a studio in its hands, but next week we'll have just such a release, as DreamWorks...
View ArticlePosterized: Shailene Woodley
Shailene breaking glass againWith the excruciatingly titled The Divergent Series Insurgent upon us -- and already garnering terrible reviews even before one of those shameless audience-hating cash-grab...
View ArticleAsk Nathaniel
For Monday's Q&A, let's do things a little differently. No questions about actresses! (GASP!) I know it's slightly bewildering and terrifying and confusing to talk about other things but let's...
View Article10th Anniversary: Joan Allen, Family Struggles, and 'The Upside of Anger'
a special anniversary tribute from Adam Armstrong Are you close with your father?” This was asked of me recently at a social gathering for a graduate school program I may attend in the fall. Not...
View ArticleBite Sized Tweet Roundup
It's a mini-tweets o' the week roundup because I didn't spend much time on social media this week. But I do feel the need to share these yummy morsels featuring Tilda Swinton (Not Tilda), Little Women,...
View ArticleWe Can't Wait #1: Carol
Team Experience is counting down our 15 most anticipated. Here's Matthew Eng with our #1 choice, which incidentally also topped this list last year when we used wishful thinking to pretend it would be...
View ArticleBest Limited or Cameo Role. The Men
It's time for the final two categories in this year's Film Bitch Awards, the Limited or Cameo roles. Which is to say the actors who have only two scenes or less or who are continually backgrounded but...
View ArticleWe Can't Wait 2015. The Complete Series
In the We Can't Wait series, just wrapped, we looked at our team's most anxiously awaited movies for the 2015 film year that's just begun. ("It's March!" you cry. It's okay. You're new. Our calendar...
View ArticleHit Me Globe-Hopping: Lush Ireland, Classic Italy, Psychotic Hollywood
Thank you for making the return of Hit Me With Your Best Shot, a success with its first three episodes The Sound of Music, Paris is Burning and The Quiet Man. We hope you'll join us Tuesday night for a...
View ArticleBreakfast with... Carole Lombard
My imaginary coffee date this morning is Carole Lombard. On a shag rug! (Whatever became of shag rugs?) Who do you wish you were having coffee with this morning?
View ArticleNot Much Divergence In These Box Office Grosses
The Divergent Series: Insurgent (argh. that title) mirrored its predecessor with roughly the exact same opening weekend take. So it kept its audience but didn't grow, which might not bode well for a...
View ArticleWomen's Pictures - Ida Lupino's The Trouble With Angels
“The sex of a director doesn’t mean a hoot. The one all-important thing is talent. Somehow it has evolved that directing is a man’s profession. A woman has a tough, almost impossible time breaking...
View ArticleBest Limited or Cameo Role. The Women
In the imaginary awards ceremony we hold for the Film Bitch Awards each year (when: January through March; where: Nathaniel's brain and on this website) Missi Pyle as "Ellen Abbott" announces the...
View ArticleA Glorious Geeky Gospel-Infused Pop Culture Collision
Grant Gustin & Jesse L Martin in "The Flash"I wasn't aware that Jesse L Martin, one of the best singing actors, was hoping to finance a musical short for himself but he is. The world collectively...
View ArticleThe Rise and Fall of DreamWorks Animation, Part 2: Fall
Tim here. Last week, we took a tour through the peak years of DreamWorks Animation, during which time the House That Jeffrey Katzenberg's Hatred of His Old Bosses at Disney Built established itself as...
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