Drag Race: "Divine" John Waters Inspiration
Manuel here to talk about that wonderful Drag Race episode this week which was dedicated to, as Ru called him, “the Sultan of Sleaze, the Baron of Bad Taste,” Mr John Waters! Seeing RuPaul and...
View ArticleBelinda the rain is falling. Belinda your link is calling ♪ ♫
The Onion "I only like movies where the whole cast dances in the end credits"Pajiba Hayley Atwell continues to enjoy her Agent Peggy Carter awesomeness even without news of a renewal yetEsquire an...
View ArticleApril Foolish Predictions: Direction, Costumes, Cinematography, Sets!
The April Foolish Predictions probably won't be quite finished by April's end, damnit! So we'll have to save four categories (Actresses and Screenplays) for May 1st. Blame Nathaniel's BFF who has...
View ArticleTeam Top Ten: Best Sci-Fi Films (Post-1977)
Welcome back to April’s Team Top Ten. If you missed our show last week, we chose the best science fiction films made before 1977, the landmark year when both Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Star...
View ArticleWomen's Pictures - Jane Campion's Bright Star
Have you participated in Hit Me With Your Best Shot? Visual index coming tonight! As an end to this month-long series on Jane Campion, Bright Star presents a perfect kind of artistic summation for the...
View ArticleA.I. "Her," or The Rise of the Empathetic Machines
Wrapping up the sci-fi week festivities (did you see the final top ten list?) we turn the time over to our fine new contributor Lynn Lee. You'll want to read this one! - Editor Deep down, most people...
View ArticleApril. It's a Wrap
We're so ready for sunshine and summer movie season! But let's wrap up April first ICYMI... not the whole month but the highlights. We work hard providing fresh content daily so we don't want you to...
View ArticleVisual Index ~ Bright Star's 'Best Shots'
We're almost to the mid season finale of Hit Me With Your Best Shot. This week's episode looks at Jane Campion's sorely underseen Bright Star (2009). The romantic drama about the poet John Keats and...
View Article"It's for people."
It's quite possible that you'll love David Lynch as much as David Lynch loves coffee after watching this commercial. (If you don't already that is.)
View ArticleTim's Toons: Soviet Propaganda Sampler Platter
Tim here. It's the first of May, and of course that can only mean one thing! ...oh, right, the new Avengers opens. Yeah, it means that too. But the thing is, the whole internet is going to be around to...
View ArticleLost in Translation: Dubbing Movies Into Foreign Languages
Sebastian here with a heartfelt criticism of dubbing movies for foreign markets. Lake Bell in "In a World…," which isn't about dubbing, but it's a great movie and I needed a picture here. This Monday I...
View ArticleYou're Gonna Love May !
(that's the cast of Signature's CABARET playing in DC later this month including ever crushworthy Wesley Taylor from Smash) On a scale of 1 to 10 how happy are you that May has arrived? I think I'm...
View ArticleDo you ever read books just because they'll "soon be a major motion picture"?
That's today's burning question since the April Foolish charts for both screenplays are up this May 2nd (shut it - I tried to finish by April!) and, as per usual, the year's Adapted Screenplay...
View ArticleObservations from the Ultimate Marvel Marathon
So, as those of you who read every post know, I attended the Ultimate Marvel Marathon from Wednesday to Thursday night. The AMC staff was very present and high energy and it was a fairly well run...
View ArticleThe Forever Link
Before We Get Started...Here's the only sane reaction to the news that The Lovely Laura Linney (who has barely been on movie screens these past five years) has joined the cast of Teenage Mutant Ninja...
View ArticleAge of Ultron... And Marvel's Very Long "Connected" Movie
This article was originally published in Nathaniel's column at Towleroad Movies really ought to be seen (and reviewed for that matter) on their own terms. But what if their very terms are -- "it's all...
View ArticleSupporting Actress Chatter: Alicia, Julie, Kristen, Judy, Etc...
Alicia Vikander as Gerta Wegener in "The Danish Girl": Supporting or Lead?2015 hasn't brought us much in the way of stellar supporting actressing quite yet, with the exception of César winning Kristen...
View ArticleAvengers Assemble... Your Loot!
As expected Marvel's latest evil plot for world domination was a significant success at the box office. The US opening took in an estimated $187.6 but that's just the beginning of its gross and in...
View ArticlePenny Dreadful and Other (NSFW) Randomness
My mood of late has been 'fourgy with the cast of Ex Machina' That cast! Or at least a private moment with Oscar Isaac. When I'm not thinking of that movie I am thinking of The Avengers and when...
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