Curio: Mad Max in Lego
Alexa here. Flickr user Lego Will has been making the rounds lately for his series of Lego creations titled Lego Wasteland. Will has made a wide range of vehicles inspired by the Mad Max films, which...
View ArticleGrace & Frankie. Final Thoughts & Emmy Wishes
We recapped the first half of Grace and Frankie and then abruptly quit talking about it, but since it's been renewed, we should tie this up in a neat bow. As with other Netflix shows in the past like...
View ArticleQ&A Pt. 1: The Queens (by which we mean RuPaul, Helen Mirren, Best Actresses)
Ask Nathaniel column time. You ask. I answer. Herewith seven recent reader questions. Since last night was the finale of RuPaul's Drag Race, we'll end with two similar questions about that show but...
View ArticleTen Movies To Watch (To Play Along With Tony Awards At Home)
Gene Kelly and Ann Miller are unofficial Tony Players this yearGiven that not everyone can live in or even visit New York regularly and even those of us who do, can't see all the Tony nominees given...
View ArticleReview: Aloha's Good Intentions Can't Rescue It
Michael C here to try to make sense of what I just watched. Cameron Crowe’s Aloha is one of the most bewildering cinematic experiences in recent memory. Gone is the filmmaker behind Almost Famous and...
View ArticleYNMS: Suffragette
Every day since Cannes wrapped it's become clear that the Oscar charts must be updated. We were already banking on Focus Feature's Suffragette for a Best Picture nomination but when we update we might...
View ArticleHBO’s LGBT History: Citizen Cohn (1992)
Manuel is working his way through all the LGBT-themed films & miniseries produced and distributed by HBO. Last week we looked at one of the greatest documentaries on the AIDS crisis ever committed...
View ArticleThe Toughest Emmy Quandary: Supporting Actress in a Drama Series?
We begin an Emmy FYC series tomorrow (Daily at Noon) since voting commences this month for nominations for the 67th Annual Emmy Awards. Emmy rules allow for 6 acting nominees per category. Though I...
View ArticleA Portrait of Everyone Trying To Decide What To Write About "Dick Tracy" For...
Perfect right? Thanks Kathy! I totally forgot that Kathy Bates was in this movie. And that she's amusingly mystified when asked to transcribe Mumbles confession. Or maybe she's distracted thinking...
View ArticleStage Door - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dancin’ Dan here with a quick run through one of the Tony front-runners in preparation for this weekend’s festivities! As a big fan of Mark Haddon’s 2003 novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the...
View ArticleMy New Link Parts
Benjamin Walker: still waiting for the mainstream breakthroughPajiba If you needed some contrarian Grace & Frankie critique try this. I love Dustin but he actually thinks that Grace & Frankie...
View ArticleFYC: Lisa Kudrow for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy
Team Experience sharing their personal Emmy dream picks every day at Noon. Here's Manuel on Lisa Kudrow... For anyone who watched the criminally underseen first season of Lisa Kudrow’s The Comeback,...
View ArticleYNMS: MacBeth
Jason from MNPP here with a look at the first trailer for this our brand new MacBeth movie, which stars Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard and yeah you all already knew that. The film already...
View ArticleWomen's Pictures: Agnes Varda's La Pointe Courte
When Agnes Varda was honored at Cannes in May, a lot of titles were tossed around: Ancestor of the French New Wave, New Wave's Godmother/Mother/etc. But I began to wonder: how accurate are those...
View ArticleReview: When Marnie Was There
Tim here. No one movie should have to deal with the pressure of being "The Last (Probably) Studio Ghibli Film", but that's inevitably the aura that surrounds When Marnie Was There, the company's 20th...
View ArticleVisual Index ~ The Bold Giddy Pop Art of "Dick Tracy"
Hit Me With Your Best Shot S6.E11: DICK TRACY (1990)Director: Warren Beatty; Cinematographer: Vittorio Storaro Big Boy: YOU! How do you want it? May I step on to the screen and interject and answer?...
View ArticleFYC: Jon Hamm for Best Lead Actor in a Drama
Team Experience share their personal Emmy dream picks daily at Noon. Here's Deborah on everyone's favorite ad man... Emmy voters, you assholes, now is your chance to make it right! You have nominated...
View ArticleWhat Does 1979 Mean To You?
Our first Supporting Actress Smackdown of the year is this Sunday, looking at the nominees of 1979. If you haven't yet voted (readers, collectively, are the final panelist) you have until 9 PM EST...
View ArticleQ&A Pt. 2: Rain Men, Paperboys, Oscar Greats
We had too many good questions last week to keep it all confined to one post. So now that you're read part one, so here's part two of the week's reader question roundup. I saved all the Oscar questions...
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