curated: Oscar Isaac and Timothée Chalamet on playing father and son
I don’t often discuss, in my reviews, actors’ performances, because I’m often aiming to get at the larger cultural impact of movies, but I am fascinated by actors’ craft…
Hollywood Reporter
Where Are the Women?: crunching the numbers
Everything we learned from the Where Are the Women? project. (Spoiler: It’s not pretty, but there is hope…) [This post is not behind the paywall.]
the Force is with white men, and hardly anyone else [update]
Star Wars is stuck “a long time ago”: in a 1950s mindset that was already outmoded when the first film was released in 1977.
is Russell Crowe’s Noah a “crazy, irrational, religious nut”?
Paramount is hoping to sell Darren Aronofsky’s Noah to both secular and religious audiences. This’ll be fun to watch…
Alone Yet Not Alone trailer: the most horrifically racist thing you’ll see this year
This is really hard to take when it’s supposedly the work of people who think Jesus has their back.
what’s the best way to honor the lives and work of famous people when they die?
Is it doing something in the spirit of their work? Is it not deifying them by pretending they were more or other than they were?
evening clickbait: another reason Hunger Games is awesome; animals *were* harmed
Stuff I found on the Net today.
I’m not sure that telling men that a movie about women isn’t for them is helping
You want to reinforce the idea that women are a minority with niche interests that could not possibly be appreciated or understood by default normal human beings (ie, men)? This is the perfect way to do it.
a World War Z sequel? maybe if they’d kept the original ending
The original ending, much of which was apparently actually shot, is a lot darker and much closer in tone to the book…
“just give up, stop complaining, accept idiocy as inevitable”
That seems to be what Tim Goodman at The Hollywood Reporter is saying. Fuck that shit…
