curated: RIP Ron Glass
I hate this year.
Variety
from Facebook: when male film journalists mistake talking about their boners for lucid, informative, intelligent discussion about movies
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from Facebook: no, it is not “the year of the woman” at Cannes
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why Anthony Ingruber *must* be young Han Solo in the Star Wars spinoff
He doesn’t only look and sound like Harrison Ford, he’s got the charm and the presence for the role.
from Facebook: now it’s Variety suddenly wondering about the absence of female film critics
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why does the Sicario Region 1 DVD cover art make it look like Benicio Del Toro is the star of the film?
In a year when badass women are obviously doing very well for Hollywood, this is no explanation for this beyond unthinking, reflexive sexism.
the magic bullet for improving the number of women directors working in Hollywood
It’s pretty goddamn clear that the “magic bullet” is this: Hire more women.
how not to do streaming: ABC screws up the Oscars
“Unexpected demand” brought down the stream. Unexpected? It’s the Oscars. The Oscars. No amount of demand can be unexpected.
Jeff Robinov, who decreed that Warner Bros wouldn’t make movies with female leads, wants to not make women-led films elsewhere, probably
Not that this won’t be a mark in his favor with the other studios.
all movie news is inside-baseball now
Used to be, the only people who cared about box-office returns were studio execs and filmmakers who had a movie opening that weekend. Now, no film geek worth calling a film geek cannot rattle off what the biggest opener of the year so far has been…
