Rachel Maddow on Monday evening: “I want to associate myself with all my colleagues, both at MSNBC and NBC News, who have voiced loud and principled objections to our company putting on the payroll someone who hasn’t just attacked us as journalists, but someone who is part of an ongoing project to get rid of our system of government.
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HE agrees that Timothee Chalamet‘s simulation of Bob Dylan, as revealed in Entertainment Weekly‘s shots of recent filming of A Complete Unknown, is agreeable.
The hair and brown folkie threads appear to suggest Dylan ’65 — his “Bringing It All Back Home” (January ’65) or “Highway 61 Revisited” (August ’65) period.
Let no one misunderstand that these James Mangold-approved capturings are from METROPOLIS/BAUER-GRIFFIN/GC IMAGES.
Earlier today homeland security (HSI) officials raided two homes owned by Sean "P. Diddy" Combs. They were apparently responding to (a) concerns about alleged sex trafficking or (b) possible concerns about a music producer's allegation that Combs and his son were involved in a 2022 shooting at a Los Angeles recording studio, or (c) something else.
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Scarlett Johansson‘s reported interest in starring in a new Jurassic Park film is a paycheck move…obviously. She needs the money.
Because…think about it…the Jurassic franchise peaked roughly 30 years ago (1993’s Jurassisc Park + 1997’s The Lost World) and there’s obviously nothing classy or even exciting about making one of these godawful things, which currently appeal to the absolute lowest common denominator…the dregs of megaplex culture.
It would seem that Johansson’s current game is largely or significantly about wanting to keeping living in the lap of luxury and having to occasionally hold her nose when she makes certain films. Paycheck gigs are a fact of life. Nobody likes them, but almost everyone accepts the fact that appearing a well-paying dreck is an unfortunate necessity.
Plus Johansson is pushing 40 (she was born on 11.22.84) and a voice is probably telling her “you’ve had a great 20-year run and although you’re sure to make many more smart and edgy films, your highly-paid glory period is winding down and so it’s probably wise to snag as many hefty-paycheck roles as you can, regardless of quality….get it while you can.”
HE is passively into discouraging or diminishing interest in Proof of Concept Accelerator movies...no offense. I simply wish to align myself with the tens of millions of relatively slender, well-educated squares out there (i.e., those who are not obese or MAGA or who don't wear whitesides)...an alignment with the 95% of the Americans who don't live inside the progressive woke-trans-nonbinary bubble...Americans who inherently don't love the idea of white-male-hating narratives.
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“Not happening…way too laid back…zero narrative urgency,” I was muttering from the get-go. Basically the sixth episode of White Lotus Thai SERIOUSLY disappoints. Puttering around, way too slow. Things inch along but it’s all “woozy guilty lying aftermath to the big party night” stuff. Glacial pace…waiting, waiting. I was told...
I finally saw Walter Salles' I'm Still Here two days ago in Ojai. It's obviously an absorbing, very well-crafted, fact-based poltical drama, and yes, Fernanda Torres carries the whole thing on her shoulders. Superb actress. Fully deserving of her Best Actress nomination. But as good as it basically is...
After three-plus-years of delay and fiddling around, Bernard McMahon's Becoming Led Zeppelin, an obsequious 2021 doc about the early glory days of arguably the greatest metal-rock band of all time, is opening in IMAX today in roughly 200 theaters. Sony Pictures Classics is distributing. All I can say is, it...
To my great surprise and delight, Christy Hall's Daddio, which I was remiss in not seeing during last year's Telluride Film Festival, is a truly first-rate two-hander -- a pure-dialogue, character-revealing, heart-to-heart talkfest that knows what it's doing and ends sublimely. Yes, it all happens inside a Yellow Cab on...
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Unless Part Two of Kevin Costner's Horizon (Warner Bros., 8.16) somehow improves upon the sluggish initial installment and delivers something...
For me, A Dangerous Method (2011) is David Cronenberg's tastiest and wickedest film -- intense, sexually upfront and occasionally arousing...