A majority of Gatecrashers voters are still predicting an Adrien Brody win….please God…please let Timothee Chalamet win…please…no Brody, no Brody…no, no…I’m already bummed enough by the likely prospect of Demi Moore taking Best Actress…in my mind everyone and everything connected to The Brutalist must not only be stopped but ground into the pavement. I don’t mean to sound hard or cruel but I don’t care if Brady Corbet is living paycheck-to-paycheck.

Yes, another Blue Velvet of sorts, right?…another take on the dark underbelly of an idyllic American picket-fence domesticity?…a midwestern Diary of a Mad Housewife? Obviously something in that realm. Older white male = perverse-to-the-max bad guy…shocker!

The folks at Amazon MGM are presenting. Nicole Kidman, Gael García Bernal, Matthew Macfadyen (whose Succession performance landed him this role), Jude Hill, Rachel Sennott.

Debuting before the South by Southwest whores in 3.9.25 (Austin cineastes will heartily shriek over anything), followed by some kind of release on 3.27.25.

I’m trying to wangle a couple of tickets to a 3.6 MOMA screening (7 pm) of Errol Morris‘s “CHAOS: The Manson Murders“, mainly because Morris will be doing a q & a directly after. The 96-minute doc begins streaming on Netlix the following day (3.7).

An excerpt from Nicolas Niarchos‘ reaction (i.e., not really a “review”) to Michael Wolff‘s just-published “ALL OR NOTHING: How Trump Recaptured America“:

I’ve said repeatedly that Disney’s seemingly woked-up Snow White (3.21) is almost certainly going to be an instructive (read: punishing) militant feminist fantasy by way of a manifesto…not my cup but fine, whatever.

But rightwing notions that star Rachel Zegler (of Columbian-Polish descent) is somehow an inappropriate choice for the titular role…these slags are ridiculous. Zegler is a beautiful, fair-skinned, dark-haired actress with an excellent singing voice…where’s the problem in that?

Nonetheless The Ankler‘s Richard Rushfield has apparently been persuaded that conservative gripes about Zegler not being “white” enough…Rushfield thinks this is some kind of major narrative out there. Well, not to my fucking knowledge…

The Ankler‘s Richard Rushfield, posted on 2.25.25: “A studio calling out criticisms of Rachel Zegler’s ethnicity as the disgusting filth it is, is not a studio ‘going woke,’ but rather making a basic stand for decency and refusing to be dragged into the dark places where much of the world seems determined to go.”

Posted on 12.3.24:

“And following in the path of Glenn Powell‘s character in Twister, relegated to the sidelines during the action-packed climax, there ain’t no savior prince in the new Snow White (Disney, 3.21) — this is apparently a militant, storm-the-barricades show aimed at progressive women of all ages. (The script is by Greta Gerwig and Erin Cressida Wilson.) Okay, there’s the kind-hearted, mild-mannered Jonathan character (Andrew Burnap) as well as the Huntsman (Ansu Kabia)), but, like Powell, these are second-banana characters.”

That snarling, hyperventilating army of HE readers who constantly put me down when I mention the word “peaked” in one of my HE obits…these same people need to start circulating an online petition that calls for the immediate termination of Variety‘s Chris Morris.

Morris needs to be slapped down but good for using the “p” word in a 2.24 report about the passing of the once-great Roberta Flack.

Paragraph #5 in Morris’s story reads as follows: “[Flack] reached her peak with the 1974 pop and R&B smash ‘Where Is the Love’, which claimed the apex of both charts.” If the HE firebrands want this shit to stop, they have to nip it in the bud…seriously.

HE sincerely mourns Flack‘s passing. She had a glorious three-year run in the early ’70s (’72 through ’74). Clint Eastwood put her on the map when he used “The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face” in Play Misty For Me (’71).

Kathleen Kennedy, the long-embattled Lucasfilm exec and mediocre anti-visionary who decimated the Star Wars brand and the intense loyalty of the worldwide community by trying to woke-icze and feminize the nearly 50-year-old galactic franchise…Kennedy, destroyer of worlds, is finally taking a hike!

Kennedy’s just-announced departure is many years overdue, of course…the faith is pretty much gone and the franchise with it. Kennedy turned it into a 21st Century political-cultural anti-machismo, up-with-DEI thing…a progressive/feminist Star Wars crusade dedicated to diminishing and in some cases the outright de-balling of a once-proud mythology…a once-devotional theology gone south.

The only good things that came out of the Kennedy regime were Tony Gilroy‘s Andor and Gareth Edwards‘ Rogue One.. Otherwise, forget it…implosion, dilution, a woke-product-in-the-pipeline mentality.

My favorite Kennedy bonehead move was the ghastly miscasting of the beady-eyed, reedy-voiced, small-shouldered Alden Ehrenreich as Han Solo…that in itself was a firehouse alarm. Other Kennedy wrongos include The Acolyte, the chubby Kelly Marie Tran fan revolt, Moses Ingram‘s Baltimore accent in Obi Wan kenobi, multiple director firings (Lord & Miller, Josh Trank, Colin Trevorrow), the Boba Fett movie, the stalled Rian Johnson trilogy…all of it.

Back in ’21 or thereabouts Tatiana and I were about to begin one of our Sulllivan Canyon hikes, and there was Kennedy walking toward us on the same horse trail. I nodded at her but said nothing.

Posted on 12.27.19: