The word around the campfire is that Gregg Araki‘s I Want Your Sex, an erotically provocative “thriller” of some sort (although I can pretty much guarantee that “thriller” doesn’t apply…not in the sense that most of us understand the term…not from Araki)…the buzz says that Araki’s film will play in Cannes next month, although not … Read more
I’m thinking about writing a Hollywood book about the deranged and hysterical media war against Peter Farrelly’s Green Book (‘18), but also about something bigger and broader — how the Green Book maelstrom launched the not-fully-concluded era of the woke baddie-waddies —- the censorious, ultra-sensitive identity fanatics who all but suffocated the film business during the … Read more
I’m feeling very affected by this. Seven-year-old Drew Barrymore reminds me a bit of Sutton, who’s just turned three. I love that Carson spent the first 60-plus seconds settling her nerves about having fallen and soothing any slight embarrassment she might have been feeling. A good interviewer always shows respect and restraint, but allows feelings … Read more
Variety‘s Alex Hitman is reporting that Cooper Hoffman (Saturday Night, Licorice Pizza) will play a would-be “sexual muse” to an artist played by Olivia Wilde in Gregg Araki‘s I Want Your Sex. Written by Araki and Karley Sciortino, pic is described as a “provocative thriller” that “blithely explores desire, domination and fantasy.” I’m sorry but … Read more
Jenna Ortega Says Everybody in Hollywood Wants to Be 'Politically Correct' but That 'Lacks Honesty' and Makes Us 'Lose a Lot of Our Humanity and Integrity' https://t.co/8tliSWibW0 — Variety (@Variety) August 8, 2024
…and in recent years have tended to vote for films that have promoted the right kind of politically correct message, especially since the woke virus began to infect everything six years ago. I therefore wouldn’t be surprised if Greta Gerwig‘s jury declines to give the Palme d’Or to Sean Baker‘s wonderfully un-wokey Anora and hands … Read more
On his latest Netflix special Armageddon, Ricky Gervais throwing spears and javelins at the wokester terror network is completely expected and quite satisfying. I don’t know what to add to this. His brand of humor is shocking no one because it’s so well defined.
Kim Jorgensen on Facebook: “Saltburn (Searchlight, 11.17) is my film of the year. We’re talking cinema, baby — attitude, style, irreverence, confidence, rebellion. It’s out there. “I didn’t care for Emerald Fennell’s previous effort, Promising Young Woman, but this one makes up for it. She’s the most accomplished new European voice since Ruben Östlund. “I … Read more
I’ve just been told that if I want to potentially buffer my image as a moderate-minded fellow and not sink any deeper into the sinkhole of suspected racism, I need to ease up on my tortured reactions to Killers of the Flower Moon. In short, get with the program or you’ll be bitch-slapped and condemned … Read more
I’m sorry — I meant to title this article “Snow Zegler and Seven Diverse Individuals Seeking To Craft and Fulfill Their Unique Identities and Aspirations.” It seems (emphasis on the “s” word) as if Disney’s forthcoming Snow White (3.22.24) is some kind of reconstituted, anti-classical, woke-Stalinist nightmare — a Khmer Rouge-y, dwarf-less, political re-education camp … Read more
“Westerners Cannot Kidnap Other Moviegoers on ‘Mermaid,’” Global Times article, 5.26: “Some American leftists are imposing their own politically correct values on Chinese audiences, expecting them to embrace the film the same way as Western audiences have. “This expectation is unreasonable since Chinese don’t have such political correctness, as the country’s modern history is more … Read more
“You were talking earlier about why woke ideology is so dangerous to the west…it’s because people in other parts of the world are not teaching their young children to hate their own country. And if [the American wokester mafia] continue to do this, how is the west going to do in the battle of civilizations? … Read more