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If It Ain't Mads Don't Fix It
.I think I might've blown something in my brain last week with the mad fit of posting I did for our awards stuff -- I'm feeling especially dull this week. More so than usual, even! So calling it a...
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.A couple of weeks ago I alerted you to this year's crop of films playing at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's annual "Rendez-vous with French Cinema" series -- well hi ho the series begins today...
View ArticleHeathen Paradise
.Well there's the poster! A24 has been teasing us all week with hints and bits of Ari Aster's next film, his follow-up to Hereditary (aka my third favorite movie of 2018) called Midsommar which we told...
View ArticleThe Power of Fassy Compels You
.Until recently I'd thought that Bryan Singer had directed the forthcoming Dark Phoenix movie, and I was gearing myself up for all the fun that those press rounds were gonna represent -- but no Dark...
View ArticleEverything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
... you can learn from:An American in Paris (1951).Jerry: I never touch a guy unlessI've known him at least fifteen minutes.Weirdly (for a frothy musical like An American in Paris anyway) there are...
View ArticleGarrett Hedlund Forty Times
.It feels like the next couple of years might be kind of important for Garrett Hedlund -- yes he's been important to us ever since he first showed up fifteen years ago in Troy and he's stayed that way...
View ArticleThis is The End, My Only Friend, The End
.How do we save the world? I mean literally -- the world is actually crumbling. So how does one person, you or I or a substitute teacher in Germany or some choir leader in Iceland, grab ahold of the...
View ArticleBilly Bond Bound
.Looks like Cary Fukunaga really loved worked with Billy Magnussen (and his adorkable lil' mustache) on his Netflix series Maniac (and why wouldn't he have?) because rumors abound that he wants Billy...
View ArticleToday's Fanboy Delusion
Today I'd rather be...... downing a stiff one with Matthias Schoenaerts and Joel Kinnaman.A week ago I shared with you two shots of those two (who're joined by co-star Maika Monroe there) on the set of...
View ArticleGood Morning, Franz
.The latest film from Barbara and Phoenix director Christian Petzold called Transit is out here in New York today -- I shared the poster and the trailer with you back in January and I called it, and I...
View ArticleEverything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
... you can learn from:mother! (2017)HIHIM: You won't hurt much longer.Mother: What hurts me the most is that I wasn't enough.HIM: It's not your fault. Nothing is ever enough.I couldn't create if it...
View ArticleDrag Me to Hellboy
.I immediately adopted a defensive tone when it came to the new Hellboy movie when it was announced because lord knows the fanboys had their claws out over Guillermo Del Toro & Co getting brushed...
View ArticleStreet Angel, Street Angel, Will You Be Mine
.Last May I told you guys about a series that MoMA was running here in NYC of new restorations of old Fox Film Corp. movies -- it caught my eye because they were screening a bunch of restored Charles...
View ArticleColin Farrell Forever
.So glad we've well and good put to rest the curse that was cast on Colin Farrell in the Aughts, circa Alexander& Miami Vice -- the horrific and ridiculous notion that he was a "bad actor," which I...
View ArticleHall to the Future
.Rebecca Hall, one of our greatest actresses, is going to star in a sci-fi TV series for Mark Romanek, one of our greatest directors -- this news, if you can't tell already, is great. The Amazon series...
View ArticleMelvil Poupaud Ten Times
.After a terribly slow start to the year movie-wise this weekend it's like wham bam blessings left and right -- it's all of a sudden impossible to keep up! For one FSLC's "Rendez-vous with French...
View ArticleGood Morning, It Happened
.View this post on InstagramOh nothing much, just me meeting Jake Gyllenhaal after his new play that’s all #seawallalife #jakegyllenhaal @publictheaternyA post shared by Jason Adams (@jasonaadams) on...
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