579 posts tagged ‘entertainment culture’
That's the deal, my dear: Shakira finally settles her tax fraud case
AV Club,
Happily for the Spanish government, Shakira just agreed to pay them a whole lot of money to settle her ongoing tax fraud case, which means that sadly for us, we can’t make “whenever, wherever, Shakira is gonna commit tax fraud” jokes anymore. At least there’s another line in the same song that perfectly sums up this… Read more...
Maestro review: Bradley Cooper’s passionate, unruly ode to Leonard Bernstein
Bradley Cooper’s Maestro is an inspired ode to the late, great Leonard Bernstein. It’s also a thorny deconstruction of the man-as-tortured-genius trope, replete with a compassionate focus on his put-upon wife and the bond the two shared for close to three decades. Ambitious in scope and featuring two powerhouse… Read more...
15 Best Actress contenders for the 2024 Oscars
We’ve already identified 22 films competing for a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars, and 15 actors in the running for Best Actor at the Academy Awards. Now, we’re turning our attention to the actresses whose names could be called when nominations are announced in January. As with the actors list, we’ve narrowed… Read more...
May the weekend box office be ever in The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes’ favor
After a couple of slow weekends at the domestic box office, things have bounced back nicely thanks to four pretty big new releases that mostly did okay (and one movie with a limited rollout that did relatively good). The biggest of those big new releases is Hunger Games prequel The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes,… Read more...
Aardman Animations Is Running Out of Its Iconic Clay
Gizmodo,
Aardman Animations has been defined by its clay animation techniques. Known as Newplast plasticine, it’s been used since the studio’s inception back in 1972, in all its productions, from the Wallace & Gromit shorts to more recent fare like Star Wars Visions and Shaun the Sheep. You know you’re watching an Aardman… Read more...
R.I.P. Suzanne Shepherd, actor from The Sopranos and Goodfellas
Suzanne Shepherd, an actor, theatrical director, and acting coach best known for memorable roles in a pair of iconic mob-themed stories (Goodfellas and The Sopranos), has died. A cause of death was not given publicly, but Variety says that her agent confirmed that she died on Friday morning at her home in New York.… Read more...
Open Channel: How Do You Like Your Remakes?
Netflix’s big new release for the weekend is Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, an anime revival of the popular graphic novel series by Bryan Lee O’Malley. It’s a bit of a weird bag; pre-release, O’Malley and BenDavid Grabinski repeatedly said the show would offer something similar to the comic while also being a different… Read more...
Ridley Scott on Napoleon complaints from French critics: “the French don’t even like themselves”
Earlier this month, as part of a New Yorker profile, Napoleon director Ridley Scott suggested that anyone pointing out historical inaccuracies in his film should “get a life” (which seems fair, if bluntly stated, because that kind of very-online anti-fun/creativity “criticism” is exhausting and pretentious, and Scott… Read more...