13 posts tagged ‘ken’
Sharon Stone pitched a Barbie girl in a '90s world but was "laughed out of the studio"
AV Club,
As hard as it is to believe, there was a time in American film culture when the closest one came to a Barbie film was The Kentucky Fried Movie. In a pre-Pirates Of The Caribbean Hollywood, movies weren’t based on brands as much—least of all, brands that don’t have a strong narrative thrust. In the 90s, people couldn’t… Read more...
Critics Choice Awards 2024 Red Carpet: Yes, There Was Another Awards Show This Weekend
Jezebel,
The Emmys were on Monday night (after being rescheduled from September due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike), and the red carpet was, I’d say, a solid B minus. Perhaps those in attendance were a little pooped from the awards show they’d been at the night before: the Critics Choice Awards, which was held Sunday night. Read more...
The best and worst moments from the 29th Critics Choice Awards
Some awards shows allow actors to pick the awards. Others allow kids. The Critics Choice Awards, however, towers over all of them, especially the People’s Choice Awards, because it is chosen by critics. Yes, the very people whose Rotten Tomatoes scores fandoms frequently tell viewers to ignore are in control tonight,… Read more...
2024 Critics Choice Awards: All the winners
This year’s Critics Choice Awards offered few surprises, save for Emma Stone winning Best Actress for her role in Poor Things. Oppenheimer was the big winner of the night with eight trophies, including Best Director and Best Picture. On the TV side, Beef and The Bear both walked away with four awards each, while The… Read more...
io9's Top 100 Posts of 2023
Gizmodo,
The year is ending, but the posting never stops. io9 wrote thousands of stories in 2023, from breaking news to analysis and critique of the biggest films, TV shows, comics, and games in our worlds. Here’s a look back at the 100 you, our dear readers, read and shared the most. Thanks for sticking around for another… Read more...
Barbie Scores Big In the 2024 Golden Globe Nominees
The 2024 Golden Globe nominees are here, and this year everybody is still living in a Barbie world. Pipping its biggest rival at the ceremony this year, Oppenheimer, to take most nominations, Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie, and Ryan Gosling are the vanguard when it comes to all things genre. Read more...
Here are the nominees for the 2024 Golden Globes
Nominations for the 2024 Golden Globes—which air January 7, 2024 on CBS— were announced early Monday morning by Cedric the Entertainer and Wilmer Valderrama. Before nominations were read, the press room was reminded that “this is the Golden Globes”—no need to be too “tense,” they were reminded, and feel free to… 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...