Hello and I hope you had a fab new year!!
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šæ I saw a few movies over the break, A24ās āThe Tragedy of Macbethā (awesome - clever use of shadows and architecture), āHouse of Gucciā (meh/okay/way too long/what is Jared Leto doing!), and āThe Kingās Manā (somewhat terrible!). I was really looking forward to āThe Kingās Manā cause I quite enjoyed the first film - itās fun, funny and charming! This prequel is not that and itās kinda messy in tone, plot and the main guy is a bit boring. The action scenes are kinda fun tho?
Speaking of Jared Leto, āMobiusā has been pushed back because:
(I thought it might just be because weāre all a bit sensitive about bats at the moment) š¦š¦
šæ Netflix is going all in for Awards considerations, setting up a dedicated site showcasing its films and documentaries. The plus from this is we get digital production and art books for films like the excellent āPassingā and āThe Mitchells vs The Machinesā. They are proper books too, with over 200 odd pages each, which you can read online.
šæ Over the break we got another look at Tom Hollandās āUnchartedā which looks like a cross between āTomb Raiderā and āNational Treasureā I guess? I hope Holland makes more boomer jokes in the film.
The trailer for āDr Strange in the Multiverse of Madnessā is also out and the aesthetic is šÆšÆ.
šæ A tweet pointed out that Christensen is now 40, and Vader was 41 in Episode IV, therefore this is what Vader would have looked like had he not been bbqād (a happy clip):
šæ In Squid Game news, 79-year-old Oh Young-Soo has become the first Korean actor to win a Golden Globe. Young-Soo played Player 001 aka the gganbu friend who we cried over in the marble episode šš. Speaking of firsts, MJ Rodriguez is the first trans actor to win a Golden Globe too. Elsewhere, Squid Gameās Hoyeon Jung is profiled in Vogue where she talks about being a tomboy before jumping into modelling.
šæ This video from 2014 which shows a beef between Elmo and Rocco is hysterical š and Good Content. Itās basically Elmo wanting this oat milk raisin cookie, but Zoeās pet rock claims the last one, which leads Elmo to lose his mind: šŖšŖ
Elmo is unhinged (all of us during the pandemic tbh) but itās not without merit ššš. Anyway, he responded last week in this vicious subtweet:
šæ Very cool, and I didnāt know this, but meme group Subtle Asian Traits is becoming a TV series and the show will be set on an American college campus!
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some ICYMIs: Sidney Poitier and Peter Bogdanovich have died. Is this proof weāre getting a third Andrew Garfield Spidey movie? Ukraine complains about āEmily in Parisā. The Matrix defence is a thing. Ben Affleck says āJustice Leagueā was the worst. Vin Diesel and the Rock are still beefing.
and also lol:
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