Moon (Prism) Power! 🌙
Tessa Thompson on Valkyrie in Thor 4, 'The Cuphead Show' and a new Zac Efron movie!
I saw ‘Spencer’ last week! It is probably my favourite film I’ve seen so far this year. You can read my thoughts here. If you’re interested in Chanel, Vogue has a breakdown on the haute couture dress worn in the film!!!!
🍿 What’s Shaking 🍿
🍿 Australian thriller film ‘Gold’ starring human angel Zac Efron is now streaming on Stan. Like other dystopian features, it was filmed in outback South Australia and partly through a sand storm!
🍿 Marvel’s new series ‘Moon Knight’ looks pretty good - I do love how Disney+ TV shows just in general have the production quality of a big budget film. I just can’t deal with Oscar Isaac’s British accent (WhY dID u caLL me MARK)???? I don’t know if it’s worse or better than Benedict Cumberbatch’s American accent (let me know!). 😂😂😂
‘Moon Knight’ is about a mercenary who is drawn into a mystery surrounding Egyptian Gods while having to deal with dissociative identity disorder. Here’s the OG trailer sans commentary, and remember to self-care!
🍿 We’ve got a closer look at Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series, aka ‘Rings of Power’. I’m in two minds about this - on the one hand I loved Peter Jackson’s trilogy and don’t think it really needs a rehash, but on the other hand I love the diverse casting the series has, or at the very least, more so than what we’ve previously had.
🍿 I loved ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ growing up and this whole Joss Whedon business is horrendous. This Vulture profile wraps it all up.
🍿 In happier superhero news, Tessa Thompson says Marvel movies don’t always invest a lot of time in love stories, but ‘Thor 4’ will be different! (Thompson plays Valkyrie, the studios’ first LGBITQ hero) Per The Wrap, she says:
if you look at the comics in the canon, there are so many queer characters! It’s hard because Taika (Waititi) and I would’ve even liked to go further, but in the context of the movies, there’s only so much we can do. Unfortunately, there’s not a lot of time invested in love stories in Marvel movies in general. I think that will be a little different on the new “Thor,” which is exciting. And getting to play a character that historically is not written for somebody that looks like me, all of that felt exciting.
🍿 CUPHEAD is the game I played in the lead up to my wedding cause I find platformers relaxing but unfortunately the game is not (it’s very hard!!!). I loved the art style of it and at the time the game was praised for looking like old school/Disney golden-era animation.
Now Netflix is releasing a series based on the game called ‘The Cuphead Show!’ and it looks… not as stressful as having to play it!!! It’s out Feb. 18
🍿 Last Shakes 🍿
Daniel Radcliffe will play Weird Al Yankovic. ‘Parasite’ director Bong Joon Ho is working on a new film, while ‘The Godfather’ is returning to theatres. I love that Andrew Garfield loves the extremely triggering book by Vietnamese author Ocean Vuong, ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’. Please enjoy this video of Japanese Spider-Man my friend sent me:
🐶 Pupdate 🐶
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