Hi friends!!
Last week I watched Dune - icymi, I really loved it, you can read my thoughts on that here. Also - I’m seeing Spider-Man tonight!!!
🍿 What’s Shaking 🍿
🍿 Aussie comedian Celeste Barber is set to star in a new Netflix comedy/drama series ‘Wellness Mania’, based on Guardian journalist Brigid Delaney’s book ‘Wellmania: Misadventures in the Search for Wellness’. It’s set to follow a woman who suffers a health crisis and throws herself into the wellness world. The eight episode series is co-created by Delaney and Benjamin Law, and is set to film in Sydney.
🍿 COUNT ME IN for this Australian TV series about Indigenous vampire hunters set in the outback. The series is out on AMC+ from December 16. You can get AMC+ via Amazon or Apple TV, and it’s now yet another streaming service you can subscribe to.
🍿 In sad news, the Netflix live-action remake of ‘Cowboy Bebop’ has been cancelled after one season. I went into this series without having seen the original anime, and I really enjoyed it. I loved the individual mission episodes rather than the larger series arc (which I found a bit weak) and was excited to see where they’d take this. The production design and humour was what sold it for me, as well as the friendship between the three main cowboys! Also the fact that John Cho was the lead in a sci-fi series was also extremely cool.
I think this thread does a really great job of distilling what went wrong with the adaption (which I can understand why long time fans would be… not that enthused about!)
At least John Cho says he’s okay.
🍿 Steven Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’ is out in the U.S. and its garnering critical acclaim! (93% on RT). The musical, which is based off of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ sees two star crossed lovers navigate feuding gangs in 1950s New York. I think the super cool thing is Spielberg, who is the director, says it was a conscious decision to not have subtitles during Spanish speaking scenes. He says:
"I don't know if anybody really questioned it, I don't remember anybody saying you've got to subtitle it. I felt that subtitling the Spanish was disrespectful to the second language of this country… It was out of complete respect to give dignity where dignity is earned and deserved to be given."
‘West Side Story’ is in Australian cinemas December 26.
🍿 ‘The Matrix: Resurrections’ got another trailer this week:
The line about “We can’t see it but we’re all trapped inside these strange repeating loops” hits a bit too close to home! Is the film secretly about the pandemic? Or about our modern existence?
🍿Apple has announced it’ll be producing and releasing the long awaited film on blood-tech start-up Theranos and the rise and fall of founder Elizabeth Holmes (who is currently on trial!). Jennifer Lawrence is set to star as Holmes with Adam McKay to direct.
Lawrence and McKay have worked together before, their current project ‘Don’t Look Up’ about a comet endangering Earth is currently in theatres and is set to get a Netflix release on December 24. It features J.Law grocery shopping with Leo and Timothee Chalamet!!
🍿 Last Shakes 🍿
That Ben Affleck/Ana De Amas erotic thriller has been shelved. ICYMI, the AACTA winners from last week. People are upset about that Jeremy Strong New Yorker profile. The next James Bond will be a man of any ethnicity. The importance of the Chinese box office. Yes, we’re getting fanfiction/wattpad film content. Selma Blair on the importance of actors with disabilities.
A good tweet:
🐶 Pupdate 🐶
Here’s Rey on the grass eating pupper icecream!
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