Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The rest of Us takes place more than 30 years after that incident at the haunted house. The little girl is now a grown woman, Adelaide Wilson (Lupita Nyong’o), who’s married to an adorable lunkhead named Gabe (Winston Duke) with whom she has two kids, Zora (Shahadi Wright Joseph) and Jason (Evan Alex). The Wilsons…
Photo: Waring Abbott (Getty Images) The writers, director, producers, and publicists behind Captain Marvel have done a lot of work to position their new movie as the story of a superpowered human being. Despite their best efforts, though, the internet understands that, really, everything in the film unrelated to its most notable character, an alien…
Lindsay Ellis is just about ready to start shooting a video in her personal studio—aka a tiny second-floor room in Ellis’ western Los Angeles home—and the 34-year-old writer and YouTube essayist is making some final preparations. She gently repositions a couple of pet tortoises resting in a tank nearby, so they won’t noisily thunk their…
Hundreds of leaked text messages between Kevin Tsujihara, actress Charlotte Kirk and partners Brett Ratner and James Packer show the powerful executive, under pressure, said repeatedly he would push for auditions as accusations of “extortion” and a proposed settlement agreement followed. WarnerMedia says it will investigate. At 12:10 a.m. on Sept. 27, 2013, Australian billionaire…
How many times can we intercut tense courtroom exchanges with footage of Gawker writers hanging out, talking about “traffic” and “content,” and inciting the wrath of Peter Thiel? The next year should put our tolerance to the test! There are not one, not two, but threedramas chronicling Gawker’s demise currently in development. The latest, to be…
Image: New Line Cinema Listen, I’m not here to argue about whether the 2004 film adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ novel The Notebook starring Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling is or is not a good film. But to trim the last minute of the movie and swap in a comparatively dispassionate prelude to credits starring a…
react-text: 123 After numerous controversies, /react-text react-text: 125 Rotten Tomatoes /react-text react-text: 126 announced today it will change its audience score. The key shift, per the /react-text react-text: 129 Los Angeles Times /react-text react-text: 130 , is that the site will stop allowing users to rate movies prior to their release in theaters. Users “will now…
Photo: Nicholas Hunt Just in case you haven’t yet read The Independent’s new interview with Liam Neeson, here’s the gist: During a routine junket interview for his new movie Cold Pursuit, Neeson inexplicably decided to drop a jaw-dropping story about how, in some indeterminate point in the past, an unnamed woman he knew was sexually…
Photo: BFI London Film Festival (Vice Films) C+ Lords Of Chaos Cast Rory Culkin, Emory Cohen, Sky Ferreira, Jack Kilmer Availability Select theaters February 8 Jonas Åkerlund, who began his career as the drummer for influential proto-black metal act Bathory, is the perfect director for Vice Films’ long-gestating Mayhem biopic Lords Of Chaos. Åkerlund may…
Liam Neeson is sitting in an armchair with a flask of tea at his side. We are in the sprawling suite of a Manhattan hotel to talk about his latest film, Cold Pursuit. Just as he has in a number of roles since he became an action hero in his fifties, Neeson plays an everyman hell-bent…