'Jaynestown'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Alyssa Rosenberg on Annihilation: [link]
It's a short series of twits, no spoilers. I am a horror movie weenie but I really want to watch it. Ex Machina was such an interesting film that grew on me more the longer I thought about it, and it sounds like Alex Garland has another thoughtful genre film on his resume. Someone also twitted yesterday that this is a movie that's better watched by oneself, not in a rowdy crowd of people.
It's super obvious that I've spent all day trying to avoid work and just read film news right? A couple more links!
Joss Whedon exits Batgirl: [link]
(I hope TPTB all realize that they now kinda HAVE TO hire a woman to direct.)
A terrific oral history of the making of Get Out on vulture: [link]
Joss Whedon exits Batgirl
sources say that Whedon, after a year of trying, could not crack the code of what a Batgirl movie should be.
For fucks sake. Kudos, I guess, for him coming to that realization, but Babs is not that complicated a character.
Joss Whedon exits Batgirl:
Praise jeebus.
Damn straight.
Considering what he would've done to Wonder Woman, I'm glad he's leaving Batgirl. Joss is a great writer and generally a good filmmaker (Ultron being the exception) and script doctor, but I'd rather he never touch a woman again. Real or fictional. His issues are too creepy and he is not in control of them.
Joss Whedon exits Batgirl:
Thank god.
Reaaaaally for the best.
I don't suppose there's a chance in hell of Kathryn Bigelow being interested?
Well, I liked Red Sparrow more than I thought I would. (I had not heard good things.) It's a slow burn plot, with an emphasis on the slow, and that sort of worked for me. However, as a heads up, if you need a trigger warning--of almost any kind really--you probably do not want to see this film.