RIPPA Posted March 16, 2022 Author Share Posted March 16, 2022 5 hours ago, J.T. said: Netflix still owes me an Old Guard sequel. At least you know they are making it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 On 3/16/2022 at 12:39 AM, The Natural said: Criminal Taron Egerton wasn't nominated for an Academy Award and did his own singing unlike Rami Malek who mimed and won the Academy Award for Best Actor in Bohemian Rhapsody. Dexter Fletcher deserved a Best Director nod also. You do realize that Elton John's range was nowhere near Freddie's, so it was nearly impossible for Malek to recreate it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted March 18, 2022 Author Share Posted March 18, 2022 All the Old Knives Directed By Janus Metz (Borg vs. McEnroe) Chris Pine, Thandiwe Newton, Laurence Fishburne, Jonathan Pryce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 Larry's the mole. Calling it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 I dunno, there's a Bond Villain right there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted March 20, 2022 Author Share Posted March 20, 2022 Bullet Train has been pushed back two weeks and will now release on July 29, 2022 Basically it is jumping into the window that opened up when Black Adam got delayed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted March 22, 2022 Share Posted March 22, 2022 Apparently.... Doctor Strange 2 will have the first teaser trailer for Avatar 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted March 22, 2022 Share Posted March 22, 2022 WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING Starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor John Smith, and David Strathairn Directed by Olivia Newman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted March 22, 2022 Author Share Posted March 22, 2022 On some levels the reason Crawdads is now drawing the attention is because it features a new Taylor Swift song (which can be heard in the trailer) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Log Posted March 22, 2022 Share Posted March 22, 2022 5 hours ago, RIPPA said: On some levels the reason Crawdads is now drawing the attention is because it features a new Taylor Swift song (which can be heard in the trailer) Wasn't the book really popular? I seem to remember my wife buying it because the wait at the library was so long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted March 22, 2022 Author Share Posted March 22, 2022 Yes - the book was apparently a big hit (and, ironically, the reason Taylor Swift wanted to be involved) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 When you can't even finish watching the trailer you know something has been too popular 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elizium Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 That is a horrendous title Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Log Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 11 hours ago, elizium said: That is a horrendous title It is! My wife was wanting me to see if the library had it, and I probably had to ask her for the title like 10 times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted March 23, 2022 Author Share Posted March 23, 2022 11 hours ago, Curt McGirt said: When you can't even finish watching the trailer you know something has been too popular A) you like @odessasteps hate everything that is popular B) I learned that the reason it is popular AND why Reese Witherspoon is producing is because Reese has replaced Oprah as "Queen of the Bookclub" where if she picks your book - it becomes a mega hit Quote And Witherspoon — of Legally Blonde and Big Little Lies and Wild and Cruel Intentions — has become, like Oprah Winfrey before her, one of a select few tastemakers who can launch a book into the stratosphere. Last September, when Reese’s Book Club picked Where the Crawdads Sing, a debut novel by the unknown 70-year-old author Delia Owens, it pulled the book out of midlist obscurity and put it on the path toward megastardom. Where the Crawdads Sing’s first print run was 27,500 copies; industry tracker NPD BookScan reports that it has since sold over 1.4 million print units, not including ebooks. It has been at the top of the New York Times bestseller list for 52 weeks. Crawdad’s success has only continued in the wake of an article that linked it to a real-life murder, one that allegedly involved Owens’s husband and stepson. (The Reese’s Book Club brand, apparently, is strong enough to withstand a scandal.) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted March 23, 2022 Author Share Posted March 23, 2022 Here is the Slate article that references the murder stuff - https://slate.com/culture/2019/07/delia-owens-crawdads-murder-africa.html Quote If you’re one of the people who’ve read the book, you probably know a little of Owens’ romantic backstory, like the huge boost her debut got when Reese Witherspoon, the Oprah of our time, selected it for her book club. Or the fact that while Crawdads is Owens’ first novel, it’s not her first book. And then there’s the 22 years she spent in Africa with her husband, Mark, living close to the land and working in wildlife conservation. Delia and Mark wrote about those experiences in three memoirs. But what most of Crawdads’ fans don’t know is that Delia and Mark Owens have been advised never to return to one of the African nations where they once lived and worked, Zambia, because they are wanted for questioning in a murder that took place there decades ago. That murder, whose victim remains unidentified, was filmed and broadcast on national television in the U.S. To be clear, Delia Owens herself is not suspected of involvement in the murder of a poacher filmed by an ABC camera crew in 1995, while the news program Turning Point was producing a segment on the Owenses’ conservation work in Zambia. But her stepson, Christopher, and her husband have been implicated by some witnesses. This murky incident from Delia’s past is hardly a secret. In fact, in 2010 it was the subject of “The Hunted,” an 18,000-word story written by Jeffrey Goldberg and published in the New Yorker. You can find a link to that story, along with a one-line reference to a “controversial killing of a poacher in Zambia,” in Owens’ Wikipedia entry. However, the Wikipedia entry for Owens comes as only the fourth result when you Google her name, and a lazy or unseasoned internet user might stop reading after browsing the official bios that outrank it. Apparently many such users are members of the press. As you can tell by the tone of just that - the Slate author isn't the biggest fan of Owens or the book. (Granted this is also The Slate we are talking about) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 14 minutes ago, RIPPA said: A) you like @odessasteps hate everything that is popular Hey now, I resemble this remark But yeah if involves book clubs, women that apparently refuse to wear shoes, and Taylor Swift I'm out 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianS81177 Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 1 hour ago, Dolfan in NYC said: Insert "shut up and take my money" meme here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 Looks like it could easily be Nic Cage's Joker too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 (edited) Hopefully he meets Dr Fu Manchu Edited March 24, 2022 by odessasteps 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Sheldon Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 In those pictures give Cage a Fu Manchu mustache and he'd be perfect as old school The Mandarin with those rings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil4126 Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 Is it me, or does Mr Cage look like John Travolta in those pictures Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 Seeing those Grindhouse trailers in the theater was the funniest shit ever. Of all the cinematic achievements of those filmmakers, that might be their brightest moment -- just for the sheer hilarity and love for the art. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted March 24, 2022 Author Share Posted March 24, 2022 The Survivor Directed by Barry Levinson Quote The HBO drama film stars Ben Foster (3:10 to Yuma), Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread), Billy Magnussen (No Time to Die), Peter Sarsgaard (Jackie), Saro Emirze (Wilsberg), Dar Zuzovsky (Hostages), Danny DeVito (Taxi), and John Leguizamo (To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar). Based on Alan Haft’s book titled Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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