Happy 100th Birthday, Lucille Ball! Tomorrow, that is. Hard to remember sometimes that Lucy was a pin-up girl in the 1940s, and that her roles in movies were more likely to be dramatic than comedic.
Of course, she’s great at this, too:
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May 14, 2012
The Future is Female – 2012 is the Year of the Empowered Girl
This year, girls are on...
- Mamo #247: The Snark Fight Rises (262)
- Matt Brown: Hello everyone, just to be clear, there will be no adjustment to the rules of the contest to reflect the removal of...
- Matt Gamble: I’d say its more an indication of how important Foreign BO has become to studios’ bottom lines.
- Matt Gamble: Brown needs to stop making predictions. He is the Angel of Death.
- Matt Brown: Yep. They were in a good position on this one, which shows you how much they think that 3-D conversion is gonna be...
- TUM TUM TYRANUS: This could definately hurt them as momentum was building for the June 2012 release. It was never going to...
- Rot: I have Battle Ship, Dark Shadows, What to Expect…, and GI Joe 2 on my list… First one to the bottom wins!
- Trailer: The Great Gatsby (4)
- Andrew James: I for one love it! I’m a big fan of Luhrmann’s style and this looks great. I have to agree with you...
- Kurt: It’s very pretty, but it looks like the novel is going to be drowned out in the contemporary noise. I knew old Baz...
- Andy: I think autotuning was just starting to become popular in 1922.
- Roy P.: I was cautiously excited for this…I hate Luhrmann’s style. I’d say the trailer killed a lot of the...
- Movies I Watched at the 65th Cannes Film Festival 2012 (1)
- Andrew James: As much as I like Corbijn’s work, I can’t see myself digging an hour and a half doc on the guy....
- Cinematic Oddity of the Week: Savage Beach (1989) (3)
- David Brook: Definitely the makings of a marathon there. I’m sure my mate Justin will have a few of them.
- Matt Gamble: Savage Beach is actually part of a string of films that are loosely tied together. They are all glorious.
- David Brook: I’m sold.
- Mamo #254: Anything is Probable (3)
- Kurt: I may not be the worlds biggest LOST fan, but I could listen to the generous and smart and all around awesome Lindelof...
- Matt Brown: And Ken Levine’s response to Harmon’s firing, for any who haven’t read it:...
- Matthew Price: Here’s that link to the Lindelof interview we talked about: http://www.theverge.com/201...
- Teaser: The Master (6)
- Roy P.: Been waiting for this since I first saw TWBB five years ago. I’ll be there opening day. Looks incredible.
- Jonathan B.: Whoa. Hmm. It leaves a sweet taste.
- Sean Patrick Kelly: It’s funny to observe that his first four films were released within 6 years of each other before he...
- rot: That would be great, actually I would just want to see Hard Eight. I am excited for this, get a Cuckoo’s Nest vibe...
- Kurt Halfyard: Here is hoping. Actually, with P.T. Anderson’s output being almost (but not quite) Malickian in speed,...
- The Future is Female – 2012 is the Year of the Empowered Girl (21)
- David Brook: True – plus they’ve even got female action stars like Michelle Yeoh.
- Kurt Halfyard: Harkening all the way back to COME DRINK WITH ME, Hong Kong has always lead the way with this sort of thing.
- Matt Brown: Thanks Jess! I’m also really interested to see how Catwoman turns out – female characters have not been...
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