Damn, Michraft is right there! Children's IP + biopic, too!
Minecrast isn't chopped liver, but it's perhaps too silly a double feature.
Michast wouldn't attract any white people.
is Miss Poopie like he needs a diaper
Damn, Michraft is right there! Children's IP + biopic, too!
Minecrast isn't chopped liver, but it's perhaps too silly a double feature.
Michast wouldn't attract any white people.
4. Roast (Saturday Night Live, S49E10)
Honourable Mention
Stray Observations
Renate Reinsve films dated for 2024:
A Different Man
An insecure actor finds a miracle cure for his facial disfigurement, only to be upstaged by a stranger who oozes self-confidence despite (still) having the exact same condition the main character had once allowed to hold him back.
Handling the Undead
If zombies weren't so fixated on eating our brains, perhaps they'd be poignant to have around: semi-living, semi-breathing semblances of people we've loved, there to be seen and held and talked to, not truly present but not absent either.
Another End
In a near-future, a new technology exists that can put the consciousness of a dead person back into a living body in an attempt to ease the grief of separation, providing a little extra time to say goodbye.
The worst person in the world has a type.
3. Gravity Kills (The Curse, S01E10)
Honourable Mention
Stray Observations
(Fargo, S01E10)
When Tom roasts the dais at the end, Jamie Foxx should interrupt as his conscience.
One of these things is not like the others…
Will Smith has to slap Cedric the Entertainer, right?
2. Skate or Die (Echo, S01E03)
Stray Observations
What?
Once banned in China, Stephen King's The Shawshank Redemption had its much-anticipated debut as a stage play in the country's tech capital Shenzhen on Jan. 4
Adding to its unusual status, the play is performed in Chinese by a cast of Western actors who are based in the Middle Kingdom.
We are not talking enough about the Chinese stage adaptation of The Shawshank Redemption starring expats in China.
The picture has had a bumpy history in China. While the original was made at a time when China had few modern cinemas and was importing minimal numbers of Hollywood films, it was later given prominence and played as the closing title of the 2005 edition of the Shanghai International Film Festival.
But, following the real-world escape from house arrest by blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng and the U.S.-China diplomatic incident that followed, online searches for "Shawshank" were blocked on the Chinese internet and social media in 2012. The film's anti-authoritarian leanings may also have fed into the temporary ban.
We did not talk enough about China banning online searches for "Shawshank" after a blind lawyer escaped from house arrest.
The new stage adaptation aims to move beyond that and portray a message of hope and endurance.
Zhang says he has translated the story's western narrative into a unique cultural context for China.
"While play is still set in Maine, the characters all speak fluent Chinese and there is a blend of Chinese cultural ideas and phrases throughout to localize it for the Chinese audience."
We are not talking enough about the adaptation of The Shawshank Redemption in which everyone in Maine speaks fluent, colloquial Chinese.
Idea: Film Awards Season Survivor Pool.
Instead of teams, you select category winners.
You cannot repeat a category or its equivalent, so if you select an "Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture" for the Screen Actors Guild Awards, you cannot later select a "Best Picture" for the Oscars.
The gauntlet, in order:
Gotham Awards
New York Film Critics Circle winners
National Board of Review winners
Los Angeles Film Critics Association winners
National Society of Film Critics winners
Golden Globe Awards
Critics Choice Awards
Directors Guild of America Awards
British Academy of Film and Television Arts Film Awards
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Film Independent Spirit Awards
Producers Guild of America Awards
American Society of Cinematographer Awards
American Cinema Editors Eddie Awards
Writers Guild of America Awards
Oscars
If you survive until the Oscars, you should know what will likely win, but will any lay-ups still be available to select?
The guild awards force you to be strategic.
1. LANK (College GameDay, 01 Jan 2024)
Honourable Mention
Stray Observations
Looking forward: