Pop quiz: A science fiction landmark; a beloved classic rescued from obscurity by public television; two screwball comedies directed by the same Hollywood master 15 years apart; an almost ethereally beautiful western; an apocalyptic sociopolitical parable; a disemboweled silent epic; two gorgeous and epically scaled tales both taking place where politics, social upheaval and romance converge; a nearly unparalleled humanist drama; a hugely influential surrealist fantasy/romance; and two of the greatest horror films ever made– What do all of these films share in common?
Answer: They’re all inductees into the 2019 Muriel Awards Hall of Fame.
The Muriel Awards, a group of critics and writers gathered together by Mssrs. Paul Clark and Steve Carlson some 14 years ago (I have proudly been among their number since the beginning), have been voting on the year’s best since 2006, and since 2013 our august number has been compiling inductees for our own hall of fame.
Answer: They’re all inductees into the 2019 Muriel Awards Hall of Fame.
The Muriel Awards, a group of critics and writers gathered together by Mssrs. Paul Clark and Steve Carlson some 14 years ago (I have proudly been among their number since the beginning), have been voting on the year’s best since 2006, and since 2013 our august number has been compiling inductees for our own hall of fame.
- 8/18/2019
- by Dennis Cozzalio
- Trailers from Hell
New Series! Three Fittings celebrates costume design in the movies. The number is necessary self-restraint for we love the art of costuming too much.
By Nathaniel R
Dear reader, I didn't think I'd ever need to see Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them (2016). I thought, solid reasoning given the golden trajectory of most franchises, that Oscar would want to move on after a year of regular craft nominations for the series. I thought, surely they'd never hand one of them an actual Oscar if they hadn't done so by now. But in the interest of completism, after Colleen Atwood's generous fourth statue for costuming this particular movie and its bluray release, I caught up.
I was both impressed and utterly perplexed by what I found.
While Atwood does unusually understated work (for her), there are far fewer costumes than you might expect (approximately one per man, two per...
By Nathaniel R
Dear reader, I didn't think I'd ever need to see Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them (2016). I thought, solid reasoning given the golden trajectory of most franchises, that Oscar would want to move on after a year of regular craft nominations for the series. I thought, surely they'd never hand one of them an actual Oscar if they hadn't done so by now. But in the interest of completism, after Colleen Atwood's generous fourth statue for costuming this particular movie and its bluray release, I caught up.
I was both impressed and utterly perplexed by what I found.
While Atwood does unusually understated work (for her), there are far fewer costumes than you might expect (approximately one per man, two per...
- 4/14/2017
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
If you've seen Brad Neely's Harg Nallin Sclopio Peepio on Adult Swim, you know this is about to be bizarre. Let me just state right now that his comedy is about as fringe as fringe gets. You'll see what I mean with this narration of Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets. The point of this is to watch the film on mute while listening to Neely commentate on the film as if he were narrating an audiobook. It's weird, but it's also kind of hilarious. Check it out below and if you're interested in the full set of "Wizard People, Dear Reader," check it out here. ...
- 2/15/2017
- by Mick Joest
- GeekTyrant
by Nathaniel R
On the first full day at the Middleburg Film Festival after that cathartic teary opening with Lion, I attempted to schedule a horseback ride for the full Middleburg experience. The town is known for its rich horses & hunting history and you can see horses and foxes in sculpture form and in signs and logos in the charming little town. Rain got in the way of a ride but all was not lost since a beautiful black and white cat named Callisto greeted me inside the stable at practically a full gallop and began rubbing up all over me. Dear reader, I can assure you that her love was requited! She was 21 years old but super friendly, spry and playful so the country life has obviously been kind to her. One can assume the horses also love her as she hasn't been stepped on.
So back to the movies I went,...
On the first full day at the Middleburg Film Festival after that cathartic teary opening with Lion, I attempted to schedule a horseback ride for the full Middleburg experience. The town is known for its rich horses & hunting history and you can see horses and foxes in sculpture form and in signs and logos in the charming little town. Rain got in the way of a ride but all was not lost since a beautiful black and white cat named Callisto greeted me inside the stable at practically a full gallop and began rubbing up all over me. Dear reader, I can assure you that her love was requited! She was 21 years old but super friendly, spry and playful so the country life has obviously been kind to her. One can assume the horses also love her as she hasn't been stepped on.
So back to the movies I went,...
- 10/22/2016
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
The Supporting Actress Smackdown Of 1977 is coming. You already met two of our panelists. And here are the other three (including me).
Meet The Panelists
Panelist: Sara Black McCulloch
Bio: Sara Black McCulloch is a Toronto-based researcher, translator and writer. She has written for i-d, cleo Journal, Adult, The Hairpin, Gawker, Bitch Magazine and The National Post. You can read more of her work here.
Question: What does 1977 mean to you?
1977 seemed to be steeped in so much disillusionment. I think that, like the years that signal the end of a decade but don't quite bookend it, it was...fraught. The year was packed with events that pointed to change and fueled uncertainty. It was the year the U.S. signed the nuclear-proliferation pact and the same year that the U.S. government voted against covering elective abortions through Medicaid. The Apple II computer hit the market and Jimmy Carter...
Meet The Panelists
Panelist: Sara Black McCulloch
Bio: Sara Black McCulloch is a Toronto-based researcher, translator and writer. She has written for i-d, cleo Journal, Adult, The Hairpin, Gawker, Bitch Magazine and The National Post. You can read more of her work here.
Question: What does 1977 mean to you?
1977 seemed to be steeped in so much disillusionment. I think that, like the years that signal the end of a decade but don't quite bookend it, it was...fraught. The year was packed with events that pointed to change and fueled uncertainty. It was the year the U.S. signed the nuclear-proliferation pact and the same year that the U.S. government voted against covering elective abortions through Medicaid. The Apple II computer hit the market and Jimmy Carter...
- 7/26/2016
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Here's a lesson in why it's not always necessary to think before tweeting! In November 2012, Victoria Carlin tweeted that she was in love with whoever ran a London bookstore's Twitter account. "I think it was probably wine that inspired that," Carlin tells People of her impulsive tweet. "Maybe prosecco. I genuinely didn't think [anyone] would read it." "I didn't know at that stage who ran the account, if it was a person, team or an agency, so I didn't really think about it properly - I'm glad I didn't!" she continues. Luckily for Carlin, it was a young man named Jonathan O'Brien who ran the account,...
- 7/20/2016
- by Tiare Dunlap, @tiaredunlap
- PEOPLE.com
Here's a lesson in why it's not always necessary to think before tweeting! In November 2012, Victoria Carlin tweeted that she was in love with whoever ran a London bookstore's Twitter account. "I think it was probably wine that inspired that," Carlin tells People of her impulsive tweet. "Maybe prosecco. I genuinely didn't think [anyone] would read it." "I didn't know at that stage who ran the account, if it was a person, team or an agency, so I didn't really think about it properly - I'm glad I didn't!" she continues. Luckily for Carlin, it was a young man named Jonathan O'Brien who ran the account,...
- 7/20/2016
- by Tiare Dunlap, @tiaredunlap
- PEOPLE.com
If you read this article and still can’t remember the title of “Brad Neely’s Harg Nallin’ Sclopio Peepio,” that’s fine. “It’s intentionally meaningless,” said creator Brad Neely, speaking to IndieWire by phone last week, “which is a lot harder than you would imagine.”
Nonsense seems to be a strong suit for Neely, whose animated sketch show premieres on Adult Swim July 10. The first 10-minute episode made waves when it premiered on Vine last week, a first for the short-form video app, which typically hosts six-second videos. (Vine recently expanded its maximum time-limit to 140 seconds, but Neely’s show is the app’s first full-length video.) “Brad Neely’s Harg Nallin’ Sclopio Peepio” consists of short sketches that bear no relation to the previous one, but they’re all just wacky enough to appeal to Vine’s Adhd-addled viewers.
Read More: Aduly Swim: Out of 47 Shows on Their Current Slate,...
Nonsense seems to be a strong suit for Neely, whose animated sketch show premieres on Adult Swim July 10. The first 10-minute episode made waves when it premiered on Vine last week, a first for the short-form video app, which typically hosts six-second videos. (Vine recently expanded its maximum time-limit to 140 seconds, but Neely’s show is the app’s first full-length video.) “Brad Neely’s Harg Nallin’ Sclopio Peepio” consists of short sketches that bear no relation to the previous one, but they’re all just wacky enough to appeal to Vine’s Adhd-addled viewers.
Read More: Aduly Swim: Out of 47 Shows on Their Current Slate,...
- 7/7/2016
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Hello Dear Reader! Your host Nathaniel checking in from a screening and chart-making frenzy. I'm heading off to my jury meeting at the Nashville International Film Festival (New Directors competition) to bestow prizes. But I wanted to point you to chart updates (the remainder will premiere this week to complete our April Foolish tradition). So let's talk costume design and cinematography and such. (lots more after the jump)...
- 4/17/2016
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
07:00 The 73rd Annual Golden Globes are here. And we're seated and not yet drunk, far from the Beverly Hilton (NYC to be precise). I'm getting a late start. I blame pizza cravings. As I sat down with half of a pizza in my mouth -- I don't play around! -- Svelte Kirsten Dunst in autoerotic black (damn girl) was talking about her recent diet to plump up a bit for Fargo "you know... bread and cheese". Dear reader it's like I was on TV and she was making fun of me from home, the cheese dribbling down my chin.
07:08 Earlier on the TV we also learned that Alicia Vikander went sky-diving (okay) that maybe don't surprise Jamie Lee Curtis with a question about her mother's Golden Globe win for Psycho ("you know... my mom's been gone a long time... we're moving forward... I'm happy to be here representing...
07:08 Earlier on the TV we also learned that Alicia Vikander went sky-diving (okay) that maybe don't surprise Jamie Lee Curtis with a question about her mother's Golden Globe win for Psycho ("you know... my mom's been gone a long time... we're moving forward... I'm happy to be here representing...
- 1/11/2016
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
What’s the purpose of making a movie inspired by another movie? Usually it’s best to remake an imperfect film in order to refine some brilliant nugget left unexamined in the original. But remaking a masterpiece seems bound to failure (Let Gus van Sant’s Psycho forever stand as the monument for this inauspicious strategy). So I was worried when I first heard about this film: a modern-day French homage to The Searchers, one of my favorite movies? In the John Ford original, a father-like figure spends years obsessively hunting down a girl who was kidnapped by Comanches; in Thomas Bidegain’s Les cowboys, a father spends years obsessively hunting down his daughter who ran away to become a Muslim fundamentalist.That being said, Les cowboys is a really good movie—I’ll get to that—but it raises questions about what it is, exactly, that you’re paying...
- 9/30/2015
- by Doug Dibbern
- MUBI
Do not mess with Cara Delevingne – even if you star on one of the biggest TV shows on the planet.
Game of Thrones star Richard Madden (A.K.A. Robb Stark) learned that lesson after Delevingne fired back at him on Twitter Tuesday for calling her "unprofessional" and "ungrateful" in a recent interview.
"I have no idea who you are but I think it's little desperate for a grown man to be bad mouthing someone they don't know," the 23-year-old model wrote to Madden on Twitter.
@_richardmadden I have no idea who you are but I think it's little desperate...
Game of Thrones star Richard Madden (A.K.A. Robb Stark) learned that lesson after Delevingne fired back at him on Twitter Tuesday for calling her "unprofessional" and "ungrateful" in a recent interview.
"I have no idea who you are but I think it's little desperate for a grown man to be bad mouthing someone they don't know," the 23-year-old model wrote to Madden on Twitter.
@_richardmadden I have no idea who you are but I think it's little desperate...
- 9/16/2015
- by Lindsay Kimble, @lekimble
- People.com - TV Watch
Our weekly column in which writers reveal their current in-the-margains pop culture obsession. Do you know one of the things I love most about the Internet? The whip-smart parody Twitter accounts that rise and fall like ancient regimes. Here today, gone tomorrow. Rulers of the world, then buried forever in a layer of social media sediment. A few rise above the noise to be baked into collective consciousness — like @Horse_ebooks and @FilmCriticHULK. But most are just a flash-in-the-pan. Yet while they last, these anonymous satirists can bring a much needed chuckle to a Twitter feed oscillating between political debate and Instagram photos of everyone’s idealized life and lunch choices. To that end, my current favorite is @AwfulFantasy. Every day, this ode to the purple prose of yesterday sticks it to overblown fantasy tropes. Whether involving high fantasy, space fantasy, or new-fangled steampunk, no sub-genre is safe from their loving barbs.
- 3/25/2015
- by Donna Dickens
- Hitfix
Personally, I regard New Year's resolutions with a touch of suspicion. Perhaps it comes from all the time I spent in the service industry, observing what waiters and mixologists refer to as the December 31st Phenomenon: emptying nightclubs juxtaposed against suddenly overflowing gyms; restaurants depopulated while formerly exuberant diners demonstrate an all consuming appetite for diet books and wheat grass juice. Oh, how very quickly all the dancing stops! Longtime bartenders know to save the tips they earn ringing in the New Year to accommodate the staggering loss of income between January 1st and Valentines Day, by which time business generally returns to normal. This is not cynicism, Dear Reader, but only an acknowledgement that — no matter how genuine the desire to improve ourselves might be — old habits die hard.
No one understands the fragile nature of rehabilitation better than Lt. Andy Flynn...
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No one understands the fragile nature of rehabilitation better than Lt. Andy Flynn...
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- 12/29/2014
- by James Duff
- TVGuide - Breaking News
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- 12/21/2014
- by Christian Cawley
- Kasterborous.com
We haven't done a link roundup in so long this one is super-duper-quadrupled size. Please to enjoy these articles or catch up with this news...
Farewell
Nyt, BBC, Variety remembers the great Italian actress Virna Lisi who has died at 78 years of age. Best known stateside for the Jack Lemmon comedy How To Murder Your Wife (1965), and maybe that iconic Esquire cover by George Lois (left) which has been homaged ever since, this baby cinephile right here writing to you first fell for her in the French film Queen Margot (1994). She was brilliant as the most ruthless of royals. She won the Cannes prize for Best Actress for her supporting role which probably didn't make Margot herself Isabelle Adjani too happy but they were at odds in the film, too.
Randomness
Guardian doesn't like the new Annie but what makes that little orphan so durable in pop culture?
Comics Alliance...
Farewell
Nyt, BBC, Variety remembers the great Italian actress Virna Lisi who has died at 78 years of age. Best known stateside for the Jack Lemmon comedy How To Murder Your Wife (1965), and maybe that iconic Esquire cover by George Lois (left) which has been homaged ever since, this baby cinephile right here writing to you first fell for her in the French film Queen Margot (1994). She was brilliant as the most ruthless of royals. She won the Cannes prize for Best Actress for her supporting role which probably didn't make Margot herself Isabelle Adjani too happy but they were at odds in the film, too.
Randomness
Guardian doesn't like the new Annie but what makes that little orphan so durable in pop culture?
Comics Alliance...
- 12/19/2014
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
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