On August 28th, Ridley Scott’s adaptation of The Dog Stars will arrive in theatres. It stars Jacob Elordi, Margaret Qualley, Josh Brolin, Allison Janney, Guy Pearce, and others; and the screenplay was written by Mark L. Smith. Based on Peter Heller’s debut novel, it’s one of my most-anticipated movies of the year. Well, it recently became one of my most-anticipated movies of the year, because it’s been quite easy to forget that it’s on the way — it has not been getting much attention in the various online spaces I spend time in. Continue reading
Allison Janney
Seth Meyers’s Golden Globes Monologue… (And a couple of other victory speeches)
Meyers’s intro-monologue was very good. I’m not surprised. One of my favourite late-night comics, I thought I’d share the clip, in case you missed it:
It was a great night for wins, actually. Sterling K. Brown won Best Actor in a TV Series, Drama, for his role in This Is Us — a truly deserving win. The show is spectacular, but by far his is the standout performance: Continue reading
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