Did you all happen to be on the interwebs today and see the news about Aaron Paul, Sigourney Weaver and John Turturro are joining the cast of Ridley Scott’s Moses? If you are unfamiliar with this film Christian Bale is going to be playing the titular Moses and Joel Edgerton will be playing Ramses. Weaver and Turturro will be playing the parents of the pharaoh Ramses (Edgerton) and Paul is in negotiations to play Joshua, who leads the people onto the promised land. Now when you see the actors selected, you totally envision ancient Egypt right?
When I walked out of my screening for Lee Daniels’ The Butler, I was sure that I had seen a good movie. It’s probably why I wrote such a rave review over at Awards Circuit. However, the film has grown in estimation over the past few days to be one of the more impressive films in recent memory that dealt with issues in the African-American community. Black issues in films are very difficult to tackle on-screen, partially due to the fact that everyone is so used to the white heteronormative narrative. But I thought it would be nice to give kudos to Lee Daniels’ The Butler and analyze why it worked so well.
And you thought the only thing I talked about here was Teen Wolf! It’s been a while since I’ve addressed anything to do with sports on the blog, but I have so much time on my hands these days I figured it’d be fun to go back to that well. Since I’ve moved to LA I have been able to catch up on baseball, thanks to Time Warner’s great selection of channels (one of these days I’ll tell yall about the bullshit they pull in Texas). Of course this coincided with Alex Rodriguez’ return to the Yankees and no matter which of the 5 million ESPNs there are or Fox, you can’t escape the conversation. I mean ESPN broke from it’s Wednesday Night Baseball feed just to show us ARod’s at bats, as if we’d see him juicing on TV. This crazy coverage and the fallout from the biogenesis clinic have me pondering some things reagrding MLB.
Twitter and Facebook have been places of intense discussion for the past several days, most of it revolving around the George Zimmerman verdict and Cory Monteith’s death. But there’s been just as much discussion regarding Pacific Rim‘s box office and whether the third place finish signals death of new material. Also on the Twitter is convos surrounding Crystal Fairy, a movie I loathed out of Sundance. I initially hadn’t planned on commenting on Pacific Rim or Crystal Fairy (cause I’d love to forget about the latter) but after seeing two people I respect and am friendly with advocate for these films, I had to share my opinion.
Fanboys seem to be having an interesting week. Pacific Rim has arrived to wildly divisive response, Comic-Con fever is about to hit and we’re in the thick of the summer movie season. But the biggest news of the week was derived from an interview with current Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield in which he tells Entertainment Weekly that he talked with his director about the possibility of MJ being played by Fruitvale Station actor Michael B. Jordan. Not only would Spidey then get a male love interest but have an interracial relationship, which is rare on screen in any movie, let alone a superhero one.
I am assuming, by now at least, you all have attempted to read the lengthy article written at the Daily Dot about why slashtivism, particularly Sterek slash shipping, is hurting Teen Wolf fans. It’s a ballsy piece stating the definitions of slash, how Teen Wolf fits in, and why the author thinks it’s problematic for the Sterek shippers to take over a show. After making my way through this article, some thoughts formulated in my mind so here they are.