Christian Bale reflects on his career and how someone told him that most of his movie offers would go through Leonardo DiCaprio first.
The only thing we know for sure right now, other than "never go with a hippie to a second location", is that we're all in dire need of a few laughs. Luckily, NBC just dropped the trailer for 30 Rock: A One Time Special, which sees Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Tracy Morgan, Jane Krakowski, Jack McBrayer reprising their roles for the upcoming one-night reunion. The trailer is brief, but it already looks like more of a show than the Parks & Rec reunion, which was sweet, delightful, hilarious, and so obviously filmed in quarantine it almost made me …
Back when SXSW was forced to waive the white flag on its 2020 festival as the coronavirus invaded America, I saw a lot of online chatter about how Netflix, Apple or Amazon should just acquire a ton of movies as a gesture to the indie film community. Film Twitter demanded it! The people had spoken. I thought it was ridiculous, because even the very best festival films fail to make a dent with general audiences, and just because those giant streaming companies have the money, they're under no obligation to waste it on movies that most people will never …