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As Oscar weekend begins, over a hundred protestors–including laid off Chateau Marmont workers– gathered outside the awards show after-party hotspot to call attention to the snowballing boycott at the hotel.
The protest had an awards show theme to celebrate the decades of service that fired Chateau Marmont workers gave to “Hollywood’s Playground” and that the workers have events planned throughout Oscar weekend calling attention to the boycott at the hotel.
“We applaud Aaron Sorkin, Martin Sheen, Amanda Seyfried and dozens of other celebrities who support the boycott of the Chateau Marmont. It is official: Hollywood has left the Chateau Marmont. They are only coming back when the bartenders, servers, and room attendants return to their jobs and have a workplace free of harassment and abuse,” said Kurt Petersen, Co-President of UNITE HERE Local 11.
Mank,
The Midnight Sky,
Emma – works of impeccable craftsmanship by the cinematographers, production designers, SFX artists, and costume designers alike.
If you re into genre movies, 2020 brought us many impressive horror and science fiction titles like Andrew Patterson s
Possessor, Leigh Whannell s inventive
Color Out of Space. We also got to laugh at Matthew John Lawrence s endearing and energetic
Uncle Peckerhead, were unsettled by Remi Weekes
His House, and charmed by Michael Matthews post-apocalyptic coming-of-age film
Love and Monsters. Egor Abramenko s Soviet-era creature feature
Sputnik made us squirm, and Justin G. Dyck s wildly entertaining satanic shocker
Anything for Jackson took us for an unforgettable ride.
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Possessor is the second feature film by visionary writer-director
Brandon Cronenberg, son of David and Carolyn. The Toronto native made his original debut with 2012 s
Antiviral, about a tech company that sells celebrity illnesses to obsessed fans. With the same gruesome verve as his father David one of the originators of the body horror subgenre to begin with Cronenberg s work often explores body modification, infection, technology, and interweaving of the psychological with the physical. With
Possessor, he digs even deeper into the new flesh to tell a story about identity in this digital age.
Andrea Riseborough stars in Cronenberg s
Aubrey Plaza: the art of making people squirm The queen of cringe comedy on making people squirm, and her new film, Black Bear
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Comedy is a complicated science that has been pondered by everyone from Plato to Freud, without anyone, to date, pinpointing what exactly it requires to make a person laugh. Cringe comedy is even trickier still. Painfully Funny: Cringe Comedy, Benign Masochism, and Not-So-Benign Violations, a 2018 paper by Marc Hye-Knudsen, postulates that contemporary cringe comedies such as The Office and The Inbetweeners “.differ from traditional embarrassment humour by being explicitly aimed at evoking not just the positive emotion of amusement but also the decidedly negative emotion of vicarious embarrassment (ie ‘cringe’) in their audiences.”