Still Alice plays like a dusted-off, mid-‘90s Movie of the Week. Julianne Moore plays the title character, a 50-year-old woman struck by an early-onset case of “sporadic memory impairment”; the first symptom, in an ironic twist that would get you thrown out of any respectable beginning screenwriter’s class, is that Alice can’t remember the words for things, even though she’s a linguistics professor, you see. Anyway, the film follows her rapid deterioration, from momentary confusion to awkward social interactions to eventually not recognizing her own children.
Iggy’s not only a rap star, right now at this moment in time she’s a pop icon,” Charli XCX said.
“And pop icons can do whatever the f--- they want. They don’t have to stick within the boundaries. They don’t have to play the rules the right way. David Bowie didn’t. I’m not comparing her to Bowie, but who gives a f---? It’s just because it’s hip hop. There’s people who really think about rap and hip hop in such an old school way.”
1 hit song and she's a pop icon goodbye Charli
She's no more than a female Vanilla Ice
Word is that Moore’s got a good shot at Best Actress this year, because she’s “overdue,” and this certainly wouldn’t be the first time an actor got an Oscar for the wrong damn film. And look, I know it’s an award for Best Actress, not Best Actress in a Great Movie. But there’s something deeply depressing about Moore being brilliant in Safe and Boogie Nights and Magnolia and The Kids Are All Right and Far From Heaven and The End of the Affair and Vanya on 42nd Street and Short Cuts, and then getting an Oscar for this tripe. And her performance here, though skilled, is all calculated tradecraft — she’s good in spite of the movie, not because of it.
Gaga is doing a special one off show whereas Britney has a two year long residency, of course her ticket prices are going to be a lot higher. Plus it's two acts, not just one.
So what we have, in both Unbroken and Still Alice, are movies devised, executed, and marketed solely to win Oscars, and the craven obviousness of that aim infests every pretty, dull frame.
Britney's tickets weren't alwayys as cheap as they are now. Demand has died down and thus the prices are lower, and it was presumed to happen because she's staying at the same place.
goodbye Charli
Gaga slaying
How embarrassing for such a blatant attempt at Oscar bait
