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You smell like biscuits. Of all the details comprising Tallie and Abigail’s first kiss in Mona Fastvold’s The World to Come , this reaction, which comes from Abigail, may be the most surprising and disarming — moreso, even, than the fact that it’s a kiss between two married women in 19th-century America. It’s a covert but not wholly unexpected gesture between wives whose passions seem only to spring to life while their husbands are away. It’s a surprising line, in part, for containing so much. You smell like biscuits: like comfort, like domestic life, like women’s work, like the familiar. Like — stripped of the implicit insult — a wife. [ Stream on VOD ] Related Reviews Vanessa Kirby, Your New Summer-Movie Action Hero 50 Essential LGBTQ Movies Related Reviews #FreeBritney: Understanding the Fan-led Britney Spears Movement The Beatles in India: 16 Things You Didn't Know Which is what Tallie ( Vanessa Kirby ), married to … [Read more...] about Women in Love: ‘The World to Come’ Is Filled With the Wild Excitement of Romance

Hollywood studios have been irrevocably altered by the changes wrought by the 2020 global shutdown of theaters. Online streaming has today become arguably the most important entertainment format in the industry, surpassing cinema halls. Keeping this massive change in view, while speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Conference on Monday, Walt Disney Company chief exec Bob Chapek hinted that there will be no going back to the old method of theatrical distribution. "I think the consumer is probably more impatient than they've ever been before. Particularly since now they've had the luxury of an entire year of getting titles at home pretty much when they want them. So I'm not sure there's going back, but we certainly don't want to do anything like cut the legs off a theatrical exhibition run... I don't think they'll have much of a tolerance for a title, say, being out of theatrical for months, yet it hasn't had a chance to actually be thrown into … [Read more...] about Disney CEO Hints at Shorter Theatrical Windows for Blockbusters in a Post-Lockdown World

EXCLUSIVE: He starred in the first Warner Bros. Space Jam movie back in 1996, however, Pepe Le Pew will not be showing up at all in the upcoming theatrical sequel Space Jam: A New Legacy on July 16. With the Looney Tunes French skunk besieged by controversy in the wake of New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow slamming that the cartoon character “added to rape culture,” Deadline has learned that a hybrid live-action animation scene between Jane the Virgin actress Greice Santo and Pepe Le Pew, shot back in June 2019 for Space Jam 2 was left on the cutting room floor. The live-action scene was filmed by the pic’s first director, Terence Nance. As we first reported in July 2019 , Nance left the production with Malcolm D. Lee taking over. Under the direction of Lee, Pepe Le Pew was eliminated from the sequel a while ago and never animated for the live-action footage which was shot. According to sources who saw a rough cut three months ago, they didn’t see any … [Read more...] about Pepe Le Pew Won’t Be Appearing In Warner Bros’ ‘Space Jam’ Sequel