Mean Girls 2024
Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr.'s adaptation of Tina Fey's musical. Sean and Amanda were both charmed; Renée Rapp's Regina stops the movie cold for pop-star numbers, while it plays the 2004 lines near-verbatim.
The Big Picture · Awards · Discussion · Interview
Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott
January 19, 2024/ 107 min/ Sean Fennessey · Amanda Dobbins
Days before the 96th Academy Award nominations, Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins call the five in nine categories, review the new Mean Girls, and unpack All of Us Strangers before Sean talks to its star, Andrew Scott.
54 films across 4 segments.
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Oscar Nomination Predictionspredicting the five (and the ten) · nominations morning
Best Supporting Actor
- Oppenheimer Robert Downey Jr.
- Barbie Ryan Gosling
- Killers of the Flower Moon Robert De Niro
- Poor Things Mark Ruffalo
- Poor Things Willem Dafoe
Best Supporting Actress
- The Holdovers Da'Vine Joy Randolph
- Oppenheimer Emily Blunt
- The Color Purple Danielle Brooks
- Nyad Jodie Foster
- May December Julianne Moore
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Original Screenplay
Best International Feature
Best Actor
- Oppenheimer Cillian Murphy
- The Holdovers Paul Giamatti
- American Fiction Jeffrey Wright
- Maestro Bradley Cooper
- Killers of the Flower Moon Leonardo DiCaprio
Best Actress
- Maestro Carey Mulligan
- Anatomy of a Fall Sandra Hüller
- Killers of the Flower Moon Lily Gladstone
- Poor Things Emma Stone
- Barbie Margot Robbie
Best Director
- Oppenheimer Christopher Nolan
- Barbie Greta Gerwig
- Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese
- Poor Things Yorgos Lanthimos
- The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer
‘Mean Girls’the musical remake of the musical of the movie
Mean Girls 2004
The original Amanda has memorized. The Lindsay Lohan-Rachel McAdams anti-chemistry is the bar the new cast keeps getting measured against.
‘All of Us Strangers’full spoilers
All of Us Strangers 2023
Andrew Haigh's ghost-story queer romance, adapted from Taichi Yamada's novel and shot in Haigh's own childhood home. Andrew Scott's Adam visits his long-dead parents and falls for a neighbor; a movie of big feelings that Sean thinks gets smaller the harder you dissect it.
Andrew Scott on ‘All of Us Strangers’
Andrew Scott on
All of Us Strangers 2023
Scott on 'emotional biography,' playing drunk by trying to stay sober, and shooting the parent scenes first in Haigh's family home before the Paul Mescal segment.
Also mentioned raised along the way
Also in the Oscar hunt FerrariThe Color PurpleRustinOriginSaltburnAsteroid CityAirSpider-Man: Across the Spider-VerseParallel MothersTótemIo CapitanoThe Teachers' Lounge20 Days in Mariupol
Haigh and Scott elsewhere Weekend45 YearsLean on PeteThe Talented Mr. Ripley
In the banter Phantom ThreadKnives OutOnce Upon a Time in HollywoodWonder WomanThe FavouriteThe WifePulp FictionInceptionTerms of EndearmentSpider-ManSilver Linings PlaybookThe Nice GuysA Star Is Born
Not films filtered out: TV, games, ads
TV FleabagSherlockRipleyLookingTrue DetectiveMonsieur SpadeThe Sex Lives of College GirlsMayor of EasttowniCarlyGame of ThronesCheersMartinThe SopranosGrey's AnatomyAlly McBealSaturday Night Live
Books Oscar WarsCasteStrangers
Podcasts The MismatchThe RewatchablesJam SessionThe WatchWTF with Marc Maron
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