Professor Marston and the Wonder Women. This article was originally published during the Toronto International Film Festival. Spoilers below for Professor Marston and the Wonder Women.
Suffering Sappho! Wonder Woman was inspired by bondage fetishism, sadomasochism, and polyamory!?
If you’re a comics superfan, or have read Jill Lepore’s 2014 The Secret History of Wonder Woman (Fresh Air episode here), you already knew this. You’re also probably in the minority, judging from the tittering gasps that kept erupting around the theater during the world premiere of Professor Marston & the Wonder Woman — detailing the true, kinky origin story of the most popular female superhero of all time — at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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George Saunders has a new half-hour comedy pilot in the works at Amazon, and the project just cast the leading role. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Glenn Close has signed on to star in Sea Oak, which was ordered to pilot back in March. Here’s the logline from THR’s report:
Sea Oak revolves around Aunt Bernie (Close), a meek, unmarried woman with no children in working-class Rust Belt City who dies tragically in a home invasion.
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It would be silly to blame the film’s failure on the technology, but I’m going to go ahead and blame the technology. God help me, I watched Ang Lee’s Gemini Man twice. The first time I saw the film, I was wowed by its action set pieces, in particular a wild motorcycle chase through the streets of Cartagena in which 51-year-old assassin Will Smith is relentlessly pursued by a deadly 23-year-old clone of himself nicknamed Junior.
L-R: Andrea Navedo and Gina Rodriguez. The last several episodes of Jane the Virgin have been some of the best the show’s ever been, and they’ve also shifted into a very serious place for the three Villanueva women at the center of the show.
Jane’s mother, Xiomara, is diagnosed with breast cancer, and a show that’s often tied its tragedy to heightened telenovela-style drama has turned toward a more real-world, personal source for its serious stories.
A group of 20-somethings sits around late at night, drinking, smoking, and talking about philosophy. The vibe is college dorm with the group grumbling about “the Man” as much as sharing their dreams for the future. The normalcy of all this is exactly what How to Blow Up a Pipeline intends, so when the revelers shift their relationship from acquaintances to comrades, their discussion from theoretical to practical, and their self-identification from activists to terrorists, we understand the conditions that created them.
The shot that’s held for longer than you expect … or want … or need: It makes you say to yourself, “Cut, already. Cut. Please cut.” But still it goes on — you have no agency here — although there’s nothing much happening onscreen. So, you slow your breathing and try to stand outside time, as in meditation, although the mantra you repeat is, I’msobored I’msobored I’msobored. Finally, a new shot arrives, but by that point the filmmaker has achieved his or her aim.
Lonely, I’m so lonely / I have nobody / To call my own. Daenerys Targaryen is losing dragons faster than she’s losing advisers. Only a few episodes after poor Viserion was killed, reanimated as an ice-dragon, then re-killed, Rhaegal followed its sibling into the great beyond thanks to Euron Greyjoy’s impeccable aim (not to mention his magical invisible Iron Fleet). Now, Drogon is not just the only dragon that Game of Thrones cares about; it’s also the only dragon on Game of Thrones, period.