Compiled by Ryan
The links:
-The upcoming Flaming Lips record will be called Embryonic, and this might be the album art.
-Win Butler spoke to NME about a new Arcade Fire record.
-Transformers 2 somehow took in $60.6 million on its opening day, a new record for mid-week openings.
-Speaking of that movie, check out this quick exchange about it between Aziz Ansari and his cousin Darwish.
-The Academy Awards have decided to go to ten (up from five) nominees in the Best Picture category. Speculation is rampant that the goal here is to include some blockbusters in the running and, thus, improve television ratings for the award show. Here’s Rolling Stone film critic Peter Travers’ reaction.
-Finally, at the end of an almost-surreal week, hit up Videogum for the top five Peanuts dance party mashups.
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June 28, 2009 at 3:43 AM
Anna
I vote for Sly and the Family Stone or Beyonce mash ups of Peanuts. Haha, though they were all fun.
June 28, 2009 at 3:48 AM
Anna
I’m mostly in agreement with Peter Travers on this one. Is the Academy even capable of picking five more films? Probably not, since, as Travers points out, they are barely capable of picking the first five! Sure it would be more of an honor for the one film that wins to have beat out 10 films instead of five, but why not just have more rigorous critiques to begin with? I think ten is stretching it and it’s going to open the door for bad films to win.