Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture:

Mashup of the Day:

The way movies are shot and edited today, putting J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson in the Daily Planet with Man of Steel‘s Clark Kent and Lois Lane seems easy, but it’s also perfect (via ComicBook.com)

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Alternate Poster of the Day:

Speaking of Amy Adams, here’s a beautiful poster for Arrival by Oksana Grivina. See more fan art and posters inspired by this year’s Oscar nominees, including La La Land and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, at Design Culture.

Awards Show Takedown of the Day:

Speaking of the Oscars, Honest Trailers rips through all of this year’s Best Picture nominees with help from the president:

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Oscars Montage of the Day:

And here’s a timely supercut of the final scenes of the last 45 Best Picture winners (via Film School Rejects):

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Behind the Scenes Video of the Day:

Okay, one more Oscars-related item, here’s a Damien Chazelle’s iPhone footage of a rehearsal of the opening number from La La Land (via /Film):

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Vintage Image of the Day:

Apparently Anthony Daniels, who turns 71 today, could wear regular pants while playing C-3PO when his legs weren’t in the shot, as evidenced in this photo from the set of The Empire Strikes Back in 1979:

Random Group of Celebrities of the Day:

For Josh Gad’s latest attempt to get Star Wars secrets out of Daisy Ridley, he’s gathered various stars and filmmakers to do his bidding:

And so it ends. #DaisyRidley #StarWars Give us the truth pic.twitter.com/o4d429ydzL

— Josh Gad (@joshgad) February 20, 2017

Filmmaker in Focus:

Daniel Clarkson Fisher highlights the theme of surveillance in Steven Spielberg movies in this thoughtful video essay:

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Cosplay of the Day:

In addition to being Black History Month, February is also the annual #28DaysOfBlackCosplay. Here’s a woman who fills the month up with lots of great looks (via Rob Liefeld):

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I love my face paint. It’s the easiest & most annoying way to raise the bar on your #cosplay. pic.twitter.com/92NX36IVGz

— TaLynn Kel (@TaLynnKel) February 18, 2017

Classic Trailer of the Day:

Today is the 50th anniversary of the U.S. release of One Million Years B.C. starring Raquel Welch. Watch the original trailer for the classic fantasy film below.

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Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for Presidents’ Day-related movie culture.

Brad Neeley‘s NSFW animated short Washington is still hilarious after a thousand viewings:

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The Impatient Lincoln takes one part of Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln a long way:

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This poster parodying Walking Tall and starring Channing Tatum as Teddy Roosevelt was made in response to the Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter movie. I still want to see this one more.

Ronald Reagan may have been the first Hollywood actor to become president, but he wasn’t the first movie star. We can count Dwight D. Eisenhower, who starred in the classic feature documentary The True Glory due to his World War II hero status. Watch the whole feature below.

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Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew are lampooned in this classic Mad magazine spoof of the poster for The Sting:

This collection of classic movie bloopers is filled with Ronald Reagan flubbing his lines:

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Twenty years ago, Hillary Clinton parodied Forrest Gump with a brief appearance from Bill Clinton at the end:

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“Sir” Mike Tyson helps George W. Bush with his pronunciation in the following The King’s Speech parody:

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Here’s another parody of The King’s Speech, also titled The President’s Speech, but this one targets Barack Obama:

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Barack Obama pretends to be Daniel Day-Lewis portraying Barack Obama in a new Lincoln-inspired biopic from Steven Spielberg;

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The Important News

DC Extended Universe: Mel Gibson , Power Rangers, The House, Goon: Last of the Enforcers, Mine, The Bad Batch, Colossus and Everything, Everything.

Behind the Scenes: Robert Downey Jr. answers fan questions from the Avengers: Infinity War set, Allied effects artists show how they recreated the Sahara, a look at the making of Beauty and the Beast and a Rogue One VFX breakdown.

Deleted Scenes: Moana‘s “Warrior Face” number.

Movie Clips: Logan and Kong: Skull Island.

Movie Posters: All the new movie posters released this week.

Movie Parodies: SNL does a political Fatal Attraction, the realistic ending of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and a realistic La La Land.

Movie Scene Reenactments: Strangers do Lady and the Tramp and Anna Rose Holmer directs a dance version of Moonlight.

Mashups: Forrest Gump and The Matrix and Dark Knight Joker vs. Suicide Squad joker.

Fan Art: Deadpool II poster and neon La La Land.

Oscars Montages: Black auteurs and the Oscars, the good and bad of Oscar bait and all the Best Animated Feature winners.

Shorts: Thor and his roommate discuss rent and Michael K. Williams wonders if he’s being typecast.

Our Features

Movie Reviews: Logan is one of the smartest, sweetest and most badass comic book movies ever made.

Lists: John Wick: Chapter 2 director Chad Stahelski and stunt coordinator J.J. Perry named the action movies you must see before you die.

Interviews: Arrival screenwriter Eric Heisserer on how and why he challenges himself and Michael Paul Stephenson on directing Girlfriends Day.

Horror Movie Guide: We roundup all the latest horror news and trailers.

Comic Book Movie Guide: We question whether Avengers: Infinity War can live up to the hype.

Home Viewing: Our guide to everything hitting VOD this week.

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Singer-songwriter Emel Mathlouthi is the voice of a generation — and in her new song, “Lost,” this Tunisian artist makes it plain that the jittery uncertainty that many people are feeling right now is a global phenomenon.

“Lost” is a track from Ensen (Human), Mathlouthi’s first album since her debut, Kelmti Horra (My Word Is Free), which was released in 2012. But by the time that the first album was released, Mathlouthi was already an icon: Her song “Kelmti Horra” was an anthem for a generation of Tunisians and other across north Africa.

“I am the voice those who would not give in,” she sang on “Kelmti Horra.” “I am free and my word is free.” She took those lines from the streets of Tunis, during the revolution that led to the ousting of the dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 2011, all the way to the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in 2015.

In the ensuing years since that potent debut, Mathlouthi has moved to New York and is releasing Ensen later this month on the American indie label Partisan — a signal of her bigger ambitions, which spanned working with several producers, including Valgeir Sigurðsson of Sigur Ros and her mainstay collaborator, the French-Tunisian producer Amine Metani, and recording Ensen across seven different countries.

Mathlouthi drenches “Lost” in the moody electronic hues that define her new album. She describes the sound of Ensen as having run buzzy North African percussion and other instruments, like the guimbri lute, zukra flute and kick drum as “organic beats run through homemade effects and setups.” Those textures frame the undeniable sweetness and pure potency of Mathlouthi’s voice, which she wields with the precision of a knife.

“It’s a song about loss, about totally missing the control over your dreams, your thoughts, losing your bearings,” Mathlouthi writes in an email to NPR.
The video for “Lost” comes from footage shot last month at the first Wasla Festival in Dubai, an event geared to alternative Arabic music that also featured such other heavy-hitters as Mashrou’ Leila and Souad Massi, both Tiny Desk Concert alumni.

Lyrically, Mathlouthi tends to alternate between plainspokenness and elliptical poetry. The opening line, a simply declaimed “I am lost,” morphs into “As I was listening to the Water / From my dreams came a swan / And straightens his wings / To give me the sweetest birth.” It’s a metaphor, she says, inspired by Patti Smith’s writings.

But it’s facile to compare Mathlouthi to some of the great singer-songwriters she counts as her heroes, like Smith, Joan Baez and Björk (and, from a different sphere altogether, the great Lebanese composer, oud player and singer Marcel Khalife): she is no wannabe. As she evolves into a mature artist, Mathlouthi is a singular voice.

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Movie Parody of the Day:

If you thought the audition scene in La La Land was a little too unrelastic, Above Average shows us the true boring version:

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Fan Art of the Day:

Speaking of La La Land, here is a very cool neon-style animation of one of the movie’s colorful musical numbers:

‘La La Land’ (2016)

Great Movies in Animated Neon! @pipevicioso@TheCinegogue@EvaArriagaD@mistofeles@filmdialogueone@WrongReelpic.twitter.com/5R8hEiEYO3

— Nathally Carvalho (@nathyscarvalho) February 14, 2017

Dance Interpretation of the Day:

Speaking of Oscar nominees for Best Picture, here’s a dance interpretation of the score for Moonlight by The Fits director Anna Rose Holmer (via Film School Rejects):

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Movie Science of the Day:

Who would win in a race between Justice League‘s The Flash and X-Men: Apocalypse‘s Nightcrawler? Kyle Hill has the scientific answer:

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Vintage Image of the Day:

Documentary pioneer Robert J. Flaherty, who was born on this day in 1884, has a seat during the making of the Oscar-nominated docudrama Louisiana Story:

Filmmaker in Focus:

For Fandor Keyframe, Bill Rwehera shows how people falling from high places was a signature trademark of Alfred Hitchcock films:

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Supercut of the Day:

Here’s a recap of the entire Harry Potter franchise reduced to just every uttering of “Harry” and “Potter” (via Geekologie):

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Cosplay of the Day:

Everyone loves Deadpool cosplay and everyone loves cat cosplay, so here’s some Deadpool cat cosplay:

You can always find a special part of my heart (shaped chimichanga) dedicated to you. It’s the corner… you can have the corner. #ValentinesDay #Deadpool #chimichanga #catpool #CatCosplay #cosplay

A post shared by Cat Cosplay (@cat_cosplay) on Feb 14, 2017 at 10:32am PST

Movie Trivia of the Day:

Do you love The Shawshank Redemption? See if you know all the trivia about the movie in this video from ScreenCrush:

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Classic Trailer of the Day:

Today is the 60th anniversary of the Swedish theatrical debut of The Seventh Seal. Watch the original trailer for the Ingmar Bergman classic via Criterion below.

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Deleted Scene of the Day:

Ahead of the home video release of Moana, Lin-Manuel Miranda debuted an unused song called “Warrior Face” o with rough sketches showing how its scene would have played out (via Entertainment Weekly):

VFX Breakdown of the Day:

You’ll be amazed at how little was real and practical in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them after watching this visual effects reel from the true wizards at Rodeo (via io9):

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Alternate Universe Movie of the Day:

What if Forrest Gump was the hero of The Matrix instead of Neo? Here’s an animated look at what that’d be like:

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Mashup Fan Art of the Day:

Batman v Predator goes badly for the Caped Crusader in this toy-based art from Bmyhero Photography. See more, mostly Deadpool-focused pieces, at Geek Tyrant.

Fan Build of the Day:

One amazing Lego fan just built the coolest version of Jurassic World with a roller coaster and other rides, and you can see it in action here (via Geekologie):

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Vintage Image of the Day:

Chris Farley, who would have turned 53 today, with David Spade, Bo Derek and producer Lorne Michaels on the set of Tommy Boy in 1994:

Actress in the Spotlight:

As we get closer to Emma Stone possibly winning an Oscar, Fandor Keyframe examines our love for the actress:

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Movie Comparison of the Day:

Doesn’t it seem like Pixar’s Cars is an animated remake of Doc Hollywood? Well, Couch Tomato lists all the ways they’re dissimilar:

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Video Essay of the Day:

For One Perfect Shot, H. Perry Horton shows how the narrative of Steve McQueen’s Shame is mostly played out in facial expressions (via Film School Rejects):

Classic Trailer of the Day:

Today is the 15th anniversary of the release of Crossroads starring Britney Spears. Watch the original trailer for the cult classic romantic comedy below.

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Movie Promo of the Day:

To promote Disney’s upcoming live-action Beauty and the Beast remake, the movie’s cast members personally wish fans a happy Valentine’s Day on social media (click to see the video and more):

Celebrate love with #BeautyAndTheBeast! Choose who sends you a #BeOurGuest message. ?????? https://t.co/WIDUJjXeXY

— Beauty and the Beast (@beourguest) February 13, 2017

Movie Scene Reenactment of the Day:

Speaking of Disney movies, for the holiday, Oh My Disney got strangers to attempt to recreate the iconic spagetti dinner scene from Lady and the Tramp:

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Supercut of the Day:

Perfect for the holiday, here is a collection of great couples in movies, including Manhattan, Titanic, The Princess Bride and La La Land by Alejandro Villarreal:

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Screenwriting Lesson of the Day:

With a classic romantic comedy for Valentine’s Day, Lessons from the Screenplay looks at how When Harry Met Sally breaks genre conventions:

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Vintage Image of the Day:

Jacqueline Kennedy with TV journalist Charles Collingwood during the filming of A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy, which aired on this day in 1962 and is reenacted in the new movie Jackie:

Movie Takedown of the Day:

Batman Begins is taken down a notch by some real Jokers with the latest Honest Trailer:

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Movie Trivia of the Day:

Speaking of the Caped Crusader, since there’s a new movie starring him in theaters, here’s some trivia about the 1989 Batman:

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Alternate Ending of the Day:

And one more Batman thing, here’s an animated depiction of how the title fight in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice really would have gone down:

Video Essay of the Day:

For Fandor Keyframe, Jacob T. Swinney explores the term “Oscar bait” and whether it should be considered derogatory:

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Classic Trailer of the Day:

Today is the 25th anniversry of the release of Wayne’s World. Watch the original teaser for the comedy classic below.

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Movie Parody of the Day:

Beck Bennett plays Jake Tapper and Kate McKinnon is Kellyanne Conway in Saturday Night Live‘s new Fatal Attraction-inspired political sketch:

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Fictional Event Anniversary of the Day:

Today is the day that Joel began erasing Clementine from his memory in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Here’s a video about the event from IMDb:

Fan-Made Poster of the Day:

This poster for the forthcoming Deadpool II pays tribute to another Ryan Reynolds movie, Buried (via /Film):

Deadpool 2 Fan Poster

Cosplay of the Day:

Speaking of Deadpool, here’s a fan dressed up as the antihero but with a suit made of scaly armor (via Fashionably Geek):

Scale Armored Deadpool

Oscars Montage of the Day:

For Fandor Keyframe, Philip Brubaker looks into black filmmakers represented at the Academy Awards:

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Supercut of the Day:

For no special reason, here is a very well-edited supercut of car scenes in movies by Filippo Lorenzi (via Cinematic Montage Creators):

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Vintage Images of the Day:

Kim Novak, who turns 84 today, with Alfred Hitchcock and James Stewart in photos from the set of Vertigo in 1957:

Alfred Hitchcock, James Stewart and Kim Novak behind the scenes of Vertigo pic.twitter.com/zIAHfg4jiF

— GoldenAgeHollywood (@ClassicalCinema) May 9, 2015

Filmmaker in Focus:

Art of the Film puts the spotlight on the movies of Danny Boyle with focus on their cinematography (via Live by Films):

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Filmmaking Lesson of the Day:

While many videos celebrate the visuals of David Fincher’s Fight Club, here’s Film Radar on the beauty of its sound design:

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Classic Trailer of the Day:

Today is the 30th anniversary of the release of Mannequin. Watch the original trailer for the comedy classic below.

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