In the early '40s, Laurence Olivier had everything going for him: he was widely regarded as one of the two best actors to ever grace the British stage, his film career had been set aflame by startling performances in Wuthering Heights and Rebecca, and his gorgeous wife, Vivien Leigh, had just pulled off Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind. He was also at the apex of his career as a stone-cold fox. And as half of the “first couple” of Britain, he was the closest that a born-and-raised Brit would get to bona fide Hollywood stardom. He and Leigh lived in flagrant sin, still married to other people, [...]

Kirsten Dirksen, co-founder of Fair Companies, has made her entire full-length documentary on "tiny house people" available for free. Watch as she goes on a "5-year journey into the tiny homes of people searching for simplicity, self-sufficiency, minimalism and happiness." Speaking of, has anyone seen Edith?

"It costs about $1,500 to print one copy of a movie on 35 mm film and ship it to theaters in its heavy metal canister. Multiply that by 4,000 copies — one for each movie on each screen in each multiplex around the country — and the numbers start to get ugly. By comparison, putting out a digital copy costs a mere $150." —LA Weekly – who else? — foretells the death of 35mm film and everything it'll take to the grave with it including your local art-house theater. Oh, and all the prettiest moving images imaginable. 

There is definitely not enough dancing in this NSFW trailer. That's how they get ya… to donate to their Kickstarter. (Give more than $60 and you get to see these moves live in NYC on Thursday!) This movie looks so good: the white contact lenses, that two-headed monster move, dancing in the shower. They should rename it Step Up 3D in 2D With Better Plots and The Best Dancing. Stick around 'til the end — is that a real bird?

Did you see The Avengers last weekend? Probably; most people did. Did you like it? I did. My favorite part was the magic wand, but I like anything that glows.

That's not code for anything; glowing is just neat, you know? Like the supermoon. Okay, today might be a little rough. How has everyone been???

"New Dolby Technology to Make Horror Movies Scarier."

Although it’s been 100 years since the Titanic went down, it’s been only 15 since James Cameron’s Titanic. I was a freshman in college, and Titanic was one of three movies (along with As Good As It Gets and Great Expectations) that offered nude drawing scenes that year — beautiful Rose donning nothing but jewels; doomed Jack, sketching her feverishly, his eyebrows impeccably tweezed. Not coincidentally, that was the year I posed nude for an art student.

If “posed nude for an art student” suggests formality, or financial gain, the language misleads. It was, like most things that happen in college, pure fun. But I was like Rose — in [...]

– Ask something!

– No don’t. Please, please don’t.

– Ask something! ASK SOMETHING! I could just be the funny person who gets the microphone and says "BILL PULLMAN YOU LOOK GREAT!" I could even add a bit about Spaceballs. “Big Spaceballs fan!” Like that.

– Do not be the funny person who says that. Don’t be the funny person. You do not have a question.

[SPOILER ALERT]

– But I do! I must, somewhere. I… could ask how important it was to the director that Lola’s character is single at the end of the film, apropos of the media’s current obsession with strong women choosing to be single! [...]

Here is a wonderful email from reader Michelle Siobhan Reid:

I feel tacky writing in and being like, "Post about this!" because I am sure you are inundated with these requests all the time, but there's no harm, I suppose!

Organ donation awareness week is the last week of April for Canada & the US, and while it seems like every day is marked for awareness of something or other, my mom is alive thanks to a transplant in 2009 so I'm pretty into this one. Most people agree that they would like to be organ donors after they die, but they don't register (you are doing better in the [...]

RED: a short animation by Jorge Jaramillo and Carlo Guillot. Fairy tales return to darkness.

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