Saturday Hot Links
Time for the 153rd installment of Saturday Hot Links.
Today: The All Hail Withnail & I, The Finest Cult Film Ever!
Yes! Withnail & I is coming back! Restored print! Re-released! Happy, happy, joy, joy!
The little known story of how The Shawshank Redemption became one of the most beloved movies of all-time.
Related: Stephen King thought The Shawshank Redemption script was “too talky”.
Professors on food stamps: The shocking true story of academia in 2014.
14 genre features that dominated Fantastic Fest.
Related: 5 reasons Fantastic Fest deserves your respect.
4 other notable White House security breaches.
Former Warner Bros. head Jeff Robinov’s new company Studio 8 to make movies with budgets between $45–100M.
The secret emotional lives of 5 punctuation points.
5 tips from Tina Fey on becoming a movie star.
15 reasons you need an otter as your best friend [photos].
What’s behind Hollywood’s renewed interest in political movies.
Summer of 2014 was the hottest on record (temperature, not box office).
There are just so many things wrong with the NYT’s Shonda Rhimes article.
Related: Shonda Rhimes responds.
Producer Ted Hope explains how superhero movies define America to viewers abroad [video].
What it’s like to survive a plane crash.
Emma Thompson on her writing process: A yoga mat, a vacuum cleaner and lots of crying.
All poems are about death.
15 memorable ABC Movies of the Week.
After 9 years, The Edge finally gets permission to build 5 mansions in Malibu.
11 book sequels you probably didn’t know existed.
Watch Emma Watson’s inspiring U.N. speech on feminism [video].
7 ways to beat procrastination.
TV is viewed as holding more promise for screenwriters than movies.
The origins of 10 nicknames.
11 creative film interpretations you probably hadn’t considered.
8 fascinating secret societies and Bohemian clubs.
5 reasons Groot (Guardians of the Galaxy) is the greatest hero of the 21st century [video].
Watch Steven Spielberg’s niece get eliminated on “The Voice” (Israel) [video].
7 jobs your inner child would love.
The 100 guy movies everyone should see.
How do you rhyme in sign language.
Alaska TV news reporter quits on-air to run marijuana business [video].
Apple sets record with first weekend iPhone 6 sales.
What would happen if everyone jumped at once.
Did you know The Laugh Factory in L.A. has an in-house psychologist to help keep comedians sane.
Why safety is bad for children.
“Men In Blazers”: How producer Michael Davies became a TV soccer commentator.
California’s drought is considered to be “epic”.
University of Baltimore announces a course based on Marvel movies.
Does solar energy have a battery problem.
We are near the end of civilization as we know it.
Save the world… by changing how you pee?
Mark Gordon to receive Producers Guild “Norman Lear” Award.
Meet the college women who are starting a revolution against campus sexual assault.
The story behind the 21 year rift between Bill Murray and Harold Ramis.
Three 16 year-old girls win Google’s science competition.
See the 22 Jump Street end credits gallery.
14 wonderfully odd American newspaper names.
5 ways Larry Ellison has made his mark on Hollywood (so far).
7 sentences that sound crazy but are still grammatical.
Steven Soderbergh created a black-and-white version of Raiders of the Lost Ark, new soundtrack, no dialogue [video].
12 toys from the 1980s that didn’t take off.
Why there are 23.4M people watching “The Big Bang Theory”.
Humanity’s most famous mixtape is now 11 billion miles from Earth.
The 25 best French films distributed by Sony Pictures Classics.
The 100 most important cat pictures of all time.
10 celebrities who spied on the side.
The case for delayed adulthood.
The 100 best “Simpsons” episodes to stream.
Should you hope to die at 75? Absolutely not.
“True Detective: Season 2” leads announced: Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn.
U.N. backed study: Film industry perpetuates gender discrimination.
How do you filter content in the age of abundance.
20 things you might not know about Pulp Fiction.
Who’s smarter: New Yorkers or Los Angelenos [video].
10 forgotten inventors who created film as we know it.
Why the Rockefellers are betting on renewable energy.
Why the Hollywood sign disappeared for a day.
Who discovered coffee.
The top 10 saddest robot deaths in movies and TV [video].
KLM uses a beagle to deliver lost items to passengers [video].
The best documentaries of 2014 so far.
Writers selected for the first Amtrak residency program.
15 great F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes.
Related: James Franco “SNL” documentary finally getting released.
12 famous actors who were completely cut from movies.
10 of the worst key changes in music.
Filmmakers to get FAA OK for drones to hit skies.
What happens when we all live to 100.
10 female directors who deserve more attention in Hollywood.
If you are a college football fan, you should check out this site.
This is how Kirsten Dunst feels about selfies [video].
Great Writers Guild Foundation event on October 14: Simon Kinberg interviewed by John August.
How did Robert Zemeckis film the opening to Back to the Future.
14 projects up for San Francisco Film Society grants.
Ridley Scott says the alien from Alien movies is gone forever.
Russian politicians propose boycott of American films.
The complete series of “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” to be re-released on DVD.
A map of everyone Liam Neeson has killed in movies.
Unleash your lady rage with this supercut [video].
If The Fault in Our Stars were honest, it’d be called Cancer F*cking Sucks [video].
Great review of screenwriter Arash Amel’s comic book “Butterfly”.
Guardian interview with John Cusack: “Hollywood is a whorehouse and people go mad.”
Watch Batman’s parents keep dying in supercut [video].
5 great web series you should be watching now.
Will this be the whitest Oscars in decades.
Ridley Scott says Blade Runner 2 script is done.
Disney animated movie timeline: Chronological order based on historical setting.
Finally the Bitter Script Reader: There’s no one right way to get to the destination.
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