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<ul><li><keyword id="14371217" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="filmmaker-quentin-tarantino" source="Orion">Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino</keyword> is working on his last film, the report suggests.</li><li>As per the outlet's sources, the story is set in late 1970s Los Angeles with a female lead at its center.</li></ul>If reports are to be believed, filmmaker <keyword id="27848" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="quentin-tarantino" source="Orion">Quentin Tarantino</keyword> is working on his last film.<br /><br />The Movie Critic is the name of the script that Tarantino wrote and is prepping to direct this fall, The Hollywood Reporter reported.<br /><br />As per the outlet's sources, the story is set in late 1970s Los Angeles with a female lead at its center.<br /><br />Apparently, the story focuses on <keyword id="300110" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="pauline-kael" source="Orion">Pauline Kael</keyword>, one of the most influential movie critics of all time. <keyword id="16793738" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="kael" source="Orion">Kael</keyword>, who died in 2001, was not just a critic but also an essayist and novelist. She was known for her pugnacious fights with editors as well as filmmakers.<br /><br />In the late 1970s, Kael had a very brief tenure working as a consultant for Paramount, a position she accepted at the behest of actor <keyword id="25157" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="warren-beatty" source="Orion">Warren Beatty</keyword>. The timing of that Paramount job seems to coincide with the setting of the script -- and the filmmaker is known to have a deep respect for Kael, making the odds of her being the subject of the film more likely.<br /><br />Tarantino has for two decades commanded the ability to attract the most coveted actors, working with Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt two times each. He directed Christoph Waltz to two Oscar wins. Samuel L. Jackson is a frequent collaborator. If this truly is his final film, he will have no shortage of thespians dropping everything to line up for roles.<br /><br />The filmmaker has long maintained he had a finite number of movies in him, saying he wanted to direct 10 films or retire by the time he was 60. The writer-director has made nine (if you count the two Kill Bill movies as one) and turns 60 later this month.<br /><br />SEE ALSO:<br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/innovative-ai-powered-applications-and-websites-that-are-revolutionizing-the-way-we-live-and-work/articleshow/98607475.cms">Innovative AI-powered applications and websites that are revolutionizing the way we live and work</a><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/apples-airpods-to-offer-health-tracking-features-in-future-releases/articleshow/98624577.cms">Apple's AirPods to offer health tracking features in future releases</a><br />

Is Quentin Tarantino working on his final film?

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Quentin Tarantino's 10th and supposedly final film, "The Movie Critic," is in the works.</li><li>The movie is set in California in the '70s and centers on a film critic who works for a porn magazine.</li></ul><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/every-quentin-tarantino-movies-ranked-worst-to-best-2019-7">Quentin Tarantino</a>'s (supposed) swan song is imminent.</p><p>The legendary director is currently working on "The Movie Critic," which he says will be his 10th and final film. Details are sparse, but the movie is expected to be released in 2025.</p><p>Here's everything we know, so far.</p><h2>Is this <em>really</em> going to be Tarantino's last film?</h2><div type="image" title="Quentin Tarantino with his award for best original screenplay for &quot;Django Unchained&quot; at the 2013 Oscars." height="1888" width="2788" msid="107372874" hostid="261" sizebytes="91970"></div><p>For more than a decade, Tarantino has declared that he wants to stop directing films after his 10th movie. According to the filmmaker, he's concerned that the quality of his projects could decline if he continues for too long.</p><p>"In a fanciful world, 10 movies in my filmography would be nice," he told <a target="_blank" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/nov/16/quentin-tarantino-hints-retirement">Playboy</a> magazine in 2012.</p><p>"I just don't want to be an old-man filmmaker," he said. "Directors don't get better as they get older. Usually, the worst films in their filmography are those last four at the end."</p><p>The award-winning director and screenwriter <a target="_blank" href="https://deadline.com/2014/11/quentin-tarantino-retirement-hateful-eight-international-release-1201280583/">elaborated</a> two years later, saying that he'd prefer to retire on a high note.</p><p>"I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off," he said. "I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more. I do think directing is a young man's game, and I like the idea of an umbilical cord connection from my first to my last movie."</p><p>"If I get to the 10th, do a good job and don't screw it up, well that sounds like a good way to end the old career," he said, adding that he's not opposed to coming out of retirement for a good movie, but he's also content to stop while he's ahead.</p><p>During a 2019 <a target="_blank" href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/quentin-tarantino-says-his-10th-final-film-will-be-epilogue-y-1230249/">press conference</a> for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood," Tarantino said that he's envisioned his final movie as "a little more epilogue-y."</p><p>Tarantino has stood by his comments, telling <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/18/entertainment/quentin-tarantino-movie-10-last-one-hollywood-film/index.html">CNN's Chris Wallace</a> in 2022 that he's ready to "wrap up the show."</p><p>"I don't want to become this old man who's out of touch," he said. "Already I'm feeling a bit like an old man out of touch when it comes to the current movies that are out right now."</p><p>How steadfast Tarantino is in his decision to retire from filmmaking remains to be seen. After all, directors before him — like <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/10/movies/logan-lucky-steven-soderbergh-interview.html">Steven Soderbergh</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/david-lynch-retirement-filmmaking-1201832700/">David Lynch</a>, and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2024/01/15/how-many-times-has-hayao-miyazaki-retired/">Hayao Miyazaki</a> — have un-retired or walked back comments after making grand declarations.</p><h2>The movie is inspired by a real-life film critic who worked for a pornography magazine</h2><p>When "The Movie Critic" was first reported to be in the works back in March, the premise was a little bit different. At the time, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/quentin-tarantino-sets-the-movie-critic-final-movie-1235351260/">The Hollywood Reporter</a> reported that the film would be set in Los Angeles in the 1970s and center on a female character. The publication also implied that Pauline Kael, who wrote film reviews for The New Yorker and died in 2001, inspired the premise.</p><p>During an interview with <a target="_blank" href="https://deadline.com/2023/05/quentin-tarantino-new-movie-cannes-breaking-baz-rolling-thunder-1235379542/">Deadline</a> at Cannes in May 2023, Tarantino said that the movie takes place in California in 1977.</p><p>But contradictory to THR's report, Tarantino said the titular character "is based on a guy who really lived, but was never really famous, and he used to write movie reviews for a porno rag."</p><p>Tarantino described the person who inspired the movie as "cynical as hell" and "very funny" in his writing. At the time of the interview, the filmmaker ruled out Leonardo DiCaprio and Pitt as the leads, saying they were too old for the part. The real-life critic died in his late 30s.</p><p>"I haven't decided yet but it's going to be somebody in the 35-year-old ballpark," he told Deadline. "It'll definitely be a new leading man for me."</p><h2>Brad Pitt is reportedly set to star in 'The Movie Critic'</h2><div type="image" title="Brad Pitt at the pre-premiere of the film &quot;Babylon&quot; in Paris in January 2023." height="5300" width="7066" msid="107372878" hostid="261" sizebytes="3680834"></div><p><a target="_blank" href="https://deadline.com/2024/02/brad-pitt-quentin-tarantino-the-movie-critic-reunite-1235811357/">Deadline</a> was the first to report Pitt's involvement in early February. It's unclear if the actor will play the lead role or another character, though Deadline suspects it's the former.</p><p>This marks Tarantino and Pitt's third collaboration. Pitt previously portrayed Lieutenant Aldo Raine in the 2009 movie "Inglourious Basterds" and stuntman Cliff Booth in the 2019 film "Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood" — which earned him his first <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/oscars-2020-nominations-winners-list-2020-1">Oscar</a> for acting.</p><h2>There's no release date yet</h2><p>According to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/brad-pitt-circling-role-in-quentin-tarantino-movie-critic-1235812995/">The Hollywood Reporter</a>, filming will begin in 2024 or early 2025 in hopes of a 2025 release. We'll update this post as we learn more.</p>

Everything we know about Quentin Tarantino's 10th and final movie reportedly starring Brad Pitt

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11920875" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="utah" source="Orion">Utah</keyword> Democrats voted to back independent <keyword id="13262836" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="evan-mcmullin" source="Orion">Evan McMullin</keyword> for Senate over one of their own party members.</li><li>At Saturday's Utah Democratic Convention, McMullin received 782 votes to Kael Weston's 594 votes</li></ul><p>In an extraordinary decision, Utah Democrats on Saturday voted to support independent candidate Evan McMullin for Senate over Democrat Kael Weston, part of an effort to create momentum to oust Republican Sen. <keyword id="13262833" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="mike-lee" source="Orion">Mike Lee</keyword> from office in November.</p><p>By declining to put forth a Democratic candidate this fall, Utah Democrats are angling themselves to have greater influence in the general election, where their party has not won a Senate race in the conservative state since 1970.</p><p>At the Utah Democratic Convention, McMullin received 782 votes to Weston's 594 votes; the motion to opt for McMullin's independent candidacy versus the candidacy by Weston passed with 57% of the vote, <a href="https://convention.utahdemocrats.org/preliminary-results/">per preliminary results</a>.</p><p>McMullin — an ex-CIA officer who unsuccessfully sought the presidency in 2016, receiving nearly 22% of the vote against former President <keyword id="11914386" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="donald-trump" source="Orion">Donald Trump</keyword> and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Utah — lauded the decision.</p><p>"Democrats are putting country over party," McMullin said after the vote. "This is our democracy and, yes, it can be messy at times as we saw today, but it's sure a heck of a lot better than the alternative."</p><p>Lee on Saturday <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2022/04/23/utah-republican/">won</a> the support of roughly 75 percent of the delegates at the Republican convention. In June, he will face former state Rep. Becky Edwards and Ally Isom — a former spokesperson for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — in a GOP primary.</p><p>Both Edwards and Isom <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-lee-trump-utah-republican-resistance-lds-term-limits-2022-2">have called for fresh leadership</a> and chided Lee for his rhetoric, arguing that he has not helped improve the governing climate in Washington, DC.</p><p>"Utahns are tired of divisiveness, ineffectiveness, and the extreme rhetoric Lee is so often known to deploy," <a href="https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2022/1/28/22879056/utah-senate-mike-lee-campaign-captain-moroni-donald-trump-bagels">Edwards wrote in Deseret News</a> in January, adding that "<keyword id="11893346" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="politics" source="Orion">politics</keyword> should not be about sowing division, a cult of personality or staunch obstructionism." </p><p>McMullin on Saturday attacked Lee for being entangled in the debate over the <keyword id="12175515" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="2020-presidential-election" source="Orion">2020 presidential election</keyword>, which Trump continues to say was fraudulent despite <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-lawsuits-election-results-2020-11">no verifiable evidence</a> of widespread malfeasance.</p><p>"We know that Sen. Mike Lee was quite involved in the effort to overturn our democracy," McMullin told reporters after the vote, blasting the Republican lawmaker over his text messages to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows regarding the 2020 presidential election results.</p><p>Lee last week <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-lee-texts-january-6-trump-alternate-electors-wasnt-encouraging-2022-4">vehemently denied</a> that he encouraged state legislators to submit alternate pro-Trump electors ahead of January 6, 2021, when the certification of the Electoral College results was set to take place at the US Capitol.</p><p>"We have got to take a stand as Utahns," McMullin said on Saturday. "I don't care if you're a Democrat or or an independent or a Republican or a member of the United Utah Party, this is a line that cannot be crossed, our right to hold our leaders accountable and to vote for or against them and have a peaceful transition of power is essential for liberty and justice in America."</p><p>He emphasized: "We cannot compromise on that, and we must all be united to defend it."</p><p>While Weston's supporters sought to block state Democrats from backing McMullin, they were unable to stop the faction of party members who wanted a different approach.</p><p>After the vote, Weston praised delegates for the "important" debate, which he contended "wouldn't have happened if we hadn't had a Democrat make the case."</p><p>"Of course you want to be the candidate that walks out with a unanimous degree of support, but I knew this was always going to be an important conversation to have," he said in thanking his supporters. "It was a real conversation. It was loud and unpredictable, and I accept what delegates have decided to do."</p><p>Prominent state Democrats, including former Rep. Ben McAdams and Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson, played key roles in pushing their fellow party members to support McMullin.</p><p>The moderate United Utah Party — which has also backed McMullin — commended state Democrats for their decision.</p><p>"We applaud the courage and wisdom of the <keyword id="12134721" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="democratic-party" source="Orion">Democratic Party</keyword> in setting aside party loyalty and putting the needs of Utah first," chairwoman Hillary Stirling said in a statement. "In order to win elections in our current voting system, voters need to get behind a single opposition candidate."</p>

Utah Democrats vote to support independent Evan McMullin over a Democratic candidate in push to defeat GOP Sen. Mike Lee

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A visual effects artist who worked on "<keyword id="212280" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="2001-A-Space-Odyssey">2001: A Space Odyssey</keyword>" told Insider that the recent <keyword id="6622660" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Monolith">monolith</keyword> findings "would've blown" <keyword id="248525" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Stanley-Kubrick">Stanley Kubrick</keyword>'s mind. </li><li>"Stanley would've been really quite excited about this I'm sure," Joy Cuff, who created "2001's" classic moon sets, told Insider. </li><li>Several metallic <keyword id="6673335" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="monoliths">monoliths</keyword> have been found by people across the world. The most recent was a 7-foot sculpture pictured on a beach in the UK. </li></ul><p>Since early November, people across the world have been stumbling across mysterious metallic monoliths. The first was found in <a href="https://www.insider.com/monolith-timeline-appearances-disappearances-californai-utah-romania-2020-12#the-first-monolith-was-discovered-in-utah-on-november-18-1">Utah followed by another in Romania</a>, which quickly and mysteriously disappeared.</p><p>The origins of the monoliths remain a mystery, but since the first sighting, people have inevitably called back to Stanley Kubrick's seminal 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey," which features a series of monoliths as a sign of extraterrestrial life.</p><p>And Joy Cuff, who worked with Stanley Kubrick on "2001: A Space Odyssey" as a visual effects artist, told Insider that the recent discoveries "would've blown" the legendary director's mind.</p><p>"Stanley would've been really quite excited about this I'm sure," Cuff told Insider during a phone call earlier this week. "It would've been amazing. Imagine this had arisen when we were doing this in '66 or '67. I think it would've blown his mind actually. It's quite something."</p><div type="image" title="Monolith in 2001 A Space Odyssey" height="650" width="870" msid="79629605" hostid="261"></div><h2>'It does make you think why should we be the only people?'</h2><p>Joy, who was only 21 when she was hired by Kubrick to create the film's distinct moon sets, said Stanley "would've found it really very interesting,"</p><p>"In the archives, there's all the research that he did on all the UFO sightings, and he used to look up lay lines. He was interested in it," but Joy said she finds the discoveries "kind of shivery."</p><p>"I think blimey," she said. "I was looking at the one in Romania, and it's in the open air. And you think how did somebody or anything appear there and nobody else saw it arrive? It does make you think, why should we be the only people? And we are making such a mess of everything now anyway. Somebody might come along a wipe us out."</p><div type="image" title="monolith, UFO, Utah" height="729" width="972" msid="79629609" hostid="261"></div><p>"2001" was first released in April 1968 and was produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick from a script written by both Kubrick and the legendary science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke.</p><p>At the time, "2001" was largely <a href="http://scrapsfromtheloft.com/2017/01/05/pauline-kael-on-2001-a-space-odyssey/">panned by influential critics like Pauline Kael</a> who said the movie would end Kubrick's career, but today the film is considered one of the most important productions ever made, largely thanks to its technical mastery and scientific accuracy. At the time of filming, humans had yet to reach the moon.</p><p>"We had to make decisions like: 'How's the moon?' Is it soft or is it dust? Is it hard?" Joy said. "We used to have these big meetings with Stanley and the production designer, and we'd talk about what we thought or felt."</p><h2>Cook's friend made the creepy Star Child for the movie's ending</h2><div type="image" title="The original prop 'Star Child', sculpted by Liz Moore and from the film '2001: A Space Odyssey' (1968), is displayed as part of the Stanley Kubrick exhibition at the Design Museum in Kensington, London, on April 26, 2019. - Twenty years after the death of US director Stanley Kubrick, the British have rediscovered the director who had a special relationship with the United Kingdom, where he lived and worked. (Photo by ISABEL INFANTES / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION (Photo credit should read ISABEL INFANTES/AFP via Getty Images)" height="1062" width="1417" msid="79629610" hostid="261"></div><p>Joy also gave Insider some insight into how Kubrick crafted the film's mysterious ending with the now-infamous "Star Child" figure.</p><p>She said that one day while watching the film's daily rushes, Stanley turned to her and said: "'Oh jee Joy, we really don't know how to finish the picture."</p><p>"I thought, 'What?'" she said. "I couldn't say anything, but when I left I thought what on earth does he mean." But Joy says Kubrick later asked her whether she knew of any young sculptors that could work on the film.</p><p>"I had a very good friend," she said. "We were at school and art school together, and she was a struggling sculptor then working in greengrocers and doing sculpture at night time. So I gave him the name and she arrived and the rest is history. She produced the star child."</p><p><strong>Read More: </strong></p><p><a href="https://www.insider.com/fifth-monolith-uk-isle-of-wight-2020-12">A fifth mysterious monolith has appeared on a beach on the Isle of Wight in the UK</a></p><p><a href="https://www.insider.com/trivia-about-the-shining-2020-10">10 surprising things you probably didn't know about the making of 'The Shining'</a></p><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/before-stanley-kubrick-was-famous-he-took-these-stunning-photos-of-new-york-in-the-1940s-2012-3">Before Stanley Kubrick Was Famous He Took These Stunning Photos Of New York In The 1940s</a></p>

'2001: A Space Odyssey' visual effects artist says recent monolith findings 'would've blown' Stanley Kubrick's mind

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="72528" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Carey-Mulligan">Carey Mulligan</keyword> accused film critic Dennis Harvey of misogyny in his review of her movie in Variety.</li><li>Variety later published an apology to Mulligan on their website above Harvey's review. </li><li>The National Society of Film Critics has defended Harvey demanding Variety rescind the apology.</li></ul><p>Since the 1970s and '80s - the heavyweight years of Kael, Sarris, and Ebert - it has been virtually unheard of for a film review to make headlines; critics simply don't hold that kind of zeitgeisty power anymore. But such has been the cultural force and widespread interest in British writer-director Emerald Fennell's <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/where-to-watch-promising-young-woman">debut feature, "Promising Young Woman."</a></p><p>The revenge flick has been one of the year's most-talked-about movies since it debuted in theaters late last year, and it has quickly become a surprise awards front-runner <a href="https://www.insider.com/golden-globes-nominations-best-director-three-women-nominated-2021-2">picking up multiple nominations</a> across the Golden Globes, critics circles, and independent circuit.</p><p>Much of the discussion surrounding the film, however, has been centered around an awkward dispute between the film's star, Carey Mulligan, and a review of the movie written by veteran critic Dennis Harvey, published in Variety, which has sparked a heated discussion surrounding the editorial standards of Hollywood's trade publications and the freedom of critics.</p><h2>Dennis Harvey's review called Mulligan 'a bit of an odd choice' for her role as a seductress in the movie</h2><div type="image" title="&quot;Promising Young Woman&quot;" height="2400" width="3600" msid="80879282" hostid="261"></div><p>"<keyword id="10490796" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="promising-young-woman">Promising Young Woman</keyword>," which also stars Bo Burnham and Alison Brie, premiered in January 2020 at the Sundance film festival where it received largely positive reviews. In the movie, Carey Mulligan plays Cassandra - a medical school dropout who dedicates her life to catching predatory men by pretending to be drunk at bars and clubs, and then revealing her sobriety when they have taken her to their homes.</p><p>At the festival, Harvey, a veteran film critic, <a href="https://variety.com/2020/film/reviews/promising-young-woman-review-1203480660/">praised the film</a> for its "compelling mix of thriller, black comedy" genre devices but suggested that Mulligan, whose performance he described as "skillful, entertaining and challenging," was, in fact, an "odd choice" for the lead role and suggested that Australian actor Margot Robbie, who is a producer on the movie, might have been better suited to play the lead.</p><p>His reviews read: "Mulligan, a fine actress, seems a bit of an odd choice as this admittedly many-layered apparent femme fatale - Margot Robbie is a producer here, and one can (perhaps too easily) imagine the role might once have been intended for her. Whereas with this star, Cassie wears her pickup-bait gear like bad drag; even her long blonde hair seems a put-on.</p><p>"The flat American accent she delivers in her lowest voice register likewise seems a bit meta, though it's not quite clear what the quote marks around this performance signify. Still, like everything here, this turn is skillful, entertaining, and challenging, even when the eccentric method obscures the precise message."</p><div type="image" title="Promising Young Woman Focus Features" height="660" width="880" msid="80879283" hostid="261"></div><h2>Carey Mulligan attacked Harvey's review during a New York Times profile  </h2><p>Almost 11 months later, whilst discussing the movie's rollout during a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/23/movies/carey-mulligan-promising-young-woman.html">profile in the New York Times</a>, Carey Mulligan singled out Harvey's review of the film and <a href="https://www.insider.com/promising-young-woman-carey-mulligan-calls-out-critic-hot-comments-2020-12">challenged his conclusions</a> about her casting as well as his reference to Margot Robbie, describing his remarks as misogynistic.</p><p>"I read the Variety review because I'm a weak person," she told the Times. "It felt like it was basically saying that I wasn't hot enough to pull off this kind of ruse. It drove me so crazy," she continued. "I was like, 'Really?' For this film, you're going to write something that is so transparent? Now? In 2020?' I just couldn't believe it."</p><p>Shortly after the Times's story went live, Variety updated Harvey's review on their website by adding an Editor's Note, which apologized to Carey Mulligan for the review's "insensitive language" and seemingly distanced the outlet from Harvey's words. </p><p>The full editor's note reads: "Variety sincerely apologizes to Carey Mulligan and regrets the insensitive language and insinuation in our review of 'Promising Young Woman' that minimized her daring performance."</p><div type="image" title="promising young woman" height="1383" width="1844" msid="80879286" hostid="261"></div><h2>Dennis Harvey said he was 'appalled to be tarred as a misogynist' and the National Society of Film Critics slammed Variety</h2><p>Speaking about the situation for the first time <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/jan/28/carey-mulligan-dennis-harvey-variety-critic-sexism-accusations">with The Guardian in January 2021</a>, Harvey said he was "appalled to be tarred as a misogynist" and described Mulligan's interpretation of his review as "bizarre."</p><p>"I did not say or even mean to imply Mulligan is 'not hot enough' for the role," he told the newspaper. "I'm a 60-year-old gay man. I don't actually go around dwelling on the comparative hotnesses of young actresses, let alone writing about that."</p><p>He added: "This whole thing could not be more horrifying to me than if someone had claimed I was a gung-ho Trump supporter."</p><p>Now, earlier this week, the National Society of Film Critics - the group which represents the country's most prominent critics - <a href="https://twitter.com/NatSocFilmCrix/status/1359185359922319363">published a statement</a> on Twitter that condemned Variety's treatment of Dennis Harvey and demanded that the publication removes the apology from his review of the movie. "We, the members of the National Society of Film Critics, wish to register our alarm at Variety's shabby treatment of our colleague Dennis Harvey," the statement read.</p><p>"If Variety felt the language in Harvey's review was insensitive and insinuating, it had the option of working with him to fix that in the editing process before it ran. There are also ways Variety could have acknowledged and responded to Mulligan's criticism, rather than simply capitulating to it and undermining its own critic in the process."</p><p>According to the National Society of Film Critics website, Peter Debruge and Owen Gleiberman, Variety's chief film critics, are both members of the society. </p>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>As tourism began to decline during the <keyword id="43587" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="pandemic">pandemic</keyword>, some <keyword id="6368036" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="hotels">hotels</keyword> and resorts have used the time without guests to harvest crops, take care of their land, and improve upon the customer experience so they're ready for when business picks up.</li><li>Workers at Within the Wild, an eco-lodge in Alaska, have experimented with making kombucha and sausages from scratch, while staff members at Guana Island in the British Virgin Islands have stayed on site to care for coconut, mango, and papaya orchards, as well as over 100 chickens.</li><li>Although many of the resorts are eager to welcome guests once it's safe to reopen, they're making the most of <keyword id="91743" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="lockdown">lockdown</keyword> by revamping their sustainable and eco-friendly practices. </li></ul><p>While global jet-setters have stayed safely at home these past few months to plan the next trip of their dreams, hotel and resort properties across the globe have continued working hard to care for onsite gardens, orchards, livestock — even beehives and baby goats — to ensure that they'll be prepared to welcome back visitors when travel can safely resume.</p><p>From a Tanzanian organic coffee farm to an eco-lodge nestled in the Alaskan wilderness to a private island in the Caribbean, these five hospitality properties have turned their recent vacancies into the opportunity to learn new skills and contribute to their local communities. </p><h2><a href="https://www.gibbsfarm.com/"><strong>Gibb's Farm</strong></a><strong> is an organic coffee farm in Tanzania, Africa </strong></h2><p><strong><div type="image" title="Gibb's Farm Tanzania, Africa" height="480" width="640" msid="77042188" hostid="261"></div></strong></p><p>The historic Gibb's Farm is an organic farm and coffee-growing estate that spans over 80 acres of land on the forested outer slopes of the Ngorongoro Crater in Africa. </p><p>The entire organic farm — which consists of 30 acres of coffee, 10 acres of vegetables and fruit, five acres of flowers and herbs, and a working dairy and pig farm — is based upon sustainable farming methods. </p><p><div type="image" title="Gibb's Farm in Tanzania, Africa" height="360" width="481" msid="77042190" hostid="261"></div></p><p>And the most unique aspect of the property's self-sustaining livelihood is happening right now, during coffee harvest season. Every year from June to September, 30 acres of rich Arabica coffee are organically cultivated, cleaned, and roasted at the estate — even during this time, while it's temporarily closed. </p><p>Produce from the farm has been feeding the property's onsite crew, and each staff member receives a basket of food to take home every week. </p><p>"I like the collaboration with the team here and how we all work together," said Pius Daniel, the agricultural manager at Gibb's Farm. "I am proud of what we produce, not just the variety but the abundance and quality of the produce."</p><h2><a href="http://www.withinthewild.com/"><strong>Within the Wild</strong></a><strong> is an eco-lodge located alongside a wild Alaskan fjord</strong></h2><p><strong><div type="image" title="Within the Wild" height="3305" width="4958" msid="77042193" hostid="261"></div></strong></p><p>Located in remote Southcentral Alaskan wilderness, the two family-owned and operated eco-lodges run by Within the Wild Adventure Company — Tutka Bay Lodge and Winterlake Lodge — have little choice but to produce their own food onsite, and so foraging, fishing, and hunting in surrounding wilderness is a daily part of <keyword id="6360041" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="life">life</keyword>. </p><p>Most of the produce used in the lodge kitchen is grown in gardens on site in poly-hoop greenhouses, which are greenhouse structures made of metal semicircular rods that are mounted into the ground and laid over with plastic and use heat from the sun to increase the inside temperature.</p><p><div type="image" title="Inside one of the poly-hoop greenhouses at Within the Wild" height="3024" width="4032" msid="77042205" hostid="261"></div></p><p>Using these greenhouses extends the growing season in the extreme Alaskan climate and allows for year-round cultivation. At the Tutka Bay Lodge, which sits along a private cove up against a rugged nine-mile fjord at the edge of the Kachemak Bay State Park, the Dixons also source Alaskan seafood from the bay. </p><p>While the lodges are vacant during the pandemic, the onsite team has been taking the opportunity to learn new skills like shrimping, foraging, making kombucha, experimenting with pickling, and hand-making sausages. </p><p><div type="image" title="Freshly foraged produce and flowers at Within the Wild." height="720" width="595" msid="77042209" hostid="261"></div></p><p>"I said, 'We've got some time. Let's go do and learn these new things,'" said Kirtsen Dixon, Within the Wild co-owner. "Let's learn new stuff while we have this free space, and not waste time worrying about what we can't control." </p><h2><a href="https://thenewtinsomerset.com/"><strong>The Newt in Somerset Hotel &amp; Spa</strong></a><strong> is a farmhouse estate in the English countryside </strong></h2><p><strong><div type="image" title="The produce garden at The Newt in Somerset Hotel &amp; Spa" height="4912" width="7360" msid="77042214" hostid="261"></div></strong></p><p>The Newt in Somerset Hotel &amp; Spa is located in southwest England in the county of Somerset near the town of Bruton, which is about three hours west of London.</p><p>Somerset means "land of the summer people." It's known for its flourishing farmland, and for being home to many traditional country estates, which in England have historically served as second homes and quiet retreats for people who live in larger, bustling cities.</p><p>The Newt itself is a 300-plus year old historic country estate that offers wide cultivated gardens, acres of apple orchards, and parkland.</p><p>When the property is open to visitors, there's an array of talks and workshops for guests about organic gardening and beekeeping. During the lockdown, while the property was closed to guests, growers continued to plant and harvest from the kitchen and market gardens multiple times a week.</p><p><div type="image" title="Maiko Ishida_Floriculturist" height="3024" width="4032" msid="77042219" hostid="261"></div></p><p>Head beekeeper Paula Carnell still regularly tends to the onsite beehives, and cellar master Greg Carnell continues to press cider on site.</p><p><div type="image" title="Butcher Lloyd Tucker hangs fresh cuts of meat alongside the himalayan salt wall at the Newt's butchery." height="4872" width="6110" msid="77042226" hostid="261"></div></p><p>The Newt refocused its business to support locals by offering free, next-day delivery to nearby towns. The deliveries include fresh food items from the gardens, estate kitchens, bakery, butchery, and creamery. They also offer fresh-pressed cider, as well as other goods from local growers and artisan producers.  </p><p><div type="image" title="Fresh produce, eggs, and baked goods that come in The Newt's local delivery box." height="4032" width="3024" msid="77042230" hostid="261"></div></p><p>"We'll continue to celebrate Somerset, the apples, and the traditional cider apple orchards." said Greg Carnell, cellar master of cider operations at The Newt, on the absence of visitors. </p><h2><a href="https://www.guana.com/"><strong>Guana Island</strong></a><strong> is a family-owned resort island in the Caribbean</strong></h2><p><strong><div type="image" title="A secluded resort residence on Guana Island." height="4480" width="6720" msid="77042236" hostid="261"></div></strong></p><p>Guana Island is a private, family-owned island resort in the heart of the British Virgin Islands spanning 850 acres. The property is home to seven beaches and miles of tropical forest, mountains, and dramatic flora and fauna. </p><p>With acres of privacy per guest (no more than 35 guests are allowed on the island at any time), and no marina or public facilities of any kind, Guana Island has plenty of secluded open space. </p><p><div type="image" title="Guana Collection  2" height="4480" width="6720" msid="77042243" hostid="261"></div></p><p>While the property has been closed due to the pandemic, a core team of workers has been living on the island and enjoying fresh produce from the onsite orchard, which is housed inside multiple greenhouses.</p><p><div type="image" title="Guana Collection  11" height="6720" width="4480" msid="77042253" hostid="261"></div></p><p>The island grows everything from microgreens and herbs to fresh vegetables, as well as a wide selection of tropical fruit, like coconut, mango, soursop, and papaya. Guana also keeps over 100 chickens for eggs and sources fresh fish from the sea nearby. </p><p><div type="image" title="Some chickens near their coop on Guana Island." height="3315" width="4419" msid="77042257" hostid="261"></div></p><p>"The waters around Guana Island are home to a wide variety of seafood, including grouper, yellowfin tuna, and mahi-mahi, as well as the local Anegada lobster," said executive chef Kael Mendoza. </p><h2><a href="https://www.carmelvalleyranch.com/"><strong>Carmel Valley Ranch</strong></a><strong> is a valley ranch retreat in </strong><strong>Carmel Valley, California </strong></h2><p><strong><div type="image" title="An aerial view of the Carmel Valley Ranch." height="2848" width="3797" msid="77042261" hostid="261"></div></strong></p><p>Carmel Valley Ranch is located in the foothills of the Santa Lucia Mountains along California's Central Coast. This 500-acre resort is especially known for its onsite farmstead of organic gardens, pinot noir vineyard, apiary, salt house, hen house, goat barn, and creamery. There's even an on-property cheese-maker that hand-produces fresh cheeses from goat's milk for guests to enjoy during their stay. </p><p><div type="image" title="Charlie Cascio is the resident cheesemaker at Carmel Valley Ranch." height="5504" width="7339" msid="77042271" hostid="261"></div></p><p>When the resort closed, a small crew continued working on site to tend to the gardens, chickens, goats, and bees. They continued harvesting honey and planted a variety of tomatoes and melons for future use and took on tasks that they might not have been responsible for in their previous roles. </p><p><div type="image" title="Beekeepers look into the hives Carmel Valley Ranch." height="3024" width="4032" msid="77042286" hostid="261"></div></p><p>"It's been a really humbling experience for everyone," said executive chef Tim Wood. "This time has enabled us to return to nature and really understand the beauty of what we have here at the ranch and to celebrate it." </p><p>Wood chronicled his newfound responsibilities outside of the kitchen, including caring for the resort's animals and gardens (which are flourishing more than they normally would this time of year since there's no visitor foot traffic to disrupt growth). Additionally, Wood has been bottle-feeding the onsite newborn goats, fetching hay, sprouting oats, and tending to farm duties as well as overseeing his kitchen to ensure it's properly safe and clean. </p><p><div type="image" title="Carmel_Valley_Ranch_property_goat_barn_goats_peaking_out_4800_KD" height="2588" width="3450" msid="77042294" hostid="261"></div></p><p>While these properties have recently been short on overnight guests, they've been full of opportunities for those remaining on site to celebrate the land's natural, undisturbed beauty. The properties will continue to make improvements to their onsite offerings — and when it's safe, they'll welcome back visitors for an experience better than ever before. </p>

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<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>Review-aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes has become the go-to for discerning moviegoers when they need to decide if it's worth dishing out their hard-earned cash on the latest cineplex offerings.</p><p>But director/producer Brett Ratner (the man behind the "Rush Hour" franchise) isn't a fan of the site, to put it lightly.</p><p>"The worst thing that we have in today's movie culture is Rotten Tomatoes," Ratner <a href="http://ew.com/movies/2017/03/23/ratner-tomatoes-scores/" target="_blank">said</a> while speaking at the Sun Valley Film Festival this past weekend.</p><p>Ratner's company RatPac Entertainment cofinanced "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" (and countless other big-budget movies), and as he makes clear, he's still feeling the sting of the critical backlash against that superhero blockbuster, despite its massive box-office gross (it currently sits at a <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/batman_v_superman_dawn_of_justice" target="_blank">rotten 27%</a>).</p><p>"I think it's the destruction of our business. I have such respect and admiration for film criticism," Ratner said. "When I was growing up film criticism was a real art. And there was intellect that went into that. And you would read Pauline's Kael's reviews, or some others, and that doesn't exist anymore. Now it's about a number. A compounded number of how many positives vs. negatives. Now it's about, 'What's your Rotten Tomatoes score?' And that's sad, because the Rotten Tomatoes score was so low on 'Batman v Superman' I think it put a cloud over a movie that was incredibly successful."</p><p>Rotten Tomatoes has become such a resource for audiences that if a movie has a high rating on the site, it's often used in promotion for the film.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>Ratner has never received much love from the site's scores for the <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/brett_ratner" target="_blank">movies he's directed</a> (his highest as a director was 69% for 2002's "Red Dragon"). And the stigma of a rotten score for a film like "Batman v Superman" is a concern to Ratner.</p><p>"People don't realize what goes into making a movie like that," Ratner said. "It's mind-blowing. It's just insane, it's hurting the business, it's getting people to not see a movie. In Middle America it's, 'Oh, it's a low Rotten Tomatoes score so I'm not going to go see it because it must suck.' But that number is an aggregate and one that nobody can figure out exactly what it means, and it's not always correct. I've seen some great movies with really abysmal Rotten Tomatoes scores. What's sad is film criticism has disappeared. It's really sad."</p><p><a href="http://ew.com/movies/2017/03/23/ratner-tomatoes-scores/" target="_blank">Entertainment Weekly</a> got Rotten Tomatoes' reaction to Ratner's comments:</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/new-teaser-trailer-game-of-thrones-season-7-2017-3">Watch the new teaser trailer for 'Game of Thrones' season 7</a></h3>        <div>            <div>        <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="VieGc4YTE6BgD1pzvBED6Y_4m09Ieqb9" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>        </div>        </div>            </div>

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