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Tilda Swinton’s Flash Mob

We can all agree that the recent Ghostbusters and Glee flash mobs were a little bit adorable, but is the fad played out? Not if Tilda Swinton has anything to say about it. She’s planning a flash dance on June 26 to The Avalon Boy’s “At the Ball” in order to promote her new 8 1/2 Foundation, explaining , “It’s a song from Laurel and Hardy’s funniest film Way Out West . In the film, Stan and Ollie do a wee dance, which is rubbish compared to Cyd Charisse or Gene Kelly, or any trained dancer, and yet it’s one of the most charming, amusing, gentle, child-like musical numbers in the whole of cinema history.” Book your trip to Edinburgh now! [ Indiewire ]

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The Rubicon WTF? Factor: Parsing the Headscratch-y Reality of AMC’s Newest Series

So: Did you watch Rubicon last night? Whether the first-episode preview lived up to the hype you had in mind, it boasted one quality we can all agree on: Jason Horwitch’s show promises more than just an little bit out there . Thank goodness for Movieline’s Rubicon WTF ? Factor, a handy metric deriving each episode’s most quizzical matters on a scale of 0 to 30, broken down byt the degree of difficulty to understand, the developments’ plausibility, and Horwitch and Co.’s execution of each. Together, we will get our heads around this show. At least until it introduces a Smoke Monster, at which point I got nothing. (Needless to say, SPOILERS AHEAD. )

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The Rubicon WTF? Factor: Parsing the Headscratch-y Reality of AMC’s Newest Series