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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, This Just In is a subset of The 250 podcast, looking at notable new arrivals on the list of the 250 best movies of all-time, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users.

This time, Peter Farrelly’s Green Book.

At time of recording, it was ranked 170th on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Notes:

• Recorded 27th January 2019.
• Green Book at The Internet Movie Database.
• The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
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• Sonny Bunch at The Washington Post on Green Book as an old-fashioned Oscar movie.
• Owen Gleiberman at Variety on what each Best Picture nominee means at this year’s Academy Awards.
• Nate Jones at Vulture maps out “the new archetypes” of awards season.
• Nate Jones at Vulture on how Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody became this year’s “Oscar Villains.”
• Mark Harris at Vulture discusses who exactly is the target market for Green Book.
• Melanie McFarland at Salon on the danger of movies about racism that prioritise white people’s feelings.
• Erin Nyer at Variety on Green Book winning the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival.
• Latifah Muhammad at Vibe on Viggo Mortensen’s use of the n-word at a post-screening Q & A for Green Book.
• President Barack Obama uses and discusses the n-word during an interview with WTF with Marc Maron.
• Laura Bradley at Vanity Fair on the on-going mystery around the possible existence of tapes of President Donald Trump using the n-word.
• Don Shirley’s surviving family talk to Shadow and Act about the reality of the relationship between Don and Tony.
• Viggo Mortensen responds to the Shirley family’s complaints about the use of Don Shirley in Green Book at Variety.
• Hunter Harris at Vulture reports on Mahershala Ali’s apology to Don Shirley’s living relatives.
• Jenni Miller at NBC on Green Book as a movie about racism made by white people for white people.
• Peter Farrelly talks to Vulture about trading comedy for prestige drama in Green Book.
• R. Emmet Sweeney at IFC on the Farrelly Brothers’ status as underrated American comedic directors.
• James Oddy at Little White Lies on Kingpin as an underrated bowling comedy.
• The Farrelly Brothers offer an oral history of Kingpin to Fast Company.
• Jason Krell and Charlie Jane Anders at io9 on duelling movies.
• Zack Sharf at IndieWire on Peter Farrelly’s history of exposing himself on set.
• Ryan Gilbey at The Guardian on Hollywood’s history of tolerating unprofessional behaviour from male directors, especially to female stars.
• Kristopher Tapley and Alex Stedman at Variety on Mahershala Ali’s status as the first Muslim to win an Academy Award for acting.
• Zack Sharf at IndieWire on Nick Vallelonga’s tweets supporting President Donald Trump’s Islamophobia.
• Olivia Nuzzi at New York Magazine on President Donald Trump’s refusal to retract his lie about Muslim Americans cheering on 9/11.
• Snopes reports on the infamous “celebrating Arabs” rumours that circulated after 9/11.
• Marina Koren at The Atlantic on the absurdity of the First Man flag controversy.
• Jason Mittell at The Atlantic on why Netflix doesn’t release its ratings.
• Sasha Stone’s complaints about “woketopian” criticisms of Green Book at Deadline Hollywood.
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• Matt Feeney at Slate on the comedic tradition of boorish ugly men married to beautiful long-suffering women.
• Oliver Smith at The Telegraph on the countries that smoke the most.
• Kevin Polowy at Yahoo on how Viggo Mortensen ate his way through Green Book.
• Tatiana Tenreyro at Bustle on how Viggo Mortensen was basically adopted by the Vallelonga family.
• Ryan Lenz at The Southern Poverty Law Centre on the “Crying Nazi” at Charlottesville.
• Liam Stack at The New York Times on the persistent “Irish slave myth.”
• Liam Hogan talks to Pacific Standard about the “Irish slave myth.”
• Katy Waldman at The New Yorker on white fragility.
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo at Amazon.
• Ciara Kenny at The Irish Times on how and when the Irish and Italians became “white” Americans.
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• Kevin Fallon at The Daily Beast on Vice and Bohemian Rhapsody as the worst Best Picture nominees of the decade.
• Alex Vo at Rotten Tomatoes on Bohemian Rhapsody‘s status as the worst-reviewed awards contender in recent memory.
• Darren’s review of Green Book.
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