After the jump, Meryl Streep rocks her best Blue Steel as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. I don’t know much about history, but it seems like Iron Mike would’ve kicked her ass.  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, broads just don’t have the upper-body strength. Anyway, blah blah pearls, accents, hats, a stiff upper lip, the Falklands War — it’ll probably win an Oscar if it’s any good at all, because if there’s one thing Oscar voters love, it’s boring-ass old British farts politicking. OI, GUV, DE OL’ BIRD’S GOT A MASTAH’S TOUCH WIFF DA TORIES, SHE DOES, BUT IF DA MISSUS FANNY DON’T SNOG DA COMMON PUNTAHS, DA BARRISTAH WON’ FOX ‘UNT.

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Fox just sent over this publicity still to celebrate the first day of principal photography on their Margaret Thatcher biopic, The Iron Lady, starring Meryl Streep. Oi, Meryw Streep playin’ Margrit Fatchah?  Wew dog’s da bobby’s knickaz, oy reckon dat’s almost worse den some Bri’ish puntah playin da Supah man, innit!

THE IRON LADY tells the compelling story of Margaret Thatcher, a woman who smashed through the barriers [metaphorically speaking, of course] of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world. The story concerns power and the price that is paid for power, and is a surprising and intimate portrait of an extraordinary and complex woman.

It promises to be the female-driven, painfully realistic take on Iron Man we’ve all been waiting for, where instead of a rich industrialist in a robot suit killing terrorists with his rocket hands, a tasteful old woman inspires a nation with her thatchings.

Do you know what today is, folks? It’s Golden Globe nomination day, that time of year when we pretend the Golden Globes are somehow relevant, even though they’re decided by the “Hollywood Foreign Press Association,” a shady group made up of press from publications no one reads who studios can basically buy off with a nice enough gift bag. Yay, here are their nominations! Most of which are from movies you couldn’t have seen because they aren’t out yet! Hooray, the HFPA is so much cooler than us!  (see also: their TV nominees at Warmingglow)

Best Drama
Avatar
Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
Up in the Air

Best Comedy or Musical
(500) Days of Summer
The Hangover
It’s Complicated
Julie & Julia
Nine

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(“Fill up momma’s wine glass and I’ll show you what I like to call the Streeptease.”)

Writer/Director Nancy Meyers writes the kind of movies (What Women Want, Something’s Gotta Give, The Holiday) that my mom forces me to watch that I end up resenting her for a little bit.  This is the new trailer for her latest, starring Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, and Alec Baldwin (good), whose title is a copy of either a Facebook relationship status, an Avril Lavigne song, or a Denise Richards reality show (bad).  Coming Christmas Day, It’s Complicated.  Have you ever wanted to hear Alec Baldwin deliver lines that start with “O M G”? (no)  Did you ever wish you’d see Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin making out in an elevator? (no)  Were you hoping Steve Martin would get hip to webcam chat? (no)  Well then this movie is for you! (not me).

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From Nancy Meyers, the director of Something’s Gotta Give and What Women Want comes Old People F*cking Part 3, aka It’s Complicated.  I hope it lives up to its name better than Denise Richards’ reality show, because in Denise Richards’ world, “complicated” seems to mean “hanging out on the f*cking beach drinking wine” a lot.  It must be rough being a hobo with money.  Where was I?  Oh right, the movie.  See, Meryl Streep was married to Alec Baldwin, who left her for a hot 20-something.  But now they’re having an affair, even though she’s his ex-wife, even though her architect Steve Martin also wants a piece, and yeah, mom, this looks totally hilarious and realistic too.

[Also available in HD at Apple]