It’s rare that we have a year as impressive as this one in the Best Actress race. It shouldn’t be that way – we’ve experienced some of the best female performances in recent memory in the past few years. Yet the Academy still skews male, and...
If you want to compete in Best Picture, you have to compete in Best Actor. It’s a sad rule, but it’s true. The Academy (and America at large) loves a movie about Great Men doing Great Things, or Trouble Men descending into madness. In the last...
It has been several decades since a film has managed to capture the sheer energy of the 70s auteurs. And I don’t just mean on an aesthetic level, although the crackling 35mm appearance of lush urban decay certainly possesses a power that many...
Film Best Male Actor In A Leading Role Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal Anthony Hopkins – The Father Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Gary Oldman – Mank Steven Yeun – Minari Best Female Actor In A Leading Role Amy Adams –...
After two months off, things are finally starting to return to normal, at least in terms of the awards race. Earlier this morning, we had the nominations for the Golden Globes, and almost immediately we have to turn around for the 27th Screen...
I hope you’re all ready for the beginning of awards season, because it’s time for the 78th Golden Globe Awards. Now, normally I provide you all with an up-to-date live update of the process, posting the nominees immediately as...
Tomorrow morning, the nominations for the 78th Golden Globe Awards will officially kick off awards season. With the critical preseason from last month so firmly supporting the same three films (one of which will only be competing in television...
One of Hollywood’s (and especially late 80s-early 90s Hollywood) most tragic stories came to an end earlier today as Dustin Diamond, aka Screech from the hit children’s show Saved By The Bell, passed away at the age of 44, following a short...
Telling a story well can really work as a salve to all sorts of issues. After all, there’s really only ten archetypes of stories, and most of them have been told in every possible way (look at Hallmark, if you need any proof). So it’s up to a...
You know, I gotta hand it to Adam Wingard and the team at Warner Bros. While the last trailers in the Monsterverse (or whatever it’s calling itself) have relied on a weird amount of mystery and buildup to their big reveals, they seem to know...
2020 is finally dead and buried, and it’s time to look ahead to a new year. In terms of theaters, 2021 is an optimistic time, with delayed 2020 films finally ready to see the light of day. And even with the pandemic still ongoing, and studios...
There are very few documentary styles that drive me up the wall more than the “tell things we already know as if it’s a revelatory discovery” genre. A documentary is a look inside a subject where most audiences lack insight, whether historically...
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