Now that Telluride is all the way over, Venice is almost over and Toronto is in full swing, the Oscar...
Read moreSteven Spielberg, Hilary Swank and Mel Gibson appear in this featurette for Eastwood. One of the ways Hollywood and the...
Read moreMike Mills' C'Mon C'Mon premiered at Telluride to good word of mouth. Variety's Clayton Davis called it the "best screenplay...
Read moreFrom Adam McKay -- Don't Look Up, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill. Seems fairly obvious what...
Read moreThe Telluride festival ended far too soon. There is always that mixture of "I want to go home" and "I...
Read moreI never realized just how important Jane Campion has been to my own life until yesterday. Netflix was having a...
Read moreAnd we'll walk down the avenue again And we'll sing all the songs from way back when And we'll walk...
Read moreTHE AUTOMAT (d. Lisa Hurwitz, U.s., 2021) BECOMING COUSTEAU (d. Liz Garbus, U.S., 2021) BELFAST (d. Kenneth Branagh, U.K., 2021)...
Read moreIn just a few days, several prominent films will roll out at Venice and then at Telluride. Venice is getting...
Read moreIn the wake of the Globes' being canceled there was a Darwinian power grab to take their place. It was sort...
Read moreThere are two ways films can win Best Picture, or have won Best Picture in the past. One is with...
Read moreIf you've been reading this site for a long time (long enough for my baby daughter I had when OscarWatch...
Read moreMost of us barely survived 2020. Of all of the things COVID took away, movie theaters have ranked up there...
Read moreThe time is closing in on the festival season, which is really where the Oscar race for Best Picture is...
Read moreAs we edge ever so closely to the 100th year of the Oscars, we find ourselves at a crossroads. How...
Read moreJust in time for Oscar season, Clint Eastwood's western Cry Macho will land September 17. https://youtu.be/bZt44SflpNs I can promise...
Read moreThe Gothams have announced they will take away Best Actor and Best Actress and replace it with one gender-neutral prize...
Read moreBack in 1961 people still went to the movies. It wasn't that it was the best year for film, or...
Read moreWhen you hear someone call something "McCarthyism" what they really mean is the "Red Scare" that inspired McCarthyism. The panic...
Read moreThe Oscar race, as we've come to know it by now, is about to get its ingredients together on the...
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