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People Mag has an exclusive first look pic of Marion Cotillard and Brad Pitt in Allied, which is a romance/thriller/WWII drama. Not much else is known about it but since it's Robert Zemeckis as the director there will likely be…

The season is nearly upon us! In just a few short weeks, Telluride, Venice, Toronto - oh my. Oscar season will compete with an unusually compelling election season. Themes might intertwine or not. Jimmy Fallon is hosting the Golden Globes…

How do you solve the problem when having some of the best films of the year are either made for television or a genre that are not what Oscar voters are more comfortable with? You can't really solve it, actually. You have to accept it.…

Two Phillip Roth books set for release this year. James Schamus' excellent Indignation, which is a film everyone must see, and now, Ewan McGregor's feature debut, American Pastoral.  They both dwell deeply in Roth land - beautiful women,…

Our friend Tomris on Twitter figured out that it's possible LaLa Land will be or could be headed to Telluride because it's listed as "Canadian Premiere" in Canada. Michael Patterson, of course, was all over this and beat me to the punch.…

This pic, starring Eddie Redmayne, looks like another Harry Potter of sorts but original enough to stand alone.

This image does not try to sugarcoat what this film is about, as there should be no sugar coating of our American history. The poster debuted exclusively on Tidal then made its way around the web.

While it's true that there are similarities between 1968 and 2016, there is no question that there was far more unrest and violence in the streets than now. What's surprising, though, is how little has really changed since then. Donald…

It's been a while since we've heard from Warren Beatty, either as an actor or as a director. The last film he directed was Bulworth in 1998. This is the film that people have been referring to as the "Howard Hughes movie" and it looks like…

Birth of a Nation is Exceptional, Bold and Refined, says Kris Tapley, writing about the recent police shootings, Black Lives Matter and the police shooting in Dallas and how Nate Parker's film echoes buried and unburied tensions. Tapley…

I can't wait to see Mira Nair's new film Queen of Katwe. It is among one my highly anticipated. Did I mention that? David Oyelowo and Lupita Nyong'o are bringing their names to help draw attention to this important story about a young…

The very talented Jeff Nichols has two films out this year. Midnight Special (which you can see on VOD right now) and Loving, which was one of the big surprises and highly buzzed films at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Here is a first…

We spent much time discussing the preferential ballot as the unprecedented Oscar race came to a close last year. Three very different films won top honors from three of the major guilds last year. The consensus of Oscar predictors believed…

Bleecker Street's Anthropoid will tell a similar story to the one the Weinstein Co is rolling out, HHhH, except for one key difference, as far as I can tell: one is based on historical fiction and the other hews more closely to the truer…

Disney has released the one sheet for Beauty and the Beast, Bill Condon's live action musical slated for March, 2017, and starring Emma Watson, Kevin Kline and Josh Gad.

My friend Michael Patterson at Michael's Telluride blog, where he tracks potential Telluride picks, was talking about the upcoming HHhH and we're wondering what it would be, what it might be, what it could be without really knowing as yet.…

Many were wondering what Sully was going to be about since the saved landing was so short. Here is a better idea of the whole movie will be about - Sully and his battle with people looking to question his record and heroism.

Around the web, various film critics are assembling their lists of 10 best for the BBC's Best of the Century list. I tried to put together one but I found 10 was too limiting. So I put down 20. I would be curious to see what you all think…

The best films I've seen this year you could count on one hand. Critics who attended Sundance and Cannes will no doubt have a much broader and complete idea of the Oscar contenders so far, but of those already released in theaters and out…

A24's The Witch is easily the best film of 2016 so far, as was announced by AD's editor Ryan Adams in an email to me earlier today. Since we've not yet seen any of the films out of Cannes, we'll have to leave those aside for now and instead…