We thought it might be fun to take some time to explain this crazy game called the Oscar race --...
Read moreOscar pundits tend to place certain movies in certain categories, most notably the "frontrunner" and the "scrappy underdog that could."...
Read moreAll this and the Oscars Too podcast is back this week with a rumination on the complex Best Actor and...
Read moreThe Oscar race is not quite finished with the "film festival" phase. London, New York are almost finished. Next month,...
Read moreThe Boys in the Boat has been shrouded in secrecy, with scant few images or screenings on offer. The release...
Read moreThe HFPA have done everything that's been demanded of them to comply, to repair their image, to do bylaws, DEI...
Read moreThe dirty little secret about the Oscar game is that there is no such thing as a "frontrunner." Oh, we...
Read moreThe last big festival of the year is the AFI Film Fest. It is well positioned to push some films...
Read moreIndiewire reports that The Killer will be added to NYFF's slate, screening on October 14 at 7pm at the Paris...
Read moreThe ongoing actors strike is preventing the publicity machine for Killers of the Flower Moon. Imagine having a movie coming...
Read moreWith the actors and writers still on strike, we pundits kind of have the room to ourselves. There are no...
Read moreWinner: American Fiction First runner-up: The Holdovers Second runner-up: The Boy and the Heron Full list from Indiewire: People’s Choice...
Read moreEvery so often, I see a pundit push a film that isn't "in the conversation" but could potentially still be...
Read moreNow that Telluride and Venice have concluded, some things have changed, others have stayed the same. The biggest shake-up is...
Read moreJeff Nichols was obsessed with a series of photographs of bikers in a book of photography called The Bikeriders by...
Read moreIf there is a dark horse in this race right now, my money is on Taika Waititi's Next Goal Wins....
Read moreAnd if a double-decker bus crashes into us To die by your side is such a heavenly way to die...
Read moreAlexander Payne's films tend to focus on people who think more highly of themselves, or so it seems to everyone...
Read moreI haven't had time to write a full review of Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, but its place...
Read moreHere is the teaser for Michael Mann's Ferarri, a Christmas release: https://youtu.be/KZHxT2yb2cE?si=PbbiTyjqxWdvVac9 It is the summer of 1957. Behind the...
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