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Top Six Factors That Prompted Evolution in the Best Picture Race and the Hard Choices the Academy, and Those Who Cover Them, Must Make
The first thing to know is that it's not all bad. In fact, there is much to celebrate about the...
Interview: Ray Mansfield On How Jordan Peele Pitched Blackkklansman To Spike Lee
As Blackkklansman opens in cinemas this week, prepare for it to strike hard and become a prominent touchstone -- not...
Oscar Season Officially Launched as Spike, A Star is Born Cover Mags
TIME Magazine has Spike Lee and BlackKklansman, which will open on Friday, while EW has A Star is Born. Both...
Review: BlacKkKlansman. It’s The One Film of 2018 That You Must See
This Friday Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman will arrive in cinemas and it's going to be talked about right through Oscar season....
Paul Schrader’s First Reformed Woke Me Up at 3 AM to Think About Its Ending
Spoiler alert: Paul Schrader’s First Reformed has a killer of an ending. It’s hard to talk about without spoiling it...
The Brilliant Eighth Grade to Offer Free Screenings Across the Country
The studio A24 wants to let the right ones in to see the truly great Eighth Grade, a movie every...
Barry Jenkins Shares New Trailer For If Beale Street Could Talk on James Baldwin’s Birthday
Director Barry Jenkins teased the first trailer for his new film If Beale Street Could Talk based on the novel...
Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade Sets the Bar High Heading into Oscar Season
"And those of us with ravaged faces Lacking in the social graces Desperately remained at home Inventing lovers on the...
Oscar Journos Make a Pitch for the Academy to Recognize Mission Impossible
Several prominent Oscar journos have been pushing for the Academy to finally recognize the Mission Impossible series, but more importantly,...
The State of the Race: Oscar Season Arrives at Last Amid Peak Anxiety, Toronto, and the Venice-Telluride One-Two Punch
“Keep an eye on that recessive male,” writes Deadline’s Michael Cieply at Deadline, looking for a broad plotline that might...
Mike Leigh’s Peterloo Teaser Trailer
Mike Leigh's Peterloo is coming out at just the right time amid global protests against our American and British governments....
Toronto Announces Lineup – First Man, A Star is Born, Widows Among the Titles
Toronto just announced what will likely be part of what shapes the upcoming Oscar race. There are quite a...
Set Photos Emerge from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
The always resourceful Just Jared has posted pics from the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood set and of course...
Damien Chazelle’s First Man to Open 75th Venice Film Festival
Every year the Oscar season seems to be getting longer. While it might have once seemed silly to talk about...
Granik’s Leave No Trace and the Transformative Power of Cinema
There is a scene in Debra Granik’s remarkable, unmissable film "Leave No Trace" where a young girl learns about bees....
Timothee Chalamet in the Mountains of Colorado? Michael Patterson Says Maybe
For years now, my good pal and troublesome Telluride attendee Michael Patterson, has been predicting what might show up at...
New Trailer for Timothee Chalamet in Beautiful Boy
Timothee Chalamet and Steve Carell star in Amazon's Beautiful Boy, about the lifelong struggle with addiction. The film is going...
Leonardo DiCaprio Posts First Look at Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. DiCaprio posted the photo on his...
Paul Schrader’s First Reformed Tops AwardsDaily’s First Half of the Year Critics Poll
by Jordan Ruimy Paul Schrader's "First Reformed" is the best movie of the year so far, followed closely by Ari...
Best Picture – An Early Look at the Landscape
The Oscar race will be a strange one this year. In some respects it will be business as usual, as...
Academy Reverses Its Decision and Will Air All 24 Categories on Air
The Academy has capitulated on all of their own proposals to shorten the Oscar broadcast and boost ratings: the host,...
Predictions Friday — Last Looks Before Tuesday’s Ballot Deadline
This grim and fretful Oscar season, which should be much more of a celebration than the fear and panic in...
Berlin Dispatch – Will Win / Should Win
So here we are, all 16 films in competition at the 69th Berlinale have screened. By all accounts it’s...
Pen15’s Dallas Liu on the Novelty of AOL Instant Messenger, Working Opposite 30-Year-Old Teenagers
Megan McLachlan chats IRL with Pen15 actor Dallas Liu about technology in 2000 versus 2019, auditioning for the Hulu series,...
Mike Carlsen On Saying Goodbye to Mikey Politano
With the end of Netflix's Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Mike Carlsen looks back fondly on playing the lovable Mikey Politano. I...
Interview: How Sekinah Brown Created The Look Of What Men Want
It's a man's world when it comes to sports and sports agencies and costume designer Sekinah Brown was tasked with...
‘Killing Eve’ Knows You’re Obsessed, So Here’s a Trailer!
The second season debuts on April 7. Not. Soon. Enough. What a great Valentine! The first look at the second...
Writers Guild Preview + Contest — Why the WGA Might Decide the Best Picture Race … Or Not
In the era of the expanded ballot, screenplay honors have been tied more closely to Best Picture than even a...
A Last Bid for A Star Is Born
At last week’s Santa Barbara Film Festival Paul Schrader praised Lady Gaga in A Star Is Born calling her “a...
Berlin Dispatch – So Long, My Son / Vanishing Days
The final competition film at the 69th Berlinale, Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai’s sprawling family drama SO LONG, MY SON, screened...