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"I've been really happy with the reception and it keeps going and going. I've not had a day off for so long." Sean Baker says of the buzz surrounding The Florida Project. Swept up in the crest of its success, he has not had a moment to…

There aren't many movies this year that help to carve a path towards a better future for humanity, but somehow Alexander Payne's Downsizing does just that. It deceptively forces us to examine a life built on materialism, where we would do…

Throughout last year's presidential election, my friend and I would spend our mornings on the phone fretting about Donald Trump winning the presidency. We knew he would win, or thought he would, feared he would. She believed he would win…

This is a year of great ensemble work across the board. Often SAG voters will look at the bold names and be more familiar with them, which means they remember and admire their work in previous films, which is why films with many well-known…

He has won six Emmys, two Golden Globes, and an Oscar. The man who wrote The West Wing, A Few Good Men, MoneyBall and The Social Network now makes his directorial debut in Molly's Game. His phenomenal screenplays have been directed by names…

Why it Might Win: The Florida Project is a heartbreaker of a film. Filmed in cinema verite style, with the non-judgmental eye of its director, Sean Baker, the film follows around a young scrapper named Moonee (an excellent Brooklynn…

This is the first of an analysis of films that are in the conversation for Best Picture of the Year. Why Lady Bird Might Win Best Picture Lady Bird enters the awards race from the sweet spot of Telluride. It is repped by the same team…

It often feels like there is nothing Saoirse Ronan can’t do. One of the finest actors working today, the 23-year-old artist has already earned two well-deserved Academy Award nominations (for Atonement in 2007 and Brooklyn in 2015), owned a…

Someday we'll look back on 2017 with wonderment as the year that Kathryn Bigelow, Sofia Coppola, Patty Jenkins, Greta Gerwig, Valerie Faris, and Dee Rees all directed formidable films. We'll also find it staggering that there were so many…

For her solo directorial debut, Greta Gerwig delves deep into the emotional complications of mother-daughter relationship. Lady Bird has been resonating with audiences everywhere who have fallen in love with the ambitious teenager who is…

Music Producer Quincy Jones and Colleen Camp hosted a special evening in Hollywood celebrating the new film Mudbound. A reception attended by cast and crew followed a screening of the new film from director Dee Rees. The film illustrates…

Kevin Spacey has been cut from Ridley Scott's upcoming All the Money in the World. A whole trailer was cut, footage was filmed. Now, Christopher Plummer will do the reshoots in hopes of a seamless lift off on December 22.  Spacey's career…

Matthew Jensen has a distinguished reputation in the realm of fantasy and graphic novels. His credits include Game of Thrones and Fantastic Four -- but Wonder Woman was different. This was a story that was set in World War I, but it's far…

Sam Rockwell is in LA for the premiere of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. The film is winning rave reviews, and earning praise for Rockwell's performance as a racist Missouri cop, garnering Best Supporting Actor buzz. It's not…

PTA did an interview with Entertainment Weekly and gave some juice tidbits about Phantom Thread (how excited are you for this?) How long have you been toying with this idea? It’s very new. It’s a new idea, really within the past few…

Twitter can be disorienting for Oscar watchers if you follow a handful of biased, overly enthusiastic types who can lead you astray when it comes to knowing what a consensus of industry voters will do, as opposed to what a handful of…

It’s hard enough to lure a hanging dog out of bed at any hour of the morning, although to be fair the one next to me was remarkably willing to greet the day in spite of their drink-diminished sleep. Friday is bar night for my boyfriend…

As we head towards the first phase of the critics awards, in a wide open year, pundits and Oscarwatchers will be desperate to glom onto any big clue that will tell them where this race is headed, specifically for Best Picture. It will seem…

I loved the Disaster Artist before I ever even watched The Room, believe it or not. I found the characters compelling, the idea hilarious and if you live here in Los Angeles, not that out of the realm of what people do out here to get…

Lady Bird was one of the favorites in Telluride. It should do very well with critics heading into the season, I will predict that it earns at least one major prize from the New York Film critics, if not Best Picture and Best Director then…