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First Man, Roma, The Favourite Soar Out of Venice, Will Touch Down in Telluride
I've always thought the best movies inspire the best writing. The thing I most love about covering the Oscars is...
Venice Dispatch – Roma / The Favourite
The State of the Race – Don’t Get Any Premature Speculation on You
So, the lions are hungry. We just got our first cut of fresh meat, thrown down with pomp and circumstance...
Damien Chazelle’s First Man Lands In Venice
Damien Chazelle's First Man has landed at Venice to rave reviews. It's hard to believe that there's not been a...
Venice Dispatch – First Man
"FIRST MAN chronicles nearly a decade of work that went into accomplishing something that, even when you think about it...
Predictions Friday – The Oscars on the Eve of Telluride
The Oscar race has not yet begun to take shape. The new category has upended everything, or at least thrown...
Captivating New Trailer for Suspiria
Suspiria marks the third collaboration with Luca Guadagnino and Tilda Swinton. This creepy new trailer looks to be a major...
Oscar Primer: The Coming Film Festivals that Decide the Best Picture Race
If the last ten years is any indication, we will find (or will have already seen) our Best Picture winner...
Crazy Rich Asians Tops Box Office, Becomes Major Contender for Oscar’s New Category
Crazy Rich Asians is a film that, if I put on the contender tracker in previous years, most would never...
How Chi-Raq Got Spike Lee’s Groove Back
While Chi-Raq received only a limited release before moving over to Amazon, it laid down a marker. Spike Lee was...
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...
The Academy Announces New Rules for 92 Oscars – “International Feature Film” to Replace “Foreign Language” Category
The Academy has scrapped the "Foreign Language Feature Film" category title and replaced it with "International Feature Film," in their...
Composer Patrick Warren Breaks Down the Score of Showtime’s ‘The Chi’ and His Career In Music
Patrick Warren is the composer for Showtime's Peabody Award-nominated series, The Chi. While this is Warren's first gig as the head...
Trailer: First Look At Will Smith In Ang Lee’s Gemini Man
Paramount has released the new trailer for Gemini Man starring Will Smith. In the film, Smith stars as Henry Brogan,...
Zachary Levi To Host MTV Movie & TV Awards
Zachary Levi has been announced as the host of the 2019 MTV Movie & TV Awards. The ceremony will take...
Our Summer Movie Preview, Part Deux!
This week, the Cooler Gang continues their breakdown of all the major July and August 2019 summer movies in the...
2019 Emmys: Is This Finally The Year for Bob Odenkirk or Jason Bateman to Win a Lead Actor Emmy?
In all likelihood, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series is going to see a major shakeup this year. Half...
Interview: Brian Cox On Playing The Patriarch In ‘Succession’ -” Children are both a blessing and a curse and there’s nothing you can do about it.”
In HBO's Succession, Brian Cox plays Logan Roy - the family patriarch. Early on, Roy suffers a health problem and his children...
Interview: Production Designer Melanie Jones On Creating Sets For ‘The Dirt’ and ‘The Curse of La Llorona
When Melanie Jones works on horror films, she doesn't get scared, because she's in the film. She's building the sets,...
Netflix Launches ‘When They See Us’ First Trailer
When They See Us, Ava DuVernay's Central Park Five 4-part limited series, unveils its first official trailer today. The series...
Interview: Succession’s Jesse Armstrong – “It’s a Comedy of Real Life.”
I recently caught up with showrunner Jesse Armstrong to discuss creating the family dynasty The Roys for last summer's HBO...