If the Best Directior category this year is to fill up with big names, many of them won't appear until...
Read moreOne of the constant themes between the readers of this site and me is whether pixar's breakout hit, Inside Out,...
Read moreTwo films coming out this year deal with getting the story out to the public. Both deal with the press...
Read moreUPDATE: Steve Carell not going into supporting, but lead Best Actor Update: Now that Steve Carell is entering the lead...
Read moreCary Fukunaga's Beasts of No Nation faces many obstacles before even getting close to the Oscar race. Chief among...
Read moreThe good news is that we could possibly see four screenplays written by women nominated in the writing categories. Phyllis...
Read moreAs Sasha wrote earlier, the team behind Love & Mercy are pulling out all the stops, it is Awards Season...
Read moreIn Telluride many people were saying that Beasts of No Nation, easily one of the best - if not the...
Read moreOn the surface, and many simpleminded (mostly male, let's face it) critics will tell you, John Crowley's Brooklyn is an...
Read moreI was unable to attend last night's gathering of journalists and Academy members to listen to Brian Wilson perform Beach...
Read moreWe don’t really know where we’re headed. Scientists, politicians, preachers, teachers and the rest of us out there in dark...
Read moreGold Derby's Daniel Montgomery is reporting that David O. Russell's Joy will compete as a drama at the Globes, which...
Read moreIn his adaptation of Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, Aaron Sorkin did the unthinkable. He turns the story of...
Read moreThis week's Oscar predictions have folded in Steven Spielberg's moody meditation on the Cold War, carefully and meticulously directed as...
Read moreThough it came out at Sundance, then skipped Telluride, Brooklyn's screening at the New York Film Festival sent the quietly...
Read moreScene One: A few Oscar bloggers were at an event in Santa Barbara. One said, "I hear that movie is...
Read moreMy 17 year-old daughter goes to a school that prides itself on its social justice agenda. Gay couples can walk...
Read moreIn what I would consider Tom Hooper's most ambitious and successful film to date, newcomer Alicia Vikander has given one...
Read moreTwo big movies hit the Oscar race this week. Ridley Scott’s wildly entertaining crowdpleaser, The Martian and Steven Spielberg’s contemplative,...
Read moreThe Oscars are like a tree. Anne Thompson's theory about building a Best Picture contender "branch by branch" is spot...
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