Newport Beach, CA (October 25, 2021) – On Sunday the Newport Beach Film Festival celebrated eight honorees and four of Variety’s Top Ten...
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Read moreBelfast opened the 2021 SCAD Savannah Film Festival, which returned to in-person screenings this year. During the opening night of...
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Read moreWhen 12-time Academy Award nominee Diane Warren first saw Four Good Days, a drug addiction drama starring Mila Kunis and...
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Read moreThe male protagonist, especially the American male protagonist, is having a moment. As I was recording my latest episode of...
Read moreEven in the strange times we're living through right now, with the Oscar race and everything else, there are movies...
Read moreYes, I know, technically eligibility for the 2022 Emmy season started June 1, 2021. Yet, honestly, it's incredibly rare for...
Read moreEntering his fourth decade of filmmaking, director Todd Haynes has only eight narrative features to his name. The Velvet Underground,...
Read moreRemember, there isn't really an Oscar race now. Rather, there is a pretend Oscar race. There is a lot of...
Read moreJust a short teaser released ahead of the screening at AFI Fest. Trailer and more details to come. ....for the...
Read moreAFI is really the last gasp of festival season before the awards start coming down. This year's fest will take...
Read moreThere is a scene in Siân Heder’s new film CODA where a Deaf mother, played by Marlee Matlin, sits down...
Read moreHightown's Atkins Estimond opens up about playing P-Town's most notoriously dangerous drug trafficker, what life behind bars is like in...
Read moreThere was a brief moment where I thought Netflix was going to buckle and remove Dave Chappelle's The Closer from...
Read more“The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.” ― Nate Silver, The Signal and...
Read moreAfter watching Ridley Scott's The Last Duel, and having now seen both No Time to Die and Dune, I think...
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