Venice has seen its profile rise in recent years after successfully launching a series of major Oscar winners. Such collateral...
Read moreRapturously received at yesterday’s press screening, French director / Palme d’Or winner Jacques Audiard’s hybrid western THE SISTERS BROTHERS is...
Read moreEarlier this year, an outstanding film about conversion therapy starring Chloe Moretz premiered at Sundance. Desiree Akhavan's The Miseducation of...
Read moreIt’s hard to get to Telluride. It’s harder to leave. I still have one more day of screenings to go...
Read more"Kusama, like Kidman, is not afraid to taxi to the dark side of human nature, and equally unafraid of hard...
Read more"An expanded, intellectualized retelling of a popular witch tale that actually tries to give each of its nasty scares a...
Read moreFor all of its modern technology and progress, America has continued to live in the clutches of its puritanical roots...
Read more"Even though actors live forever on screen, their past selves preserved in golden amber, sooner or later we have to...
Read moreAnd into Oscar territory, we go. With The Favourite, Roma and First Man all having screened at Venice, we'll hear...
Read more"There’s just no two ways about it: this movie is transcendent."
Read moreAlfonso Cuaron's rivetting Roma has bowed at the Venice Film Festival to rave reviews. Set in Mexico City, it is...
Read moreTelluride has, per tradition, announced its lineup. I will roll into Telluride later today to get the full schedule and...
Read more"FIRST MAN chronicles nearly a decade of work that went into accomplishing something that, even when you think about it...
Read moreBattered by wildfires and heat waves all summer, Los Angeles County is now blanketed with a cloud layer, dropping the...
Read moreIf the last ten years is any indication, we will find (or will have already seen) our Best Picture winner...
Read moreWe always knew that it was going to be a big year for Venice. The changing landscape of Oscar campaigning...
Read moreEvery year the Oscar season seems to be getting longer. While it might have once seemed silly to talk about...
Read moreThe 4th Annual Mammoth Lakes Film Fest kicked off this Memorial Day weekend with screenings of features and shorts. It...
Read more"I loved SHOPLIFTERS. It’s wonderfully made and says something about us humans that’s incredibly insightful and true. It’s the only...
Read more"While not being an issue-driven film, BURNING is simply a brilliantly written, directed, acted, shot and scored piece of work...
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