Becoming a Best Picture frontrunner means fighting off continual attacks that will either sink it (Boyhood) or fail to sink...
Read moreI used to think that the reason there weren’t films like Bonnie and Clyde or Midnight Cowboy or A Clockwork...
Read moreDuring out latest podcastof Oscar Poker, Jeff Wells and I contemplated the idea that this could be a year where...
Read moreWhen this website first began its grand experiment of cracking the code of why some films make it into the...
Read moreHope springs eternal when there are so many options for Best Picture before the Big Oscar Movies hit. A recent...
Read moreThe Oscar race could be flipped this year to feature films about important women doing important things, which would be...
Read moreIt is always disappointing to see great films hit Cannes only to lose momentum by the time they hit the...
Read more"And now, perhaps, three times in four years. Poor Harvey Weinstein. The appalling “Honor the Man — Honor the Film”...
Read morePeople happen to us. They step in front of us, the stand behind us, they tower over us, they love...
Read more“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of...
Read moreThe Oscar race feels as disconnected from American culture than it has ever been. The discussion of film awards has...
Read moreThe Best Picture race has just got a little more interesting. Where Boyhood still has the lead, it has two...
Read moreThe Academy has a problem. It's a big problem. It's a problem that is hurting American film, dividing movielovers from...
Read more“America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the...
Read more"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was...
Read moreThis year’s Best Picture race is wide open except for the film right at the top of the list and...
Read moreThe Oscar race for Best Picture looks a little like the shelves at Kmart after a Black Monday sale. The...
Read moreNow that the critics have mostly laid out their own chosen films for the year, the separation between industry and...
Read moreAva DuVernay made history today becoming the first black female director nominated for a Golden Globe Award. While it was...
Read moreThe first thing you have to know about the SAG nominations is that this isn't an example of lack...
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