Gold Derby has Best Actor divided between Casey Affleck for Manchester by the Sea and Denzel Washington for Fences, with Joel Edgerton as a third possible option for the race that still has no official frontrunner. Before the Fences trailer dropped, no one was really sure what to expect from Washington. Now that we’ve seen the trailer we’re guessing he’ll …
Sasha saw Moonlight this morning in Telluride and we’ll have her review online momentarily. In the meantime, here’s a look at what other critics are saying: Benjamin Lee‘s 5-star rev…
We get a slightly broader idea of the theme (that rules don’t apply to the characters) and the tone (love story) of Warren Beatty’s Rules Don’t Apply. Is this a love triangle with Lily Collins choosing between older shut in Howard Hughes and young handsome driver? Perhaps.
La La Land starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling is heading to the Middleburg Film Festival. Damien Chazelle’s romantic musical has been announced as the centerpiece film and will screen on Saturday night with Chazelle in attendance. The festival will open with Lion starring Dev Patel, Rooney Mara and Nicole Kidman. The film is based on the true story of …
We haven’t had such a heated Best Actress contest in a while. The two strongest performances at the moment are Emma Stone in La La Land and Natalie Portman in Jackie. The energy and buzz around the Oscar race wants it to be down to these two for whatever reason — probably because both are beloved movie stars with their …
by Stephen Holt I feel like I’ve been going to the essential and awesome New York Film Festival ever since I can remember, hardly missing a year, and legendary French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier has been making films longer than that. His epic documentary “My Journey Through French Cinema” a three-hour fifteen-minute effort is a monumental achievement by any standard, and …
There is a line in a Bob Dylan song about Gregory Peck, standing in line just to see him in any movie. Denzel Washington is that actor for me. I’ll see him in anything, so I’ll stand in line. The Tony Award winning, Pulitzer prize winning play Fences really needed just the rights to see it through to the big …
The greatest year for actresses continues with this new trailer for 20th Century Women. Annette Bening is the matriarch in what seems to be a coming of age story amid Jimmy Carter’s presidency. Two young women, Greta Gerwig and Elle Fanning are growing up and learning about life. That Jimmy Carter speech at the beginning was way ahead of its …
In 2012, there were two films by African American filmmakers about the African American experience that were up for Oscar consideration. One was Lee Daniels’ The Butler about the life of the black butler who worked in the White House for 30 years under four US presidents, and one was Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station, about an unarmed black citizen who …
Variety’s Brent Lang reports that Martin Scorsese’s Silence, produced by Gaston Pavlovich of Fabrica de Cine, with get a December 23 release date. We’ve all been factoring in Silence in our predictions because it’s Martin Scorsese. I’m just going to go ahead and call him the greatest living film director. I don’t think there is anyone who tops him, at …
Focus Features launched a new TV spot ahead of the first Presidential debate to show how the Lovings’ story and every voice matters. Loving is based on the true life story and relationship between Richard and Mildred Loving, who married and spent the next nine years fighting for the right to live together in their hometown. Their case, Loving v. …
“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States…” The trailer for Ava DuVernay’s 13th has been released by Netflix. The documentary which was produced and directed by Ava DuVernay explores the 13th Amendment to the Constitution and explores the evolution of mass incarceration …
Podcast: 20/20 Hindsight on the 2016 Emmy Awards Sunday marked the end of the 2016 Emmy Awards season with the 68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards. We asked Jalal Haddad to join us to review the ceremon…
