‘Halloween’ and a Scarily Early Look at the Tumultuous 2019 Drama Series Emmy Race
The opening music to the Water Cooler Podcast clues you in to one of our main topics this week. David ...
Hitchcockian ‘Homecoming’ TV Show is as Bingeable as Podcast It Came From
Amazon has produced many award-winning comedies, like Transparent, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and Mozart in the Jungle, but with Homecoming, ...
Middleburg Film Festival -Stan & Ollie and Round Two of Widows
Okay, so now that the embargo for Stan & Ollie has lifted, here goes. As with most festivals, teasers suggested ...
Middleburg Film Festival: Day Two – A Private War, Stan & Ollie and Boy Erased
And we are off! Day two of the Middleburg Film Festival. As the first full day, it was going to ...
Predictions Friday: You’d Think that People Would Have Had Enough of Silly Love Songs
Love stories are more popular with the Academy than people might think. Although it always seems like there has to ...
The 6th Annual Middleburg Film Festival Returns With Roma As Its Opening Night Film
There’s something so wonderful about attending the Middleburg Film Festival each year. This is the third year I’ve been covering ...
Paul Greengrass Returns To His Roots With 22 July
There is a certain aesthetic one expects from a Paul Greengrass film. 22 July doesn’t veer far from his signature ...
Glenn Close, Hugh Jackman and Damien Chazelle on Tap for Hollywood Film Awards
The Hollywood Reporter announced that the notorious Hollywood Film Awards will hand out their top honors to The Wife's Glenn ...
First Reformed, The Favourite Lead the 28th Annual Gotham Awards
First the good news - that Paul Schrader's First Reformed comes in with three - Feature, Screenplay and Actor for ...
‘The Conners’ Proves That ‘Roseanne’ Never Relied On Its Star, But Its Characters
Roseanne Barr is gone from her titular series, but that doesn't mean The Conners are lost without her. Don't let ...
Critics Mostly Go Their Own Way When It Comes to Acting Awards
The next phase of the awards race will be the critics awards. As is almost always the case, they will ...
Critics Choice Announces Doc Nominees
Somehow this slipped past my radar yesterday. The BFCA announced their documentary nominations - which, like their film and television ...
Masterpiece/BBC Releases New Stills from ‘Les Miserables’
It feels like a strange thing to say, but Olivia Colman couldn't be any hotter right now. I really love ...
Podcast Alert – All this and the Oscars Too
The first hour of the podcast is devoted to First Man, which we all now have seen, and the second ...
First Man and the Trump Effect – Is Our Partisan Politics Impacting Oscar Ratings and Box Office?
It came as a shock to the Academy that their ratings for the 2018 broadcast were the lowest of the ...
Saulnier’s Dire, Remarkable, Hold The Dark
I’m not sure if the cult of Jeremy Saulnier will grow exponentially with Hold The Dark, but I’m quite certain ...
A Star Is Born Becomes Titanic, Too Big to Fail and Official Oscar Frontrunner for Best Picture
I resisted the urge to call A Star Is Born the frontrunner. I guess I did this because I've been ...
‘First Man,’ First Female ‘Genius,’ and a First Look at the 2019 Comedy Emmy Race
“Whitey on the Moon” opens the podcast. That must mean we're talking about Damien Chazelle’s First Man. Opening in third ...
Interview: Ethan Tobman On Creating Nic Sheff’s Bedroom and The World of Beautiful Boy
Beautiful Boy is a brutally honest film about Nic Sheff (Timothée Chalamet) who falls headlong into a recurring cycle of ...
Interview: Timothee Chalamet and Steve Carell talk about family, addiction, and recovery in Beautiful Boy
Director Felix Van Groeningen has adapted two memoirs -- by father and son David and Nic Sheff -- into his ...