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Stillwater Might Actually Be a Film For Everyone
A while back Matt Damon did something no one else in Hollywood, or those that cover Hollywood, films or the...
Predictions Friday – Best Actor and Best Picture
Looking back on last year, despite everything, had we been thinking with a clearer head it would have been more...
Best Picture – Why We Still Need Male Heroes
Movies, like everything else, can serve many different purposes at once. Some of them are meant to mirror back our...
Nicolas Cage Becomes Wrath in the New Trailer for Pig
As readers of this site know, or maybe know, or probably don't know - there is a special place in...
Trailer: ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Will Be Found in Theaters This September
Best Actor Watch: Matt Damon in Stillwater
Tom McCarthy's Stillwater will open this Summer. It stars Matt Damon and Abigail Breslin. Here is the trailer. https://youtu.be/9cq1lPPeMUY
The Case for… Sir Anthony Hopkins – ‘The Father’ of All Fathers
How fortunate are we, the movie loving public, and Academy members to have in 2021, five male performances as rich...
SAG Preview – It’s Time for the Actors To Ring In and Contest!
The next major guild event is the SAG award boradcast, which will be take place virtually on April 4th. So...
Tahar Rahim On His Emotionally Devastating Performance in ‘The Mauritanian’
Tahar Rahim first broke onto the international cinema scene with his award-winning performance in Jacques Audiard's A Prophet. Since that...
FYC: Chadwick Boseman in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
I had to sit with Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom for a while after viewing it the Friday it was released....
Best Actor – Once in a (too short) Lifetime vs. Everyone Else
For much of Oscar history, Best Actor has been the strongest driver of Best Picture next to Best Director. Most...
Eli Goree On How Cassius Clay’s Swagger is Like Jay-Z’s for ‘One Night in Miami…’
The opening moments of Regina King's One Night Miami... show us Cassius Clay in the ring. He is nearing the...
Best Actor, Supporting Actor Watch: Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci in Supernova
Supernova looks to be another in a long line of great acting performances by both Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci....
Under the Radar: Ben Affleck Quietly Gives the Performance of His Career in The Way Back
The Oscar race can sometimes leave the best performances and films behind. That's because the Oscar race is less about...
2020 Has Its First Rock Solid Frontrunner in Chadwick Boseman
Last night, Netflix and the AFI Film Fest screened George C. Wolfe's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom -- based on the...
Predictions Friday – Best Actor and How it Anchors Best Picture
Best Actor is often the strongest link to Best Picture in the Oscar race. The reason...
Delroy Lindo Submitted as Lead for Da 5 Bloods
Delroy Lindo will apparently be submitted as lead rather than supporting, according to Clayton Davis at Variety. Netflix has many...
Jonathan Pryce on Becoming Pope Francis for Netflix’s ‘The Two Popes’
I first became aware of Jonathan Pryce thanks to his legendary performance as The Engineer in the musical Miss Saigon. He received...
The Case for… Jonathan Pryce in ‘The Two Popes’
When I first saw the trailer for Netflix's The Two Popes, I wasn't particularly encouraged. I felt the streaming network...
The Transformative Gifts of Christian Bale
In Ford v Ferrari, Christian Bale plays Ken Miles, one of the best driver's in racing history. Bale dives deeply...
