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Trailer for the Trial of the Chicago 7 Drops
Arriving just in time to a divided country in a time of strife, Aaron Sorkin's hard-hitting drama from his own...
Beautiful New Trailer for Dune Drops
After much anticipation, the Dune trailer is finally here. https://youtu.be/6r-WSSbKUC8 Check out the official Dune Trailer starring Timothée Chalamet and...
Teaser for Nomadland Hints at mood
Searchlight has dropped a teaser for Chloe Zhao's Nomadland that matches the only stills available for the film, along with...
First Look at David Fincher’s Glorious New Feature, Mank
Netflix Film dropped images from David Fincher's upcoming film (to be released in October), Mank. The cast is, as we...
Oscar Flashback – When Citizen Kane Didn’t Win Best Picture
If you've been following along on my podcast memoir that I've been doing in fits and starts over at goldtripping.com,...
Sofia Coppola and Bill Murray are Back with ‘On the Rocks’
The last time Sofia Coppola and Bill Murray worked together it was for Lost in Translation, a film about a...
The State of the Race – Oscar Frontrunners If This Was an Ordinary Year
If this was an ordinary year, we'd be half-way to Venice and Telluride right now. We'd be gathering our ideas...
The Academy Announces Big News – Best Picture Goes Back to Ten and Why That’s a Good Thing
The Academy, under the new Board of Governors, announced what they hope will be sweeping changes to address problems of...
From Do the Right Thing to Selma, How Black Filmmakers Speak to The Moment of Right Now
It's hard not to look at what's happening right now and not think about Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing...
Hello Darkness My Old Friend — Parasite’s Win Could Mean the End of Feel Good Winners
Now the smoke has cleared, many are still shocked that a movie as good, as twisted, and as dark as...
Predictions Friday – It Will All Be Over Soon
You learn a lot when you cover the Oscar race for twenty years. You learn things about the way a...
Best Picture — Understanding the Preferential Ballot and the History of Split Votes
In 2017, I was one of the few pundits who took a chance and predicted Moonlight to beat La La...
The Case for … The Best Best Picture
The Oscar year started at Cannes, when Bong Joon Ho's Parasite won the Palme d'Or. Already renowned for his ability...
The State of the Race: What the BAFTAs Tell Us, and What They Don’t
Last night, the BAFTAs showed that they did not want to spread the wealth and instead went all in with...
The Beauty of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
It's the one that got away. There are those movies every year that will go down in film history as...
When Foreign Language Films Almost Won Oscars … and Why They Didn’t
The two foreign language films that I know of in the era I've been covering the Oscar race that came...
Predictions Friday – The BAFTAs Are Coming! The BAFTAs Are Coming! And Always Too Soon!
Big Studios Showed Up This Year, Critics Barely Noticed
The big studios have taken a lot of heat for focusing so much on tentpoles designed to excite shareholders, while...
London Film Critics Circle Names ‘Parasite’ and Bong Joon Ho Best of 2019
The London Film Critics Circle announced their winners. They gave Foreign Language to Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Screenwriter...
‘1917’ Would be the First Epic to Win Best Picture in 16 Years
The cliché about Oscar voters is that they like sweeping epics (e.g., Out of Africa, Forrest Gump, Schindler's List, Braveheart,...