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The State of the Race: Heading into the Thick of It in a Season of Trauma
Oscar season proper has just started. You might have noticed the For Your Consideration ads springing up. As it's been...
Nate Parker’s American Skin is One of the Year’s Best
Nate Parker was a star on the rise back in 2016. Although the country hadn’t yet felt the impact of...
The Oscars as the World Burns
It has been a long and exhausting year for America and other countries around the world. Nothing seems all that...
National Society of Film Critics Awards Nomadland and Chloe Zhao
Here are the results of the National Society of Film Critics: BEST ACTRESS: *1. Frances McDormand (Nomadland) – 46 points...
Predictions Friday: A Year of Unparalleled Black Filmmakers and Artists
In the last gasp of the 2020/2021 Oscar year, there are four films being released, and three of them will...
Trailer for Malcolm & Marie Drops
Synopsis: Writer/Director Sam Levinson teams up with Zendaya and John David Washington for an achingly romantic drama in which a...
Best Picture – Films that Reflect The Story of America in 2020
If we look close enough and listen hard enough to the films that resonate, maybe we can spot the ones...
Meet the Streamers Changing the Game in Oscars 2021
Paul Greengrass' News of the World is the lone big studio film in the Oscar race. It does what movies...
Best Director: Masters of the Small Screen
The 2020 year in film will be marked by the diversity of the offerings in the Best Director category. There...
The State of the Race: Is the Race Locked or Wide Open?
LA Film Critics Announcing
The Beautiful and the Damned – The Top Films of 2020
2020 and Everything After My life has been spent living inside movies. All of it. Once I found an escape...
President Obama Names Mank, Nomadland and Ma Rainey Among 2020’s Best
As he always does, President Obama is posting his top tens of the year. He's already done literature, and today...
Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland Leads Chicago Film Critics Association 2020 Nominations
The complete list of 2020 Chicago Film Critics Awards nominations is as follows: BEST PICTURE Da 5 Bloods First Cow...
The State of the Race – A Trial Separation Between Critics and the Oscars
If you take a look at the critics lists for this year, with one or two notable exceptions you will...
Promising Young Woman is Disturbing, Original and Unforgettable
When I first watched Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman I was slightly irritated by it, and even sort of disgusted....
Podcast Alert: All This and the Oscars Too – December Predictions Update
Mark Johnson joined Sasha, Ryan and Clarence to talk about where we are in December, which is still many months...
Good As Gold: Looking for a Needle in a Stack of Needles
It's been a hectic year, has it not? Between quarantines, elections, schooling young children from home, and the lingering anxieties...
Beautiful Nomadland Trailer and Poster
There is just something dreamy about Chloe Zhao's Nomadland - but there isn't a lot of imagery out there to...
Predictions Friday: Here Come the Critics Awards
According to AwardsWatch, the critics awards will be coming fast and furiously in the next couple of weeks: 13th –...
