Way back before the Stone Age, Oscar buzz used to mean, well, Oscar buzz. We all know that so much...
Read moreBig changes are happening in terms of how the Oscar race is covered. If you've been around as long as...
Read moreAs we begin another Oscar season it's business as usual. We pundits call ourselves "experts" as though speculation and opinions...
Read moreBirth.Movies.Death's Devin Faraci has resigned from his position as its editor-in-chief. Here is the background story by Dana Harris at Indiewire....
Read moreI wasn't going to address this because it has nothing to do with awards season and is so inside baseball...
Read more"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world." - Shakespeare and...
Read more"Die, white boy," said a loud voice behind me when one of the white characters, a good guy, was finally...
Read moreIf you don't know who LexG is you probably don't read Hollywood-Elsewhere or Movie City News. The jokes are pretty...
Read moreAfter I exited a theater showing of Gravity, a nice man handed me a flyer for a movie, a test...
Read moreYesterday I spoke with Daniel D'Addario over at Salon about Nate Silver covering the Oscars. What he said was spot-on...
Read moreA day or so ago there was a sudden photo of Coming Soon's Ed Douglas in the hospital. He'd been...
Read moreKathryn Bigelow is a torture apologist, Leni Reifenstahl and according to an article in The Hollywood Reporter, not the one...
Read moreEvery time one of these erupts God punches a kitten in the face. I suspect it will be similar to...
Read moreIn an ongoing dialogue between the two major critics at the Times, Manohla Dargis and AO Scott on film criticism...
Read moreYesterday, Jeff Wells of Hollywood-Elsewhere.com and I met up with Tom O'Neil at the historic Sunset Tower hotel in Hollywood...
Read moreIt's that time of year again for the critics who are lucky enough to still have jobs writing about movies...
Read moreTom O'Neil has officially left the LA Times and explains his reasons why -- Goldstein, who used to write about...
Read moreKris Tapley's InContention, it was announced this morning, will move to Hitfix.com as early as Monday. This is a shakeup...
Read moreZOMG! Sasha's quote from her review of Rise of Planet of the Apes is featured in national TV spots. Taji...
Read moreTweeps are going apeshit over some VIP screening tonight. @slashfilm (Peter Sciretta) Rise of the Planet of the Apes vindicates...
Read moreSo 2-3 more to add to the season, I guess? The End We Start From (expected out of TIFF) Freud's…
We shouldn't forget that predictions last year were heavily influenced by the CODA debacle and the greatest frontrunner fatigue I…
This makes no sense -- especially at the expense of more necessary TV supporting categories. And it will not bring…
What I find moderately funny is that they could probably nominate 5 decent movies each year, but it's gonna be…
I've always felt that the separate categories for drama and comedy at the Globes gave an inaccurate temperature of what…