By all accounts, if you’ve been paying attention, it’s been a brutal year all around. Brutal in government, in mass...
Read moreWay 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...
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