JUNE 8, 2021 Cannes is back, baby! If the lineup for 2021 Festival, announced last week by festival director Thierry Frémaux, is any indication of its quality, it’s back…
JUNE 7, 2021 The Golden Globes are toast, at least for the 2022 ceremony. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s vague talk of inclusiveness, spotlighted by the lack of a…
APRIL 7, 2021 We have made it to the Top 10 Films of 2020. Yesterday, we counted down ten terrific runners-up, highlighting #11-20, which you can find here. Now…
APRIL 6, 2021 When the expected big guns of the 2020 Oscar race (“Dune,” “The French Dispatch,” & “West Side Story,” just to name a few) were hustled off…
JANUARY 20, 2021 When “The Prom” first opened on Broadway in 2018 with little advance ticket sales and stars who were hardly household names, the show was referred to…
JANUARY 19, 2021 Unlike the race for Best International Film, where many of the leading contenders are difficult to locate and screen, the nomination contest for Best Documentary Feature…
JANUARY 11, 2021 The final chapter of what is arguably the strangest behind-the-scenes film story of the 21st century is likely to conclude this month as HBO Max brings…
DECEMBER 21, 2020 On paper, it seemed like a slam dunk. “Hillbilly Elegy,” the memoir by J.D. Vance that became one of the best-selling books of 2016, was finally…
DECEMBER 14. 2020 As the chosen ones are announced every year on Oscar nomination morning, there always seems to be one out of the blue nominee not taken seriously…
NOVEMBER 27, 2020 Thirteen years after his most recent film, 2007’s “Towelhead,” Alan Ball returns to feature filmmaking with “Uncle Frank,” a comedy/drama which, like most of his work,…
