It’s David Lynch’s birthday but he’s the one giving away a present. On the day he turned 74, the singularly offbeat director of films like Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet (as well as TV’s Twin Peaks) dropped a new short film online via Netflix: What Did Jack Do?. This 17-minute avant-garde two-hander is set in [...]
As predictable as a Hollywood formula, the Screen Actors Guild handed out acting awards to the presumptive favorites in four individual categories, and a leading Best Picture contender from their five cast nominees. Joaquin Phoenix, Renee Zellweger, Laura Dern and Brad Pitt all won their respective awards in leading and supporting categories, just as they [...]
We officially have our Oscar frontrunner for Best Picture. In the 30 years of the Producers Guild of America Awards, 21 of their winners have gone on to grab the Best Picture prize at the Academy Awards, including 8 of the last 10. This year, director Sam Mendes' "one shot" World War I epic 1917 was [...]
It was bound to happen: the screenplay for Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly’s version of Star Wars: Episode IX has leaked. And it's true. All of it. A full draft of the script is nowhere to be downloaded (yet), but between the Reddit postings about its contents as well as other accountings by others who’ve gotten their hands on a [...]
https://vimeo.com/382811408 The Safdie Brothers have cut another gem with Adam Sandler. Released on the heels of their critically-acclaimed collaboration Uncut Gems, NYC writer/director siblings Josh and Benny Safdie have dropped a bonus short film online that they made with Uncut star Adam Sandler. It has nothing to do with that intense feature-length drama they made [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF-lElIlZM0 Martin Scorsese's The Irishman is among the year's big Oscar heavyweights, having just scored 10 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture. One of the categories it's a contender in (and favored to win) is Best Visual Effects, for the groundbreaking digital de-aging by Industrial Light & Magic. In this extended 13-minute featurette, Scorsese and his [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1eykFE1fSA "Who the hell is that guy?" That's the question Black Widow asks about a new foe she faces off against at the end of the new trailer for her stand-alone movie. Well Natasha, I have no earthly idea, but of course I'm not a Marvel Comics die-hard fan. Maybe those who are might have [...]
The Clown Prince of Crime got the last laugh on Oscar Nom morning as the R-rated billion-dollar blockbuster Joker led all films with 11 nominations including Best Picture. It's the first time that a movie based on a comic book character has been the Academy's leading nominee, going further than Black Panther did with 7 [...]
I'd been thinking for awhile that Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood would win the Oscar for Best Picture. The Critics' Choice Awards may have just predicted it as well. The association of national broadcast film critics named Quentin Tarantino's ninth feature film the best one of 2019, giving it the most awards with 4 total. [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQfybDxplPw Hot off a #1 wide release debut, a Best Picture - Drama win at the Golden Globes, and on the cusp of major Oscar nominations, Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes (American Beauty) finds his new World War I epic 1917 one of the most buzzed about films of the awards season. At the core [...]