Spotlight is officially the Oscar front-runner. The Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association gave the real-life drama its 3rd Best Film prize so far out of the 5 major critics groups that have announced. Spotlight also took Best Acting Ensemble. Meanwhile, fellow critics contender Mad Max: Fury Road picked up 3 wins from the D.C. gang, including Best Director for George [...]
There's a first time for everything. After 20 years of feature film animation and 16 entries in that time, The Good Dinosaur is likely to become the first release by Pixar Animation Studios to not make a profit and, instead, lose money for the industry titan. Despite a solid 76% fresh score at Rotten Tomatoes and an "A" rating from [...]
This past week, the first four major Critics Groups announced their choices for the best in film of 2015. If you missed any of their picks for Best Picture, Actor, Actress, and more - and which films are taking early leads as contenders - click on the links below for each group's list. National Board of Review [...]
The critics from LA and Boston must be drinking the same kool-aid. Spotlight had a banner afternoon, and Mad Max: Fury Road is solidifying itself as a major Oscar contender. The Los Angeles Film Critics Association became the 4th group of the Awards season - and second of the day (Sunday, December 6th) - to name their picks for [...]
The Boston Society of Film Critics became the third group of the 2015 Awards season to name their winners - and it should come as no surprise that the lauded Boston-based true life drama Spotlight took their top spot for Best Picture. In addition, the Oscar contender notched two other wins for Best Ensemble Cast and Best [...]
Over the past six weeks, director J.J. Abrams has given us plenty of footage from Star Wars: The Force Awakens in the form of trailers and TV spots, but no actual film clips. Until now. We got this little truncated action scene - the first to be released - from star Daisy Ridley last night on [...]
***1/2 out of **** Rated PG -13 for violence, language, and some sensuality Released: November 25, 2015 Runtime: 132 minutes Starring: Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashad, Tony Bellew Creed is ranked #10 on my Top Ten List for 2015 Creed, both the movie and its title character, have a lot to live up to. And they [...]
Cinemark Theaters continues their ongoing Film Classics series with three Christmas favorites: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, It's A Wonderful Life, and Miracle On 34th Street. Showing each Sunday and Wednesday - plus two Christmas Eve encores of the Capra classic - here are the dates and times for each movie: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Sunday December [...]
My review of The Letters (click here), at Crosswalk.com, about the life of Mother Teresa and her private letters that revealed spiritual struggles, loneliness, and doubts. **1/2 out of **** Rated PG for thematic material including some images of human suffering Released: December 4, 2015 Runtime: 114 minutes Starring: Juliet Stevenson, Rutger Hauer, Max von Sydow, Priya Darshini, [...]
The new - and first full - trailer for Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice premiered on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night, and is now all over the internet. It provides the most detail of the premise yet and, I have to say, it's less promising than the original teaser that set a more ominous tone. Here, we see a [...]
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