The 2015 Oscar race has shifted yet again. By winning the Best Cast Award at the 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, Spotlight has regained the awards season edge. As an early favorite last fall along with the period drama Carol, Spotlight saw its front-runner status slide when Mad Max: Fury Road began to rack up critics citations and [...]
*** out of **** Rated PG for martial arts action and some mild rude humor Released: January 29, 2016 Runtime: 95 minutes Director: Jennifer Yuh Nelson & Alessandro Carloni Starring: Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Bryan Cranston, J.K. Simmons, Angelina Jolie, Kate Hudson, David Cross, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu, Jackie Chan Within the scattershot and now faltering [...]
The Ingalls Family is coming to a theater near you. After being put into turnaround by Sony, Paramount Studios picked up the feature adaptation to the beloved books by Laura Ingalls Wilder about her family life in the 1880s American Midwest. With a script by Abi Morgan (whose recent screenplays for Suffragette and The Iron Lady centered around strong female [...]
And you thought this year's Academy Awards were competitive? 2016 is already an intense battle between the two hottest properties at the Sundance Film Festival, and the latest may guarantee that next year's Oscar race won't be so white. It also promises to add a theological dimension to the canon of slavery-themed films. Just days [...]
The first Oscar Contender for 2016 (by virtually all accounts) was just purchased by Amazon for $10 million at the Sundance Film Festival. Manchester by the Sea looks to follow in the footsteps of Brooklyn, the romantic drama that saw its Oscar buzz during the 2015 Sundance Film Festival pay off (it's currently up for 3 Academy Awards including [...]
Welcome to your new Oscar front-runner. Saturday night at the annual Producers Guild Awards, The Big Short was the surprise winner of the 26th annual Darryl F. Zanuck Award for the year's Best Picture, stunning the tongue-tied producers Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner (fellow producer and co-winner Brad Pitt was not in attendance). Variety reported that Gardener and Kleiner "were [...]
Daniel Radcliffe's latest role is playing a farting corpse. One of the hottest tickets at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival is for Swiss Army Man, a bizarre tale about a man (Paul Dano) who befriends a farting corpse (Daniel Radcliffe) after finding him washed up on a shoreline. Hundreds of eager viewers had to be [...]
The Revenant hit movie theaters as a big question mark, a gamble. Would audiences be willing to sit through a grueling 2 1/2 hour endurance test that was driven by a contemplative, philosophical spirit - and cost $135 million to make? At a $108 million dollar gross so far going into its third weekend of wide [...]
When two legendary filmmakers sit down to talk for an hour, it's always worthwhile. This discussion, hosted in New York City by the Directors Guild of America, followed a recent DGA screening for Steven Spielberg's Bridge Of Spies. Friend, peer, and fellow icon Martin Scorsese interviews Spielberg about his latest effort, which was recently nominated for 6 Academy [...]
Patience, young Jedis. Without citing any reason in particular (although rumors of rewrites are the alleged cause), Variety is reporting that Disney and Lucasfilm announced today that the release date for the still-untitled Star Wars: Episode VIII - written and directed by Rian Johnson - has been pushed back from May 26, 2017 to December 15, [...]