Last year, the Producers Guild threw a curve ball into a highly competitive Best Picture Oscar race when they chose The Big Short as the Best Film of the Year. This year, the Producers stuck strictly to the 2016 Awards Season script in their Film, Animated, and Documentary categories. Producers Guild of America 2016 Darryl F. Zanuck Award Winners [...]
Actors be bingin' on The Crown, yo. But that's television. We're just a movie blog around here. As far as Oscar pre-cursors go for the 2016 Awards Season, the Screen Actors Guild spent the first half of the night following the script, the second half finishing the script, and then capping things off with a surprise twist. The [...]
Most 2016 nominated films are still in theaters, but a few - including some nominated shorts - can be watched at home via streaming. Here is a list of Academy Award nominated titles that are currently available via online and streaming outlets (whether for free or to rent). Click on the provider (Netflix, Amazon, Youtube, [...]
Star Wars nerds: start adding these titles to your Must See list. Star Wars: The Last Jedi writer/director Rian Johnson has a reputation of being very open about the specific films he watches before making each of his movies, giving insight into his influences. A lot of directors may share a watch list with their [...]
That Disney marketing team doesn't miss a social media beat. For the latest deployment in their welcome frontal assault of ongoing hype for their live-action Beauty and the Beast movie, Walt Disney Studios has released two new series of character posters: the traditional still images, and new motion posters. Both series can be seen below, starting with the motion versions [...]
Josh Gad - who plays Lafou in the upcoming live-action Beauty and the Beast, and is the voice of Olaf in Frozen - asked Murder On The Orient Express co-star Daisy Ridley into his set trailer under false pretense: he wants to confirm who "The Last Jedi" is/are. And so do we. https://www.instagram.com/p/BPrs3UFlHXv/?taken-by=joshgad
Director Rian Johnson was nice enough to leave this here on his Instagram feed. Star Wars: The Last Jedi opens on December 15, 2017. https://www.instagram.com/p/BPqBSPZBRoo/
Welcome to the nominees that have been invited to watch a La La Land sweep at the 89th Annual Academy Awards. (Read full list below.) After dominating Critics Groups and grabbing a record haul of 7 Golden Globe awards, the original modern musical sensation has cemented its front-runner status with a record-tying 14 Academy Award nominations, including [...]
Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Let the speculation of what that means begin. Written and directed by Rian Johnson, the title for Episode VIII was revealed by Lucasfilm through the release of the film's first official poster (modest though it may be), seen below. So what does it mean? Who knows, but some will no doubt begin to [...]
Belated though it may be (due to conflicting professional and personal demands), here’s my list for the Best Movies of 2016. It begins with the Top 10, in ascending order, then continues with my 11 through 20 choices, and concludes with a brief listing of the other movies I really enjoyed throughout the year. Here [...]
I Can't Unsee That Movie: film news and reviews by Jeff Huston 