awards
Era of Pandemic Filmmaking: Documentary Submissions for the Oscars Set a Record with 238 Eligible Features
This is a story of filmmaking in the time of a pandemic. Entries for the Academy Awards' Best Documentary have set a record on...
awards
Norman Lear Joins Jane Fonda as Golden Globes Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree
The great producer-writer-philanthropist Norman Lear will receive the Carol Burnett Award from the Golden Globes next month.
Lear, 98, joins Jane Fonda as one of...
Movies
Andra Day Releases “Tigress and “Tweed” New Single from “United States vs. Billie Holiday” Film
Andra Day is about to become an overnight sensation after a decade, at least, making beautiful music as a jazz and R&B singer. Isn't...
Celebrity
“Promising Young Woman”: Emerald Fennel is More than That After Directing Carey Mulligan, Running “Killing Eve,” and Acting in “The Crown”
Carey Mulligan stars as Cassie, a woman out for revenge in “Promising Young Woman.” Directed, produced and written by female director Emerald Fennell, the...
Celebrity
God Bless Cloris Leachman: Oscar and Emmy Winning Actress Known for Caustic Hilarious Performances Dies of Natural Causes at Age 94
She won every award. She was hilarious, caustic, a genius actress, and will be so sorely missed. Cloris Leachman has died of natural causes...
Television
The Jeopardy! Audience Likes Ken Jennings: First Week Ratings for Successor Host Top All Syndicated Shows
It turns out the ""Jeopardy!" audience likes Ken Jennings. A lot.
Jennings' first week of new shows since the death of Alex Trebek was a...
Movies
Cannes 2021: Hope Springs Eternal as Famed Film Festival Plans for July, Not May, on the Croisette
Hot, hot, hot.
Let's hope heat and sunlight kill COVID because that will be the weather for this year's Cannes Film Festival.
The famed film fest...
Movies
Billie Holiday’s Signature Song, “Strange Fruit,” Has a Strange Backstory Tying Her to Executed Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
As we prepare for Lee Daniels' "The United States of America vs. Billie Holiday," here's a little backstory almost no one knows.
Holiday's signature song,...