Sunday, December 21, 2025

Movies

Sundance: $25 Mil Record Setting “CODA” Wins Grand Jury Prize and Special Jury Prize, Clifton Collins Jr. Best Actor in “Jockey,” Questlove Wins Best...

The Sundance 2021 Film Festival Awards are being handed out right now. I'm thrilled to report that "CODA" won the Special Jury Award for Best...

RiP Hal Holbrook, A Class Act Who Loved Acting, Nominated for an Oscar for “Into the Wild”

Hal Holbrook, whose death at 95 came yesterday, was an actor's actor. He loved it. When I really got to know him, in 2008,...

Review: “Judas and the Black Messiah” is the Brilliant Adjunct to “Trial of the Chicago 7”

If you've already seen Aaron Sorkin's excellent "Trial of the Chicago 7" on Netflix you know that early on, Fred Hampton-- head of the...

Review: Robin Wright Goes Wrong with “Land,” A Beautiful, Well Intended Plotless Mess

I'm a big Robin Wright fan, so there's that. But she chose "Land" to direct, Focus Features picked it up right away and Sundance took...

Denzel Washington Has the #1 Movie This Weekend, So Disney Thought They’d Cash In and Re-release One of His Old Ones

The number 1 movie this weekend was "The Little Things," starring Denzel Washington and Jared Leto, from Warner Bros. It made about $4.8 million...

Sundance: “Mass” Is A Stone Cold Drama Acting Master Class for Quartet of Actors Including Martha Plimpton and Jason Isaacs

Wanna see some acting? Like some real acting? Then you'll have sit through the uncomfortable but searing "Mass," written and directed by Fran Kranz. Guess...

Sundance Record Broken as “CODA,” Film About Singing Teen from Deaf Family, Breaks Record with $25 Mil Sale

Apple has gotten to the core of Sundance. The computer/phone company with a burgeoning film firm broke the Sundance record today. They bought "CODA" for...

Broadway Hit Musical “Dear Evan Hansen” Coming to Movies in September But Will It Come Back to Broadway?

"Dear Evan Hansen" is already a movie. While we were buying toilet paper, Universal spent the last few months shooting the Tony winning Broadway musical...