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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...
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...
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...
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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,...
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Catch Up Review: “Never Rarely Sometimes Maybe” Is an Intimate, Indie Gem with Knockout Performances
Eliza Hittman's "Never Rarely Sometimes Maybe" came out literally as the pandemic hit. It went around me, over me, by me, but I don't...
Movies
LOL: Screwy National Board of Review Goes Big For Spike Lee and “Da 5 Bloods,” Spanks “Mank,” Ignores “Nomadland,” “The Father”
The totally screwy National Board of Review named "Da 5 Bloods" best film and Spike Lee best director today.
Reliably screwy, the NBR is run...