Sunday, May 19, 2024

Movies

SAG Best Ensemble? Here Are My Five Choices, from “Hateful 8” to “Spotlight”

One of my favorite awards in the whole awards season is the Screen Actors Guild citation for Best Ensemble. This award always reminds me...

Hunger Games: LionsGate Stock Has Dropped $7 Since November 6th as Mockingjay Pt 2 Lags

All of Katniss Everdeen's war heroics have not saved LionsGate stock. The price of LGF has dropped from a high of $41.07 on November...

Oscars Irony: Michael Keaton Moves Up to Lead in Race from “Spotlight”

Thanks to the New York Film Critics. They gave Michael Keaton Best Actor in "Spotlight." They moved him up from supporting actor status. Now...

Helen Mirren Worried Husband Taylor Hackford Wouldn’t (Expletive Deleted) Her Again After She Played Queen Elizabeth

expletives included Dame Helen Mirren shocked the Gotham Awards audience Monday night when she accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award. It was about her Oscar...

NY Film Critics: “Carol,” Todd Haynes, Michael Keaton, Saorise Ronan, “Inside Out,” Mark Rylance, Kristin Stewart Acting Nods, Eschews Michael Moore

The New York Film Critics' choices for 2015 dribbling out right now.  Their choices are superb and must be applauded. They moved Michael Keaton...

Oscars: Here are the 15 Documentaries on the Shortlist: From Michael Moore to Amy Winehouse

Amy Winehouse, Nina Simon, Michael Moore, Laurie Anderson, Scientology, Malala, Marlon Brando are among the filmmakers/subjects of the 15 documentaries on this year's Oscar...

National Board of Review Awards: Annual Shill, Laughing Stock of Industry

The reaction this afternoon to the National Board of Review awards is hilarious bordering on the ridiculous. The NBR, as I've written in the...

“Spotlight” Wins Gotham Awards, Begins its Long Road to the Oscars

"Spotlight" directed by Tom McCarthy won the Gotham Awards tonight. Thus the saga of Boston Globe reporters who shook the Catholic Church to its...