The Academy has instituted Best Picture hiring and representation ‘Oscar Diversity’ quota requirements whose goals and potential effectiveness are debatable.
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Mad Max: Fury Road: National Board of Review winner. National Board of Review Awards: First indication of Mad Max: Fury Road awards season potential Going over the December 2015 movie…
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Oscar Winners: Meryl Streep Breaks Two Academy Award Records, Neil Patrick Harris in his underwear and politically controversial documentary winner.
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Gay Marriage Legal in Utah and Lesbian Movie wins 2 Utahn Awards showing Timing is Everything + Academy announces ‘fierce’ Oscar competition.
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Shahab Hosseini in Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation The National Society of Film Critics (NSFC), among whose members are the majority of the United States’ most influential and respected film commentators,…
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The Tree of Life with Brad Pitt. Notwithstanding its Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or win, Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life has not been taking home all that many U.S.…
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The Descendants with George Clooney and Shailene Woodley. Since the late 1990s, Alexander Payne has been hopping around the United States, making movies about white, presumably heterosexual, middle-aged (or middle-ageish)…
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Brad Silberling’s handsomely mounted fantasy adventure Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events is a Jim Carrey mugfest. But Meryl Streep is wasted.
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Sean Penn embodies the antithesis of the ‘American Dream’ in Niels Mueller’s nightmarish social critique The Assassination of Richard Nixon.
Neither the actors nor the behind-the-camera talent can disguise the fact that Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder is a huge disappointment.
Nicole Kidman in Fur is Rome Film Festival entry while Helen Mirren is the queen of the Venice Film Festival. Helen Mirren: The Queen of Venice Film Festival “Thank you,…