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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2015 Oscar winners: Chris Pratt didn’t take home an statuettes; he’s seen here during the rehearsal process. 2015 Oscar winners The complete list of Oscar 2015 winners and nominees can…
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Stranger by the Lake: Sexually explicit gay thriller with Pierre Deladonchamps and Christophe Paou. Winner of a Cannes side award regrettably named Queer Palm, Alain Guiraudie’s erotic thriller Stranger by…
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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.
To the Wonder with Rachel McAdams and Ben Affleck. ‘To the Wonder’: Terrence Malick movie a lyrical but redundant poem Writer and director Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder is built…
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,…