Pundits handicap Oscar nominations on a spectrum between activism and dispassionate observation. Even those who typically lean toward the latter pole will occasionally (when wading through the uncertainties of a category’s bottom...
Power is almost always equated with violence: all of those old-school movie heroes, from John Wayne to Arnold Schwarzenegger, were males who proved their worth on screen through killing, mutilating, beating the...
Picking the winner for Best Animated Feature might not be too tricky, as there are usually one or two films ahead of the pack regarding this award, but predicting the films that...
With the end of the 2024 fall festival season comes a much clearer look into the Best Director awards race. Some serious contenders have emerged, while other strong showings from the spring...
Around midway through Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, celebrating its U.S. Premiere in the Main Slate of the 62nd New York Film Festival, László (Adrien Brody) and Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce)...
When I wrote my original Chasing the Gold piece about why June Squibb should be nominated for Best Actress at the Oscars, I did it for the love of the performance and...
Stepping into Neo Sora’s Happyend, one might expect something much closer to a sci-fi film with a dystopian hook. And in many ways, the film, celebrating its U.S. premiere in the Main...
