Category: Festivals
Sundance Reveals 2022’s Indie Episodic And Short Films Slate
Sundance Reveals 2022’s Indie Episodic And Short Films Slate

The 2023 Sundance Film Festival is almost a month away and this morning the Sundance Institute revealed the Indie Episodic and Short Film slates for the festival. 64 shorts were selected from 10,981 submissions, the highest on record. Four Indie…

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TAR, Everything Eveywhere All At Once Tie For LA Film Critics Best Film
TAR, Everything Eveywhere All At Once Tie For LA Film Critics Best Film

The NYFCC had their say, the National Board of Review surprised and, now, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association has anointed their Best Film for 2022. Or, should we rephrase that as “films”? For the first time since 1976, LAFCA…

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Triangle Of Sadness Takes Top Prize At European Film Awards
Triangle Of Sadness Takes Top Prize At European Film Awards

One film that has been surprisingly absent from many of the U.S. year-end awards lists is Ruben Östlund’s “Triangle of Sadness.” The social media skewing farce took the Palme d’Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival but fizzled with critics…

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Sam Mendes Reflects On His Love Of Theaters And Olivia Colman
Sam Mendes Reflects On His Love Of Theaters And Olivia Colman

It goes without saying that some of the world’s foremost filmmakers were swept up in personal nostalgia during the stay-at-home period of the pandemic. Kenneth Branagh crafted Best Picture nominee “Belfast,” Steven Spielberg revisited his youth in “The Fablemans” and…

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Ludwig Göransson On Rihanna’s Yes To Lift Me Up And Is EGOT next?
Ludwig Göransson On Rihanna’s Yes To Lift Me Up And Is EGOT next?

When you get close to becoming an EGOT (an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award winner), it sometimes becomes a hunt to land the missing link. Jennifer Hudson, who just hit quadfecta in June, wore a ring with “EGO” on…

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The Way Of Water Is Ready To Dive Into Best Picture Race
The Way Of Water Is Ready To Dive Into Best Picture Race

They thought “Titanic” was a disaster. “Avatar” was an expensive mess that would never make a profit. And when the films were finally screened, the naysayers were utterly wrong. If Hollywood history has taught us anything it’s to never, ever,…

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Jeremy Pope And The Black Queer Perspective Of ‘The Inspection’ [Interview]
Jeremy Pope And The Black Queer Perspective Of ‘The Inspection’ [Interview]

Jeremy Pope is a newly recognized Independent Spirit Award Lead Performance nominee for “The Inspection,” but the lack of buzz regarding an Oscar nomination is somewhat disconcerting. In a year with a dearth of truly deserving nominees, the 30-year-old actor…

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Paul Hollywood And Prue Leith Brings Everyone’s Favorite Baking Show’Back To America [Interview]
Paul Hollywood And Prue Leith Brings Everyone’s Favorite Baking Show’Back To America [Interview]

Often, no matter how busy you are, there are interview opportunities you just cannot turn down. Beyonce? Name the time and the place. Angelina Jolie? Standing by. RuPaul Charles? Always. So, even during this busy awards season when someone offers…

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TAR Wins New York Film Critics Circle Best Picture For 2022
TAR Wins New York Film Critics Circle Best Picture For 2022

It’s that time of year when critics revisit the films they have watched over the past 11 months and determine what is worthy and what isn’t. Of the prominent critics’ groups, the New York Film Critics Circle is up first…

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Hannah Beachler On Creating Namor’s Talokan World
Hannah Beachler On Creating Namor’s Talokan World

Hannah Beachler already has one Oscar thanks to her incredible world-building in Ryan Coogler’s “Black Panther.” She may soon be in the running for a second after helping conceive the Mayan-influenced Talokan civilization in the follow-up, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”…

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Glass Onion, Babylon And Emancipation’s Best Picture Impact
Glass Onion, Babylon And Emancipation’s Best Picture Impact

The Best Picture field is narrowing. Well, to be honest, there have always been a bunch of unlikely players in the mix, but with the recent screenings of Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon” and Antoine Fuqua’s “Emancipation,” the list of ten likely…

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Everything Everywhere All At Once Tops 2022 Gotham Awards
Everything Everywhere All At Once Tops 2022 Gotham Awards

The first real awards event returned in full force as the 2022 Gotham Awards descended upon lower Manhattan. “Everything Everywhere All At Once” dominated the night winning two anwards including Best Feature. The television winners were surprising with Apple TV+’s…

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