Awards Season Hopefuls, Closing the Gender Gap Highlight the 40th Mill Valley Film Festival
The Current War, Darkest Hour, Rose Marie, Dee Rees, Last Flag Flying and Greta Gerwig highlight the announcement of the lineup of the 40th Mill... Read More
Film Festivals
10 Performances that Lit Up the Lido at the Venice Film Festival
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] The Venice Film Festival awards will be announced shortly (predictions here) and it will be interesting to see what Annette Bening... Read More
Venice Critics and Audience Grids – Which Films Scored Highest?
Unlike the Cannes Film Festival where only critics get their grids, Venice allocates both critic and audience grids to assess how the public and the... Read More
Venice Film Festival: Richard Jenkins, Michael Shannon, Sam Rockwell, Hong Chau Spark Oscar Buzz
The Venice Film Festival isn’t over – but four standout supporting performances are already getting considerable buzz. From The Shape of Water to Three Billboards... Read More
Mill Valley Film Festival 40: Mind the Gap – Women in Film and Tech
One of the great things about the Mill Valley Film Festival has been its Gender Equality Initiative Mind the Gap. Now in its third year,... Read More
Technical Achievement Oscar Contenders at the Venice Film Festival – The Shape of Water, Downsizing, Victoria and Abdul
Typically, it’s the stars who get all the attention when films screen at film festivals. They walk the red carpet, get all the media attention... Read More
With mother!, is Jennifer Lawrence in or out of the Best Actress race?
mother! premiered this morning at the Venice Film Festival and as expected, the film was…polarizing to say the least. Some critics loved it, others hated... Read More
First trailer for FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL with Annette Bening, Jamie Bell
The first trailer for Sony Classics’ Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, Annette Bening’s next best Oscar hope, has arrived (via IMDb). The four-time Oscar... Read More
4 Reasons Why Frances McDormand Can (and Should) Earn an Oscar nomination for THREE BILLBOARDS
Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri premiered this morning at the Venice Film Festival and the buzz on the Lido can be summarized as:... Read More
Is Judi Dench a lock for a Best Actress nomination for Victoria and Abdul?
[divider style=”normal” top=”20″ bottom=”20″] Stephen Frears’ new film Victoria and Abdul premiered at the Venice Film Festivals and the reviews – including ours – were mixed. The... Read More
‘Mouse’ Review: Sophie Okonedo and Katherine Mallen Kupferer Shine in Tender Portrait of Grief and Growing Up [B+] Berlinale 
UK Casting Directors’ Guild Awards: ‘Hamnet,’ ‘Adolescence’ Take Top Wins 
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 139 – ‘Les Rendez-vous d’Anna’ (Chantal Akerman, 1978) 
Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: Paul Thomas Anderson Inches Closer (2/13/26)