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Netflix lines up its Oscar hopefuls: ROMA, 22 July, Buster Scruggs, Kindergarten Teacher main pushes

Erik Anderson October 11, 2018

Netflix, which broke through the Oscars last season with above-the-line Academy Award nominations for Mudbound (and also establishing two pieces of Oscar history in the... Read More

AFI Fest adds world premiere of Sandra Bullock-Sarah Paulson s ‘Bird Box’ to Gala lineup

Erik Anderson October 11, 2018

Netflix is making sure they’re dominating the festival season ahead of awards season and that now includes the world premiere of Susanne Bier’s dystopian thriller... Read More

Trailer: Taraji P. Henson and Sam Rockwell are ‘The Best of Enemies’

Erik Anderson October 11, 2018

After the success of timely and true story race dramas with a flair for comedy like BlacKkKlansman the upcoming Green Book, STX Films has released... Read More

Julia Roberts and Lucas Hedges face the struggle of their lives in trailer for family drama ‘Ben is Back’

Erik Anderson October 11, 2018

“For the next 24 hours you are mine, all mine, got it?” A son struggling with drug addiction and a mother fighting to keep him... Read More

Watch Timothée Chalamet explain who he is to Steve Carell in new clip from ‘Beautiful Boy’

Erik Anderson October 10, 2018

Amazon Studios has released a new clip for Beautiful Boy, which chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse, and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years. In... Read More

AFI Fest Sets Nicole Kidman Tribute with ‘Destroyer’ Gala

Erik Anderson October 9, 2018

The 2018 AFI Fest will host An Evening With Nicole Kidman. The event will include a conversation with the Academy Award-winning actress (The Hours) in a... Read More

87 Countries to Compete for Foreign Language Film Oscar

Erik Anderson October 9, 2018

The final list is in and 87 countries have qualified to compete for the Foreign Language Film Oscar. Afghanistan’s entry, Rona, Azim’s Mother, was not on... Read More

Interview: Maggie Gyllenhaal on ‘The Kindergarten Teacher,’ complex women and taking what she wants

Erik Anderson October 9, 2018

Maggie Gyllenhaal is no stranger to playing complex women on the verge of a personal awakening or exerting strength and confidence in a male-dominated world.... Read More

Denzel Washington to receive 47th AFI Life Achievement Award

Erik Anderson October 5, 2018

Denzel Washington will receive the 47th AFI Life Achievement Award, America’s highest honor for a career in film. The award will be presented to Washington... Read More

Alexander Valley Film Festival: The Little Festival That Could

Erik Anderson October 5, 2018

Fall brings us three things every year like clockwork; Daylight Savings Time, pumpkin spice lattes and film festivals. It seems that new festivals pop up... Read More

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