2025 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTOR (August)
Reiterating my Best Actress predictions, with Venice, TIFF and NYFF lineups revealed, save a few titles over the next couple of weeks, and Telluride just around the corner, who’s showing... Read More
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2025 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTOR (July)
We got our first look at Gladiator II earlier this month and with it two-time Academy Award winner Denzel Washington, who brings some deep bench... Read More
2025 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTOR (June)
Kieran Culkin may be adding an Oscar to his Emmy win last season with one Sundance’s biggest films, Searchlight Pictures’ A Real Pain, which was... Read More
Sundance 2024 Reviews: ‘Dìdi (弟弟),’ ‘In the Summers,’ ‘A Real Pain’
In today’s Sundance 2024 review diary I look at three of the festival’s award winners in the U.S. Dramatic section: Sean Wang’s Dìdi (弟弟), which... Read More
Searchlight Pictures Buys Jesse Eisenberg’s Kieran Culkin Starrer ‘A Real Pain’ for $10M
Searchlight Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to Jesse Eisenberg’s acclaimed A Real Pain to the tune of $10 million dollars, the first big buy of the... Read More
‘Succession’ season 4 review: The stakes are high as the end of the riveting, Emmy-winning Shakespearean saga draws nigh
The rubble has barely settled on a house ever divided as the eagerly-awaited fourth, and final, season of Succession begins. This 13-time Emmy-winning drama (with... Read More
2022 Emmy Predictions: Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
A truly competitive category for these actors not simply show to show but from within their own. No less than Succession, Squid Game, Better Call... Read More
Screen Actors Guild (SAG) nomination predictions: Male Actor in a Drama Series
This year’s group of actors vying for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series have done incredible work. They’ve made us laugh,... Read More
Final 2020 Emmy Predictions: the DRAMA categories
With the dominance of an Emmy champion like Game of Thrones out of the picture things should be a little clearer, right? Nope. Even with... Read More
Emmy Podcast #33: Drama, Drama, Drama! with Kevin Jacobsen and Amanda Spears
Last week, Kevin Jacobsen, Amanda Spears and I tackled the Limited Series categories for the year’s Emmys but today it’s all about the DRAMA. Starting... Read More
‘Jay Kelly,’ ‘Hamnet,’ ‘Pluribus,’ ‘Task’ and More on AFI’s Top 10 Films and Television of 2025 Lists 
‘Frankenstein’ to Receive Visionary Honor from Palm Springs International Film Awards 
Robert Yeoman to be Honored with American Society of Cinematographers’ Lifetime Achievement Award 
National Board of Review: ‘One Battle After Another’ Tops in Film, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor; Netflix Lands Four in Top 10