‘Twisters’ Review: Maybe the Real Tornadoes Were the Friends We Met Along the Way
When Jan de Bont’s Twister was released in May of 1996, disaster movies were on the precipice of a huge comeback, a renaissance they hadn’t... Read More
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FINAL 2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR
Making history at the Oscars is always a great thing to celebrate but it’s also a measured response tempered by the fact that it took... Read More
‘Minari’ tops Austin Film Critics winners with six awards including Best Film, Director and Ensemble
‘Minari’ tops Austin Film Critics winners with six awards including Best Film, Director and Ensemble
The Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA) announced its 2020 awards, with Minari at the top of the pack, winning 6 awards from its 11 nominations. Acting award winners... Read More
FINAL 2021 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR
While I am comfortable predicting that we will get two female directors in this category for the first time in Oscar’s 93-year history, the question... Read More
Directors Guild: Women rule as Emerald Fennell, Regina King, Chloé Zhao, Radha Blank earn history-making nominations (DGA)
The nominations 73rd Directors Guild of America (DGA) were announced on Tuesday and for the first time ever, two women, Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)... Read More
Interviews: Steven Yeun, Youn Yuh-jung, Alan S. Kim, Lee Isaac Chung and Yeri Han of ‘Minari’
In his deeply American story, Minari writer/director Lee Isaac Chung gives us a bit of his own life as he tells the story of Jacob... Read More
Interview: Director and writer Lee Isaac Chung on ‘Minari’ and connecting to a family simply as human beings
Lee Isaac Chung’s fourth directorial feature Minari is, among many things, a deeply American story. It centers on a Korean immigrant family trying and struggling... Read More
2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (November)
Best Director is historically an exciting and often surprising category as this Academy branch has often reached outside of the Best Picture lineup (whether it’s... Read More
2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (October)
Two big changes in October’s top 10 for Best Director with Denis Villeneuve’s Dune falling off for a lat 2021 bow and the decision by... Read More
Sundance Review: Lee Isaac Chung’s ‘Minari’ is a poetic and heartfelt masterwork
One of the joys of minari, mischievous grandmother Soonja (Yuh-Jung Youn) tells her equally impish 7-year-old grandson David (Alan Kim), is that the Korean herb... Read More
2024 North Carolina Film Critics Association (NCFCA) Nominations 
2024 Philadelphia Film Critics Circle (PFCC) Winners: ‘Anora’ Named Best Film Among its Six Awards 
2024 Utah Film Critics Association (UFCA) Nominations 
2024 Black Reel Awards Nominations: ‘Nickel Boys,’ ‘The Piano Lesson’ Lead