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Whether it’s critics or the Academy themselves, each of this category (formerly called Foreign Language Film) there seems to be one film that is propped... Read More
This year’s shorts have some high-profile films (Pixar) and subject matter (like the basic human rights of women and girls) that all stand a good... Read More
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With the nominations from the two sound guilds in: Cinema Audio Society (CAS – Sound Mixing) and Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) we have a... Read More
It’s the first week of December so you know what that means: the National Board of Review (NBR) and the New York Film Critics Circle... Read More
It’s the end of AFI FEST 2019 and just a day after the nominations for the 35th Film Independent Spirit Awards. How much did these... Read More
A few weeks ago (was it only a few weeks?) Martin Scorsese made an off-hand comment in an interview with Empire magazine that Marvel movies... Read More

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