2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST ACTOR (November)
Is there a more cutthroat category than Best Actor this year? It’s impossibly stacked. The snubs will be tremendous but every performance that makes the... Read More
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‘The Two Popes’ leads AARP Movies for Grownups Awards nominations
Netflix’s The Two Popes is an AARP favorite with seven nominations while The Irishman (also Netflix) and Sony’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood earned... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: PRODUCTION DESIGN and COSTUME DESIGN (November)
Sorry to this Irishman. I keep having this feeling that The Irishman is not going to perform as well as most think it will. After... Read More
Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: Keeping the ‘Spirit’ alive post-AFI FEST
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
Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: On the comeback trail that could lead to the Dolby
This year, this season, has really given us a wealth of career comebacks, resuscitations and restorations that make for an exciting season to talk about.... Read More
Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: Marty vs Marvel; Nigeria disqualified from contention
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
Trailer: ‘The Two Popes’ finds Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce in the world’s most intimate tête-à-tête
Poignant and bracingly relevant, The Two Popes, the ‘inspired by’ story of Pope Benedict and Cardinal Bergoglio is also a surprisingly funny and wry look... Read More
Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: Joker’s Wild
With Halloween behind us, playtime is over and awards season is about to get real. It feels almost impossible to deny the box office behemoth... Read More
Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: Bombshells, Bales and Marches
Hot off the first screenings of Bombshell, which vaulted Charlize Theron and Margot Robbie up Oscar predictions charts everywhere (including mine), another unseen December release,... Read More
AFI FEST 2019 announces final Galas (‘The Aeronauts,’ ‘The Two Popes’), Alan J. Pakula Tribute, special screenings
Special Screenings include CLEMENCY including A Conversation with Alfre Woodard, JUST MERCY, ATLANTICS, PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE and BLACKBIRD Today, the American Film Institute... Read More
2025 Oscar Predictions: MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING, ORIGINAL SCORE, ORIGINAL SONG, SOUND, VISUAL EFFECTS (December) 
Interview: Director Robert Eggers (‘Nosferatu’) on the Consequences of Temptation, Training Hundreds of Rats, and Playing with Vampire Lore 
Interview: Guy Pearce on the Beauty and Violence of ‘The Brutalist’ and Van Buren’s Call to His Therapist 
2024 Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association (DFWFCA) Winners: ‘Anora’ Top Film, Director, Actress