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2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTOR (September)

Erik Anderson September 18, 2019

Tom “I haven’t been nominated since 2000” Hanks and Brad “I’m not going to campaign” Pitt remain atop the Supporting Actor list for September because... Read More

Oscar Podcast #75: Post-TIFF 19 discussion and the awards forecast with Mina Takla

Erik Anderson September 17, 2019

It’s crazy but this is our first Oscar podcast of the 2019/2020 awards season! With Berlin, Cannes, Venice, Telluride and Toronto behind us the Oscar... Read More

TIFF 19 Wrap-Up: From jokers to popes and birds to hustlers, here are the Best Films and Performances of the Toronto International Film Festival

Mina Takla September 16, 2019

The 2019 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival wrapped up yesterday after what was a stellar edition, full of fantastic films from all over... Read More

Toronto Review: Immersive, sharp and funny, ‘The Two Popes’ is nothing short of a miracle

Mina Takla September 9, 2019

Fernando Meirelles delivers a jaw-dropping masterpiece of a film Genius filmmaking is one which takes what could have been an ordinary story and turns it... Read More

Oscar Predictions: Post-Telluride, mid-Venice, pre-TIFF set your sights on Renée Zellweger, Adam Driver and ‘Parasite’

Erik Anderson September 4, 2019

With Telluride just finishing, Venice still underway, and Toronto starting tomorrow, we are smack in the middle of the fall festival kickoff of awards season... Read More

New films from Kelly Reichardt, Fernando Meirelles and the Safdie Brothers highlight 46th Telluride Film Festival lineup

Erik Anderson August 28, 2019

Telluride Film Festival, presented by the National Film Preserve, today announced its official program selections for the 46th edition of the Telluride Film Festival. TFF’s... Read More

Telluride Film Festival: What We Can Expect to See

Erik Anderson August 28, 2019

The Telluride Film Festival notoriously doesn’t announce its lineup until the day before the three-day mountain excursion but once we know what’s playing at Venice,... Read More

Netflix reveals release dates of its fall films including ‘Marriage Story,’ ‘The Laundromat,’ ‘The King’

Erik Anderson August 27, 2019

Netflix has revealed the release dates and release strategies of its major fall releases including Marriage Story, The Irishman, Dolemite Is My Name, The Laundromat... Read More

2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST ACTOR (August)

Erik Anderson August 15, 2019

With the fall festival lineups locked in, well, save Telluride (we all but know what’s showing up there though) it starts to make things just... Read More

TIFF 2019 lineup includes world premieres of Harriet, Jojo Rabbit, Dolemite is My Name, Just Mercy and more

Erik Anderson July 23, 2019

TIFF Co-Heads Cameron Bailey and Joana Vicente today announced the first round of titles selected for the Gala and Special Presentations programmes at the 44th... Read More