107 posts tagged ‘films’
Oppenheimer is squeezing Killers Of The Flower Moon out of awards season
AV Club,
Oppenheimer is blowing up awards season. After becoming the third biggest movie of the year, Christopher Nolan’s film has dominated the awards circuit since sweeping the Golden Globes. Heading into Academy Award nominations, it’s the frontrunner, but when will Killers Of The Flower Moon get its flowers? Read more...
Netflix suddenly cares about maintaining a curated library of notable old films
We’ve entered a strange new phase in the streaming wars today, one that suggests an actual sane human at the helm of one of the biggest streaming services rather than an emotionless machine that keeps insisting people like interchangeable action movies with one or two name-brand stars (like a Ryan Reynolds or… a… Read more...
"Interactive horror movie" Until Dawn to become un-interactive horror movie for some damn reason
Ohhhh, this one is going to give us a headache. See, THR is reporting this week that Sony has just moved forward with plans to plug 2015 horror game sensation Until Dawn into its freshly minted video game adaptation machine, hiring Shazam! franchise director David F. Sandberg to helm a movie version of the bestselling… Read more...
Sharon Stone pitched a Barbie girl in a '90s world but was "laughed out of the studio"
As hard as it is to believe, there was a time in American film culture when the closest one came to a Barbie film was The Kentucky Fried Movie. In a pre-Pirates Of The Caribbean Hollywood, movies weren’t based on brands as much—least of all, brands that don’t have a strong narrative thrust. In the 90s, people couldn’t… Read more...
A Thousand And One director joins Ava DuVernay in award season frustration: "We're not even given a shot"
Award season is in full swing, which means we tend to see some of the same titles—Oppenheimer, Killers Of The Flower Moon, Poor Things, etc.—over and over. Much ink has already been spilled over this cycle’s biggest sweeps and the shows they consequently shut out, but even when mourning those baffling snubs, it can be… Read more...
Emmys 2024 Red Carpet: Fashionably Late!
Jezebel,
Aaaaannnd we’re back. Delayed four months due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, the Emmys—arguably television’s second biggest night (where do they stand against the Golden Globes??)—are finally here. Anthony Anderson will be hosting the 75th annual awards ceremony and, as long as he doesn’t blab on about being… Read more...
16 Awesome-Sounding Genre Films Coming to Sundance 2024
Gizmodo,
The 2024 movie season kicks into high gear this week with the start of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Each year, Sundance is where many of the biggest, most buzzworthy independent films start their journeys to either box office success or critical glory—and, with the festival now being both digital and in-person,… Read more...
The best and worst moments from the 29th Critics Choice Awards
Some awards shows allow actors to pick the awards. Others allow kids. The Critics Choice Awards, however, towers over all of them, especially the People’s Choice Awards, because it is chosen by critics. Yes, the very people whose Rotten Tomatoes scores fandoms frequently tell viewers to ignore are in control tonight,… Read more...