22 posts tagged ‘martin scorsese’
How the Golden Globe nominations could shape the Oscar race this year
Like it or not, as the first big awards show of the year, the Golden Globes set the tone for everything that comes after. Even with their complicated backstory and the fraught history of the now-defunct Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Golden Globes remain a valuable marketing tool for studios. Their strategic… Read more...
The biggest snubs and surprises from the 2024 Golden Globe nominations
The Golden Globes are back, and while it’s too soon to say whether they’re better, the slate of nominations that Cedric The Entertainer and Wilmer Valderrama announced Monday morning were genuinely promising. On a macro level, the Globes did a generally good job of highlighting both non-American, non-English-language… Read more...
Barbie Scores Big In the 2024 Golden Globe Nominees
The 2024 Golden Globe nominees are here, and this year everybody is still living in a Barbie world. Pipping its biggest rival at the ceremony this year, Oppenheimer, to take most nominations, Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie, and Ryan Gosling are the vanguard when it comes to all things genre. Read more...
The week in film: Emma Stone shines in Poor Things, plus the greatest gangster movies
Director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Killing Of A Sacred Deer) is not what one might call a conventional filmmaker, crafting his films with deadpan line delivery that enhances the surreal quality of their premises to lay bare fundamental truths of the human experience. His previous collaboration with… Read more...
The week in entertainment news: Tim Allen is more Grinch than Santa, and Flower Moon comes home
“Tim Allen was such a bitch,” Casey Wilson boldly declares in a new episode of her podcast Bitch Sesh. The Happy Endings alum had “buried” the story of her experience on The Santa Clauses for over a year because one of the Disney+ show’s producers is “a great friend” of hers and because her kids “loved the movies.”… Read more...
The mystery around Robert De Niro’s “censored” Gotham Awards speech deepens
At last night’s Gotham Awards, Robert De Niro made a speech about Martin Scorsese and Killers Of The Flower Moon that, naturally (for De Niro), veered into a whole thing about Donald Trump and how he “lied to us more than 30,000 times during his four years in office” and how his lies can’t “hide his soul.” But, when… Read more...
Robert De Niro accuses Gotham Awards of censoring his speech
Robert De Niro has more than a few opinions about former President Donald Trump, and he’s not one to be quiet about it. For the last decade, De Niro’s public appearances have been punctuated with criticisms of Trump. Why, just last month, he called him a “wannabe tough guy with no morals or ethics.” So when given the… Read more...
R.I.P. Suzanne Shepherd, actor from The Sopranos and Goodfellas
Suzanne Shepherd, an actor, theatrical director, and acting coach best known for memorable roles in a pair of iconic mob-themed stories (Goodfellas and The Sopranos), has died. A cause of death was not given publicly, but Variety says that her agent confirmed that she died on Friday morning at her home in New York.… Read more...