54 posts tagged ‘oscar’
The best and worst moments from the 29th Critics Choice Awards
AV Club,
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...
True Detective: Night Country premiere: Chillingly good TV
It’s been a long time since True Detective was on TV—and even longer since it was Much-Watch TV. A whole five years after the third edition of the HBO crime anthology, we’ve got a fresh new chapter of True Detective tales, with the first episode of Night Country bringing with it many of the elements that made the… Read more...
Robert Downey Jr. Wishes His MCU Work Got More Real Recognition
Gizmodo,
The MCU started with Robert Downey Jr.’s career-defining turn as Iron Man all the way back in 2008. Over the next 11 years, Downey would reprise the role for numerous sequels and team-ups, and now that he’s had some distance from the whole shebang, he thinks his Marvel tenure was intentionally overlooked. Read more...
Emma Stone applies to be on Jeopardy! every year—and not that "Celebrity" horsecrap
There’s nothing better, when reading or listening to a celebrity interview, than those moments when the interviewer stumbles onto one of their subjects’ secret obsessions: Those little things we all have lodged in our heads that will grind any professional, public conversation to a halt in favor of a few minutes of… Read more...
Hear Marisa Abela's Amy Winehouse voice in new biopic trailer, judge some Oscars songs, and more from the week in film
Whether you know it or not, you’ve most likely heard a piece of music written by Kevin MacLeod. If you were watching the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night, you’ve definitely heard it. During their presentation of the award for best actor in a comedy, Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig tried to play it straight, only to… Read more...
Lily Gladstone Has an Excellent Take on Ewoks
Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone has made no secret of her love for Star Wars, especially the Ewoks from Return of the Jedi. The Golden Globe winner (and Oscar contender) told the New York Times she had a “strong desire to be an Ewok at age five”—that’s how deep the love is. Read more...
10 Classic Sci-Fi Performances Snubbed by the Oscars
Oscar nominations will be announced later this month, and Poor Things’ Emma Stone and Barbie’s Margot Robbie are all but guaranteed to be in the Best Actress race. Last year, Everything Everywhere All at Once swept three of the four acting categories. That suggests sci-fi and fantasy films, whose stars don’t always… Read more...
Pixar's pandemic films are heading to theaters. Other studios should follow suit
2020 is a forgotten year at the movies. Namely because the movies and, more specifically, movie theaters barely existed. After Trolls: World Tour broke the dam for movies to bypass theaters and go straight to VOD, the words “day-and-date” emerged as a new form of distribution. Movies would simultaneously go live on… Read more...