18 posts tagged ‘the oscar’
How the Golden Globe nominations could shape the Oscar race this year
AV Club,
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...
Everything you need to know about The Color Purple
The Color Purple has had a fascinating journey through popular culture over the past four decades. Ever since Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was published in 1982, the story of a young Black woman struggling to find her voice in the Deep South during the early 20th century has been like a magnet for… 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...
R.I.P. Ryan O'Neal, star of Barry Lyndon and Love Story
Ryan O’Neal has died. As first a TV star, and then an Oscar-nominated actor—for box office smash Love Story, in 1970—O’Neal had a celebrated run as a performer throughout the 1960s and ’70s, before both his public reputation and his career were tarnished by a mixture of diminishing returns, box office failures, and… Read more...
11 movies to check out on Netflix in December
Just in time for the holidays, Netflix is stuffing stockings with high-profile originals and blockbuster favorites. The new arrivals include Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child Of Fire is an epic space opera directed by Zack Snyder. Then there’s Maestro the biographical drama Bradley Cooper cowrote and directed, in which… Read more...
Don't worry too much about the clay, says Wallace And Gromit studio
In an age of excess, the news that the makers of Wallace And Gromit had essentially run out of clay to make more Wallace And Gromit rocked the world. (Or at least a niche community of animation enjoyers.) The unique clay is apparently a finite resource, and The Telegraph reported that the production company, Aardman… Read more...
The best movies to watch on Hulu right now, including The Hunger Games
Hulu, like all streaming services, adds and loses titles every month. If you see something that you want to stream, don’t assume that it will still be there two weeks or two months later when you get around to it. That show or film may hop over to another streaming service like Netflix or Amazon Prime for a few… Read more...
Next Goal Wins review: Taika Waititi returns to his roots
The marketing for Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins promotes the film as an underdog sports comedy about an ill-fated South Pacific soccer team, full of the highs and mostly lows of a struggling squad trying to make good. Revisiting the fallout from the worst loss in World Cup history—when Australia defeated American… Read more...