Oscars 2025: Analysis of 81 of the 85 International Feature Oscar Submissions
I’ve been covering the International Feature race since 2020 when I was able to see 87 of the whopping, record-breaking ...
I’ve been covering the International Feature race since 2020 when I was able to see 87 of the whopping, record-breaking ...
So the New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) broke the 2025 Oscar awards season's cherry and tapped The Brutalist as ...
As many of you sit down today with friends and family to share in a meal of Thanksgiving, some of ...
Iranian indie writer-director-producer Mohammad Rasoulof risked his freedom to secretly shoot the powerful new film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig in ...
First things first, Wicked is going to, in my opinion, make an obscene amount of money. Jon Chu's film soars as ...
There were lots of rumors that Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman would potentially host the 97th Annual Academy Awards, but ...
Israel’s International Feature Oscar entry is twentysomething Tom Nesher’s feature film debut, Come Closer, a heartfelt and deep meditation on love, grief, ...
Things look pretty dire when a reviled second sequel in the Venom franchise remains atop the box office for a third ...
Hoop skirts and corsets and trains--oh my! Costume Design is my favorite below-the-line category. A performer could have an entire ...
Edward Berger's directorial master class Conclave dropped in theaters this weekend on a fairly wide release. That means that ticket buyers ...
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