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Film Review: ‘Eternals’ Takes the Marvel Cinematic Universe in New Directions…For Better and Worse
The Marvel Cinematic Universe can often be accused of giving off a repetitious feel. Those who don’t dig on the MCU claim that the films do the same things over and over again. Even someone like yours truly, who almost exclusively enjoys the movies, sees some of their argument. Marvel has a formula, one they […] More
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The Top 25 Best Director Winners So Far
The end of this series draws closer and closer. Until then, we press on. Continuing a tradition I’ve been keen on for years, I’m ranking the new crop of Academy Award winners. For nearly all of the Oscar categories, you’ll see me list the top 25 recipients of that prize. Sometimes, our newest winner will […] More
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Marvel Releases an Epic Tease of Their Upcoming Films
2020 might have changed the state of movies going forward in several ways, but there’s at least one thing it couldn’t change: Marvel still holds the crown. The dominant studio took a seat on the bench last year due to the COVID pandemic shuttering a large majority of theaters, but with their Disney+ series’ in […] More
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Before the Gold: Best Adapted Screenplay
This month we’re taking a look at this year’s Oscar nominees and digging into their past work to find hidden gems that you may have overlooked, or specific credits that may have influenced their Oscar-nominated work this year. The nominees for Best Adapted Screenplay run the gamut from indie filmmakers graduating to mainstream exposure, to […] More
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Before the Gold: Best Film Editing
This month, we’re taking a look at this year’s Oscar nominees and digging into their past work to find hidden gems that you may have overlooked. One of the joys of this year’s Oscars is the abundance of first time Oscar nominees, especially in craft categories. Best Film Editing has a host of newbies. Four […] More
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Before the Gold: Best Director
This year’s director line-up is the most diverse ever in Academy history, featuring two women – Emerald Fennell and Chloe Zhao – in a category that has sorely lacked female representation over the years. Only one nominee – David Fincher – returns as a nominee, having come close before for previous works including The Social […] More
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DGA Awards Given to Chloé Zhao and Darius Marder
Tonight, the Directors Guild of America held their big awards ceremony. Of course, we all went in to this DGA show knowing that Chloé Zhao was going win the big category for her Nomadland work. That proved to be the case, as Zhao beat back Lee Isaac Chung (Minari), Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman), David […] More
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Santa Barbara Honoring Several Oscar Nominated Directors
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival has announced the recipients of their Outstanding Directors of the Year Award for this year, with a lineup that looks familiar to anyone who has seen this year’s Oscars nominations. Chloé Zhao (Nomadland), David Fincher (Mank), Lee Isaac Chung (Minari), and Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round) will all receive their awards and participate in live-streamed conversations on […] More
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‘Nomadland’ and ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Win USC Scripter Awards
The USC Libraries Board of Conductors gave out their Scripter awards yesterday, honoring the best achievements in film and television adaptations. Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, based on the book “Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century” by Jessica Bruder won the film award, whereas Scott Frank’s “Openings” episode of Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit, based on the […] More
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DGA Lineup Includes Lee Isaac Chung and Emerald Fennell!
The Directors Guild of America released their feature film nominees moments ago, potentially giving us some major insight into the Best Director field at the Oscars. There isn’t always complete crossover between the DGA five and the Oscar five, but four usually is a pretty safe bet. This year, it looks like the DGA nominated […] More
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Chloé Zhao + Dracula? Wait Until You Hear What She’s Got in Mind
We may be just a couple months away from Chloé Zhao being anointed as an Academy Award winning director, but she’s wasting no time setting up her next project. Zhao, with her production company Highwayman, has teamed up with Universal Pictures to write, direct, and produce a new take on the iconic Dracula. While details are scarce for […] More
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Kansas City Critics Picks Include a Tie Between ‘Nomadland’ and ‘Promising Young Woman’
The Kansas City Film Critics Circle have revealed their winners for this year’s awards, and it comes with the rare tied winner in the Best Picture category. The KCFCC didn’t choose a side between two of the most dominant critics’ favorites we’ve seen on the circuit so far, giving their win to both Nomadland and Promising Young Woman. […] More
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