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in ReviewsFilm Review: Uneven ‘Swan Song’ Gives Mahershala Ali His First Lead Role
Mahershala Ali has been a working actor for 20 years, but it seems like his role as Remy on Netflix’s House of Cards is what brought him his breakthrough moment. Since then, he has gone on to win two Oscars (for Moonlight and Green Book) in the span of two years and has cemented himself […] More
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AppleTV+ Releases First Trailer For New Film ‘Swan Song’
Apple Original Films has released the first look into its new science fiction drama entitled Swan Song. The film starts Academy Award winner Mahershala Ali in the leading role about a dying man who wishes to have himself replaced with a clone so his family will never know of his passing. The cast is rounded […] More
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Film Review: ‘Four Good Days’ Features Good Acting Among the Myriad Cliches
Cliches aren’t inherently a bad thing. I know it sounds odd, but it’s true. After all, as I’ve said before, cliches only get that way because they work. More important than whether a film utilizes a cliche or not is how it does so. Deftly play with them and no one will mind. Lazily throw […] More
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Before the Gold: Best Supporting Actress
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. This year’s Best Supporting Actress category looked to be in a constant state of flux for most […] More
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Interview: Owen Asztalos Discusses His Breakthrough Performance in ‘Hillbilly Elegy’
If you’ve seen Hillbilly Elegy, it’s likely you ended the film thinking about Owen Asztalos. Whether the movie moved you or fell flat, Asztalos managed to walk away with it, and that’s truly no small achievement. After all, he’s acting opposite Amy Adams, Haley Bennett, and Glenn Close. Especially in the cases of Adams and […] More
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Film Review: ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Draws Strong Acting but Middling Originality
Oscar catnip, at least on paper, Hillbilly Elegy has all the makings of an awards season juggernaut. It has Ron Howard in the director’s chair, himself an Academy Award winner. It’s distributed by Netflix, fast becoming the distributor most eager to tickle the Academy’s fancy. Oh, and let’s not forget that it stars Amy Adams […] More
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in Trailers
Amy Adams and Glenn Close Enter the Oscar Race with ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Trailer
Now that we’ve gotten Roger Deakins his Oscar (two, in fact), the consensus seems to be that it’s time the Academy righted some other wrongs, most notably in the acting categories. There are six actors in the history of the Academy Awards who have been nominated 6 or more times and never won. Four of […] More
