Today, I want to mix two things together. One is a slight tinkering of my early Oscar predictions. The other is to talk a bit about how Us could fare in the awards race. Yes, as you saw in my highly positive review yesterday and as you’ll see in the box office column tomorrow, Jordan Peele’s latest effort is a smash. Of course ... READ MORE
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Usually, biopics like to focus on prestigious figures. Artists, musicians, politicians, basically historical individuals of all stripes. Every so often, however, a film seeks to look at a horse of a different color. That can be a breath of fresh air, seeing a cinematic depiction of an unusual public figure or figures. Unfortunately, in th ... READ MORE
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Not that anyone expected it, but Jordan Peele did not suffer a sophomore slump here. After making a highly praised and Oscar winning debut with Get Out, he’s back with another horror outing in Us. The success of the former was no fluke, ladies in gentlemen, as the latter is the real deal. At the same time, can a film be wildly overp ... READ MORE
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The situation in Mozambique is a real humanitarian tragedy. HELP NOW!

Tropical Cyclone Idai has battered Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, devastating already vulnerable populations with severe damage and flooding.

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Author Martin Amis just can’t catch a break when it comes to seeing his novels adapted for the big screen. Last year saw the atrocious London Fields not so much get released as it did escape development hell. Now, after playing at the Toronto International Film Festival last year, another Amis adaptation hits theaters. It’s Ou ... READ MORE
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Folks, continuing on with one of the handful of weekly series that I do here at the site…we are talking about the top 25 Oscar winners in just about every single one of the Academy Award categories out there. Aside from the shorts and something like Best Sound Editing or Best Sound Mixing like I mentioned previously, I’ll be hitting t ... READ MORE
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A few years ago, filmmaker László Nemes blew festival audiences away with his Holocaust tale Son of Saul. Starting with an award winning debut at the Cannes Film Festival, the movie more or less swept the awards season, culminating in an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Feature. Nemes was immediately a new name to watch on the internatio ... READ MORE
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At last, we have a real first look at Quentin Tarantino’s latest. Yes, earlier today we got a glimpse of what Once Upon a Time in Hollywood actually is when the Teaser Trailer hit the web. Few things are as hotly anticipated as this one, given its star power both in front of and behind the camera. A Poster was recently released, as ... READ MORE
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Three titles in, filmmaker S. Craig Zahler has brought a whole new polish to the B movie. Whether it was a take on the Western with Bone Tomahawk, the prison movie with Brawl in Cell Block 99, or now the crooked cop drama with Dragged Across Concrete, Zahler is operating in a realm all his own. Brutally violent, lyrical in its dialogue, a ... READ MORE
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One of the titles that I’ve been predicting for probably more Academy Award love than most is the film Lucy in the Sky. Part of it is just a hunch on my part, though a lot of it has to do with the story and the talent involved here. This has a chance to be an under the radar gem. Earlier today, a Trailer was released for Lucy in the ... READ MORE
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