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Tom Cruise’s Ten Best Performances
Few A-list movie stars these days have been as durable as Tom Cruise. He can take a licking and keep on ticking, while still showing us something new from time to time. With the release this weekend of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, I wanted to take a look at[...]
“Steve Jobs” takes the Centerpiece slot at the New York Film Festival this year
Hot on the heels of the New York Film Festival announcing Don Cheadle’s Miles Ahead as its Closing Night Selection (to go along with Robert Zemeckis’ The Walk as its Opening Night pick), we now know what the Centerpiece will be, and it’s a big one. Despite some buzz about[...]
“Freeheld,” starring Julianne Moore enters the Oscar race with a touching Trailer
Issue driven films with a ton of heart usually find their way into the awards season one way or another. Hopefully, it’s because they’re good movies and legitimately important, either for the culture or the world in general. Sometimes though, it’s just due to how shamelessly manipulative they can be[...]
Don Cheadle’s directorial debut “Miles Ahead” will close the New York Film Festival
Last week, the 2015 New York Film Festival gave us potentially another piece of the awards season puzzle when they announced their Closing Night selection for the fest. In a bit of a surprise, it’s Don Cheadle’s directorial debut Miles Ahead, a biopic about musician Miles Davis. Cheadle co-wrote the[...]
“The Revenant” starring Leo DiCaprio: Oscar predictions for July
Now fully into the second half of the year (and believe it or not, we’re almost done with July), it’s the time that most start thinking about the Oscar contenders to come. Of course, I’ve already been doing that, but certain recent Trailers (one I’ve already spoken about this week[...]
“Paper Towns”: The latest from top tier scribes Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber
It’s no secret around these parts that I’m a big fan of screenwriting team Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber. In fact, I’ve already gone on the record once to say that I think they’re the most underrated writers in the business. Hollywood doesn’t realize what they have in Neustadter[...]
Jake Gyllenhaal fights for Oscar attention in “Southpaw”
Over the last week or so, Jake Gyllenhaal’s performance in Southpaw just became his main shot at Oscar attention. Part of that has to do with people seeing his film, which opens on Friday, but most of it has to do with one of his other 2015 releases being pushed[...]
The Ten Best Performances from Adam Sandler
If you ask me, Adam Sandler gets a bad rap these days. Sure, he doesn’t always challenge himself with the comedic projects he chooses, but when he picks a drama or a dramedy, he’s almost always aces at it. I happen to mostly enjoy Sandler’s work, even when it’s far[...]
Alejandro G. Iñárritu and “The Revenant, ” starring Leo DiCaprio, announce themselves as big players with a breathtaking Trailer
After Birdman won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Cinematography, you could certainly be forgiven for assuming that the Academy might not be the first thing on filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s mind. Yet, watching the Trailer for his new film The Revenant, the first thing you have[...]
“Irrational Man” and back: Ranking the films of Woody Allen
I know I’m one of the few, but in my humble opinion Woody Allen has yet to make an overtly bad film. His best are all time classics, but even his worst are still very much watchable movies that have pleasures to be found within them. On the occasion of[...]
