UPDATE: The reviews are in and … not Oscar-worthy by any stretch of the imagination.

Some of the most legendary Director/Cinematographer partnerships: Bertolucci/Storaro, Bergman/Nykvist, Godard/Coutard, Spielberg/Kaminski, Wong/Doyle, Coen/Deakins, Welles/Toland, Malick/Lubezki …

Rian Johnson’s critically-acclaimed “Knives Out” sequel will open from November 23-29 in more than 600 theaters. It’s basically a one-week sneak preview before the film starts streaming a month later on December 23rd. The film now also has a new full-length trailer.

Toronto will be known as the place where Florian Zeller’s “The Son” officially crashed and burned. It currently sits at 47% on Rotten Tomatoes. This is not the reception Sony Pictures Classics expected for the film. It is now being released November 25th.

Sundance will be announcing their entire lineup in late November. This will be the first edition of the Park City-set festival to take place in-person since 2020.

Quentin Tarantino’s new nonfiction novel “Cinema Speculation” just arrived in the mail. This is Tarantino playing film critic and writing about his love for cinema. I’ll eventually share my thoughts.

An Oscar host has been found and it’s none other than Jimmy Ki … zzzz. Jimmy Kimmel. It’s Jimmy Kimmel. I guess Chris Rock declined the Academy’s invite.

I don’t particularly find Variety’s Clayton Davis to be as clueless as many out there claim him to be. After all, Davis attends all the big Academy screenings and gets a good vibe as to what is well-received by voters.

Many have been trying to pinpoint the exact reasons why Parker Finn’s “Smile” has been such a resounding box-office. After all, it has no big-name actors and the reviews were not that overtly spectacular.

In the December 2022 issue of Total Film (via /Film), James Cameron admits that if "Avatar: The Way of Water" doesn’t do well financially then he might stop making ‘Avatar’ movies after the already-completed third instalment gets released:

Steven Spielberg’s “The Fablemans” is finally getting released in select cities on Friday. That means we’ll be getting more reviews trickling in that could give us a better picture of its current Oscar frontrunner status.

With Edward Berger’s “All Quiet in the Western Front” now on Netflix, seemingly a very popular watch and getting good reviews, what have been the best war movies of the 21st century?

Last month, I reposted a 2019 piece I had written on the turbulent post-production process James Gray had to endure during “Ad Astra. 

From the very late ‘80s to the end of the aughts you couldn’t escape Morgan Freeman’s presence on-screen.

An IMDB Pro update is telling us that Francis Ford Coppola has started production on “Megalopolis” in Georgia.

Quentin Tarantino is not a fan of the MCU. Not a big surprise. Variety reports (via the Los Angeles Times) that, on the press tour for his new book, Tarantino had some none-too-pleasing words for directors who work with Marvel.

Vertical Entertainment has picked up “Misanthrope”, a psychological thriller from Argentinian director Damián Szifron (Wild Tales).

Eric Kohn and Anne Thompson have decided to team up for their Best International Film predictions. It’s a very competitive race this year and, as we speak, there is really no clear frontrunner.

There are many noteworthy movies in theaters right now: “The Banshees of Inisherin,” “TÁR,” “Aftersun,” “Armageddon Time,” “Triangle of Sadness” “Decision to Leave” … So much so that smaller films can easily get lost in the shuffle.