Two press and industry screenings of “Babylon” are taking place tonight at Lincoln Square in NYC. Will New York critics be kinder to the film than their West Coast counterparts?

I spoke to two Oscar voters via email this week. Both incidentally pointed out Ron Howard’s “Thirteen Lives” as a standout for them this awards season.

Comedian Dave Chappelle reportedly tricked SNL producers into sneaking in his controversial stand-up routine from last Saturday night, via The New York Post.

I am more and more leaning towards the belief that “Emancipation” probably won’t be a good movie. Not because of Will Smith, whom I’ve always thought to be a talented actor, but more due to the fact that Fuqua is directing the slavery epic.

Back in 2003, Philip Berk, a former president and member of the Golden Globes, had groped and assaulted Brendan Fraser at a luncheon at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Quentin Tarantino was on the Howard Stern show for an interview and when asked what he believes to be his best movie he quickly had an answer:

If you lived through ‘90s, and aughts cinema, filmmaker Ang Lee could do no wrong. It seemed as though almost every movie he made turned out to be very memorable.

A trailer for Steven Soderbergh’A trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming “Magic Mike’s Last Dance” has been released. As with all Soderberghs, I look forward to this one.

A few alarming bells rang this weekend with “The Fabelmans” barely matching the same limited release numbers as “TAR” and “The Banshees of Inisherin.”

Reviews keep trickling in for Sam Mendes’ “Empire of Light”, but one score I did not expect to see was the 46% it currently has on Rotten Tomatoes (based on 54 reviews).

Slowly, but surely these last few years the Letterboxd Top 250 has surpassed IMDB’s own Top 250 as the go-to all-time user list on the internet. At least for the hardcore cinephiles it has.

My apologies to those who emailed me the past few weeks over my reluctance to tackle the GLOWING 99% audience score “The Woman King” garnered on Rotten Tomatoes.

Here’s some, umm … interesting developing news. According to What’s On Netflix, Greta Gerwig is going to direct two “Narnia” movies for Netflix.

Todd Phillips, Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix will be busy for the next five months. According to a post on Production Weekly, “Joker 2: Folie A Deux” is set to start production on November 30th and has a wrap date of April 6th.

“Babylon” is having its first official screening in Los Angeles. The film will then be screened for press on Wednesday in New York City. Both are Guild screenings with press allowed to attend, the cast and crew will be doing Q&As right after.

A question that keeps being asked is why I don’t do interviews anymore. The truth is that I’m currently not in the kind of mindset to really do them, I’ll always make exceptions such as my chat with David Cronenberg this past May at Cannes, but I have no desire at the moment.

In 2012, Welles' "Citizen Kane" had been dethroned from the Sight & Sound list of the greatest films of all time, and replaced by Hitchcock's "Vertigo." Roger Ebert exclaimed at the time, “The king is dead. Long live the king.”

Saim Sadiq’s Cannes-winning “Saim Sadiq’s Cannes-winning “Joyland” has been banned by the Pakistani government for containing “highly objectionable” material.