Back in August, I had been told that Warner Bros CEO David Zaslav was a big fan of “The Flash.”

Reviews are under embargo until 12.16.22 but social media reactions are allowed …

Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Pinocchio’ had a rousing world premiere at the BFI/London Film Festival back in October. Reviews were all unanimously praise-worthy, it was even in the 90s on Metacritic … and then more people saw it.

Quite a few developments today. Firstly, it now has a teaser trailer and, more peculiarly, it has a March 29th, 2024 release date attached to it.

During an episode of the Happy. Sad. Confused. podcast, Adam Sandler spoke about his upcoming Safdie Brothers film and a potential team-up with filmmaker Todd Field.

This will likely be the first of several Best Film awards it’ll receive in the coming days and weeks .. on its way to an inevitable Best Picture nomination at the Oscars.

One film that is quickly falling off prediction charts is Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale,” which, all of a sudden, has a 63 on Metacritic? I didn’t expect that. When did this happen?

Over the weekend I had posted about a Caltech professor by the name of Girish Shambu having been hired by BFI in early summer as a “voting consultant” for the 2022 Sight and Sound poll.

Back in late September, projections were that “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” would turn in a $424 million domestic haul, well below what its 2018 predecessor pulled in.

Our Sight and Sound directors’ ballots compilation has gathered around 85 lists so far. I’ll probably give it a final update later this afternoon.

Andrew Dominik’s “Blonde” was roasted by American critics when it came out in late September.

At a Metrograph Q&A for “The Eternal Daughter,” Martin Scorsese mentioned that his upcoming “Killers of the Flower Moon” is being mixed and will be released “in a few months.”

Steven Spielberg’s love letter to himself is drowning fast at the box-office. After last week’s tepid $2.2 million , it stands to not make more than an estimated $1.3 million this weekend.

With a resume that includes “Hunger,” “Shame,” “12 Years A Slave,” and “Lovers Rock” (all excellent) it’s always exciting to find out what former-visual-artist-turned-director Steven McQueen will do next.

Coming off a certain peanut-shaped man trying to, in failing fashion, put his pretentious finger to the pulse of this whole Sight and Sound debacle, here comes another critic calling out Paul Schrader’s S&S criticism as “white supremacy!”

I tried hard to give Inarritu’s “Bardo” a fair shot. I stuck with it for its entire 150 minutes, but the “wisdom” this fiom seems to be conveying is pure claptrap.

With Kohn/Thompson and, now, Variety’s Clayton Davis hopping onboard the “Banshees of Inisherin” frontrunner train, I can see a changing of the guarding maybe occurring in the next few weeks.

With all the drama surrounding Sight and Sound’s critics poll, the Directors’ Poll has now emerged as the go-to for comprehensive film history.