So far, it’s looking very good for James Cameron’s 192-minute epic
Read more‘RRR’ Is All of a Sudden a Potential Best Picture Nominee?
If there’s one film that has received a surprising push from the latest critics group awards then it’s definitely SS Rajamouli’s “RRR.” What a story this is becoming.
Read more‘A Man Called Otto’ Screens …
Not to sound like a broken clock, but this year’s Best Actor race is very weak. You basically have three locks: Brendan Fraser, Collin Farrell and Austin Butler. The remaining two spots will be a showdown between Tom Cruise, Bill Nighy, Paul Mescal, Hugh Jackman, Gabrielle LaBelle, Adam Sandler and … Tom Hanks?
Read more‘The Flash’ Test-Screening Reactions Have Been Overwhelmingly Positive
‘Babylon’ is Unlike Any Movie I’ve Seen Before — Ambitious, Messy, Preposterous and Volcanic
Reviews are under embargo until 12.16.22 but social media reactions are allowed …
Read more‘Pinocchio’ Has Kind of Deflated
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.
Read moreBong Joon-ho’s ‘Mickey17’ Teaser, Set For March 2024 Release
Daniel Day-Lewis Loved ‘Uncut Gems’ So Much That He Now Regularly Texts and Hangs Out With Adam Sandler
Atlanta Film Critics Circle Names ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ Best Film of 2022
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.
Read more‘The Whale’ Being Released on Friday; Reviews Are Mixed
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?
Read moreMore Confirmation About Sight and Sound Poll’s Voting Overhaul
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.
Read more‘Wakanda Forever’ Set to Gross 40% Less Than the Original
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.
Read moreS&S: Interesting Notes on Some of the Director’s Lists …
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.
Read moreRidley Scott’s ‘Gladiator 2’ in Pre-Production; Set to Shoot in Morocco
Andrew Dominik: Hate For ‘Blonde’ Stems From US Critics Wanting An “Empowered Woman” Depicted On-Screen
Andrew Dominik’s “Blonde” was roasted by American critics when it came out in late September.
Read moreMartin Scorsese Says ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Will Be Released “In A Few Months”
‘Fabelmans’ Will Barely Make $1 Million This Weekend
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.
Read moreSteve McQueen’s WWII Epic ‘Blitz’ Starts Production
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.
Read moreS&S Hired Voting Consultant Who Vowed to “Push Hard on Straight White Male Canon” and “Set it on Fire”
Just a day before the Sight and Sound results were published, the LA Review of Books had an excellent piece on the potential drama that could surround this year’s results.
Read moreCritic Calls Out Paul Schrader, Compares Him to “White Supremacist”
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!”
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Yes, ‘Doomsday’ was shot without a finalized script. It was being written as production rolled on. The screenplay was still under development on set, with daily rewrites and updates in progress.