It’s official. Hayao Miyazaki’s next animated film, titled “How Do You Live,” will be released next summer..

This is crushing news. Maestro composer Angelo Badalmenti has passed away at the age of 85.

IndieWire polled 165 critics and asked them to submit their picks for the best films of 2022. I again completely forgot to submit my ballot this year. I need a better, more structured calendar …

A24 is hinting that something is coming in regards to Ari Aster’s long-awaited “Disappointment Blvd.” But what exactly? Trailer? Surprise year-end release?

THR’s Abbey White is again demonstrating how Film journalism can be a total joke these days and why more and more cinephiles are jumping into alternative media platforms such as this one.

For some reason, the same hypocrites who called for the Golden Globes to be permanently canceled last year are now talking about them again.

As I reported last week, a test-screening for Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” was supposed to happen in the West Coast on Saturday, but it got cancelled in the last minute. We’ll have to keep an eye out if a replacement date occurs at any point.

“Oppenheimer” is being released in theaters on July 21st, but there’s already this massive campaign behind the film.

Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg had a post-screening talk at the DGA last night. Gosh, I wish I was in attendance. This comes after Paul Thomas Anderson conducted a Q&A with Spielberg a little more than a week ago.

Starting at 10am PST, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association will start revealing their year-end awards. I’m hearing there is already lots of love for “RRR” and “Decision to Leave” within this group. More to come …

Steven Spielberg's “The Fabelmans” added another 335 screens this weekend, it was playing in a little less than 1000 screens, but still managed to dip -7% in its 5th weekend by grossing $1.1M.

There have been rumors that a new full-length trailer is ready to go for Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.” We already had a teaser released this past summer, but Nolan tends to release lengthier trailers in the month of December.

In case you haven’t heard, Taylor Swift is now a legitimate filmmaker. Swift announced her directorial debut with an original script last week. I didn’t report it because I couldn’t care less about this news.

Owen Gleiberman’s rave this past week did not convince me that the upcoming Whitney Houston biopic will be anything more than a glorified TV movie.

As one can see below, about a quarter of the Sight and Sound’s too 100 list changed from 2012, with major showings for a number of women filmmakers

If there’s one film that has received a surprising push from the latest critics group awards, it’s definitely SS Rajamouli’s “RRR.”

“The Whale” grossed an estimated $159K on Friday from 6 locations in NY/LA, for a daily per-location average of $26,525.

I get it, Quentin Tarantino’s comments about the ‘50s being one of the worst decades for cinema stems from his belief that the Hays Code limited artistic expression in Hollywood during that decade.