A surprise hit, Tommy Wirkola’s “Violent Night” is basically a “Die Hard” ripoff, but replace Bruce Willis with Santa Claus.

A major update has been done on the Gold Derby charts. Again, these are fairly accurate rankings and probably the same ten nominees that I would predict as of today, but maybe not in the same order.

I always look forward to ScreenSlate’s year-end polling of directors and critics. They’ve chosen the best films of the year and half the titles in the resulting top ten will be on my own (soon to be published).

It’s obvious Rotten Tomatoes made a mistake when dating Martin Scorsese’s still-unfilmed “Roosevelt” for July 14th of next year. Did they mean “Killers of the Flower Moon”? That makes way more sense given the Cannes rumors …

I’ve just come out of James Cameron’s “Avatar: The Way of Water.” I’ll try to keep my thoughts as briefly thorough as I possibly can, since I’m writing this on a laptop in some coffee shop. I might update this post later on.

So, there you go. Ari Aster’s “Disappointment Boulevard” is now called “Beau is Afraid,” according to A24.

It’s quite obvious what’s happening here. Most critics have now seen Brendan Fraser’s performance in “The Whale” and they are quickly realizing that his rise to the top was unearned hype.

Molly Ringwald has penned a New Yorker essay about her odd friendship with Jean-Luc Godard, noting that they stayed in touch after the 1987 “King Lear.”

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.