Amy Adams will be moderating a “To Leslie” Q&A on Tuesday evening. Add her to the long list of Oscar voters that have publicly backed the film, and Andrea Riseborough’s performance, in recent days.

Hard to believe that the Cannes lineup will be revealed in a little over 3 months from now. A lot of spitballing to come on my part. The last list was from around a month ago, but a lot has happened since then.

Here comes infamous Facebook poster Paul Schrader’s weekly rant. This time he’s tackling the ADD-driven filmmaking in today’s movies.

You just know the arthouse box-office is in dire shape when Variety actually has a headline that reads “‘The Whale’ Passes $10 Million at Domestic Box Office.”

I’ve already written about the “To Leslie” movement here and here, but I can’t stop and won’t stop talking about what is turning into an absolutely fascinating narrative.

Apparently, “M3GAN” will be headed to VOD on January 24th. That’s around 18 days after its January 6th theatrical debut .This is how studios operate these days — even if the movie is a hit, it’ll be available in no time on streaming.

Things are moving in Italy for Roman Polanski’s “The Palace.” The film wrapped production in June and now has an official theatrical release date set for April 6th.

So, The BRIT awards introduced an Artist Of The Year category as a gender neutral replacement for Best Male and Best Female Artist categories, but all five nominees this year turned out to be male. Whoops!

“Blonde” author Joyce Carol Oates went nasty on Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans.” This was unexpected, but I brought out the popcorn and am grateful 2023 has started off in such twisted fashion.

This movie is just getting the weirdest surge. We can add Kate Winslet as another “To Leslie” superfan. She’ll be hosting a post-screening Q&A of the film alongside director Michael Morris and actress Andrea Riseborough.

An Animation Scoop interview with legendary stop-motion Andy Gent has the maestro sharing details on re-teaming with Wes Anderson.

It’s been a wild week for precursors. The PGA, SAG and DGA all announced their nominees and suffice to say we don’t necessarily have a clearer picture of the Best Picture race. It’s all a jumbled mess.

Variety’s Clayton Davis has spoken to a few Oscar voters and decided that he’s seen enough, Michelle Williams will get a SUPPORTING actress nomination:

Apparently, with Oscar voting now underway, a massive behind-the-scenes push to get Andrea Riseborough and “To Leslie” nominated has begun.

On 12.14.22 I had the scoop that Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Amy Winehouse biopic, “Back to Black,” was going to start production in January.

At an event celebrating his collaborations with Steven Spielberg, 90-year old John Williams surprised the audience by saying he wants to keep scoring Spielberg's movies, even after previously announcing his retirement.