Gold Derby’s top five in the Best Actress category is currently composed of Cate Blanchett (TÁR), Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All At Once), Danielle Deadwyler (Till), Viola Davis (The Woman King) and Michelle Williams (The Fabelmans).

It must really mean something to John Carpenter to go from having almost every film of his panned in the ‘80s and ‘90s to now becoming one of the most influential American auteurs on today’s younger crop of filmmakers.

Academy president Janet Yang breached ethiquette last week by posting a lengthy endorsement of Michelle Yeoh and “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” just as Oscar voting was starting.

I won’t pretend that I know every precise detail of the accusations that have been thrown against Kevin Spacey in recent years.

The above tweet is from a filmmaker whose 2022 film, “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair,” was a worthy addition to last year’s indie scene. It was a screwed-up Lynchian look at online anarchy.

One of the great living directors is a major fan of Ron Howard’s “Thirteen Lives.”

Director Jeff Nichols already has “The Bikeriders” in post-production and it seems as though he won’t be taking much of a break.

This is pretty great. James Cameron and SS Rajamouli bumped into each other at the critics choice awards and had an impromptu 10-minute conversation about Rajamouli’s “RRR.”

"Babylon" has not been as critically acclaimed as Damien Chazelle's last three movies. It currently has a 55% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

This morning you have a lot of people claiming that “Everything Everywhere All At Once” winning BIG at last night’s Critics Choice awards means it’s the actual Best Picture frontrunner. Wrong! It’s not.

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.