Variety’s Clayton Davis is reporting what I’ve known for quite a few months now: Academy voters’ love for “Top Gun: Maverick” is real and it could go all the way.

Last December, I broke the news that Wes Anderson’s “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” will be released this year. Now Netflix has made it official via press release. The date is TBD 2023.

We finally have a date for David Fincher’s “The Killer.” Netflix has set up a November 10th release for the film, right in the thick of awards season. You think they’re confident about this one?

I never doubted French film critics would fall hard for Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon.”

Tom Hanks‘ latest film, “A Man Called Otto,” has become a box-office success. The film opened in just a few theaters late last year, but has progressively gained in momentum over these last few weeks.

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.”