A Matthew Belloni insider piece claims the Academy is investigating whether the Best Actress grassroots campaign for Andrea Riseborough violated any rules.

Tarik Saleh already released a movie last year for Amazon, the generic action-thriller “The Conspirator” starring Chris Pine. A few months later he was in Cannes competition with “Cairo Conspiracy.”

An LA Times piece titled “It’s not just the Oscars that fail Black women. It’s the entire awards ecosystem,” written by Robert Daniels, caught some attention this week.

Well, lookee here. Steven Spielberg has been leading the the “experts” consensus over at Gold Derby for close to five months, but he’s finally been dethroned by … The Daniels! Are Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan actually going to win the Directing Oscar?

This decade has seen the release of critically-acclaimed neo-horror movies such as “The Invisible Man,” “Barbarian,” “Titane,” “Watcher” and “Possessor,” but I think I’ve just seen one to rival the best of them.

The fourth season of HBO’s “Succession” will premiere on March 26th, 2023. A trailer has also been released.

Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu has doubled down on his disdain for superhero movies. He recently told Variety‘s Marc Malkin that superheroes are “sad figures,” or was he talking about the fans themselves?

As if the Oscars needed another obstacle in their pursuit for better ratings on ABC. It turns out, the Oscars ceremony this coming March will be broadcast at the exact same time as “The Last of Us” season finale on HBO. Yikes.

I’m kind of positive on it. It’s a taut and propulsive thriller that manages — for the most part — to restrain Shyamalan’s worst filmmaking impulses.

It is hard to believe, but acclaimed director Claire Denis isn’t as well-liked in her native France as she is with Anglo-Saxon critics in the US and UK.

Honestly at this point, what even is the point of The Razzies, anymore? It used to be amusing, but they have become irrelevant, not that they ever were.

One of the regular questions I get via mail is when Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon” will be available on VOD.

Quentin Tarantino visited the Reel Blend podcast at with his Cinema Archives buddy, Roger Avary. The Indiana Jones quadrology came up as a topic of discussion.

Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman’s “Theater Camp” world premiered this past weekend at the Sundance Film Festival, where it received two standing ovations from the audience, one following the film itself and one after a post-screening musical performance.

British actress Andrea Riseborough, who just had her performance nominated for the small budget indie “To Leslie,” has a lot of passionate admirers in the industry.

This morning’s Oscar nominations saw “Elvis,” “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” “Avatar: The Way of Water” and “Top Gun: Maverick” all getting Best Picture nominations. That’s four box-office successes. Maybe this’ll boost the lagging ratings.

Writer-director Chinonye Chukwu, who is a very talented filmmaker, sounds like a sore loser in her social media attacks of the Academy.

The gist of the ire being thrown at the Academy today has to do with 1) no black women being in the final five for Lead Actress (despite Michelle Yeoh becoming the first ever Asian to get a main acting nod) and 2) there being no females nominated for Best Director.

Sean Penn was a guest on Bill Maher’s podcast and, when the topic of Woody Allen came about, both of them did not hold back in their defence of the legendary director:

I come as the bearer of bad news: Brandon Cronenberg’s “Infinity Pool” doesn’t amount to anything meaningful. This is disappointing, considering his last film was 2020’s visionary “Possessor.”