For most of the fall season, the pundits, predictors, whatever you want to call them, were saying that Brendan Fraser was going to win Best Actor at the Oscars. I feel like the tide has slightly changed, don’t you?

Elsa Kesslassy’s recent piece titled “Is Roman Polanski’s New Film ‘The Palace’ Going to Cannes or Venice?,” for Variety, has a few neat tidbits buried in the lede.

It was bound to happen, but the embargo has lifted on M. Night Shyamalan’s “Knock at the Cabin” and, much like Radio Raheem’s knuckles in “Do the Right Thing,” the reviews are split into two camps. Love and Hate.

UPDATED: I’ve done some digging these last 24 hours to try and find out more details about this mysterious new Zach Cregger’s movie, “Weapons.”

Another Un Certain Regard keeper that should have probably been in last year’s Cannes competition.

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has announced that he’s going through a hunger strike to protest his continued incarceration in Iranian prison.

As we await the next Joel and Ethan Coen collaboration, the former was a guest of honor at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

Metro writer Alicia Adejobi is right. Viola Davis was ROBBED of an Oscar nomination because the Academy didn’t check their white privilege at the door.

I can’t tell you how many emails I get about these “Megalopolis” set photos. The costumes look flamboyantly over-the-top.

Another example of the strange, shape-shifting phase that theatrical currently is in, one of our most anticipated films of 2023, Michael Mann’s “Ferrari”, still has no American distributor.

The embargo for M. Night Shyamalan’s “Knock at the Cabin” will be lifted tonight. I liked the film. One of the better ones he’s released in recent years.

It’s February, which means the time has come for my monthly Cannes update. Press and industry accreditation has officially opened this morning, which also means we’re closer to the main event than we think.

Finally, this nonsense Andrea Riseborough “investigation” has come to and end.

A whole separate article needed to be written about David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks: The Return” placing at #152 on Sight and Sound’s Greatest of All-Time List.

They have her emails! Oh no, the crimes, all the crimes. No, but seriously, this is getting ridiculous.

Will Smith has announced that the fourth Bad Boys movie, called “Bad Boys 4,” is officially happening. Why couldn’t they just call it “Bad Boys 4 Life”?!

When James Gunn took the the stage this morning to announce the upcoming DCEU slate, there was probably a great deal of speculation as to what the future would hold for Ezra Miller and “The Flash.”

BFI/Sight and Sound have just released the full top 250 of their prestigious per-decade film poll. I can’t highlight everything, but here you’ll get to see the full rundown.

There are some real doozies in Pedro Almodovar’s recent Spanish-language interview. I’ve covered many of them already in the past 24 hours.