Billed under the Family Matinee section of the Sundance Film Festival, today’s World Premiere of Fing!, an Australian-British production, proves to be one of the unexpected delights of the fest so far. Based on British entertainer and children’s…

Filmmaker Beth de Araujo has turned to cinema to bring her own personal trauma to the screen using a fictionalized situation to mirror the harrowing event in her childhood that has informed the rest of her life, leading to an 11-year quest to turn it…

Watching the new romantic drama Carousel (premiering today at the Sundance Film Festival) slowly unfold, I kept thinking this is the kind of love story for adults that Hollywood used to make with abandon but now feels like an endangered species. It…

Despite all the ink being spread about snubs and surprises out of Thursday’s nominations for the 98th annual Academy Awards, I was actually only surprised by how few “snubs” and “surprises” there really were. In the new reality of Oscar, it is lots…

Warner Bros made the Oscar history books with the just-revealed nominations for the 98th Academy Awards. Sinners with a whopping 16 just set the all-time record for nominations. It is up for Picture, Actor Michael B. Jordan, Supporting Actress…

Although the clever murder mystery thriller Mercy must be filed under science fiction, director Timur Bekmambetov and writer Marco Van Belle set it in 2029, and considering the ever-changing world we find ourselves in right now I thought this AI-driven…

There is still time, Academy members. But not much. If you have been procrastinating or still trying to squeeze in some last-minute films, it is now time to put your pencils down. Voting officially ends at 5 p.m. PT today. The various…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has acquired and will globally release the Oscar-shortlisted film The Singers from director Sam Davis. One of 15 current semifinalists for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film out of 207 films that qualified this year, The Sing…

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have found the perfect vehicle for a screen reteaming with director-writer Joe Carnahan’s The Rip, a fresh and smart entry into the overworked cop drama genre. Carnahan (Narc, The Grey) certainly knows his way around…

Tracy Letts does it all, and is currently doing it all, from one medium to another. He is represented this season with the first Broadway production of his acclaimed early play, Bug, which stars his wife Carrie Coon in a widely praised performance of…

Craig Brewer stumbled onto Greg Kohs’ rather obscure little documentary titled Song Sung Blue and knew then he wanted to turn the incredible true story into a major feature film with big starring roles for Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson. The story of…

The party at a restaurant on the ninth floor of Beverly Hills Maybourne Hotel was quite lively the minute the Hamnet group made their triumphant entrance after winning the final award of the night at the Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture Drama. They…