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Academy Awards : “The Boy and the Heron” and “Godzilla Minus One” Win Oscars!

Hayao Miyazaki, the legendary Japanese anime director, was crowned Best Animated Feature winner for The Boy and the Heron at the U.S. Academy Awards, beating out four other films in the same category, including Disney’s ‘Elemental’ and the U.S. superhero film ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.’ For the first time in more than two decades, Miyazaki was…

SAG Awards 2024: Check out the Winner’s list!

©The Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists The 30th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards aired live on Saturday through Netflix, giving out the top prize to the best individual and cast performances on film and television, which voted on by fellow actors. A Hollywood Blockbuster film, “Oppenheimer” scored three big wins at…

SAG Awards 2024 Nominations Announced

@Barbenheimer – Margot Robbie in Barbie and Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer The nominations for the 2024 SAG Awards have been announced. Oppenheimer and Barbie are leading the film categories with four nods each, including in the top category of best cast. Succession, meanwhile, has received the most recognition in the television categories. Besides best cast, Oppenheimer…

Barack Obama Shares His Top 10 Films of 2023

@The Oprah Conversation Former United States President Barack Obama isn’t just a great leader, but also he has done great works through his film production, Higher Ground by producing three remarkable films that his label helped produce this year – the acclaimed Colman Domingo-led biopic “Rustin,” the Julia Roberts and Mahershala Ali-led end of world…

What to Watch This Weekend – December 15-17, 2023

Check out more of our video reviews and interviews on our YouTube channel. It’s time for another edition of What to Watch This Weekend! As we bring you reviews and interviews of the latest major and independent releases, we want to be sure you know what to plan to see and stream on your own…

American Fiction : Press Conference with Writer/Director Cord Jefferson, Actors Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Oritz, Erika Alexander, Adam Brody, and Sterling K. Brown

Synopsis : American Fiction is Cord Jefferson‘s hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture’s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name…

December Oscar Frontrunners: What’s Ahead for Best Picture

It’s only the start of December, but prizes have already been handed out by groups like the Gotham Awards and the New York Film Critics Circle, with many more to follow. Nothing is an exact predictor for the Oscars, but they’re still informative precursors for the eventual nominees, check out our “December Oscar Frontrunners.” online…

AFI Fest Film Review – ‘American Fiction’ is a Smart and Savagely Entertaining Satire from Debut Director Cord Jefferson

Liberal society is in the process of reckoning with itself, realizing its shortcomings and the blindspots that have permeated culture for many years. While that’s led to a worthwhile spotlight on the previously underrepresented and a movement to showcase diversity, much of it has become little more than virtue signaling, where the aim of a…

Director Cord Jefferson’s Film, “American Fiction” Won the Top Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival

Director Cord Jefferson’s latest film, “American Fiction” garnered the top prize, People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.  Jefferson, who has been a writer on “Succession” and “Watchmen,” made his feature directorial debut with the movie and wrote the screenplay. It is based on Percival Everett’s 2001 novel, “Erasure.” MGM is releasing the…