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As the early days of the precursors for the 2025 awards season approach, many categories remain unclear, while others are viewed with considerable confidence, even at this early stage. One such category is Best Actor, where Timothée Chalamet’s towering performance...

For this week’s second podcast review, Ema Sasic, Dan Bayer, and Nadia Dalimonte join me to review and discuss the latest film from Lynne Ramsay, “Die My Love,” starring Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Sissy Spacek, LaKeith Stanfield & Nick Nolte. The film follows Grace (Lawrence),...

At the 98th Academy Awards, a momentous event will come to pass. For the first time in nearly 25 years (since the introduction of the Oscar for Best Animated Feature), a new category will debut at the Academy Awards: Best...

“Now You See Me: Now You Don’t” is an American heist film directed by Ruben Fleischer from a screenplay by Michael Lesslie, the writing duo of Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese, and Seth Grahame-Smith, based on a story by Eric...

“Left-Handed Girl” is an international indie drama written, directed, and produced by Shih-Ching Tsou, starring Janel Tsai, Shih-Yuan Ma, Nina Ye, Brando Huang, Akio Chen, and Xin-Yan Chao. Multi Academy Award-winner Sean Baker served as co-writer, producer, and editor. The...

It took a long time, with some early pitfalls to overcome, but Netflix finally seems to have a film all but locked into the Best Picture field with Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein.” This puts Netflix in the same boat NEON...

THE STORY – A man joins a game show in which contestants, allowed to go anywhere in the world, are pursued by “hunters” hired to kill them. THE CAST – Glen Powell, William H. Macy, Lee Pace, Michael Cera, Emilia Jones,...

When “Sorry, Baby” first premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, it seemed like a shoo-in for awards season success. It was emotionally moving, had some of the highest critical acclaim of the year, and was the film with the...

The Palm Springs International Film Awards has announced that Michael B. Jordan is the recipient of the Icon Award for his performance in “Sinners.” The Film Awards will take place on January 3rd, 2026, at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the...

THE STORY – The Four Horsemen reunite to recruit three skilled illusionists for a high-stakes heist involving the theft of the world’s largest queen diamond from a powerful family crime syndicate. THE CAST – Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, Morgan...