Month: January 2024

Cinematic and Box Office Achievement: WINNER: BarbieGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3John Wick: Chapter 4Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1OppenheimerSider-Man: Across the Spider-VerseThe Super Mario Bros. MovieTaylor Swift: The Eras Tour Best Picture – Animated: WINNER: The Boy and the HeronElementalSpider-Man: Across the Spider-VerseThe Super Mario Bros. MovieSuzumeWish Best Picture – Non-English Language: WINNER:
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Billie Eilish and Finneas have won Best Original Song at the 2024 Golden Globe Awards for “What Was I Made For?” from Barbie. They were in the running against Bruce Springsteen (She Came to Me’s “Addicted to Romance”), Dua Lipa (Barbie’s “Dance the Night”), Ryan Gosling (Barbie’s “I’m Just Ken”), Lenny Kravitz (Rustin’s “Road to
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In a world where superheroes, sequels, horror (thankfully) and anything IP related are king, it seems as though the risqué original thriller has gone by the wayside. Over the past ten years or so you’d be hard pressed to find anything other than The Invisible Man, You Should Have Left, Gerald’s Game, Gone Girl, or Knock, Knock that
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Best Female Actor – Limited Series, Anthology Series or Television Motion Picture: Riley Keough, Daisy Jones & The SixBrie Larson, Lessons in ChemistryElizabeth Olsen, Love & DeathJuno Temple, FargoRachel Weisz, Dead RingersAli Wong, Beef Best Male Actor – Limited Series, Anthology Series or Television Motion Picture: Matt Bomer, Fellow TravelersSam Claflin, Daisy Jones & The SixJon Hamm, FargoWoody Harrelson, White House PlumbersDavid Oyelowo, Lawmen: Bass
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Last night at the months-delayed Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, “Weird Al” Yankovic’s Daniel Radcliffe-starring biopic Weird: The Al Yankovic Story won the Emmy for Outstanding Television Movie. It was nominated alongside Hocus Pocus 2, Joel Kim Booster’s Fire Island, Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas, and the Predator prequel Prey. Yankovic joked: “Halfway to EGOT,
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The high concept supernatural thriller Night Swim is out in theaters now, plunging a family into an aquatic nightmare thanks to a haunted swimming pool. It also happens to be based on a 2014 short film of the same name by Rod Blackhurst and Bryce McGuire, and you can watch it right now. When speaking with McGuire
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In the male-dominated landscape of wartorn 1963 Saigon, Vietnam, Tricia and Charlene are two American wives striving to be the best possible “helpmeets” to their military husbands: sociable, graceful, obedient, obliging. Through author Alice McDermott’s precise, lingering prose, these women otherwise relegated to the margins bloom with agency and empathy. Charlene’s immense business acumen flares
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If you enjoyed Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls on SCREAMBOX, the Blu-ray is a treasure trove. The horror-comedy is accompanied by three different commentary tracks featuring writer-director-editor-star Andrew Bowser and various crew members, among other special features. Bowser is naturally funny, seamlessly slipping in Onyx-isms, but he’s also not afraid to get
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Alex Haughey’s new film is Under the Influencer, now available on streaming (Apple TV, Amazon). At first glance, the zany satirical comedy feels like something akin to a Harmony Korine picture, complete with dazzling color, meticulous framing (shout out to cinematographer Matthew Lynn, QC’s It Lives Inside), and strange and offbeat characterization. Quickly though, we’re
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