We have a great job. We know that. But along with all the sunshine, there's gotta be a little rain sometimes, and while we spend weeks in late November and December in deliberations about the best of the year i...
Oscar's big nomination day is still over a month away, but music got its moment in the spotlight as The Recording Academy revealed the nominees for the 59th Grammy Awards this morning and, as expected, Queen Be...
While the awards season is geared specifically to honor the more artistic achievements of the medium across the last year, for those who like their entertainment with a little more spectacle, there's always the...
It was, as you’ll have noticed from everybody talking about it constantly, and from all the lousy movies you saw, a bad summer creatively and commercially for Hollywood. Aside from “Captain America: Civil War” ...
September is here, and the fall film festivals have started —check out our Venice coverage so far, and our Telluride coverage starts tomorrow and TIFF next week. Nevertheless, the days are getting shorter and t...
WORST. SUMMER. EVER. By now you've heard that refrain applied to the 2016 blockbuster season. Normally, we're highly skeptical of any claims that suggest that the times we're living in right this second are so...
You know us —it's all sunshine and buttercups round here. Almost every other day of the year, we can be found frolicking in the bee-loud glades of cinephilia, delighting in the wonders on display with the unjad...
Hollywood is obviously focused on franchises, sequels and leveraging any kind of brand-based intellectual property: 'Lego,' 'Angry Birds,' Pez, Emojis — you name it. But as we posited earlier in the week, brand...
It’s been true for a long time, but it seems that 2016 offers more proof than ever that major studios are reluctant to make a film that’s not based on existing intellectual property. Everybody in Hollywood envi...
With summer arriving in a beautiful blaze on Memorial Day weekend, moviegoers opted to stay outdoors rather than dive into Hollywood's offering of two major blockbuster sequels. The result was a pair of franchi...