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Key Oscars Takeaways After SAG Noms & BAFTA Longlists

January 12, 2022 2:30 pm

Oscar season giveth and Oscar season taketh away. You can truly never make anyone happy during awards season and that was the case this morning with the revelation of both the 2022 BAFTA Awards longlists and t...

Will ‘Mass’ Put Ann Dowd On A Path To An Oscar Nomination? [Interview]

Gregory Ellwood

October 8, 2021 8:56 am

Awards, Awards Campaign, Interviews, News

Ann Dowd has been a working actor in film and television for over 35 years. She’s an Emmy winner for “The Handmaid’s Tale,” won Best Supporting Actress honor from the National Board of Review for 2012’s “Compl...

‘Mass’ Trailer: The Heartbreaking Aftermath Of Gun Violence Is Confronted In This Acclaimed Sundance Drama

Ned Booth

August 31, 2021 9:56 am

News, Trailers

Sundance International Film Festival allows for a wide variety of unique and personal films to be screened each year. Such allows for several emotional and difficult stories to be told throughout the festival....

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Is Bleak & Harrowing, But Still Undercut By Its White Feminist Perspective [Review]

Dark Sky Lady

April 29, 2021 4:39 pm

Features, News, Reviews, Television

Even for a show as harrowing as Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the fourth season of the series, based on Margaret Atwood's famous dystopian novel and cautionary tale, is surprisingly bleak. Granted, a show deal...

‘Mass’: An Impressively Depressing Four-Way Powerhouse, Until the Walls Close In [Sundance]

Jessica Kiang

January 30, 2021 8:28 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

It's hard to say if the excoriating debut film written, produced, and directed by Fran Kranz, in being an extraordinarily depressing chamber piece dealing with the long-after fallout of a school shooting, is t...

‘Search Party’ Season 4 Teaser Trailer: HBO Max’s Alia Shawkat-Led Dark Comedy Series Returns January 14

Rodrigo Perez

December 15, 2020 4:00 pm

News, Television, Trailers

'It stopped being a party a long time ago," is the new tagline for season four of HBO Max's "Search Party" and ain't that the truth. Originally on TBS, "Search Party" was seemingly a fun, amusing, hip, funny s...

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Three 2018 Emmy Races That Are Closer Than You Think

Gregory Ellwood

August 21, 2018 10:15 am

Awards, Awards Campaign, Television

There's just one week left for Television Academy members to cast their votes for the 2018 Primetime Emmy Awards. And while there is hardly a network or contender that isn't still scrounging for votes at this ...

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Tiffany Haddish, Timothee Chalamet Among Massive 928 New Academy Class

Gregory Ellwood

June 25, 2018 4:26 pm

Awards, Awards Campaign, News

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences made history today inviting a record 928 new members as it aims to expedite its long-term goal of a more diverse membership overall. According to the AMPAS 49%...

‘Nancy’ Proves Andrea Riseborough Is One Of The Greatest Actors Working Today [Review]

Lena Wilson

June 8, 2018 2:05 pm

News, Reviews

There’s no predicting which indie films will turn into hits, but there are a few small-time projects that have rocketed actors into stardom. Often the actors help push these projects themselves: “Monster” broug...

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’: We’ve Been Sent Good Weather With The Brilliant, Challenging Season 2 [Review]

Jessica Kiang

April 23, 2018 4:40 pm

Features, News, Reviews, Television

This spoiler-free review is based on the first 6 episodes of Season 2 of "The Handmaid's Tale," which were made available to reviewers in advance. Seldom has any TV show found its moment the way Hulu's "The...

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