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Sam Mendes Wins Top 2020 DGA Award For ‘1917’

January 26, 2020 2:28 am

The race for Best Picture took an interesting turn tonight as Sam Mendes took the top DGA Award prize for Best Director of a Feature Film for "1917." The Universal Release has now won both the PGA Award and th...

Shia LeBeouf Already Wrote His Follow-Up To ‘Honey Boy,’ And It’s Based On The Life Of Rapper Kevin Abstract

Rafael Motamayor

January 20, 2020 3:46 pm

News

We’re living in an age of actors renaissances, Matthew McConaughey, Keanu Reeves, and now Adam Sandler and Eddie Murphy are getting the praise they haven’t had in a while, or that simply a different kind of pr...

Lena Wilson’s Top 10 Films Of 2019

Lena Wilson

December 29, 2019 2:25 pm

News

2019 cinema was, in a word, chaotic. Dreams were dashed, franchises fractured, box offices bungled. Some of the most anticipated films of the year – “The Goldfinch” for art nerds, “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywal...

Ryan Oliver’s Top 25 Films of 2019 [Video]

Ryan Oliver

December 23, 2019 9:44 am

News

Happy Holidays to you and yours. This season brings forth time-honored traditions of attempting to take it easy at work to spend time with loved ones, and compiling the year-end “Best Of” list and debate online...

‘Honey Boy’ Director Alma Har’el Blasts Golden Globes For No Female Director Nominees

Charles Barfield

December 9, 2019 11:49 am

News

Every year, there’s always some controversy surrounding the major awards ceremonies in the film industry. A few years ago, headlines were made because of the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite, highlighting the lack of div...

‘Honey Boy’ Exclusive: Director Alma Har’el On Capturing Shia LaBeouf As A ‘Puppet’ In Hollywood [Video]

Gregory Ellwood

December 5, 2019 7:43 pm

Awards, Awards Campaign, News

Filmmaker Alma Har'el has been on a strange journey since debuting "Honey Boy" at the Sundance Film Festival almost a year ago. The film chronicles Shia LaBeouf's unconventional life as a child star through a c...

‘Honey Boy’ Trailer: Shia LaBeouf’s Deeply Personal Film Is A Serious Awards Season Contender

Charles Barfield

November 22, 2019 1:24 pm

News, Trailers

As we look back at the surprising stories that made 2019 so interesting, one of the biggest ones is the resurgence of actor Shia LaBeouf. After years that found the actor toiling away in films that didn’t live ...

Spirit Awards, Spirit Awards 2020, The Lighthouse

‘Uncut Gems’ & ‘The Lighthouse’ Top 2020 Independent Spirit Awards Nominations

Gregory Ellwood

November 21, 2019 1:28 pm

Awards, Awards Campaign, News

Film Independent announced the 2020 Independent Spirit Awards nominations on Thursday morning and the bigger winner was A24 Films. The indie distributor took 18 nominations overall including two Best Feature no...

‘Ford V Ferrari’ & ‘Honey Boy’ Might Be Miles Apart But They Have Surprising Similarities [The Discourse Podcast]

Ryan Oliver

November 20, 2019 3:16 pm

News, Podcasts

Ladies and gentlemen... start your engines... for another edition of The Discourse, the program where we discuss film and television reviews, news, and anything else in the pop culture zeitgeist that we feel th...

Director Alma Har’el On ‘Honey Boy’, Therapy & The New & Improved Shia LaBeouf [Interview]

Alex Arabian

November 6, 2019 1:45 pm

Interviews, News

The brilliant creative relationship between Alma Har'el and Shia LaBeouf began seven years ago when the actor contacted the documentarian after viewing her genre-bending documentary, "Bombay Beach," a hypnagogi...

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