The Academy has officially launched “a review of the campaign procedures around this year’s nominees, to ensure that no guidelines were violated.” In other words, they want to see if Andrea Riseborough’s Oscar nomination was merited legally.

This year’s Sundance Film Festival will probably not be that well-remembered. Independent filmmaking right now is at crucial crossroads as smaller-scaled films struggle at the box-office and that, by miracle, whatever does get made is quickly snatched up by streamers.

It probably won't last long, but, yesterday, “Babylon” surpassed “Babylon” to take the #1 spot at the box-office in France. This is the first time any movie has surpassed “Avatar: The Way of Water” in that country.

Let the whining and complaining commence again! Sight and Sound announced today that they will unveiling the full top 250 of their All-Time Films poll this coming Tuesday.

The Guardian’s Philip Oltermann is reporting that the Oscar-nominated film was the victim of a “critical drubbing” in Germany.

Earlier this week I posted about how much I liked M Night Shyamalan’s “Knock at the Cabin.”

After nabbing a slew of Oscar nominations, A24 has decided to re-release the absurdist comedy-drama “Everything Everywhere All at Once” in theaters this weekend.

A Matthew Belloni insider piece claims the Academy is investigating whether the Best Actress grassroots campaign for Andrea Riseborough violated any rules.

Tarik Saleh already released a movie last year for Amazon, the generic action-thriller “The Conspirator” starring Chris Pine. A few months later he was in Cannes competition with “Cairo Conspiracy.”

An LA Times piece titled “It’s not just the Oscars that fail Black women. It’s the entire awards ecosystem,” written by Robert Daniels, caught some attention this week.

Well, lookee here. Steven Spielberg has been leading the the “experts” consensus over at Gold Derby for close to five months, but he’s finally been dethroned by … The Daniels! Are Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan actually going to win the Directing Oscar?

This decade has seen the release of critically-acclaimed neo-horror movies such as “The Invisible Man,” “Barbarian,” “Titane,” “Watcher” and “Possessor,” but I think I’ve just seen one to rival the best of them.

The fourth season of HBO’s “Succession” will premiere on March 26th, 2023. A trailer has also been released.

Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu has doubled down on his disdain for superhero movies. He recently told Variety‘s Marc Malkin that superheroes are “sad figures,” or was he talking about the fans themselves?

As if the Oscars needed another obstacle in their pursuit for better ratings on ABC. It turns out, the Oscars ceremony this coming March will be broadcast at the exact same time as “The Last of Us” season finale on HBO. Yikes.

I’m kind of positive on it. It’s a taut and propulsive thriller that manages — for the most part — to restrain Shyamalan’s worst filmmaking impulses.

It is hard to believe, but acclaimed director Claire Denis isn’t as well-liked in her native France as she is with Anglo-Saxon critics in the US and UK.

Honestly at this point, what even is the point of The Razzies, anymore? It used to be amusing, but they have become irrelevant, not that they ever were.

One of the regular questions I get via mail is when Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon” will be available on VOD.

Quentin Tarantino visited the Reel Blend podcast at with his Cinema Archives buddy, Roger Avary. The Indiana Jones quadrology came up as a topic of discussion.