Kudos to Ben Affleck for adamantly refusing to make a DC movie. For months there had been rumors that James Gunn was trying to hire him to direct one of the movies in his newly created DC Universe.

I hearing the Safdie Brothers’ next film, starring Adam Sandler and Gael García Bernal, might have bumped up its production date from April to June.

Let’s all calm down and take a deep breath. There are some out there who think Matt Johnson’s “BlackBerry,” which I saw via a screener during the last Berlin Film Festival, can be an awards contender.

This year’s Oscars was filled with pricey ads. The most peculiar one came in the middle of the ceremony when the stars of Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” introduced the new trailer.

This year’s box-office has been surprisingly stellar with such mid-budget hits as “M3Gan,” “Creed III,” “Cocaine Bear,” “Scream VI” and “80 For Brady.”

I had written last December about this, but today the trades have finally caught up and reported that the next film Guillermo del Toro will direct is “Frankenstein.”

Great news, the latest Safdies project is slowly starting to come together.

The latest trend these past 24 hours has been to rank the last ten Best Picture winners. A fairly easy breezy task when you take into account how there were only a handful of great films that have won the big prize in recent years.

Thierry Fremaux will have such a headache this year when deciding which French films to select in competition, to the point where he might even pick as many as five.

Netflix is shutting down its Nancy Meyers movie because the writer-director wanted superhero movie money to make her romcom.

Quentin Tarantino’s 10th, and presumably, final film will be called “The Movie Critic.” That is the name of the script that Tarantino wrote and is set to direct this fall, according to THR’s sources.

We don’t know much about Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” except that it’s, maybe, 3 hours and 20 minutes and could premiere at Cannes in May.

First things first, Chad Stahelski’s “John Wick: Chapter 4” is too damn long. It’s akin to the first three films on steroids. There is no reason for it to be nearly 3 hours, especially since the plot is pretty thin and the characters underdeveloped.

Richard Linklater is up there with the best filmmakers of his era. His filmography is as original and diverse as they come: “Dazed and Confused,” “Waking Life,” “The School of Rock,” “Boyhood” and the ‘Before’ trilogy, among many more.

The Ben Affleck-directed Nike film “Air,” from Amazon Studios, has been selected to close out theSXSW Film Festival on Saturday.

We were all wondering whyCruise didn’t attend the Oscars, he was a big part of last year’s theatrical revival with the success of “Top Gun: Maverick,” and audiences would have loved to have seen him in attendance.

There’s already confusion over next year’s Oscar eligibility rules. It doesn’t even have to do with the theatrical/streaming debate, but, rather, if the film is inclusive enough.

I’ll be able to know just how overpraised (or underpraised) “John Wick: Chapter 4” is, there’s a scheduled press screening here in just over an hour.

Another year, another Spielberg loss. It seems to be its own annual Oscar tradition these days.

Mira Sorvino is justifiably angry and calling out the Academy for not including her late father Paul Sorvino during the In Memoriam tribute.