💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Once, I was working weekend dispatch for a limo company I got a call from a driver in Miami. “Hey is it OK if I step away from the stretch for a couple of hours?” he asked. “Well I…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · BEST PICTURE · Nominees: Bugonia F1 Frankenstein Hamnet Marty Supreme One Battle After Another The Secret Agent Sentimental Value Sinners Train Dreams Marty Supreme. D:…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · BEST DIRECTION · Nominees: Chloe Zhao, Hamnet Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value Ryan Coogler, Sinners…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · BEST PICTURE · The Locklair Lock by special contributor Josh Locklair Nominees: Bugonia F1 Frankenstein Hamnet Marty Supreme One Battle After Another The Secret Agent Sent…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · BEST DIRECTION · The Locklair Lock by special contributor Josh Locklair Nominees: Chloe Zhao, Hamnet Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR · Nominees: Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein Delroy Lindo, Sinners Sean Penn, One Battle After Another Stellan Skars…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS · Nominees: Elle Fanning, Sentimental Value Inge Ibsdotter Lilleas, Sentimental Value Amy Madigan, Weapons Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners Teyana Taylor, One Bat…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR · Nominees: Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein Delroy Lindo, Sinners Sean Penn, One Battle After Another Stellan Skars…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS · Nominees: Elle Fanning, Sentimental Value Inge Ibsdotter Lilleas, Sentimental Value Amy Madigan, Weapons Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners Teyana Taylor, One Bat…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Robert Duvall · 1931-2026. Robert Duvall had one of the great acting careers in American film. He made his debut as the misunderstood childhood boogeyman, Boo Radley. in the 1962…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Film industry legends lost 2025 · The year 2025 marked the departure of some of cinema’s greatest contributors of the past half century. Talented actors, directors, musicians and w…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Nouvelle Vague. · D: Richard Linklater (2025) If I was producing a film about the French New Wave centered around Jean-Luc Godard, Richard Linklater wouldn’t be my first choice to…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Rob Reiner · 1947-2025. Rob Reiner wasn’t a great director but he was good  and despite the horrific way he died, lucky. He was lucky that his first film, the heavy-metal parody T…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Frankenstein. · D: Guillermo del Toro (2025). Guillermo del Toro would be the world’s best horror director if he was really interested in horror, instead of seeing it as a shortcu…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Diane Ladd · 1935-2025 In Martha Coolidge’s 1991 film Rambling Rose, Mr. and Mrs. Hilyer (Robert Duvall and Diane Ladd) are being advised by a doctor (Kevin Conway) on the conditi…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · A House of Dynamite. · D: Kathryn Bigelow (2025). In A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow imagines a nuclear crisis three times, each with an increasingly certain result – the deto…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere. · D: Scott Cooper (2025). Among other things Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is a great depiction of the creation of a great work of art…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · One Battle After Another. · D: Paul Thomas Anderson (2025). The first twenty or so minutes of One Battle After Another is set circa the mid-eighties but so drenched in 60s revolut…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Diane Keaton · 1946-2025 When Alvy  Singer (Woody Allen) first meets Annie Hall he is charmed and so are we. Sporting androgynous clothes, girlish self-consciousness and apologies…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Robert Redford (1936-2025) · When I think of Robert Redford, I think of an actor whose effortless craft and charming masculinity was the standard for all actors of his generation.…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Robert Redford · 1936-2025. “He’s just a pretty boy” my mother used to say about Robert Redford, and that was the burden of the man who defined male beauty for a good part of the…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Highest 2 Lowest. · D: Spike Lee (2025). Spike Lee’s latest, a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s landmark  kidnapping thriller High and Low, stars Denzel Washington and costars the New…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Terence Stamp. · 1938-2025. Terence Stamp made a showing of how a pretty face hides an astringent melody. His angelic and vaguely androgynous countenance (In films like Billy Budd…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Weapons. · D: Zach Cregger (2025). Weapons opens with one of the best scenes of the year, an overview of a few blocks in the town of Maybrook, Pennsylvania as random young childre…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · The Fantastic Four: First Steps. · D: Matt Shakman (2025). What the new Fantastic Four reboot brings to the MCU is a sense of quiet and a team of adults. The film takes place in a…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Superman. · D: James Gunn (2025) It’s both obvious and surprising that the first film in James Gunn's rebooting of the DC cinematic universe is a Superman movie, written and direc…

💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Sinners. · D) Ryan Coogler (2025). In a sawmill on the outskirts of Clarksdale, Mississippi that Elijah “Smoke” Moore and his brother Elias “Stack”, (both played in a double star…