The only consolation for “Digger” right now, when it comes to the Oscar race, is that it is somehow not the lowest-reviewed film still considered to have a shot at major nominations. That position sti...

In all the years of the “eat the rich” genre and its more apocalyptic versions, from Parasite and Triangle of Sadness to Don’t Look Up and Bugonia, the most radical takedown of the rich, their politic...

More than a few movies were big winners and losers when they played at Venice, Telluride, and Toronto these last couple of weeks. But a potential big winner of the fall film festival season may be one...

When we look back at what we made famous in the 2000s, we tend to wag our fingers in self-pity and hindsight laden shame – between the likes of the War on Terror, the TMZ-ification of celebrity, badly...

From Venice opening day to the TIFF awards ceremony morning, the Oscar season received its usual amount of new twists and turns out of Venice, Telluride, and Toronto. In a way, one could argue nothing...

So much attention was given to Curry Barker and Kane Parsons as the horror blockbuster voices of the summer, it seemed to make Zach Cregger literally yesterday’s news. Only months earlier, Cregger was...

Although there are six months until Oscar night and the fall fests have only just started, it’s all too easy to think “The Odyssey” is unbeatable, because it has the strongest and seemingly most unsha...

A list of 75 films compiled on Letterboxd, including The Invite (2026), The Odyssey (2026), Blue Heron (2025), Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) and Project Hail Mary (2026).

Although the 2026-27 Oscar season has really been underway for months, thanks to the likes of “The Odyssey,” “Project Hail Mary,” “Obsession,” “The Invite,” and several Cannes films, the fall festival...

In the grand scale of damage David Zaslav has done to Warner Bros, Hollywood and maybe the entire country since 2023, deleting Coyote vs Acme for a tax write off, at bare minimum, is a mere drop in th...

Going into the fall and winter, several movies are being projected as Oscar favorites and sure-fire nominees sight unseen, as per usual. But it is also per usual to have a lot of those preseason favor...

It’s easy to assume that if an Oscar race comes down between someone who has won before and someone who hasn’t, the Academy would tend to prefer a newer winner. But when it comes to acting races, that...

Obsession and Backrooms supposedly made this a revolutionary summer for horror, but it was made that way for some demographics above others. If Obsession was in any way from the perspective of its vic...

Last year the Best Actress race was considered one of the least suspenseful and most predictable of the entire decade, in more ways than one. There was an overwhelming favorite out of Telluride who sw...

In 2025, A24’s Oscar season strategy for the entire year was basically “Marty Supreme” or absolutely nothing, and it paid off until it lost all nine of its nominations on Oscar night. But in 2026, A24...

While “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” got all the headlines for its box office records this past week, “The Odyssey” also hit its most important milestones to date. It became the 16th movie ever to make o...

2025 was a historically disappointing year for Searchlight Pictures, without a single Best Picture nomination or even an Oscar nomination in any category at all. It was their first year without a Best...

The end of the MCU’s dominance and legitimacy may not have been Avengers: Endgame in 2019, but Spider-Man: No Way Home in 2021. The MCU was still on top with a share of well received movies and shows ...

WARNING: Spoilers for “The Odyssey,” “Disclosure Day,” and “Project Hail Mary” Two straight hit weekends for “The Odyssey” that exceeded all expectations at the box office have proved audiences want t...

In a shocking and historic twist, arguably the greatest player in NBA history is joining the Sixers, catapulting the team back into full-blown championship contention.

The first weekend of “The Odyssey” is over; all the reviews have been tallied on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, and over $124.5 million in box office in America alone has been cashed in. All told, “T...

In 2023, Christopher Nolan completed a decades-long odyssey of monumental successes with the defining victory of his career in Oppenheimer, leaving nothing left to accomplish and perhaps nowhere to go...

Tomorrow, we will know the full scale of reactions and the full review scores for “The Odyssey,” and whether they validate the initial social reactions and Oscar predictions. But even if those turn ou...

Every movie starring middle aged adults that doesn’t have explosions, isn’t a period piece, or isn’t made for arthouses or Oscar season, is treated these days like the kind of “adult” movie no one mak...

In the first Best Picture predictions by the Next Best Picture team and most other pundits, something is missing from their collective field of ten – a movie made by a woman. Despite every Best Pictur...

July 1st marked a milestone in coverage of the 2026 Oscar season, as the Next Best Picture team revealed their first predictions of the season. These debut picks don’t usually end up all that accurate...

After the 4th of July weekend, all eyes will be glued to “The Odyssey” as it begins its world premiere screenings on July 6th, leading up to its July 17th wide release. In a matter of days, we will ha...

After two Minions movies that showed how the Minions met young Gru, it seemed the only way to go for a third was a direct prequel to the first Despicable Me movie, to tie the whole cinematic universe ...

11 months ago, Superman was treated as a major event and a new beginning for DC, if not superhero movies in general. For that brief window, there seemed a path for DC to beat back superhero and MCU fa...

With “Obsession” now over the $200 million box office milestone in America, and with Focus Features all but confirmed to have an awards season campaign in the works, Oscar speculation is no longer lim...

Just last week, Steven Spielberg tried to prove there was still a place for his kind of blockbuster storytelling in a more cynical, tech-powered world decades removed from his old classics. Now a week...

The “Toy Story” franchise is not only considered one of the gold standards of Hollywood history but also has a nearly perfect record at the Oscars. Between “Toy Story” winning a Special Achievement Os...

“Disclosure Day’s” $44 million opening may not seem huge compared to mega IP-driven blockbusters. However, it is still one of the highest openings for a completely original film in the last decade. In...

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Christopher Nolan is such a box office draw that his films make movie ticket websites freeze up – yet long ago, Steven Spielberg was the only director with such star power. Now in an age where IP, cin...

Focus Features has done almost everything there is to do for a mid-major except win a Best Picture Oscar. One other exception was that, until last week, it had never had a film gross over $200 million...

“Disclosure Day” is not only the first big-budget Steven Spielberg blockbuster in eight years, but also the rare Spielberg movie in this era that seemingly isn’t tailor-made for Oscar season. With fil...