Netflix‘s latest action extravaganza wastes zero time in getting to the good stuff, so this review won’t either. Sasha (Charlize Theron) and husband Tommy (Eric Bana) are adventurous mountain climbers are out scaling the heights […]
Pete Hammond
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Deadline’s Contenders Television 2026 Sets Talent Lineup You will be redirected back to your article in seconds Skip to main content April 21, 2026 8:00am Services to share this page. It is a star-studded weekend […]
If you ask me the most successful musical biopics allow their stars to interpret the song styles of the artists they are playing. Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner’s Daughter, Jeremy Allen White in Springsteen: Deliver […]
The Critics Choice Awards will once again be leading the televised awards season shows, and has been renewed by E! for the next two years. The Critics Choice Association (CCA) announced today that the 32nd […]
With 65 being the standard retirement age, it only seemed appropriate that in the month Eddie Murphy turned 65, he would be honored with a life achievement award. At last night’s 51st Annual AFI Life […]
More from the Oscar front at CinemaCon. At the recently concluded 98th Academy Awards Paramount Pictures had exactly zero Oscar nominations. That is not a great lead into David Ellison’s Skydance takeover of the fabled […]
The search for surefire Oscar contenders at CinemaCon continues, and joining my list after the Universal presentation on Wednesday are The Odyssey, Disclosure Day, and — wait for it — Minions & Monsters. But more […]
Is Tom Cruise heading towards a first-ever Best Actor Oscar? Based on the footage just shown today at the Warner Bros Cinemacon presentation, as well as the ecstatic reception he got from the packed crowd […]
Don’t let the title fool you. Mother Mary is defiantly not the latest in a long line of Hollywood’s biblical epics, but instead an exploration of spirituality and reawakening in the life of a mega-pop […]
I always look forward to seeing what Jonah Hill comes up with in whatever movie he is cast. A uniquely funny and true original, he takes what could be stereotypes and turns them on their […]
There must be something in the water today. First the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and ABC got things rolling with the anticipated announcement of ceremony dates for both the 99th and 100th […]
A strong lineup of past multiple Emmy Award winners and nominees including Jane Lynch, Dan Levy, Hannah Einbinder, and Paula Pell, along with Heated Rivalry writer, director and Executive Producer Jacob Tierney highlight the 3rd […]
The Drama as a title is an understatement in what A24 otherwise seems to be indicating in marketing materials is all about a wedding featuring two big movie stars, Zendaya and Robert Pattinson. On the […]
Move over Emmys, the Oscars are coming. Starting with the 101st Academy Awards, which is already set to disrupt the usual order of things Oscar-wise with its move from ABC to YouTube, the ceremony and […]
Lonely young men on the internet, gun culture, school shootings and a need to be seen are themes colliding in Oscar Boyson‘s disturbingly twisted feature film debut Our Hero, which might just be a little […]
Now that SXSW has concluded, one of the significant film trends has turned out to be movies with a strong familial connection behind the scenes. I previously reviewed Family Movie, which was directed and produced […]
Watching the extremely dark comedy, Chili Finger, you have to believe directors Edd Benda and Stephen Helstad wanted to grow up to become the Coen Bros. This movie, set in Nekoosa, Wisconsin is right out […]
You have to wonder how Britt Lower keeps her sanity. On top of the star’s Emmy-winning role in Severance, she now has followed it up with a truly bizarre psychological mind trip about, well, boxes, […]
Following the horror film Hokum, Adam Scott turns up in another genre entry premiering at this week’s SXSW Film Festival in Texas. The smartest thing about The Saviors is its uncanny timeliness about growing suspicions […]
David Zaslav almost sounded like Martin Scorsese in his effusive praise of cinema and what his Warner Bros Discovery studio achieved Sunday night at the Oscars. When I spoke to him at the Governors Ball […]
There are no degrees of separation between the cast of this film. Many interesting projects seem to be born out of the pandemic quarantine and just now coming to fruition. Filmmakers with all this time […]
Finally premiering Thursday night at SXSW after a long gestation period, writer-director Victoria Strouse‘s hilarious dysfunctional-siblings comedy Seekers of Infinite Love proves to be well worth the wait. At periods over the past decade, it […]