Continuing its recent spate of announcements cementing leadership positions across all facets of AMPAS, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Thursday revealed its newly elected 2024-2025 Academy Foundation board members and officers. Those…

It is hard to believe, but Dakota Fanning confirms it for us: She is a bona fide acting veteran. Even though she is only just 30, she has been in front of the cameras continuously for 24 years — starting with a Tide commercial at age 6. The next year she…

When it comes to M. Night Shyamalan, it is a career that is one of the most mixed bags in cinematic history. For every Sixth Sense, there is a Lady In The Water. For every Signs, there is a Happening. For every Unbreakable, there is an After Earth. For every Split, there is a Knock At The Cabin. He…

In a election that was clearly less contentious than the current one for U.S. president, producer Janet Yang was re-elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by the organization's Board of Governors. This will be her third…

Like Doug Liman’s recent Amazon remake of Road House, his latest streaming effort The Instigators quite frankly misses its calling. Both films should have had wide theatrical runs before hitting the services. They are the kinds of films that are fun to watch…

Earlier this summer we had to endure the misbegotten Summer Camp which was yet another attempt by Diane Keaton, joined by Kathy Bates and Alfre Woodard, to mix comedy and later-in-life drama in an older female bonding flick. Keaton had great success in the…

When Disney bought 20th Century Fox in 2018, Fox’s big R-rated, foul-mouthed, quippy hit Deadpool was riding high on its first sequel, which came quickly after the 2016 Ryan Reynolds-led movie broke out. Even though the character came from the Marvel label, it was hard to imagine him fitting comfortably…

If the only vacation you get to take this year is watching Netflix, you could do worse than the sweet and forgettable Harry Connick Jr romantic comedy Find Me Falling. This is a standard but grown-up rom-com confection that takes place entirely on the…

I had a wide-ranging conversation via Zoom on Wednesday with Television Academy chair Cris Abrego and president and CEO Maury McIntyre to talk all things Emmys shortly after Abrego presided over this morning’s 76th annual Primetime Emmy Awards nominations…

I often start analysis of the Emmy nominations by stating how predictable the nominations are, generally with the same shows dominating year after year after year. Well, the overall list of nominees announced this morning was predictable, but it was because…

Writer-director Osgood Perkins is aiming straight at his celebrated father’s status at the top of the most memorable and creepy character in the history of movies. The filmmaker’s dad was the great Anthony Perkins who of course played the unforgettable and…

UPDATE: The death on July 5 of Jon Landau has had a great impact on the industry as well as everyone who knew him and/or his work. A veteran studio executive who later teamed with James Cameron to produce and win a Best Picture Oscar for Titanic and then go o…