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Emmys Snub ‘Small Axe,’ Ethan Hawke, Thuso Mbedu — Honor ‘The Boys,’ ‘Cobra Kai’
Another year, another wild batch of Emmy nominees. The 2021 nominations saw their fair share of expected favorites fulfilling their destinies, including strong showings from “The Crown” and “Ted Lasso,” but snubs and surprises were everywhere.Many predicted as much. After last year’s production shutdown threw release dates to the wind, the 2020-2021 class of Emmy […]
Continue reading‘The Good Lord Bird,’ ‘Unorthodox’ & ’76 Days’ Win 2021 Peabody Awards
In the never-ending battle for prestige streamer dominance, today was a good day for Showtime. The Viacom division took two prestigious Peabody Awards for its limited series “The Good Lord Bird” starring Ethan Hawke and the news program “Vice on Showtime: Losing Ground.” Another Viacom production, MTV Films “76 Days,” won in the Documentary category.Read […]
Continue reading‘Shrink Next Door’ First Footage Reunites Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd for Apple TV+ Dark Comedy
The first footage from “The Shrink Next Door” has debuted as part of a new Apple TV+ preview trailer touting the streamer’s upcoming film and television projects in 2021 (watch the full video in the embed below). The trailer has a ton of first look footage from new seasons of Apple originals such as “See,” […]
Continue readingRian Johnson’s Production Company Launches New Label, Will Produce Low-Budget Films From New Directors
T-Street, the production company founded by Knives Out and Brick director Rian Johnson and his longtime producer Ram Bergman, is expanding its reach. Their production banner is teaming up with MRC Films, the indie studio that developed and produced movies like Knives Out, Baby Driver, Ted, and The Adjustment Bureau, to launch a new untitled […]
Continue reading2021 Ace Eddies: ‘Trial of the Chicago 7’ Takes Film Drama Prize, ‘Ozark,’ ‘Ted Lasso,’ ‘Queen’s Gambit’ for TV
With just eight days to go before the Academy Awards, “The Trial of the Chicago 7” took the top prize at the Ace Eddie Awards, winning Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic), for acclaimed editor Alan Baumgarten Matthew Friedman and Andrew Dickler won Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy) for “Palm Springs,” which did not receive any […]
Continue reading‘Promising Young Woman’ & ‘Ted Lasso’ Among 2021 WGA Awards Winners
If it’s a Sunday evening in March 2021 it must be time for the guild award honors to begin. On this day, the Writer’s Guild of America handed out their annual WGA Awards winners and the two biggest awards gave only a hint of what might happen on Oscar night. In the Original Category, Emerald […]
Continue reading‘Ted K’ Review: Sharlto Copley Is the Unabomber in a Slow-Burning True-Crime Study
For a criminal who revealed his agenda in exhaustively detailed black-and-white — via his famous essay “Industrial Society and the Future,” published in The Washington Post months ahead of his 1996 capture — Ted Kaczynski remains a somewhat unreadable figure. The domestic terrorist better known as the Unabomber killed three people and injured two dozen […]
Continue readingSeth MacFarlane Wants to Remake ‘The Naked Gun’ with Liam Neeson in the Lead Role
Liam Neeson might soon be stepping down from his perch atop Action Dad Mountain, but what might the next phase of his career look like? Could we be entering the era of Liam Neeson: Comedy Star? In a recent interview, Neeson revealed that Seth MacFarlane, the man behind Family Guy and the Ted films, has […]
Continue readingCannes: Matt Walsh, Isla Fisher to Star in ‘Unplugging’
Matt Walsh and Isla Fisher will star in “Unplugging,” a comedy about a couple who try to recapture their romance by taking a vacation in a rural town. They hope that unplugging from social media and electronics will force them to reconnect with each other and will save their marriage.“Unplugging” marks the directorial debut of […]
Continue readingMark Wahlberg Is Into the Oscars’ Best Popular Film Award: ‘We’d Have Won a Couple’
Reactions to the Academy’s decision to create a Best Popular Film award have been almost universally negative, with many writing it off as a cynical attempt to increase ratings. At least one person is into the idea, however: Mark Wahlberg. “Maybe if they’d had the category before, we’d have won a couple of them,” the […]
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