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The Sexiest TV Shows on Netflix Right Now
People watch Netflix for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes you want The Irishman and sometimes you want The Ridiculous Six. Sometimes it’s a nature doc night and sometimes it’s all about true crime. And sometimes, it’s all about setting the mood — after all, Netflix and Chill didn’t become a common colloquialism for no reason! […]
Continue readingStreaming: To All the Boys: Ps I Still Love You – the longed-for sequel lands
Never mind the Oscars – the streaming event of the season is the follow-up to Netflix’s 2018 hit teen romcom To All the Boys I’ve Loved BeforeNetflix’s latest awards-film cycle finally wrapped up last week, having yielded an Oscar apiece for Marriage Story and the exceptional documentary American Factory, and a disappointing shutout for The […]
Continue reading‘1917’ Cinematographer Roger Deakins Wins His Second Oscar in Three Years
Roger Deakins has won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for “1917” — his second Oscar in three years following his first Academy Award for “Blade Runner 2049.”The 70-year-old Deakins had been favored for the trophy for his widely praised shooting of Sam Mendes’ World War I epic in what appeared to be a single […]
Continue readingParasite’s brilliant win is a portent of change in the conceited Hollywood club | Peter Bradshaw
The Academy has finally caught up with the outside world in its appreciation of non-English-language filmAfter years of upholding the values of mainstream-prestige dullness and having cultivated a habit of rewarding mediocrity and conformity, the Oscars have made a bold and brilliant choice. Hooray for the good taste of Hollywood. Best picture, best director and […]
Continue readingOscars 2020: Full list of winners – as they happen
‘Joker’ leads nominations with 11; ‘The Irishman’, ’Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’, ‘1917’ have 10 each.The 92nd Academy Awards takes place in Los Angeles on Sunday night (February 9) and Screen will post all the winners here live and on Twitter as they happen.As each award is given out, the winner in each category […]
Continue readingAnonymous Oscar Ballot: Costume Designer Votes ‘Parasite’ Over ‘1917’ and ‘Joker’
With Oscar ballots filed, we’re forging ahead with our third annual series of interviews with Academy voters from different branches for their candid thoughts on what got picked, overlooked, and overvalued this year.Best PictureNine is too many. This was a lackluster year. I struggled to come up with five. We know the Academy is all […]
Continue readingWhy The Irishman should win the best picture Oscar
Martin Scorsese has distilled a lifetime of expertise into this outstanding meditation on the mafia, ageing and the loss of agency‘Three people can keep a secret only when two of them are dead.” This is the maxim of slot-mouthed hitman Frank Sheeran in The Irishman, the wintry and minor-key crime-conspiracy epic adapted for the screen […]
Continue readingHow Joaquin Phoenix and Rebel Wilson Blew Up the BAFTAs, and What It Means for the Oscars
Heading toward the Oscars next Sunday, the BAFTAs mark the last of the Oscar precursor award shows, timed right when Oscar voters are filling out their ballots (due February 4). Behind the scenes, Oscar campaigners took full advantage by having their winners send messages to the Academy, both overt and subliminal. But it’s not all […]
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‘Little Women,’ ‘Fleabag’ Win USC Libraries Scripter Awards
The USC Libraries Scripter Awards honor the year’s best film and television adaptations, as well as the works on which they are based. This group of academics, industry professionals, and critics (for which I vote) is often predictive of the Adapted Screenplay Oscar race.While Netflix dominated this year’s nominations with three adapted scripts, for movies […]
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