The 2023 New York Film Festival kicked off on Friday night in the aftermath of a generational rainstorm that left many neighborhoods within the five boroughs flooded. But the historic weather event didn’t dampen the critical response to the fest’s opening night feature, “May December,” nor the film’s standout supporting performance from former “Riverdale” star Charles Melton.
“I don’t know ‘Riverdale,’ so Charles Melton was new to me, and he’s extraordinary in a quiet, very difficult role,” author Mark Harris wrote on social media, a sentiment shared by many on the networking platform.
“Charles Melton is the real deal in ‘May December.’ His work is intricate, conveying a hollowed-out shell of a man discovering in real time what he’s lost. Holding your own against two titans like Julianne [Moore] and Natalie [Portman] is one thing, but he’s shattering alone. An Oscar nod is in play,” another...
“I don’t know ‘Riverdale,’ so Charles Melton was new to me, and he’s extraordinary in a quiet, very difficult role,” author Mark Harris wrote on social media, a sentiment shared by many on the networking platform.
“Charles Melton is the real deal in ‘May December.’ His work is intricate, conveying a hollowed-out shell of a man discovering in real time what he’s lost. Holding your own against two titans like Julianne [Moore] and Natalie [Portman] is one thing, but he’s shattering alone. An Oscar nod is in play,” another...
- 9/30/2023
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
After all the furor over the layoffs of Turner Classic Movies’ top brass, which saw the ousting of longtime executives who’d been key to steering the brand to the level of adoration its fans feel for it, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Paul Thomas Anderson are here to sound a moderating note.
In a joint statement released via Spielberg’s production company, Amblin, the three directors go out of their way to praise Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav.
“Turner Classic Movies has always been more than just a channel,” the statement reads. “It is truly a precious resource of cinema, open 24 hours a day seven days a week. And while it has never been a financial juggernaut, it has always been a profitable endeavor since its inception.
“Earlier this week, David Zaslav, the CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, got in touch to talk about the restructuring of TCM.
In a joint statement released via Spielberg’s production company, Amblin, the three directors go out of their way to praise Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav.
“Turner Classic Movies has always been more than just a channel,” the statement reads. “It is truly a precious resource of cinema, open 24 hours a day seven days a week. And while it has never been a financial juggernaut, it has always been a profitable endeavor since its inception.
“Earlier this week, David Zaslav, the CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, got in touch to talk about the restructuring of TCM.
- 6/22/2023
- by Christian Blauvelt
- Indiewire
Kevin Sorbo claims he recently made “a scene in public” by refusing to put on a mask at a coffee shop. It isn’t clear if this actually happened, but it is true that Sorbo caused another scene… on Twitter.
Sorbo, who it must be said did not provide photographic or video evidence of the event, said on Tuesday that during a recent visit to Starbucks in Los Angeles, the staff asked him to put on a mask. That would be because Los Angeles County recently brought back indoor mask mandates as Covid-19 cases rise.
Here’s how the “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys” actor described what happened next. “I’m not proud of this but i just made a scene in public for the first time in my life. I walked into Starbucks and they asked me to put a mask on. I yelled this is Bs. I turned around and walked out.
Sorbo, who it must be said did not provide photographic or video evidence of the event, said on Tuesday that during a recent visit to Starbucks in Los Angeles, the staff asked him to put on a mask. That would be because Los Angeles County recently brought back indoor mask mandates as Covid-19 cases rise.
Here’s how the “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys” actor described what happened next. “I’m not proud of this but i just made a scene in public for the first time in my life. I walked into Starbucks and they asked me to put a mask on. I yelled this is Bs. I turned around and walked out.
- 7/21/2021
- by Samson Amore
- The Wrap
One could have watched the Critics Choice Awards last Sunday and thought they were re-watching the Golden Globes. Same nominees, mostly the same winners, same sweatshirt for Jason Sudeikis. Wait … didn’t the professional entertainment judgers generally blast the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for, well, for being what and who they are?
What happened to early critics’ winners like “First Cow”? How quickly they forget and go with the flow. In fact, this is the time critics — respect or resent them — are currently getting a taste of their own.
Consider “Malcolm and Marie,” the controversial film from Sam Levinson starring John Thomas Washington and Zendaya. It is basically one long argument about whether “that white lady of the L.A. Times” wrote a positive or negative review of Washington’s character’s film, seen through the racial lens. Washington ends his screed by saying he hopes the writer gets “f...
What happened to early critics’ winners like “First Cow”? How quickly they forget and go with the flow. In fact, this is the time critics — respect or resent them — are currently getting a taste of their own.
Consider “Malcolm and Marie,” the controversial film from Sam Levinson starring John Thomas Washington and Zendaya. It is basically one long argument about whether “that white lady of the L.A. Times” wrote a positive or negative review of Washington’s character’s film, seen through the racial lens. Washington ends his screed by saying he hopes the writer gets “f...
- 3/13/2021
- by Michele Willens
- The Wrap
The end of 2020 and the start of 2021 have featured a diverse and dynamic collection of cinema-related books. Let’s start with two of these, a biography of director Mike Nichols and an oral history of Dazed and Confused, which qualify as movie-lover must-owns.
Mike Nichols: A Life by Mark Harris (Penguin Press)
Will there be a finer, more compelling biography in 2021 than Mike Nichols: A Life? I tend to doubt it, as Mark Harris’ study of the career of the Berlin-born, Nichols-and-May comic genius turned Broadway and Hollywood heavyweight rivals the author’s previous modern classics: Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood and Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War. Nichols was the subject of a fine oral history in 2019 (covered here), but A Life adds extraordinary levels of detail. There are moments that are simply unforgettable. These...
Mike Nichols: A Life by Mark Harris (Penguin Press)
Will there be a finer, more compelling biography in 2021 than Mike Nichols: A Life? I tend to doubt it, as Mark Harris’ study of the career of the Berlin-born, Nichols-and-May comic genius turned Broadway and Hollywood heavyweight rivals the author’s previous modern classics: Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood and Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War. Nichols was the subject of a fine oral history in 2019 (covered here), but A Life adds extraordinary levels of detail. There are moments that are simply unforgettable. These...
- 3/11/2021
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Film Stage
The Hideaway Entertainment, Inde Companies and Brooklyn Media is teaming with civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump for the upcoming feature Freedom Ride. The film is set to begin production in summer 2021 with plans to shoot in Atlanta, Georgia and Birmingham, Alabama. The news appropriately aligns with the 55th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act — which is today!
Crump will serve as an executive producer on the film written by Steven Vosburgh and Dusdi Fissette. Freedom Ride is set in 1961 and details the actions of a multiracial group of young activists, led by twenty-year-old John Lewis as they decide to take matters into their own hands in the fight against racial discrimination and hate. After signing their own last wills and testaments, these determined Freedom Riders journeyed by bus into the deep segregated South where mob violence and police brutality against Black Americans run rampant. In the end, their refusal to...
Crump will serve as an executive producer on the film written by Steven Vosburgh and Dusdi Fissette. Freedom Ride is set in 1961 and details the actions of a multiracial group of young activists, led by twenty-year-old John Lewis as they decide to take matters into their own hands in the fight against racial discrimination and hate. After signing their own last wills and testaments, these determined Freedom Riders journeyed by bus into the deep segregated South where mob violence and police brutality against Black Americans run rampant. In the end, their refusal to...
- 8/6/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Leading civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump has set his latest Hollywood project, joining the producing team behind the film “Freedom Ride,” which dramatizes the experiences of the original Freedom Riders, including the late Rep. John Lewis.
Crump’s Brooklyn Media will produce the film with Hideaway Entertainment and Inde Companies. The news comes less than a month after civil rights legend and longtime U.S. congressman Lewis died at 80 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. It also comes on the 55th anniversary of the landmark passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which prohibited discriminatory practices in voting.
“This film is not only timely with the recent passing of Congressman John Lewis, it is timely because it will help to preserve the legacy of John Lewis for younger generations to come,” Crump said in statement. “This story will resonate with the world today because John Lewis was an original voice...
Crump’s Brooklyn Media will produce the film with Hideaway Entertainment and Inde Companies. The news comes less than a month after civil rights legend and longtime U.S. congressman Lewis died at 80 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. It also comes on the 55th anniversary of the landmark passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which prohibited discriminatory practices in voting.
“This film is not only timely with the recent passing of Congressman John Lewis, it is timely because it will help to preserve the legacy of John Lewis for younger generations to come,” Crump said in statement. “This story will resonate with the world today because John Lewis was an original voice...
- 8/6/2020
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Have you had a chance to really bite in to the delicious Smackdown 1991 podcast yet? We know you read the article given the plentiful comments but there's so much to chat about within the podcast conversation. Nikki M James, Rory O'Malley, Nick Westrate, Mark Harris, and Katey Rich were all terrific guests, don'cha think? Dying to hear your thoughts on the specific things we discussed, but especially...
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- Whether Cape Fear's ending is confusingly botched or confusing on purpose... "my reminiscence"?
- Rambling Rose's Laura Dern / Lukas Haas sex scene driving mothers and spouses from the room!
- The camp of all the Barbra scenes in Prince of Tides. What word was Dr Lowenstein looking up in her Pocket Oxford Dictionary?
- Michael Jeter's "sprinkling for fairy dust" ("Sprinking?...
- Fried Green Tomatoes' 'food fight as lesbian sex' metaphor (!), the confusion over Ninny's identity, and its rose-colored lensing of race relations
- Whether Cape Fear's ending is confusingly botched or confusing on purpose... "my reminiscence"?
- Rambling Rose's Laura Dern / Lukas Haas sex scene driving mothers and spouses from the room!
- The camp of all the Barbra scenes in Prince of Tides. What word was Dr Lowenstein looking up in her Pocket Oxford Dictionary?
- Michael Jeter's "sprinkling for fairy dust" ("Sprinking?...
- 7/29/2020
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
The Walking Dead made its big return to our screens last night, with season 9 now officially underway. It was a pretty solid premiere, too, which promised a lot of interesting developments to come for Rick and the gang and so far, things are off to a great start.
But as exciting as all that is, this new season will also be overshadowed by a sense of sadness, as this past weekend we lost actor Scott Wilson. As fans know, he played Hershel Greene on the show for a couple of seasons and was also set to return this year – presumably in the form of a flashback or hallucination.
From what we understand, Wilson had already filmed his scenes before passing, so he’ll still pop up at some point during the new run, and ahead of his final appearance on The Walking Dead, fans have now taken to Twitter to...
But as exciting as all that is, this new season will also be overshadowed by a sense of sadness, as this past weekend we lost actor Scott Wilson. As fans know, he played Hershel Greene on the show for a couple of seasons and was also set to return this year – presumably in the form of a flashback or hallucination.
From what we understand, Wilson had already filmed his scenes before passing, so he’ll still pop up at some point during the new run, and ahead of his final appearance on The Walking Dead, fans have now taken to Twitter to...
- 10/8/2018
- by Matt Joseph
- We Got This Covered
The Academy Board of Governors didn’t think things would go this way. They may have expected some backlash to their radical changes in the Oscar show for this year and next. But in their attempts to placate a demanding ABC, which airs the Oscar show — and is paying the Academy some $75 million a year for the rights to do so until 2028 — the Board blundered into a public relations disaster.
When the 54-member Board voted to add the “Best Popular Film” category in time for the 2019 Oscar show, they failed to consider Disney/Marvel’s $700-million worldwide blockbuster “Black Panther,” which has a good shot at racking up enough Oscar nominations to have a real shot at a Best Picture nomination.
Not any more. It didn’t take people long to suggest that Disney owns ABC, and that Disney owns Marvel, and that Disney wanted to create a category to...
When the 54-member Board voted to add the “Best Popular Film” category in time for the 2019 Oscar show, they failed to consider Disney/Marvel’s $700-million worldwide blockbuster “Black Panther,” which has a good shot at racking up enough Oscar nominations to have a real shot at a Best Picture nomination.
Not any more. It didn’t take people long to suggest that Disney owns ABC, and that Disney owns Marvel, and that Disney wanted to create a category to...
- 8/9/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
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