PGA Documentary Nominees (2022)
That leaves the seventh nominated film, Shaunak Sen’s “All That Breathes”, which looks like the favorite to win in this lineup.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 13, 2023 | Award Season, Guild Awards, PGA
That leaves the seventh nominated film, Shaunak Sen’s “All That Breathes”, which looks like the favorite to win in this lineup.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 10, 2023 | ASC, Award Season, Guild Awards
Cinematographer Mandy Walker (for “Elvis”) becomes only the third woman ever nominated by the guild, after Rachel Morrison and Ari Wegner.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 11, 2023 | Award Season, DGA, Guild Awards, Uncategorized
Field, Kosinski, McDonagh, Spielberg and “Daniels” (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) are the chosen ones with Spielberg landing DGA nomination 13!
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 11, 2023 | Award Season, DGA, Guild Awards
Alice Diop, Audrey Diwan, John Patton Ford, Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic and Charlotte Wells. Look for Wells to displace Kosinski at the Oscars.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 12, 2023 | Award Season, Guild Awards, PGA
The Only major surprise is A24’s “The Whale” which bodes well for the film and Brendan Fraser when the Oscar nominations are announced on the 24th.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 11, 2023 | Award Season, Guild Awards, SAG
Big Snub is the absence of Michelle Williams in the Best Actress category. Look for her to be back with AMPAS displacing either Davis or de Armas.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 31, 2022 | ASC, BAFTA, Best European Film, DGA, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, LAFCA, National Board of Review, NSFC, NYFCC, Oscars, PGA, SAG, WGA
Here are the dates for the major events at AMPAS, five major guilds (DGA PGA WGA SAG ASC) and the five major critics groups (NBR, NYFCC, LAFCA, NSFC and the Spirits) from now until the closing of Award Season with the Oscars with the 12th of March.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 3, 2023 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Award Season, BAFTA, Best European Film, Critic Awards, DGA, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Guild Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, LAFCA, My Favorites, National Board of Review, New Releases, NSFC, NYFCC, The Best of the Best, TV / Streaming
“Aftersun” is unforgettable movie. Proustian, in that it is both a remembrance of things past and a search of lost time, it’s one of the best films of 2022.
Read Moreby Patrick | Oct 21, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Award Season, BAFTA, Comedy, Critic Awards, DGA, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Guild Awards, HBO Max, Historic Events, Hulu, LAFCA, My Favorites, National Board of Review, New Releases, NSFC, NYFCC, PGA, SAG, The Best of the Best, TV / Streaming
Condon is breathtakingly good, capturing every scene she’s in with a mixture of common sense and sadness, but always with a drollness lurking in the background.
Read Moreby Patrick | Aug 23, 2022 | Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Award Season, DGA, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Gangster, Genres, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Guild Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, My Favorites, National Board of Review, New Releases, The Best of the Best, Thriller, TV / Streaming
Plaza’s performance is something to behold. All of that nervous energy is now bursting out in a performance that is always true and believable.
Read Moreby Patrick | Apr 13, 2022 | Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Award Season, BAFTA, Comedy, Critic Awards, DGA, Drama, Epic, Fantasy, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Guild Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, LAFCA, National Board of Review, New Releases, NSFC, NYFCC, PGA, SAG, TV / Streaming
Remember Yeoh in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”? This is a similar tongue-in-cheek, highly physical, yet surprisingly, touching performance.
Read Moreby Patrick | Oct 11, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Award Season, BAFTA, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Guild Awards, Historic Events, LAFCA, My Favorites, National Board of Review, New Releases, SAG, The Best of the Best, TV / Streaming
The 2023 Best Actress Oscar Goes To…Danielle Deadwyler in Till. And as she reaches the volta of her magnificent speech she does something extraordinary…
Read Moreby Patrick | Oct 8, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Award Season, Critic Awards, DGA, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Guild Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, LAFCA, New Releases, NSFC, NYFCC, PGA, Queer Film/TV, SAG, Thriller, TV / Streaming
However, no one seems to have stopped and thought about the age difference between these two maestros. By my calculations, Lenny would have been teaching Lydia when she was five years old!
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 25, 2022 | Action, Amazon Prime Video, Award Season, BAFTA, Comedy, Drama, Epic, Film Reviews, Genres, Guild Awards, Historic Events, Horror, My Favorites, New Releases, SAG, The Best of the Best, TV / Streaming
I had no problem sitting through the movie’s bloated 180-minute running because, through all of this nothingness, five actors manage to make lasting impressions
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 19, 2022 | ASC, Award Season, Comedy, Drama, Epic, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Guild Awards, Historic Events, Netflix, New Releases, Oscars, TV / Streaming
The result is an exhausting piece of self-indulgent filmmaking filled with moments of greatness with one indelible image after another.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 29, 2022 | Award Season, BAFTA, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Guild Awards, My Favorites, New Releases, PGA, SAG, The Best of the Best
As Charlie, an overweight teacher, Brendan Fraser gives a very sweet and appealing performance in director Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale”.
Read Moreby Patrick | Nov 16, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Award Season, BAFTA, Comedy, Critic Awards, DGA, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Guild Awards, Historic Events, My Favorites, National Board of Review, New Releases, NSFC, PGA, SAG, The Best of the Best, TV / Streaming
He films one of his jock tormentors as a blond God-like figure – I swear, it reminded me of Leni Riefenstahl’s “Olympia.”
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 1, 2022 | Award Season, Critic Awards, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Guild Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, LAFCA, National Board of Review, New Releases, SAG
Terrified of standing outside of the groupthink and dreading the Hollywood equivalent of being burnt alive in a Florentine piazza…
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