The statuettes were handed out at the 93rd Academy Awards on Sunday, April 25, capping an unprecedented year with the most unusual ceremony in my lifetime, necessitated by the times but still awkward. The Oscars traditionally have offered a springboard for films to receive a second life in theaters and that is the case this […]
The 93rd Academy Awards will be handed out on Sunday, April 25. Here’s your guide to getting caught up before the big day. Things have changed since last year’s ceremony and it’s almost entirely due to Covid, which forced theaters across the country to close for up to months at a time. With the summer […]
Six months after its rocky launch, HBO Max—the supersized version of HBO’s streaming service designed to replace HBO Now and challenge Netflix and others in the modern streaming marketplace—is now available to stream through Roku, Playstation 5, and on Xfinity X1 and Flex devices for Comcast cable subscribers. This comes weeks after the HBO Max […]
Netflix continues to expand its slate of original movies in the month of January. Vanessa Kirby plays a woman dealing to grief and loss in Pieces of a Woman, Naomi Watts is a young mother who struggles after surviving a near-fatal accident in Penguin Bloom, and Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes play archeologists on the […]
Netflix makes its play for Oscar gold when it releases two highly-anticipated original features in December. Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman star in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, adapted from the play by August Wilson, and David Fincher directs Gary Oldman in Mank, his black-and-white tribute to old Hollywood. Also new in December: Ryan Murphy directs […]
Rachel Brosnahan takes a detour from her hit comedy series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel with I’m Your Woman, a crime thriller that skips theaters to debut directly to streaming. It’s one of a trio of Amazon Studio features debuting directly on Amazon Prime in December, along with the dramas Sylvie’s Love with Tessa Thompson and […]
The new movie adaptation of the classic story The Secret Garden with Colin Firth and Julie Walters makes its streaming debut on Hulu in December, along with a slate of films that includes the historical drama Mr. Jones with James Norton and Vanessa Kirby, the indie thriller She Dies Tomorrow from filmmaker Amy Seimetz, and […]
The long-awaited fourth season the lavish Netflix drama The Queen with Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth and Tobias Menzies as Prince Philip takes the British monarchy into the 1980s and Ron Howard directs Hillbilly Elegy, an adaptation of the memoir by J.D. Vance starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close. Both debut on Netflix in November. […]
Bombshell, the story of the Fox News sexual abuse scandal which earned Oscar nominations for stars Charlize Theron and Margot Robbie, comes to Amazon Prime in November along with the Amazon Original features include Uncle Frank, a road movie from filmmaker Alan Ball starring Paul Bettany and Sophia Lillis, and Small Axe, an anthology of […]
Bombshell, the story of the Fox News sexual abuse scandal which earned Oscar nominations for stars Charlize Theron and Margot Robbie, and the original movie thriller Run with Sarah Paulson debut on Hulu in November, along with the original documentary I Am Greta, a portrait of Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, and the feature […]
