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Cate Blanchett to be Recipient of the Share Her Journey Groundbreaker Award at 2024 TIFF Tribute Awards
The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival is only two months away, if you can believe. So, TIFF is continuing to roll out who will be receiving honors and tributes at the festival. This morning, they revealed that Cate Blanchett will be getting the TIFF Share Her Journey Groundbreaker Award. She joins Amy Adams, David Cronenberg, […] More
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Why Michelle Yeoh Should Win the Academy Award for Best Actress
Joey’s right on both counts: there are three up-in-the-air, far-from-settled acting races this season, and that is unambiguously a great development that should be the norm instead of the exception. I will always find it incredibly hard to believe in any near-unanimous consensus from an overwhelming majority of the various guilds and critics groups across the country […] More
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Three of the Four Acting Categories Are Going Down to the Wire (And That’s A Good Thing for Oscar)
Now here’s something we don’t get every awards season. Three of the four Acting categories at the Academy Awards are basically photo finishes. There are tight races in the below the line categories, but above the line, these three are basically at pick-em status. Throw in neither of the Screenplay races being sewn up and […] More
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Film Review: ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’ is a Stop-Motion Achievement That Sneaks Up On You
When it was announced that Guillermo del Toro was going to be making a stop-motion animated version of Pinocchio, I didn’t know what to think. After all, such an original auteur potentially seemed above this. Well, how wrong I was. With a title like Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, you know that the iconic filmmaker is […] More
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New Trailer for ‘TÁR’ Teases an Awards-Worthy Performance for Cate Blanchett
Directed by Todd Field, and starring Cate Blanchett and Noémie Merlant, the movie will release in select theatres October 7th. More
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Telluride Film Review: ‘TÁR’ Returns Todd Field’s Precise Vision to Screens, with an Impeccable Cate Blanchett, to Boot
Todd Field has been gone for too long. The actor turned filmmaker had an incredible debut with In the Bedroom, followed it up magnificently with Little Children, and since then, has struggled to get projects off the ground. Film after film fell apart, preventing cinephiles from seeing more of this talented man’s work. More than […] More
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New Teaser Trailer Released for Todd Field’s ‘TÁR’
This morning, Universal Pictures released a new teaser trailer for their upcoming drama film, TÁR. Starring Cate Blanchett, the film focuses on composer Lydia Tár. An important figure in the world of classical music, Tár was the first woman ever to be a chief conductor to work with a major German orchestra. Directed, written and […] More
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‘TÁR’ First Trailer Released by Focus Features
This morning, Universal Pictures released the first trailer for their upcoming drama film, TÁR. Starring Cate Blanchett, the film focuses on composer Lydia Tár. An important figure in the world of classical music, Tár was the first woman ever to be a chief conductor to work with a major German orchestra. Directed, written and produced […] More
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Cate Blanchett to Lead Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘A Manual for Cleaning Women’
The film is adapting Lucia Berlin’s short story collection of the same name and will mark Almodovar’s first english-language feature. More
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Film Review: ‘Don’t Look Up’ Satirically Depicts Half of America Getting the Entire World Killed
There are two kinds of Adam McKay movies. Earlier on in his career, the films he made were big comedies. Recently, however, he’s transitioned towards more of a middle ground between comedy and drama. Essentially, McKay’s work has an added bite or punch to it now. The Big Short won him an Academy Award, while […] More
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Film Review: ‘Nightmare Alley’ Finds Guillermo del Toro Bathing in Noir
Guillermo del Toro is about as pure a storyteller as there is in the world. In particular, he has cinema in his bones. So, whenever he opts to tackle something new, it’s an event. Even when it’s a remake, how can you not be curious about his take on Nightmare Alley? A del Toro noir? […] More
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Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline to Star in Alfonso Cuaron Series For Apple
For his first series on Apple TV+, Academy Award winner Alfonso Cuaron has brought on Academy-Award winners Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline to star. The series in question is a thriller called Disclaimer, it’s based on the novel by Renee Knight, and it will be written, directed and executive produced by Cuaron. The series was […] More