This is going to be a little more opinion-oriented than a traditional news story, but what can I say, that’s the only real angle at which to tackle the extremely predictable and utterly middle-of-the-road nominations that the Hollywood Foreign Press [...]

The 2012 Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations were announced this morning and they are an interesting bunch.  Overall it has some shockers in it.  The Help gets a lot a more love than I would have expected for a movie [...]

Yesterday I promised (threatened?) that the award season was about to kick into high gear. Well, following the Gotham Awards last night we now have the New York Film Critics Circle handing out awards. So, I am sure you all [...]

Awards season approaches with the rapidity and inevitability of a freight train filled with statuettes of various shapes and sizes. Sooner or later we will all get exhausted by the endless stream of awards coverage, but for now let’s bask [...]

If you read my most recent editorial on “chick flicks” you know how much stock I put in the power of language and, frankly, how damn frickin’ PC I am.   So you can imagine my gut reaction when I [...]

Great idea for a documentary here even if it wasn’t totally the film I was expecting to see (but I’ll get into that in a minute). Here’s the fest’s breakdown on the film: HOLLYWOOD TO DOLLYWOOD – USA, 2010, 81 [...]

Leah Thompson and Judd Nelson in a movie together? What is this? 1980? It could be. Thompson does have access to a Delorean with a flux capacitor. Here’s the details on this one: MAYOR CUPCAKE – USA, 2011, 86 min [...]

Every year, there’s one film at the fest that blows me away. This year it was The Pill! The idea for this one was why I chose to see this film and it’s pretty funny all by itself. Here’s the fest’s [...]

Fishburne talking Fishbone? Who else are you going to get to narrate this film besides good old Morpheus himself. I mean, he has a “Fish” in his last name… like the band… get it? Here’s the festival breakdown on this [...]

Finally! A film for me and Jason Soto to enjoy. TVIFF is typically a little light in the Horror department but they had one entry this year that was one of my most anticipated of the fest. Here’s the festival [...]