At the moment, it doesn't look good for films directed by women to crack the top ten in the Best Picture race or the Best Director race. On the other hand, all it takes is for someone to notice and rally voters around a cause to make that happen, as we saw with both LIttle Women and Women Talking. Someone needs to make Little Women Talking. Either way, in the old days I would have made a big deal...

Tim Dillon is among the funniest comedians working today, though he exists where the best of them do - not in the mainstream but on the fringe. He is, I think, a Trump supporter or, at the very least, right-leaning. Or at the very least, anti-establishment. Put it this way, he can make jokes that comedians like John Oliver, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers or Jimmy Kimmel never could because they must always reflect the status quo. Tim Dillon doesn't....

Heretic was one of the titles that stood out from the flurry of Toronto. People will say it's "very A24." And I imagine that means Gen-Z will turn out. Hugh Grant plays the villain. Heretic is sitting with a 92% on RT. Lauren Bradshaw at Fangirl Freakout says, "From its cerebral script to its enigmatic performances from Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher, and Chloe East, Heretic has all of the makings to be the next horror classic." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSo0lmONZIU It looks...

Apple has released the trailer for Steve McQueen's new film, Blitz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZwykQK9aZo Deadline's Baz Bamigboy has an interview with McQueen in Deadline where the director talks about the origins for the film. From the interview: Blitz, which re-creates London at the height of the German blitzkrieg, or “lightning war,” eschews the Dickie Attenborough school of Britain’s World War II films — the ones stuffed with stiff-upper-lip, pasty-faced types parading about in starched white shirts and showing off their military...

Bong Joon Ho's latest film doesn't open until January of 2025. It looks strange and interesting. Here is the description from YouTube: What's it feel like to die? From director Bong Joon Ho, comes Mickey 17 - only in theaters January 31, 2025. #Mickey17 From the Academy Award-winning writer/director of “Parasite,” Bong Joon Ho, comes his next groundbreaking cinematic experience, “Mickey 17.” The unlikely hero, Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for...