‘The Favourite’ and ‘Black Panther’ Lead Critics Choice Awards Nominations!! Check Out The Full List!!

Nominations have been announced for the upcoming Critics Choice Awards, and it’s a mix of this awards season’s usual suspects with a few welcome additions. The Favourite leads the charge with 14 nominations in total, including Best Picture, Best Acting Ensemble, and Best Director for Yorgos Lanthimos. Just behind the biting period piece is Marvel Studios’ Black Panther, which scored 12 nominations including Best Picture, … Continue reading ‘The Favourite’ and ‘Black Panther’ Lead Critics Choice Awards Nominations!! Check Out The Full List!!

‘Green Book’ Named Best Film of 2018 by National Board of Review!!!

The National Board of Review—one of the awards season’s inaugural voting bodies—has announced its Top 10 Films of the Year list, along with other superlatives. If you’re looking for a correlation between NBR and the Oscars, well you’re not gonna find it. The winner of Best Film from the National Board of Review hasn’t won the Best Picture Oscar since 2008’s Slumdog Millionaire, and as … Continue reading ‘Green Book’ Named Best Film of 2018 by National Board of Review!!!

‘Halloween’ Repeats #1, While ‘Hunter Killer’ Sinks at the BO!!

The weekend played out mostly as expected with a repeat of last weekend’s top four films, led by Universal‘s Halloween, which has now delivered over $126 million in just ten days in release. Lionsgate‘s release of Summit‘s Hunter Killer led the week’s new wide releases with a top five finish while A24‘s expansion of Jonah Hill‘s Mid90s secured a top ten finish. The biggest news, … Continue reading ‘Halloween’ Repeats #1, While ‘Hunter Killer’ Sinks at the BO!!

‘Shoplifters’ Wins Palme d’Or at Cannes While Grand Prix Goes to Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’!!

There were a lot of winners at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The top prize went to Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda for his movie Shoplifters, “a moving portrait of an self-made family scraping by at the bottom of Japanese society.” Although the Palme d’Or isn’t a reliable awards barometer like the people’s choice award at TIFF, it still gives a movie a level of recognition … Continue reading ‘Shoplifters’ Wins Palme d’Or at Cannes While Grand Prix Goes to Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’!!