We’re less than two weeks away from The 87th Annual Academy Awards, recently re-branded as simply ‘The Oscars’ for promotional purposes. I’ve seen several, short ads with Neil Patrick Harris delivering one-liners…but that’s pretty much it. It’s time for The Academy to push full-steam-ahead with their marketing, or else they could be facing a situation […]

After years of following Awards Seasons, and the four biggies: The Golden Globes, the Critics Choice Awards, the SAGs and, of course, the Oscars, I recently began to give some attention to another ceremony: The EE British Academy Film Awards, better known as The BAFTAs. These are, essentially, the UK Oscars. The BAFTAs have all […]

Pre-Kickoff: 6-6:30pmET FOX is pushing full-steam ahead on its “Kingsman: The Secret Service” campaign. The Colin Firth/Samuel L. Jackson action/thriller opens in the US in less than two weeks, on Friday the 13th. But we’re only a few days away from the big screen return of America’s modern animated icon, as Paramount’s “The SpongeBob Movie: […]

It’s time for for Super Bowl XLIX: The Battle of Just Two Armies. The Seattle Seahawks are going Into the evening are hoping to Deliver another excellent Game following last year’s Imitation effort by the Broncos. The NFL has been in the hot seat over the past year, with Roger Goodell consistently on the Edge […]

“The Penguin” was in my neighborhood yesterday. Good thing Detectives Harvey Bullock and Jim Gordon were around as well. The trio of actors who play these iconic characters on the hit TV show “Gotham” – Ben McKenzie, Donal Logue and Robin Lord Taylor – were in town to be part of the 55th Annual Center […]

The 21st Annual SAG Awards are Sunday. The show prides itself as being the most accurate indicator of who will take home Oscars (though I think the Critics Choice Awards are not far behind). It would be too easy for me to predict that Michael Keaton, Julianne Moore, J.K. Simmons, and Patricia Arquette will win […]

As a member of The Broadcast Film Critics Association, I was, once again, in Hollywood for The Critics’ Choice Movie Awards. Now in its 20th year, the show was better than ever, thanks to a new host (Michael Strahan) a new, supportive network (A&E), a new venue (the historic Hollywood Palladium) and even more of […]

For the first time in Academy history, the nominees in all 24 categories were announced bright and early at 5:30am Pacific Time (8:30 on the East Coast). Directors J.J. Abrams (“Star Trek”) and Alfonso Cuaron (“Gravity”) began the two-part ceremony with some ugly snubs: “The LEGO Movie” is up for Best Original Song with “Everything […]

And now – the movies to look forward to (and avoid) over the second half of 2015: JULY 1 – “Magic Mike XXL”, “Terminator: Genisys” (Dictionary addition?) 10 – “Minions”, “Gallows” 17 – “Ant-Man”, “Trainwreck” (the review probably writes itself) 24 – “Pan”, “Pixels”, “Poltergeist” (Scary, Scarier, and Scariest) 31 – “Grimsby”, “Point Break”, “Self/Less” […]

Here are the movies to look forward to (and avoid) over the first half of the new year: JANUARY 9 – “Taken 3” (a third dose of those “special skills”), “Inherent Vice” (Wide), “Selma” (Wide) 16 – “American Sniper” (Wide), “Blackhat” (hacking movie NOT from Sony), “Paddington”, “The Wedding Ringer”, “Still Alice” (Limited) 23 – […]