During a live-streamed event this morning, Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs announced the 2017 Oscar nominations with the help of past Oscar nominated talents Demian Bichir, Dustin Lance Black, Glenn Close, Guillermo del Toro, Marcia Gay Harden, Terrence Howard, Jennifer…
Movie Review: Lion
The first hour of Garth Davis’s Lion (based on the true story of Saroo Bierley) is one of the finest explorations of the human experience this year. We follow a young Saroo after he is devastatingly separated from his mother…
Interview: Lion Composers Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka
At this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, first time feature-film director Garth Davis, who’s earned his stripes for his work on the BBC miniseries Top of the Lake, brought us the world premiere of his now hotly-anticipated and critically-acclaimed…
Dev Patel stars in the first trailer for TIFF bound Lion
I feel like I’ve been waiting for Dev Patel to get a starring role such as his in Slumdog Millionaire since well….Slumdog Millionaire. While he’s had the chance to demonstrate his chops in bit roles in The Newsroom and the indie The Road Within…
The Film Canon: Transformers The Movie (1986)
The arrival of the fourth movie in Michael Bay’s Transformers series, subtitled Age of Extinction, brings attention to the fact that the last three decades (September 17 of this year will be the 30th anniversary of when the very first…