• Documentary Film Review,  entertainment,  Film Festivals,  Film Reviews

    Minding The Gap Examines Friendship, Growing Pains and Family

    When "Boyhood" was released a few years back it was considered revolutionary because it was filmed over an extended period of time.  Well, clearly Bing Liu took that premise a…

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    June 17, 2021

    Carla Gutierrez Captures Frida in Animated Living Color

    January 19, 2024

    HURRICANE KATRINA DOC CHRONICLES RACE AGAINST TIME AND TRAGEDY

    August 8, 2025
  • Oscars

    Birdman Soars Over the 87th Annual Academy Awards

    Politics, Fashion and Stars are always a guarantee on and off the red carpet for the Academy Awards and this year was no exception.  Before the ceremony, diversity was the…

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    Ava DuVernay’s 13th Doc is Proof Change Comes With a Hefty Price Tag

    November 3, 2016

    Viola Davis, Atlanta and Ross Win LaLa Land Dances to Globe History

    January 8, 2017

    Quentin Tarantino Bring 35MM Reservoir Dogs Tribeca 2017

    April 27, 2017
  • Award Shows

    2015 Spirit Awards: Birdman Soars To New Heights

    The Spirit Awards is always a highlight of awards season as it focuses more on the artists and their film rather than box office and politics.  At the yesterday’s ceremony,…

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    Is This Awards Season Predictable? Will Rogue One Slay the Box Office?

    December 15, 2016

    Unrequitted Love Breaks Your Heart in Cold War

    March 21, 2019

    Breaking News! Moonlight Eclipses Competition for 2017 Spirit Award Noms

    November 22, 2016
  • Award Shows

    Boyhood Rules at the 2015 BAFTA Awards

    The BAFTA Awards were handed out at the Royal Opera House over this past weekend in London,  and Boyhood took the big prize with the Best Film award, its third overall win including director Richard…

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    Hopkins and Pryce Humanize Pontiff’s with Netflix’s The Two Popes

    December 17, 2019

    Who is Oscar and What Does Preparation Look Like for the Academy Awards?

    March 2, 2014

    Boyhood and Birdman Fly High at the 2015 Critics Choice Awards

    January 16, 2015
  • Award Shows

    Boyhood and Birdman Fly High at the 2015 Critics Choice Awards

    The Broadcast Film Critics Assn.’s Critics Choice Awards split top awards between best picture winner “Boyhood” and “Birdman”.  The Broadcast Film Critics Assn. consists of nearly 300 reviewers from TV,…

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    Carol & Netflix Rule Golden Globe Noms

    December 10, 2015

    The Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society Announces Its Inaugural Year’s Nominations

    December 10, 2017

    Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society Announce Inaugural Year Winners

    December 20, 2017
  • Award Shows

    Birdman Takes Off Leading 2015 Oscar Nominations and Surprises

    Well, it suffices to say that this awards season has kinda like being a bride and the day before the wedding the groom changed his mind.  It’s been a real…

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    2016 MTV MOVIE AWARDS

    April 11, 2016

    Taraji P. Cookie Attack and Leo Rule Golden Globes

    January 10, 2016

    We the Animals Tops 2019 Film Independent Spirit Award Nominations

    November 16, 2018
  • Award Shows

    2015 Golden Globe Winners

    With big names like Reese Witherspoon, Julianne Moore, Jennifer Aniston, Jake Gyllenhaal, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Matthew McConaughey up for awards, and some big movies, like “Boyhood,” “The Imitation Game,” “Selma,”…

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    Boyhood and Birdman Fly High at the 2015 Critics Choice Awards

    January 16, 2015

    Andra Day is Captivating in The United States vs Billie Holiday

    February 26, 2021

    Close and Pryce are Masterful in The Wife

    February 4, 2019
  • Film Reviews

    2014 Film Wrap: Wrestling, Woods and Civil Rights dominate cinemas

    What makes 2014 the most exciting year for movies in a while is the fact that this may very well be another history making year. In 2012, Selma helmer Ava…

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    Little Richard: I Am Everything Digs Deep into the Lineage of a Legend

    January 23, 2023

    For Love & Life: No Ordinary Campaign Spotlight Tenacity in Fight for ALS

    May 28, 2024

    Sylvie’s Love is a Gorgeous Nod to Romantic Hollywood in Color

    December 24, 2020
  • Award Shows

    2014 SAG AWARD NOMINATIONS

    Nominations for the 2014 Screen Actor’s Guild Awards were announced this morning from the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles by Eva Longoria and Ansel Elgort. “Birdman” led the way…

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    The Curvy Critic’s Best of 2016 – Flicks, Docs and Animated

    December 31, 2016

    Spirit Awards Brunch with Issa Rae, Ava DuVernay and Sterling K. Brown

    January 8, 2017

    The Favourite Dominates BAFTA Nominations

    January 9, 2019
  • Film Reviews

    2014 LA Film Critics Winners

    The Los Angeles Film Critics announced their winners over the weekend.  Below is the complete list of winners and runner-ups BEST PICTURE BOYHOOD RUNNER-UP: “THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL” BEST DIRECTOR…

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    May 28, 2026

    Jumpshot Doc Love Letter to Originator Kenny Sailors | SXSW ’19

    March 12, 2019

    The Hollars

    August 27, 2016

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