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Indie Spirit Awards: Moonlight Shines Bright Like a Diamond Taking Best Feature and Best Director
A24’s Moonlight outshined the competition at the 32nd Annual Spirit Awards in Santa Monica. Moonlight Director took awards for Directing and Screenplay, with additional wins for editor James Lawton and…
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Oscar Winning Siblings
For some Hollywood elite, remarkable acting has turned into a family business for those with the last name of Affleck, Barrymore, Douglas, Fonda and Coppola. So much so, that the…
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Intimate Look at First Time Oscar Nominees
This may be the first year these actors are nominated and recognized by the Academy for their work, but they have been around for a minute. Out of the 20…
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50th Anniversary of In The Heat of the Night at the TCM Classic Film Festival
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will kick off the 8th annual TCM Classic Film Festival on Thursday, April 6th with a 50th anniversary screening of the Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger…
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Sundance Film Festival – An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Al Gore and Hillary Clinton have three things in common. They both ran for POTUS. They both won the popular vote. They both had issues surrounding voter hacking. We don’t…
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People of Color Making History – Oscars 2017
The nominations for the 89th Academy Awards were announced this morning in a very non-traditional, yet welcomed and artistic manner. Instead of the usual press conference at 5am. Former Oscar…
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KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS
Being a Buddhist, I love how the Japanese culture of prayer is honored in this piece. It very earnestly demonstrates the results of an honest prayer versus a prayer that…
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FENCES
August Wilson wrote his first play “Jitney in 1979, but it was “Fences” that put this Pittsburgh born playwright on the map.. “Fences” received a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award…
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Is This Awards Season Predictable? Will Rogue One Slay the Box Office?
Last, but certainly not least are the Golden Globe nods. Although a few big names earned awards buzz leading up to the noms, they won’t have a shot at the…
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Happy 100 Birthday Kirk Douglas
Legends in Hollywood are few, far and in-between like waiting to watch a shooting star. In 2016, we were lucky enough to celebrate two shooting stars...Olivia de Havilland and on…
