Producer/director/actor/writer/singer-songwriter Bradley Cooper has made BAFTA history. On Wednesday, he received a record five nominations, for A Star Is Born, in the Best Film, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Music categories, a feat that the British film academy says hadn’t happened in its 72-year history. The film also picked up […]
Bohemian Rhapsody and Green Book were the big winners at the 76th annual Golden Globes Sunday night, picking up the awards for Best Picture in the Drama and Musical/Comedy categories, respectively. Hosted by former Globe winners Andy Samberg (in 2014 for Brooklyn Nine-Nine) and Sandra Oh (in 2006 for Grey’s Anatomy and again Sunday night for her […]
Comedian Kathy Griffin is sharing some sad news about her mom Maggie. Griffin took to Instagram Thursday night to share with her fans that her 98-year-old mother, who gathered a huge following as a result of her appearances on Griffin’s reality TV show My Life on The D List, is suffering from a rapid decline […]
In Alfonso Cuarón’s Oscar-winning sci-fi blockbuster Gravity, Sandra Bullock’s character makes radio contact with a male voice back on Earth just before the big climax of the film. We see her speaking with the character, who doesn’t speak English, and we hear a dog barking and baby crying. At the other end of that conversation […]
2018 was a banner movie year, with an abundance of exceptional films spanning multiple genres. The Reelness’ Ten Best Movies of 2018 includes thrillers, horror/sci-fi, dramas, a comedy, a documentary, a musical, a foreign language film, and a romance – a surprising amount of genre diversity! And a special shout out to Lucas Hedges, for […]
On the heels of his Oscar win last year for Best Original Screenplay for the wildly successful Get Out, writer/director Jordan Peele has released a trailer for his upcoming horror/thriller, Us, which premieres in March 2019. It looks TERRIFYING. The story centers on a family played by Winston Duke, Lupita N’yong’o, and their two children, […]
Although 2018 turned out to be a pretty good year for good movies, it turned out to be a pretty darn good year for bad movies, too! 2018 will be known as the year of the poorly done thriller, with that film genre dominating a whopping half of our ten spots on the list. Oh […]
The Best Original Song category at the Oscars is one that can be a real feast or famine depending on the year, and 2018 was looking like a Lady Gaga-centric buffet, thanks to her juggernaut soundtrack for A Star Is Born. It had been heavily favored to score the maximum TWO nominations per film limit […]
Penny Marshall, the nasally, good natured star of the late 1970s hit TV series Laverne & Shirley, whose later career as a director included the hit films Big and A League of Their Own, died peacefully Monday night at her California home. She was 75. ”She passed away from complications from diabetes.” -Penny Marshall’s publicist Michelle […]
In a break from past tradition, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has revealed all of its shortlists for nine of the 24 categories that will be celebrated on Oscar night. Last year, each of the winnowed down shortlists was announced on different dates throughout December. This also marks the first year […]