Prestige Junkie
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🎧 Jane Schoenbrun’s Slasher Movie Is a Really Good Time in the Dark
The filmmaker on their horror satire with Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson. Plus: studio plans for Oscar season
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Hiro Murai on ‘Widow’s Bay’ and Its Ouija Board Magic
Plus: ‘Spider-Man’ director Destin Daniel Cretton’s bittersweet weekend
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🎧 Sundance: J. Lo Shines at a Muted Fest With High Hopes, Few Hits
I talk to The Ankler’s Alison Brower about the fest’s mixed vibes and films that hit home, from Lopez’s ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ to standout doc ‘The Stringer’
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5 Oscar Best Actress Nominees Fight the Patriarchy (What’s Your Film Doing?)
A bigger-than-film campaign narrative always has been a best picture must. I assess the field of who is flexing ‘important’ with a capital I
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🎧 Oscar Noms: A Race Wide Open With Trump, Trans Issues in the Mix
I analyze the contenders with Esther Zuckerman and Richard Rushfield. Plus: What the picks reveal about the Academy now
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A ‘Brutalist’ AI Backlash and Sundance Sparks
The brouhaha over Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones’ dialogue. Plus: Team Ankler’s most anticipated in Park City
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‘Conclave’: Politics, Secrets & Shock, He Wrote
Screenwriter Peter Straughan on election drama (papal version) and sticking the landing. Plus: the impact of BAFTA, SAG, WGA, PGA noms
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🎧 ‘Nosferatu’ Director on ‘Wrestling With Hubris’ to Remake a Vampire Classic
Robert Eggers on the box office and critical hit he once said it would be ‘disgusting’ for him to make
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L.A. Fires Upend the Oscars
I talk to strategists and filmmakers whose awards hopes are dwarfed by their anxieties over a city’s staggering losses
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🎧 ‘Say Goodbye to Your Utopias’: ‘I’m Still Here’ Star’s Edict for Brutal Times
Fernanda Torres portrays a defiant Brazilian activist, a character ‘who tells you how to live in reality and find a way to reinvent yourself’
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‘Nickel Boys’ Team: ‘Everything We Shot Was a Joy’
Director RaMell Ross, his star and cinematographer on their film’s innovative ‘sentient camera’. Plus: a chat with Wallace and Gromit’s Nick Park
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🎧 Live from L.A.! ‘Inside Out 2’ Director on the Art of Anxiety
Kelsey Mann took inspiration from ‘All About Eve’ for the blockbuster that put tween Riley’s Joy in a power struggle with rival emotions
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🎧 Guy Pearce Is Back in ‘The Brutalist,’ But ‘I Didn’t Ever Go Anywhere’
I talk to the ‘L.A. Confidential’ and ‘Memento’ star about his acclaimed turn in Brady Corbet’s epic Holocaust drama
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Globes: What the Wins, Snubs & Speeches Mean for Oscar (and Not)
I analyze the stagecraft at the Beverly Hilton and the after-party chatter at Netflix and NBCU
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🎧 Top Star Turns of 2024
I talk with Richard Rushfield about the most memorable performances, from Chalamet to Zendaya
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🎧Javier Bardem’s Art of Darkness; My Top 10 Movies of 2024
The star of ‘Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story’ tells me how he found a ‘lack of empathy’ in his character
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How ‘Maria’, ‘I’m Still Here’ Blow Up the Biopic
Directors Pablo Larrain and Walter Salles reveal their creative approaches to telling true stories
Prestige Junkie from Katey Rich tracks the intersection of awards, culture and industry power — the breakthroughs, contenders, campaigns and conversations shaping film and TV.