Nolte: They Sure Don’t Make ‘Em Like ‘Witness’ (1985) Anymore
While the original screenplay won a well-deserved Oscar, Witness is through-and-through a director’s film.
While the original screenplay won a well-deserved Oscar, Witness is through-and-through a director’s film.
“Sound of Freedom” has topped $40 million at the box office and beat the per-screen average of “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.”
Nolte: Two-time Oscar winner and international treasure Michael Caine turned 90 this week. Here are some of his non-blockbuster films I treasure.
Jimmy Kimmel once again proved to be ratings poison, with Sunday night’s Oscar telecast drawing a pathetic 16 million (give or take) viewers.
Steven Spielberg’s film memoir “The Fabelmans” consists of a lot of bad acting and not a single scene that feels real.
The race-baiting and bullying at the hands of Oscar-winner Viola Davis, Till director Chinonye Chukwu, and Till star Danielle Deadwyler is beyond disgusting and indefensible.
Will A Man Called Otto stop the entertainment media from lying, blaming the China Flu, and streaming for the ongoing failure of preachy, smug, self-important, off-putting flops? No.
Every year, Hollywood offers what is called For Your Consideration (FYC) screenings. This year, no one is attending them.
Apple’s big Oscar push this year, director Antoine Fuqua’s Slave Drama “Emancipation,” appears to be dead in the water.
Steven Spielberg was hoping for a comeback with “The Fabelmans,” but all he got was another reminder of the damage he’s done to his brand.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky recently accepted fellow actor Sean Penn’s Oscar while war rages on in his country. The left-wing Hollywood star, who has a history of cozying up to dictators, including Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, was seen giving one of his Oscar awards to Zelensky.
After driving the Oscars (and Emmys) to record-low ratings, the Academy has chosen to troll America by rehiring Jimmy Kimmel.
Here are my five favorite William Hurt movies in date order…
In part five of this series we look at the movies that should have won the Best Picture Oscar between 1960 and 1969.
Yesterday we looked at the very first years of Best Picture winners, 1927 to 1930. Today, as we march through the decades, we look at 1931 to 1939.
Oscar producers are facing backlash after telling nominees they must attend the ceremony in person and are not allowed to give their acceptance speeches remotely via Zoom next month during the Academy Awards. The rules for this year’s Oscars ceremony is “causing
Oscar nominees have been told by the show’s producers that they are not allowed to give their acceptance speeches remotely via Zoom next month during the Academy Awards, and clothing like hoodies and loungewear will be banned at the ceremony.
This Sunday, only 23.6 million tuned in. That’s a jaw-dropping 20 percent dive over last year, and an 11 percent dive from the previous all-time low.
“Just Mercy” isn’t a movie-movie. This is a TV movie, an afterschool special, so simplistic and manipulative…
Oscar-winning actor Mark Rylance has quit the Royal Shakespeare Company because the theater accepted a sponsorship by British Petroleum.
If Hollywood cares about winning back its lost audience – and that’s a big “if” because narcissists seldom notice when the room is empty – they could start by making better films.
When a movie like that crash dives at $45 million, what you have on your hands is a serious case of audience rejection.
Green Book director Peter Farrelly apologized Wednesday for flashing actress Cameron Diaz with his penis back in 1998.
Unlike Joy Reid, Alec Baldwin, and Jimmy Kimmel, Kevin Hart does not behave in the way an entertainer is “supposed” to behave, most especially a black entertainer: Kevin Hart is apolitical. He does not trash Trump, he does not trash Republicans, he does not trash Trump supporters or Christians.
Just as the Catholic Church committed slow-motion suicide by trying to please everyone, so too have the Academy Awards.
Oscar-nominated actor Peter Fonda called on a mob to “rip Barron Trump from his mother’s arms and put him in a cage with pedophiles.”
Obviously still rattled by President Trump mocking his record-low Oscar viewership, a defensive Jimmy Kimmel blamed Netflix for the ratings catastrophe.
Although one write-up after another in the far-left entertainment media gushed over the Oscars as being ‘inclusive’ and ‘diverse,’ nothing could be further from the truth.
A quick look at what this year’s Best Picture nominees were about helps to explain why this Oscar bait made no money at the box office.
Gloria Allred says that those facing allegations of sexual misconduct should be blacklisted from winning an Oscar or any other Hollywood award.
Actress Melissa Gilbert claims that Oliver Stone sexually harassed her while she was auditioning for a role in the three time Oscar-winner’s 1991 Jim Morrison biopic The Doors.
If you have not seen this director’s movies, you have almost certainly heard of them. What you probably do not know, though, is that a few decades ago this director served time for child molestation. After his release, he then spent a few years in the purgatory of office life before resuming a film career.
Actor Jack Black took the stage at the BOVET 1822 and Paul Haggis’s Artists for Peace and Justice inaugural “Songs from the Cinema” benefit concert and said he hopes Meryl Streep trashes President Donald Trump from the podium at Sunday’s Academy Awards.
Kelly Mantle, a transgender artist, is now the first person to be eligible for an Oscar in both male and female categories.
Bruce Jenner is leading an Oscar campaign for transgender performer Mya Taylor, who might be in contention for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar at the upcoming Academy Awards.
Oscar-winning The Help actress Octavia Spencer is reportedly engaged in final negotiations to play God in Lionsgate’s upcoming film The Shack.
Breitbart News will be live-blogging and commenting on tonight’s Oscar ceremony until the bitter end, which will probably be sometime tomorrow. Latest updates at the top. — 12:06 – It’s Over… Closing Thoughts… By tomorrow everyone will have already forgotten
British film critic Barry Norman is already dismissing Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremonies, stating his belief that film selections are either political in nature or picked by the housekeepers of academy voters who are too lazy to watch films up for consideration.