Movie fans, rejoice: There are tons of awesome new movies set to be added to Netflix’s content catalog next month. Highlights include The Departed, Superbad, Catch Me If You Can,…
Continue ReadingBarack Obama has been a busy watcher this year. On Friday, the former U.S. president revealed his list of 2020’s best movies and TV shows. RELATED: Lizzo, DaBaby And Bruce…
Continue ReadingRinger illustration Even in a year when we watched everything on small screens, movies still seemed larger than life When I picked the best shots of 2019, I quoted Martin…
Continue ReadingOscar winners Meryl Streep (left) and Nicole Kidman both have a shot at bringing home some more hardware for “The Prom.” | Netflix Even with theaters often closed, Hollywood had…
Continue ReadingThe year’s best films told all kinds of stories. | Amanda Northrop/Vox The 25 greatest films from an unforgettable year. Writing about movies in 2020 was, in a word, bizarre.…
Continue ReadingRinger illustration Almost everyone watched new movies from home, so we’ve got a set of double features that defined a strange but still vibrant year in film Getting two writers…
Continue ReadingEven as COVID-19 reduces travel, the public is in a holiday mood. Along with anecdotal reports of near-record Christmas tree sales and an increase of home-lighting displays, we say 11…
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Continue ReadingWhen the Screen Actors Guild announces the nominees for the SAG Awards’ Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture award on Feb. 4, we should expect the nominated…
Continue ReadingDavid Fincher’s “Mank” tells the story of “Citizen Kane” screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) through a painstaking re-creation of Hollywood in the 1930s and early ’40s. Every detail in…
Continue ReadingNetflix/Ringer illustration Netflix’s ‘Mank,’ a dramatized story about screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz’s writing of ‘Citizen Kane,’ has become better known as a fun-sounding meme than a piece of Oscar bait…
Continue ReadingEarly in Netflix’s Mank, the screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (played by Gary Oldman) ambles onto an outdoor movie set, where he bumps into an array of glamorous characters. In a…
Continue ReadingDavid Fincher’s “Mank,” a drama set in the Hollywood of the 1930s and ’40s and focusing on “Citizen Kane” screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz, has found itself embroiled in an argument that…
Continue ReadingGood movies kept coming in 2020, even when everything else stopped. In a year that often felt like its own kind of cataclysmic Hollywood production, the movies — even if…
Continue ReadingThis is the time of year when Hollywood’s awards-season-industrial complex usually shifts into high gear. It’s a frothy, festive run of the year’s final premieres and screenings — all part…
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