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Saturday, October 23, 2021 at 9:00AM .
The aesthetic, the world-building, the pulsing drama of Dune...truly incomparable pic.twitter.com/5PVm2UxH09
— Beatrice Loayza (@bealoayza) October 22, 2021
More Dune plus Rita Wilson, Tom Holland, actressexual jokes etcetera after the jump...
Adele, Dune, Tom Holland, Twitter, video games Friday, October 22, 2021 at 11:00AM by Nathaniel R
Have you either of these classics of mid 60s international cinema? In one of the strangest timetables in Oscar history, both of these two film's leading ladies were honored with Best Actress Oscar nominations but neither in the year their film was honored: Sophia Loren (Marriage Italian Style) was nominated for Best Actress in 1964; Ida Kaminska (The Shop on Main Street) was nominated for Best Actress in 1966; inbetween those Oscar years the films themselves were nominated for Best Foreign Language Film of 1965 (now called Best International Feature Film).
I was thrilled to rejoin Juan Carlos Ojano on "One Inch Barrier" to discuss 1965's Best international race, a strong vintage, which also included the family drama Blood on the Land (Greece), the very horny Dear John (Sweden), and the supernatural Kwaidan (Japan). We discuss Best Actress, Oscar's resistance to Asian cinema, sex in cinema, and Sophia Loren's magnetism...
Friday, October 22, 2021 at 9:00AM Today is October 22nd which means it's...
0 days until Dune, The French Dispatch, Ron's Gone Wrong, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, and The Harder They Fall open in movies theaters (and in some cases at home). That's right -- they're out now!
60 days until the Oscar finalists list are announced in categories like Best International Film, Best Score, Best Documentary, and so on...
96 days until the Governors Awards when the Academy honors legends like Liv Ullman and Samuel L Jackson with their Honorary Oscars
109 days until the nominations are announced for the 94th Academy Awards
156 days until Hollywood's High Holy Night aka the Oscars.
How will you use the time alloted you?
Thursday, October 21, 2021 at 11:00PM by Nathaniel R
It was a good year for forthcoming Netflix content helmed by actresses turned directors with the juries of the Gotham Awards. Rebecca Hall's artful black and white drama Passing and Maggie Gyllenhaal's artful thorny adaptation of the novel The Lost Daughter led the nominations. They'll hit Netflix on November 10th and December 31st respectively. With both the Gotham Awards and the often slighlty more mainstream Spirit Awards it can be hard to know exactly what is eligible. Usually budgets make all the difference in film (for example Power of the Dog was ineligible) which creates a fuzzymath accounting line between mainstream and 'indie. But how do they decide with television? Did they not like Mare of Easttown (which scored zero nominations) or was it just not eligible though its chief Emmy rival The Queens Gambit obviously was since Anya Taylor Joy was nominated.
Nominations and commentary are after the jump...
Thursday, October 21, 2021 at 9:00PM 
By Ben Miller
Rich with atmosphere and well-rounded characters, Invasion, the new sci-fi series Apple TV+, provides a small-scale look at what a global event can have on a few normal citizens. Created by Simon Kinberg (producer of The Martian), the opening three episodes establish realistic characters and how the problems in their lives pale in comparison to a mysterious alien invasion that begins on Earth.
