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Thursday, January 7, 2021 at 8:27PM 
Minari wins two best picture prizes
Here's four more groups of prizes from critics groups. Chloe Zhao continues her total sweep of Best Director prizes for Nomadland (she hasn't lost one yet) but Minari and Promising Young Woman find some love in this week's batch of honors...
Thursday, January 7, 2021 at 3:33PM by Matt St Clair
British thespian Vanessa Kirby has been on a steady rise, having earned an Emmy nomination for playing Princess Margaret on The Crown while kicking action ass in both Mission Impossible: Fallout and Hobbs & Shaw. With Pieces of a Woman, Kirby is finally given a project where she takes center stage and she emerges as the shining star of a picture that’s drenched in darkness due to its distressing subject matter.
The first major sequence in Pieces of a Woman involving Martha's (Kirby) home birth will be a deal-breaker for some viewers...
Thursday, January 7, 2021 at 9:32AM 
7 random things that happened on this day, January 7th, in showbiz history
1891 Best-selling author Zora Neale Hurston is born in Alabama. Where's her biopic? Hell, where are the movies based on her books and plentiful short stories? The only movie length adaptation has been the TV movie Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005).
1971 Today is the big "5-0" for Jeremy Renner, twice Oscar nominated (The Hurt Locker, The Town), but whose promising gifts were completely swallowed up by a desire to become a franchise star which was both successful in a supporting sense (9 years and counting as Hawkeye in the MCU) and not in the headliner sense (Mission: Impossible... Tom Cruise quickly taking the franchise back, Hansel & Gretel... one and done, The Bourne Legacy... Matt Damon quickly taking the franchise back)...
Thursday, January 7, 2021 at 1:35AM by Nathaniel R
Good news for those still stuck at home, which is most of us. Both the provocative Carey Mulligan vehicle Promising Young Woman and the thoughtful Tom Hanks western News of the World are arriving On Demand starting Friday, January 15th (a week from tomorrow!). Coincidentally that's also Regina King's birthday and the day her directorial debut, One Night in Miami, begins streaming on Amazon Prime. It's like Regina is giving us a gift for her birthday. Generous!
So circle that date on your calendar. You'll be able to have a delicious Best Picture hopeful triple feature weekend. Your mileage will of course vary on whether each of these three are worthy of a "Best" stamp but at the very least they're all interesting and handsomely made movies and as a triple feature they offer a ton of variety in tone and theme and acting styles.
Which are you most eager to see?
Wednesday, January 6, 2021 at 10:19PM 
The Grammy Awards rescheduled their ceremony today only to choose the exact date that's been occupied by the Screen Actors Guild Awards for months now. RUDE. We'd say this will be a tough call for celebrities as to which to attend but given that there seems to be no end in sight to the pandemic with even the vaccine rollout botched (thus far at least), we imagine both will end up virtual even though they're not happening until March 14th.
But given that the world is in chaos once again we sought distraction today and noticed that both Billboard and Rolling Stone released their 2020 year-end charts for the top albums and top songs. A few notes of interest...
Grammys, Hamilton, Taylor Swift, musicals 