Thursday, December 17, 2020 at 10:16AM • MNPP is celebrating Jake Gyllenhaal this week all week. Here's a list of his best nude scenes
• MNPP... and the best Jake Gyllenhaal costumes
• Pajiba drools all over Dev Patel. It was supposed to be his year
• Vulture looks at 8 Christmas-themed horror films including Gremlins and Black Christmas
Tom Cruise, Sir Ian McKellen, Regina King, Josh O'Connor and year in review mania after the jump...
Sunday, December 13, 2020 at 8:00PM by Nathaniel R
The Boston Society of Film Critics, generally one of the best critics organizations (in that they have good taste and aren't afraid to go their own way) announced their prize winners today. They've given multiple prizes to four pictures: Nomadland, Minari, i'm thinking of ending things, and The Father. With the exception of prizes for American indie Never Rarely Sometimes Always, the Guatemalan film La Llorona, and Charlie Kaufman's I'm thinking of ending things, Boston almost exlusively went with films that have not yet opened to the public or that just barely "opened" so it's a "Best of December 2020 through February 2021" kind of list.
The complete list of winners is after the jump...
Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 10:30AM by Juan Carlos Ojano
Adapted from J.D. Vance’s controversial memoir about his family in the Appalachians, Hillbilly Elegy opened to harshly negative reviews from critics, but the film is not really out of the awards conversation. What was seemingly a slam dunk Oscar contender given the pedigree of its cast is now caught in the critics/audience divide, something that has become a commonality these past few years (Green Book, Bohemian Rhapsody, Joker, etc). Just look at the critics and audience scores the film got in Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic.
ROTTENTOMATOES: Tomatometer: 26% / Audience Score: 85%
METACRITIC Metascore: 39 (generally unfavorable) / User Score: 7.9 (generally favorable)
The most significant Oscar push for the film will undoubtedly be seven-time oscar nominee Glenn Close for Best Supporting Actress. She plays Mamaw, J.D.’s grandmother and de facto guardian when his mother Bev (Amy Adams) spirals into heroin addiction. This role comes after a surprising Best Actress loss at the 91st Academy Awards for her performance in The Wife. Absurdly overdue for a win, Close came to this particular Supporting Actress race as a preordained frontrunner. However, the dismal critical reception of the film immediately cast doubt on her chances. Some now feel she won't be nominated at all. Or, that she doesn't deserve to be which is unfair on Close’s part, in my humble opinion...
Saturday, November 14, 2020 at 10:00PM By Lynn Lee (with special guest Jeff Chen)
Until recently, I’d never seen RoboCop, Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 sci-fi classic about a viciously murdered cop who’s resurrected as a cyborg supercop. I was too young to see it when it first came out and didn’t get around to it when I was older, partly because I’d heard it was gruesomely violent. However, I learned it had passionate fans that included some very astute critics. Among them is Jeff Chen, former writer for ReelTalk Movie Reviews and a fellow alum of the dearly departed online critics’ group Cinemarati (through which I met both him and TFE’s very own Nathaniel), who ranks RoboCop as his favorite movie. As part of TFE’s 1987 retrospective, I finally saw RoboCop and invited Jeff to discuss my reactions as a first-time viewer and how the movie has remained in our cultural consciousness for over 30 years.
JEFF: RoboCop is indeed my favorite movie. A lot of that has to do with timing. I was already an avid movie watcher as a teenager, but I’d been mostly watching PG or (the new, at the time) PG-13 movies. I was 15 when I went to my best friend’s house and he put on a VHS copy of RoboCop. And I was traumatized and exhilarated...
Wednesday, August 5, 2020 at 9:01AM The Supporting Actress Smackdown season is roaring along. Up next on August 20th, in two weeks time we'll talk 2005. Let's meet the panelists!
PLEASE WELCOME (IN ALPHA ORDER)...
