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The 2020 Academy Awards ceremony had a potential to be a truly interesting night, even if there weren’t any…
Feb 6
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When it comes to bad opinions presented boldly, it’s hard to beat The Hollywood Reporter’s annual Brutally Honest Oscars Ballot
Jan 19
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Celebrities often seem like they’re “prettier” or “richer” or “better” than us regular folk, but one night a year,…
Sep 25 2019
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Renée Zellweger has been getting a remarkable amount of attention for her turn as Judy Garland in the new movie Judy,…
Sep 10 2019
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Judy Garland reinvented herself dozens of times in her 47 years of life. The child vaudevillian. The teenage girl…
Jul 8 2019
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After slumming it on Netflix’s deliciously trashy What/If, Renée Zellweger is ready to reenter the Oscar race with Ju…
May 24 2019
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As we meet the attractive six young players who primarily function as the pawns of self-described “neo-noir social…
May 10 2019
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On the heels of musical bio pics like Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman comes Judy, a look at Judy Garland in 1968 as…
Apr 23 2019
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Following the lead of far too many other movie stars (most recently Jake Gyllenhaal), Renée Zellweger has been…
Aug 17 2018
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Welcome to Development Hell, the fiery pit into which we fling recent developments in casting, distribution, and…
Jul 6 2018
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Mar 19 2018
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Back in October, we reported that Renée Zellweger had signed on to star in Rupert Goold’s Judy, the first big-screen…
Feb 12 2018
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As a lifelong lover of the much-maligned romantic comedy, I’ve always found it funny when people dismiss the genre…
Oct 23 2017
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Judy Garland is rightfully a show-business legend, a tremendous vocal talent whose life ended in tragedy after years…
Jun 5 2017
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Whether or not it “does a disservice to 1995 and record-store culture,” Empire Records captured the zeitgeist with…
Oct 19 2016
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The Whole Truth is a moderately clever, reasonably entertaining courtroom drama, which is only a problem given the…
Sep 20 2016
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Keanu Reeves doesn’t always get to enjoy the same level of respect as his actorly peers, possibly because most…
Sep 15 2016
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Bridget Jones’s Baby, the third movie in the series based on Helen Fielding’s comic novels, is the kind of sequel…
Sep 8 2016
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Blame it on Al Jolson. Ever since that infernal crooner delivered the line “You ain’t heard nothin’ yet!” in 1927’s T…
Aug 18 2016
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The trailer for Same Kind Of Different As Me can really just be boiled down to this one exchange between a…