‘The Menu,’ ‘Nope’ & ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Earn 2023 WGA Awards Film Nominations

The Oscar nomination announcement may have come and gone, but some guild award nominations have not. This morning the Writers Guild of America completed the reveal of the WGA Award nominations by announcing the 2023 film nominees. This year’s crop included a number of films not nominated for the Academy Awards including “The Menu,” “Nope,” “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” and “She Said.” The union dropped the television nominees last month. As only union members are only eligible for a WGA Awards nomination, many of this year’s most critically acclaimed films did not make the cut including “The Banshees of Inisherin,”

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‘We Have A Ghost’ Trailer: Christopher Landon’s New Family Friendly Horror With David Harbour & Jennifer Coolidge Hits Netflix On February 24

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Christopher Landon helped put Blumhouse on the map last decade thanks to his writing and directing credits on the “Paranormal Activity” and “Happy Death Day” films. Now Landon returns for his first film since 2020’s “Freaky,” a horror movie for Netflix that’s a little more family-friendly than his usual efforts. “We Have A Ghost” follows a family that moves into

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‘The Menu,’ ‘Nope’ & ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Earn 2023 WGA Awards Film Nominations

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The Oscar nomination announcement may have come and gone, but some guild award nominations have not. This morning the Writers Guild of America completed the reveal of the WGA Award nominations by announcing the 2023 film nominees. This year’s crop included a number of films not nominated for the Academy Awards including “The Menu,” “Nope,”

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‘You People’ Review: Jonah Hill & Eddie Murphy’s Comedic Chops Can’t Save A Corny, Superficial Family Comedy

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How do you make the norm abnormal for the sake of comedy? Interracial/mixed-race families are so ordinary these days (I’m part of one as we speak), but comedy often has to exaggerate our differences to strike at deep laughs that speak to deeper, uncomfortable truths. That’s fair enough, and writer/director Kenya Barris’ (“Black-ish”) well-intentioned family

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Berlin 2023: New Films From Sean Penn, Jesse Eisenberg & More Announced

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We are currently in the middle of the Sundance Film Festival, which kicks off the year’s major film events lineup. And sandwiched in between Sundance and the upcoming SXSW Film Festival is none other than the Berlin International Film Festival, which just unveiled its competition lineup, filled with some interesting selections.  READ MORE: The 100

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‘The Persian Version’ Review: Maryam Keshavarz’s Dramedy Lacks Cohesion [Sundance]

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The thorny, complicated history between the United States and Iran is infinitely more complex for those of the Persian diaspora living in America. It’s this nuanced tension trickling down to identity — between being too much this and not enough that in either homeland — that writer-director-producer Maryam Keshavarz (“Circumstance”) explores in her third film,

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‘Fremont’ Review: An Afghan Insomniac Tries To Find Purpose In A Refreshingly Unique & Jarmuschian-Esque Indie Dramedy [Sundance]

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“I don’t spend much time thinking,” says 20-something Donya (Anaita Wali Zada), a troubled and displaced Afghan insomniac, to her doctor in the terrific, breakthrough indie “Fremont.” Why? he asks inquisitively. “Too busy with my social life,” she answers, with confidence so cool and so far from the truth, it’s laugh-out-loud comical. READ MORE: 25

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Jennifer Connelly Doesn’t Know About the ‘Nepo Baby’ Debate, Just That Alice Englert Is a Major Directing Talent

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Here’s what grabs Jennifer Connelly: a good script, an original script, some humor, definitely just something different. And that’s precisely what the actress found in Alice Englert’s feature debut “Bad Behaviour.” That Englert, who also stars in the film as Connelly’s daughter, is the real-life daughter of filmmaker Jane Campion wasn’t at all on Connelly’s mind. The

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2023 Oscar Nominations Predictions: ‘Banshees of Inisherin,’ Andrea Riseborough, Paul Mescal

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After months of campaigning, the 95th Oscar nominations are here. And, in theory, with blockbusters such as “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” (granted, a streaming blockbuster), and “Avatar: The Way of Water” in the mix for Best Picture nominations people should be excited. But are they? The

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‘Shotgun Wedding’ Review: Jennifer Coolidge Is the Most Valued Guest at Jennifer Lopez’s Grisly Destination Wedding

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“Not everything is about money!” exclaims bride-to-be Darcy at the rehearsal dinner for her idyllic-looking island wedding in the Philippines — a rebuke to her multi-millionaire father Robert, who wishes she’d let him pay to make the whole affair even more luxe. Perhaps she means it. Darcy claims she wanted to elope to avoid the

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Jennifer Connelly Doesn’t Know About the ‘Nepo Baby’ Debate, Just That Alice Englert Is a Major Directing Talent

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Here’s what grabs Jennifer Connelly: a good script, an original script, some humor, definitely just something different. And that’s precisely what the actress found in Alice Englert’s feature debut “Bad Behaviour.” That Englert, who also stars in the film as Connelly’s daughter, is the real-life daughter of filmmaker Jane Campion wasn’t at all on

Joseph Gordon-Levitt on Returning to Sundance With ‘Flora and Son,’ Working With Eddie Murphy on ‘Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley’

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt first learned about Sundance Film Festival while he was making his big screen debut in 1992’s “A River Runs Through It.” That’s where the film’s director (and Sundance’s founder) Robert Redford gave him a T-shirt emblazoned with the festival’s moniker. But it wasn’t until he was a bit older that

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