Chancey Plagman

Deadline is reporting that Neon Productions, who recently acquired the new film Vox Lux, has slated the film for a December 7th release date. Vox Lux played at both the Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals and sits at 91% on…

Now that the Toronto International Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, and Venice Film Festival are over, we have an ever-so-slightly better perception on which films are more likely to be Oscar contenders. At the same time, there are a…

The fall film festival circuit ends with the Toronto International Film Festival. This year proved to be an exceptional one, with only a couple of stinkers in the mix and everything else receiving positive reactions out of the critics and…

Venice and Telluride are over, TIFF is in full swing, and predicting the Oscars at this rate is becoming ever so slightly easier. At this rate, it’s way too early to say any film is a lock for any nomination, so keep that in mind when I…

Like November, December offers up the studio’s biggest blockbuster hopes for the end of the year, and whatever doesn’t fit into the calendar numerically for November ends up in December, unless it’s Christmas-themed. Also this is when the…

The 2018 Venice Film Festival is in the books. The festival offered up a ton of Oscar hopefuls, and while in past years we’ve seen films like The Leisure Seeker, mother!, Suburbicon, and The Light Between Oceans get their Oscar chances…

In the past couple of weeks, I have been posting about which upcoming films have Oscar chances. But there are still nominations that will come from films released before September 1st. Here’s a few that I think have a shot of being possible…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences just announced that they are postponing the inaugural Best Popular Film award. Not much was known about what films would qualify for the category or what the restrictions and regulations would…

As the Toronto International Film Festival goes on, more entries seek out the attention of festival-goers, film pundits, and Oscar voters alike. All three of them can help bring a film from obscurity to Oscar gold. Some of these films need…

Thursday, September 6th marks the beginning of the 43rd annual Toronto International Film Festival, which many consider the biggest and most substantial film festival of the fall. Each year, dozens of Oscar hopefuls screen here to try and…

November begins the holiday movie season and it’s normally where we see a mix of the blockbuster fare and a few awards contenders films as well, so it’s another busy month at the movies. Here’s the list of films that I have my eye on that…

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Alec Baldwin has just been cast in Todd Phillips’ stand-alone Joker movie. He joins the likes of Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, and Marc Maron. Baldwin will play Thomas Wayne, the…

The 75th Venice Film Festival begins on Wednesday, August 29th, and the race for Oscar glory truly begins here as we see the first films reaching for the gold premier. So what’s coming up at this year’s festival that could knock the socks…

There used to be a rule that your Best Picture winner had to be released before Thanksgiving. That was broken last year with The Shape of Water opening in theaters in December, but recently we’ve seen films like Moonlight, Birdman, 12 Years…

We are rapidly closing in on the start of the fall movie season, and with it comes the beginning of the Oscar race. September is where we see two of the biggest film festivals of the year take place: Telluride and Toronto. We also begin to…

It was first reported over a year ago by Variety that Jack Nicholson and Kristen Wiig would be doing an American remake of the German film Toni Erdmann, and while progress on the film has been slow-going, The Wrap is now reporting two big…

The Toronto International Film Festival, better known by its acronym, TIFF, announced today that they have selected their opening film for 2018: Outlaw King. For those who haven’t heard of this one yet, this one is sort of a different…

In a press release from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, better known as those guys and gals who make up the voting body for the Oscars, it was announced that there are two big changes coming to the annual awards show,…

Next July will see Tom Holland back in the onesie again, and Vulture is now reporting that both Samuel L. Jackson and Cobie Smulders will appear in the film as well. This will mark the first time the two have appeared together in a Marvel…

Fall is my busiest time of the year at the movies. With all the Oscar hopefuls out there, plus a string of major releases that light up the box office, I’m practically at the movies once a week. Every year the fall and winter movie seasons…