This Might Be the Most Exciting Year for the Best Animated Feature Category at the Oscars

Keeping pace with Hollywoods perpetual awards horserace. Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Mostly because there wasnt much of one. This year wont be so cut and dried. praise thatTop Gun: Maverick(a Best Picture nominee) got two years ago. BesidesThe Wild Robot, two other animated features screening at TIFF could easily find themselves in awards contention. One is Latvian director Gints ZilbalodisFlow....

September 7, 2024 · 1 min · 96 words · John Diaz

Apps, Drinks, and Drama atTable 17

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Theres a lot of fretting these days over whether theater audiences understand the assignment. Meanwhile, a handful of Off Broadway productions have been taking the opposite tack. Laugh openly … Lyons writes. When the characters ask you for advice, dont be shy, talk to em. But all thats in the past. We begin in the present, at the eponymous table....

September 6, 2024 · 1 min · 173 words · Jessica Harmon

Can Ben Affleck Handle Another Jennifer in His Life?

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Lets face it:Ben Affleckis just a Jennifer magnet. He cant help it at this point; he attracts them like a Bostonian to a Dunkin Donuts. But the Utah Afflecks might not actually related to the Boston ones. Zacs dad has [met them], when [Ben] was very little, sheexplains. Im hoping to meet him one day, too!...

September 6, 2024 · 1 min · 129 words · Mrs. Gina Wright

Cinematrix No. 164: September 6, 2024

A new Cinematrix drops every morning. you could play pastCinematrixes here. Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. What pairs well with theexhaustive NFL season previewour friends at SB Nation just published? A football movie-themed Cinematrix. Tap a clue to see a headshot or get more details. The Cinematrix uses data fromTMDB. Want to play more grid games? Contact us atcinematrix@vulture.comwith questions or feedback....

September 6, 2024 · 1 min · 72 words · Jason Reynolds

Gianmarco Soresi Demands Inclusive Bullying in Comedy

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. (you could read more about our methodology at the link above.) Next up is Gianmarco Soresi. I went to pick it up, but my stepfather said, Leave it. I did not get you that phone to talk to that man. So I got in the car. My dad called again. My phone pinged from a voice-mail....

September 6, 2024 · 4 min · 643 words · Crystal Rodriguez

How a Meghan Trainor Song Ended Up inThe Perfect Couple’s Intro

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. For some reason, most ofThe Perfect Couplecast wanted to do without the shows silly group-dance number. Were they born in Bomont? It was my idea and I was pushing for it. As for the choice to use Meghan Trainors Criminal? Bier straight up just loved the song and thought it was a perfect fit. The fact that shes just singing about criminals just worked for this....

September 6, 2024 · 1 min · 133 words · Nicole Brown

How Did Best Song Become the Year’s Most Exciting Emmys Race?

Keeping pace with Hollywoods perpetual awards horserace. Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Pasek and Paul remain one Emmy win away from achieving the EGOT. Joe Reid:Jackson, thank you for joining me to talk about this batch of Emmy-nominated songs. But even taking a step back from that, this is a category that covers a lot of territory. I think I still stand by that!...

September 6, 2024 · 1 min · 186 words · John Pugh

Jimmy Fallon Might Be Laughing a Little Less Than Usual

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Repeats are now expected to airon Fridays, as they have been during the off-season this summer. NBC confirmed to USA Today that it will be sticking to the four-night schedule, but declined further comment. Sources toldDeadlinethat theTonight Showteam was informed of the decision on September 5. But that doesnt mean networks have completely given up on late-night!...

September 6, 2024 · 1 min · 103 words · Ashley Buckley

Netflix’sRebel RidgeIs an Instant Slow-Burn Action Classic

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. He resists going straight for the beatdowns and the shoot-outs, opting instead to let anticipation work its magic. His films feel spectacularly violent because we spend so much time imagining all the mayhem to come. Terry cant allow that to happen. Its all quite infuriating. Luckily, by that point, were so locked into the central conflict that its a minor nuisance....

September 6, 2024 · 1 min · 114 words · Cynthia Keith

Porter Robinson Is Addicted to Fame

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Switched on Popis runningNewcomers, a three-part series of interviews with breakout artists. This week, Reanna Cruz interviews Porter Robinson. :D. Porter Robinsons intentions for writing a new album? Burn everything down and start fresh, he says. The 32-year-old producer and DJs new record,SMILE! Everyones gonna hate this, he says. But this is what seems really fun to me right now....

September 6, 2024 · 2 min · 343 words · Shawn Ellis

Selling SunsetRecap: Caught With Your Pants Down

Selling Sunset Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Napoleons decision to invade Russia in 1812 is considered the beginning of his end. But, she reveals to the camera, they will not be kiki-ing anytime soon. Thats right, this show also has houses! And people sell them! Alanna, sheriff of Pioneertown, is particularly keen to start doing this eventually. But first, she has to help Bretts clients finish developing a property....

September 6, 2024 · 2 min · 258 words · Mary Brown

Selling SunsetRecap: We Know Who the Bad Person Is

Selling Sunset Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. H. Auden(and me). But at least Alanna finally found some trees, right!? I was starting to worry. Our plucky gal has found a new project manager: a man in a vest with a button-up shirt! This is just an obvious social norm. But boy, have I missed this version of Emma! Bre is testing me, and the confrontation at Nikos funeral doesnt give us any progress....

September 6, 2024 · 1 min · 177 words · Nicholas Mcdonald

The Bleak ‘Inevitable’ Future of A.I. in Animation

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Hollywood workers represented by IATSE Local 839 a.k.a. the Animation Guild are inactive negotiationsfor the future of their industry. Putting aside the controversy, I think its just going to happen. Kawamori isnt an AI optimist. The question becomes, are the animators actually thinking to themselves,Oh, it hurts? Or are they just copying him because it looks pretty?...

September 6, 2024 · 1 min · 140 words · Ricky Espinoza