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The Critic was a cult adult animated comedy created by The Simpsons‘ Al Jean and Mike Reiss and voiced by Jon Lovitz.

The former SNL star now is lobbying for a reboot of the 1990s show and said that Jean is on board.

“Critic fans: You keep telling me you want it back. I’ve been trying for years! Well, now, creator Al Jean is on board!!! If you want it back, we need your help! Please like this post and spread the word! So we can show the studio, how many people want it!,” Lovitz wrote on social media.

In the show, Lovitz voiced Jay Sherman, a 36-year old film critic from New York whose show Coming Attractions aired on the Philips Broadcasting cable network.

As a critic, Sherman is cold, mean-spirited, and elitist but at home, he has a gentler nature and is filled with self-doubt. The show also featured his son Martin,...

Picking up where the Sweet Magnolias season 4 premiere left off, the second episode of the season begins with Cal and Maddie officially exchanging I Do’s in front of all their friends and family in a surprise Halloween wedding.

Following the ceremony, Helen and Dana Sue are understandably shocked and hurt that they were left in the dark about Maddie’s wedding plans. Maddie pulls them both aside, and they seem to be all good at the moment, but we’ll see if that remains true once the celebration ends.

As the night draws to a close, Ty and Annie decide they don’t want to hide their relationship from everyone but they do want to wait until the next day to break the news so as not to steal the spotlight from Cal and Maddie on their wedding night.

Fast forward to the following day, Cal and Maddie make...

[Warning: The below and video above contain Major spoilers for Sweet Magnolias Season 4.] Serenity was left devastated by the sudden death of one of their own. The lives of everyone in town were changed forever. In the second episode of Season 4 of Sweet Magnolias, Maddie (JoAnna Garcia Swisher) got an unexpected visit that would alter the trajectory of her family’s life. Bill’s mother, Bonnie (Judith Ivey), showed up to reveal that Bill (Chris Klein) died of a heart attack. Maddie, her kids, and so many others were stunned by the sudden loss. TV Insider spoke with showrunner Sheryl J. Anderson about the decision behind Bill’s death. “We were looking for a cataclysmic event that would shake up everybody in Serenity because the ripple effect of his death makes everybody question where they are, what they’re doing, whether they’re on the right path, professionally, spiritually, whether they’re with the right person romantically, how they’re...

Connie Nielsen's long and significant career has included some of the best movies of the past several decades, including the iconic Ridley Scott film Gladiator. Though it can be difficult for an actor to be known for such a specific role in a period film, this hasn't stopped Nielsen from broadening her horizons and taking on projects within many different genres. From strong and fearsome heroines to tender love interests, Nielsen has never been afraid to be a part of unexpected works that polarize audiences. However, this is likely how she developed her skills as a formidable actress.

Nielsen knows Lucilla's influence in Gladiator II and has been open about discussing the roles that women play in male-dominated works like the Gladiator franchise. However, it's not only in action blockbusters that Nielsen has brought this reflective perspective to the forefront of her work. Gladiator isn't the only cinematic universe she's been a part of,...

As one of Hollywoods most acclaimed stars, Al Pacino has appeared in several films that have become legendary staples in cinema, including cementing the actors legacy as a pop culture icon. Known for his mastery of emotional depth and vocal prowess, Al Pacino has played many characters that have lit up the screen and added to each film the actor signed onto. The volume of fascinating films within Al Pacinos resume finds the performer constantly challenging himself and going for broke on every occasion. Whether playing heroes or villains, soft-spoken or abrasive people and much more, Al Pacino gives each character a definitive presence that grabs the audiences attention.

Among an eclectic filmography, Al Pacino has been a part of some of the most recognized movies of all time, though even with an abundance of work, some films have slipped through the public consciousness and deserve to be revisited. Moreover,...

The White Collar revival must address the mystery around Neal's mother, which was left unresolved in the original series. Neal's mother is a crucial element that could add closure to Neal's character arc in the revival. Resolving the mystery of Neal's mother could link the two series and provide a twist to the revival's main storyline.

One of the biggest unresolved storylines in White Collar needs to be explored in the series' revival. Though I was one of the fans who discovered White Collar after its initial release, I easily fell in love with the show's complex characters. Neal Caffrey (Matt Bomer) especially captured my attention, as his many secrets and ability to get out of any situation made him an engaging and fascinating protagonist. However, even as new updates for the White Collar revival emerge, I cannot help but think about one of the final mysteries surrounding Neal.

Ron Nyswaner will soon be traveling to New York to reunite with his Writers Guild of America East fellows for a grand occasion. The Oscar-nominated screenwriter, producer and showrunner has been selected to receive the Walter Bernstein Award at the 76th Writers Guild Awards at New York’s Edison Ballroom on April 14.

The honor — named after the late screenwriter who was blacklisted for his political views only to persevere and get his career back on track with such credits as Fail-Safe, Semi-Tough and Yanks — is presented to writers “who have demonstrated with creativity, grace and bravery a willingness to confront social injustice in the face of adversity,” per the organization.

Nyswaner has been doing that for pretty much his entire career. A prime example is Jonathan Demme’s 1993 film Philadelphia. Penned by Nyswaner, the Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington-starrer was the first major Hollywood film to dramatize the real-world...

Rose Red, a television miniseries loosely adapted from Shirley Jackson's novel, The Haunting of Hill House, was filmed in Seattle, Washington, particularly in Thornewood Castle. Other locations used in the series include the University of Washington campus, the iconic Space Needle, and the Mount Baker neighborhood. Interior scenes were filmed at the Sand Point Naval Space, including the construction of sets for the Rose Red mansion's great hall, and the Artic Building served as the mansion's library.

Stephen King loosely adapted Shirley Jackson's 1959 novel The Haunting of Hill House into a television miniseries, Rose Red, set in Seattle, Washington, where all three episodes were filmed. The horror show revolved around an infamous haunted mansion in the Pacific Northwest, and the name of the house was Rose Red, hence the name of the series. A group of parapsychologists and psychics traveled to the mansion to investigate the hauntings and supernatural happenings,...

The effect of The Simpsons on pop culture can’t be overstated. In the early nineties, the show tapped into the cultural zeitgeist in a way few others had before. Indeed, no other cartoon show could reasonably emulate it- but Hollywood couldn’t help but try. Capitol Critters, Family Dog, and Fish Police were just a few of the shows that tried to be “the new Simpsons.” Still, the only one that really came close was ABC’s The Critic, starring the voice of Jon Lovitz as Jay Sherman, perhaps the world’s least-loved film critic and the subject of this Gone But Not Forgotten episode.

Unlike other wannabe animated hits, The Critic could boast a legit connection to The Simpsons, with it also being a production of James L. Brooks’ Gracie Films. At the same time, creators Al Jean and Mike Reiss had been showrunners on The Simpsons during...

Academy Award winner Sarah Polley is in talks to direct a live-action adaptation of the Disney animated classic Bambi. The project is in early development at the House of Mouse, with Polley poised to roll cameras for her most significant undertaking yet. Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Lindsey Beer were named the project’s writers in 2020, but that was a while ago, and the ongoing WGA writers’ strike could hamper their participation.

Released in 1942 as the fifth feature film from Walt Disney Productions, Bambi tells the story of a fawn who makes friends with other animals in a serene yet dangerous forest. When Bambi’s mother is shot and killed by a human hunter, Bambi depends on his friends to carry him through the pain of loss and help him become the leader his mother always intended. Disney’s version adapts Felix Salten’s 1923 novel Bambi, a Life in the Woods.

Directed...

The 76th annual Tony Awards have already made history. For the first time, two of the acting nominees identify as non-binary: Harrison Ghee who is contending for lead actor in musical for “Some Like It Hot” and Alex Newell, vying for featured actor in a musical for “Shucked.” Their nominations have been warmly embraced. But 40 years ago, a history-making acceptance led to death threats.

At the 37th annual Tony Awards on June 5, 1983, producer John Glines thanked his lover when he accepted the best play honor for Harvey Fierstein’s “Torch Song Trilogy,” a three-act drama set in New York in the 1970s and early 80s starring Fierstein as a gay, drag queen and torch singer. “He expressed gratitude to an assortment of people , ‘lastly but most importantly, to the one person who believed and followed the dream from the beginning, who never said ‘You’re crazy; it can’t be...

For six seasons and over a hundred episodes, Alley Mills and Dan Lauria portrayed Norma and Jack Arnold, the 1960s parents of The Wonder Years' protagonist, Kevin Arnold.

Thirty years later, Mills and Lauria return to our television screens as Vivian and Lou Hutchinson, the most recent guests on Fox's Fantasy Island.

In this exclusive interview over Zoom, the pair shares with TV Fanatic how they've sustained both their friendship and working relationship over the decades.

Lauria jumps right in when asked if they've kept in touch over the years. "We see each other. Whenever we're doing plays, we go see each other. And we just did a play together. I love working with Alley."

Mills fills in more details about their work together, "[We did] a play together in New York last fall. Morning's at Seven with some wonderful actors. It was really a great experience."

Lauria lists the stellar cast they worked with,...

A reboot of the 1977 drama series, Fantasy Island is set at a luxury resort where couples can live out their wildest dreams. However, nothing is ever as straightforward as it seems, and the magical location seeks to teach rather than simply pamper. Roselyn Sánchez stars as the island's caretaker, Elena Roarke, who assists the guests during their transformations in an effort to preserve Mr. Roarke's original legacy.

Season 2, Episode 10 is titled "War of The Roses (And The Hutchinsons)" and airs Monday, April 17th on Fox. Fans of The Wonder Years are in for a treat, as Dan Lauria and Alley Mills once again step into the role of a married couple. Although both have worked on several other projects, Lauria and Mills are most notably known for playing Jack and Norma Arnold.

Related: How Fantasy Island 2021 Connects To The Original Show (& Movie)

Alley Mills and Dan Lauria chat exclusively...

Sarah Polley won her first Oscar for her Women Talking.

“First of all, just want to thank the Academy for not being mortally offended by the words women and talking with so close together like that,” she said as her film won the award for Writing (Adapted Screenplay).

“Miriam Toews wrote an essential novel about a radical democracy in which people who don’t agree on every single issue managed to sit together in a room and carve out a way forward together free of violence. They do so not just by talking but also by listening,” she added.

Related: ‘Women Talking’: Read The Screenplay By Sarah Polley That Takes On Remaking “A Broken World”

Women Talking, which came from Orion Pictures/United Artists Releasing, beat All Quiet on the Western Front, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Living and Top Gun: Maverick in the category.

The win prevented...

If you haven’t seen “Women Talking” yet – and, with all due respect to the very fine film, probably if there’s one Best Picture nominee you’ve overlooked so far, it’s that one – now is your chance to rectify that. But you have to act fast. Writer-director Sarah Polley’s indie drama is streaming on Prime Video at no additional cost to subscribers from now until Sunday, March 12 at 9 p.m. Pt/12 a.m. Et.

“Women Talking” is set in an isolated, highly repressive religious community in the aftermath of a number of the community’s men being arrested for raping the community’s women. While most of the men are away, either in jail or bailing the arrested men out, the women discuss what to do. Do they stay and fight back? Do they stay and do nothing? Or do they leave? Whatever they decide will have serious consequences.

Everything Everywhere All at Once won big at this year’s Independent Spirit Awards, taking home seven awards out of eight nominations. The only award it didn’t win was, interestingly enough, one it did win, as Ke Huy Quan beat Jamie Lee Curtis in the Best Supporting Performance category.

Here are the winners of winners of the 38th Independent Spirit Awards:

Movies:

Best Feature:

Bones and All

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Our Father, The Devil

Tár

Women Talking

Best Director:

Todd Field, Tár

Kogonada, After Yang

Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Sarah Polley, Women Talking

Halina Reijn, Bodies Bodies Bodies

Best First Feature:

Aftersun

Emily the Criminal

The Inspection

Murina

Palm Trees and Power Lines

Best Lead Performance:

Cate Blanchett, Tár

Dale Dickey, A Love Song

Mia Goth, Pearl

Regina Hall, Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.

Paul Mescal, Aftersun

Aubrey Plaza, Emily the Criminal

Jeremy Pope,...

The Film Independent Spirit Awards selected A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once as its Best Feature on Saturday to culminate its 38th edition, one of seven wins for the metaverse-set pic that solidifies its frontrunner status in one of the last major awards stops ahead of March 12’s Academy Awards.

Everything, which had a leading eight nominations coming into daytime ceremony on the beach at the Santa Monica Pier, also scored wins for Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Stephanie Hsu in the awards’ inaugural gender-neutral performance categories across film and TV. The film also won for The Daniels’ directing and screenplay, and for Paul Rogers’ editing.

Related Story ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ Continues Awards Season Victory March With Sweep At Indie Spirits Heading Into Oscars Related Story How To Watch Saturday's Film Independent Spirit Awards Online Related Story Oscar Week 2023 Parties & Events: The List Ke Huy Quan,...

Stephanie Hsu, Michelle Yeoh, and Ke Huy Quan in ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ (Photo Credit: Allyson Riggs / A24)

Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan became the first Asian actress and actor to win Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role/Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Everything Everywhere All at Once also scored wins in the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture categories.

SAG members spread out the wins in the television categories, with The White Lotus the only nominee to earn multiple awards. Additional 29th Annual SAG Awards television winners included Abbott Elementary, 1883, The Bear, Hacks, George & Tammy, and Ozark.

This year’s SAG Awards took place in Los Angeles and streamed live on YouTube on February...

There is a utopian dream at the heart of Sarah Polley’s Best Picture nominee “Women Talking.” It’s right there in the title, sort of.

“The most exciting thing are the reports I’m getting about people having to be kicked out of the theater because a bunch of strangers talk to each other,” Polley told IndieWire during a recent interview when asked about the responses to the film she’s enjoyed the most. “It’s literally the utopian dream for me, that this film would make people talk to each other who either didn’t know each other or didn’t agree on things.”

Not just women talking, people talking. But, yes, she does realize that the film’s title — the same title of as the Miriam Toews novel that Polley adapted for the screen; her screenplay is also nominated for an Oscar — might sound a little confrontational.

Writer-director Sarah Polley and producer Dede Gardner joined Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees to discuss Women Talking, their film that is nominated for a pair of Oscars, for Best Picture and Polley’s adapted screenplay.

The all-star cast includes Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley and Ben Whishaw. Plan B Entertainment, MGM’s Orion Pictures and hear/say produced the pic, which was released by United Artists Releasing.

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Women Talking follows the women of an isolated religious colony who reveal a shocking secret about the colony’s men: for years, the men have occasionally drugged the women and raped them.

‘Women Talking’, ‘Marcel The Shell With Shoes On’ start in cinemas.

Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania is the headline title at this weekend’s UK-Ireland box office, opening in 678 cinemas through Disney and looking to become the first of the Ant-Man trilogy to cross the £20m mark in the territory.

Peyton Reed returns as director having made the first two films. This instalment sees Paul Rudd’s Scott Lang and Evangeline Lilly’s Hope Van Dyne explore the Quantum Realm; new cast members include Kathryn Newton, and Jonathan Majors as the main antagonist Kang the Conqueror.

Ant-Man was the fifth...

Growing up, I knew Sarah Polley as both Beverly Cleary's lively, imaginative heroine, Ramona Geraldine Quimby in the 1980s "Ramona" TV series, and then as the equally spirited Sara Stanley on the '90s Canadian (and Disney Channel) TV period drama staple, "Road to Avonlea." Nowadays, of course, Polley is better known for her celebrated efforts as a writer-director on the relationship dramas "Away from Her" and "Take This Waltz." Her latest venture behind the camera, "Women Talking," has even secured a Best Picture nod at the 2023 Academy Awards ceremony, in addition to landing Polly a nomination for her adapted screenplay.

Based on Miriam Toews' 2018 novel of the same name (which was itself inspired by horrifying real-life events), "Women Talking" takes place in an isolated Mennonite colony circa 2010. When it's discovered the men have been drugging and sexually assaulting the community's women in their sleep, the local authorities intervene,...

The Canadian director’s finely balanced drama about the abuse, secrets and shame of an isolated religious community boasts wonderfully nuanced performances, yet the real action lies in its knotty central argument

The Canadian writer-director Sarah Polley’s superbly inventive adaptation of Miriam Toews’s 2018 novel begins with a declaration: “What follows is an act of female imagination.” That phrase, taken directly from Toews, is pointedly double-edged, having been used by the elders of a remote religious colony to explain away years of drugged sexual assaults – attacks attributed to ghosts, demons, or hysteria (“wild female imagination”) that have left women and girls terrorised, pregnant or dead. When the assailants are finally caught and taken into custody “for their own protection”, the women have a brief window in which to imagine their future. Should they stay within the community that has raped and abused them, or leave, thereby casting themselves out of the Garden of Eden,...

Without question, Women Talking is a victory for women’s representation both in front of and behind the camera. The film’s principal ensemble is made up almost entirely of women performers, including Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, and Frances McDormand, who also serves as a producer. The film is directed by Sarah Polley, who also adapted the screenplay from the novel of the same name by author Miriam Toews. As the near-universal acclaim from critics and the Oscar nomination for Best Picture indicate, Women Talking is a commanding example of the power of women’s cinematic storytelling. But beyond the talent involved in making the film, Women Talking also demonstrates the power of women’s storytelling from within the world of the film itself.

The seven-week reign of Disney blockbuster “Avatar: The Way of Water” at the U.K. and Ireland box office has finally ended with Universal’s “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” usurping the throne.

“Puss In Boots: The Last Wish” debuted atop the box office with £4.9 million (5.9 million). In its eighth weekend, “Avatar: The Way of Water” collected £1.2 million and now has a mighty total of £72.7 million.

M. Night Shyamalan’s “Knock At The Cabin,” from Universal, bowed in third place with £985,027.

Yash Raj Films’ “Pathaan,” starring Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, slipped to fourth place from last week’s second with £701,103 but has broken all records for Indian films in the territory. With a total of £3.3 million after two weekends, the film is now the highest-grossing Indian title of all-time in the U.K. and Ireland, dethroning Yash Raj Rilms’ “Dhoom 3,” which had a lifetime collection of £2.7 million...

Teenage FaceTime detectives, talking shells and a donkey: February is an eclectic, not to mention eccentric, month for cinema.

Throughout the year, there is a near-constant deluge of new releases arriving – on the big screen and small – and it’s hard to know which to prioritise. This new column will pick out the five best films for you to move to the top of your watch list each month.

In February, there are plenty of surefire blockbusters on the way – from acclaimed Puss in Boots sequel The Last Wish and new M Night Shyamalan thriller Knock at the Cabin (both 3 February), to Marvel’s wordily titled Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (17 February). Smaller indies, like Saint Omer, Blue Jean and Joyland, will also be arriving on the 3, 10 and 24 February, respectively.

Meanwhile, James Cameron will engage in a box office battle with himself after Avatar: The Way of Water became the...

Los Angeles was the place to be this week, especially if music is your scene. The pre-game Grammys celebrations rolled into town, luring everyone from Leonardo DiCaprio to Trevor Noah to hit the scene to see Latto, Anitta and other new chart-rising musicians perform. Meanwhile, Oscar nominations narrowed the field as the awards season raged on, with AARP holding a glittery awards show as “Elvis” stalwarts Austin Butler and Baz Luhrmann continued to be the Energizer Bunny duo on the party scene. Tom Brady quit football and started his Hollywood career this week, too; apparently no one told him that releasing a movie in January is not prime time.

Awards Seasons

AARP The Magazine’s 21st Annual

Movies for Grownups Awards

Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Beverly Hills

(Left to Right) AARP CEO Jo Ann Jenkins, Lisa Ann Walter, and Jamie Lee Curtis attend the AARP Annual Movies for Grownups Awards at the Beverly Wilshire,...

The 2023 Screen Actors Guild Award nominations were announced on January 11 in film and television, as voted on by members of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation. What will prevail in the category of Best Film Ensemble during Netflix’s YouTube ceremony on Sunday, February 26? This year’s five nominated movie casts are “Babylon,” “The Banshees of Inisherin,” “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” “The Fabelmans” and “Women Talking.”

Scroll down to see Gold Derby’s 2023 SAG Awards Predictions for Best Film Ensemble, listed in order of their racetrack odds. Our SAG Awards odds are based on the combined forecasts of thousands of readers, including Experts we’ve polled from major media outlets, Editors who cover awards year-round for this website, Top 24 Users who did the best predicting the winners last time, All-Star Users who had the best prediction scores over the last two years, and the mass of Users who make up our biggest predictions bloc.

Even in the darkest times, there can still be laughter and joy. That's one of the lessons of Sarah Polley's "Women Talking," which used a sprawling ensemble cast to tell the story of Mennonite women who try to move forward together in the face of unbelievable trauma. The movie is nominated for three Oscars, including best picture. Three of the ensemble's younger members - Michelle McLeod, who plays Mejal; Kate Hallett, who plays Autje; and Liv McNeil, who plays Nietje - spoke to Popsugar about their experiences on set and why keeping laughter at the center of the weighty film was so important.

The movie, which went into wide release Jan. 20, has an all-star cast that includes Frances McDormand, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Rooney Mara, Ben Whishaw, Judith Ivey, and Sheila McCarthy. Hallett confesses that working with so many legendary actors was "incredibly intimidating." But, she adds, "I was...

The Devil’s Advocate is a horror movie directed by Taylor Hackford starring Al Pacino, Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron.

About the Movie The Devil’s Advocate

The Devil’s Advocate has Al Pacino at his best and if we want to see him in his Italian acting that is so personal, this is the movie to watch: he dances Flamenco style and whatever they throw at him and invoques the rage of God. Keanu Reeves is… passably good but don´t forget this actor has worked with Coppola and Scorsese so he must be pretty special… and Charlize Theron who is great in the role of the wife of lawyer Kevin Lomax.

Storyline (let´s hope this is not a Spoiler Alert): our star is a unscrupulos lawyer that doesn´t hesitate in defending supposed (more than guilty) pedophiles to pocket some good cash. With these high morals, there is only...

“Top Gun: Maverick” has been honoured as Best Picture at the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards, held Saturday, Jan. 28 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, with Alan Cumming serving as host.

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer, who also produced the 1986 original, accepted the award from the AARP (American Association of Retired Persons).

Read More: Tom Cruise Spotting Landing Via Helicopter In London Amid ‘Top Gun’ Oscar Nominations

“I’ve produced over 50 movies and more than 2,000 hours of television but there was one question that everybody kept asking, ‘Will there ever be another ‘Top Gun?'” Bruckheimer said in his speech, as reported by Variety. “After almost four decades, all the pieces fell into place and we finally released the much anticipated sequel just when everybody seemed to need it the most.”

Photo by Michael Kovac/Getty Images for AARP

Another highlight came when “Elvis” star Austin Butler delivered a touching...

Paramount’s newly minted Oscar Best Picture nominee Top Gun: Maverick won Best Picture at the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards, held Saturday at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.

The Tom Cruise-starring sequel beat out competition for the group’s marquee award that included fellow Oscar nominees in Warner Bros’ Elvis, A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once, Universal/Amblin’s The Fabelmans, Focus Features’ Tár and Orion/Uar’s Women Talking as well as Sony’s The Woman King.

Elvis‘ Baz Luhrmann won the Best Director award and the film took the Best Time Capsule award, giving it the most wins on the night of any movie.

Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once) and Brendan Fraser (The Whale) won the top actress and actor prize, respectively.

In the TV categories, FX’s The Old Man won Best TV Series while the drama’s star Jeff Bridges won Best TV Actor.

Top Gun: Maverick was crowned best picture at AARP The Magazine‘s 21st annual Movies for Grownups Awards on Saturday, with Michelle Yeoh, Brendan Fraser, Baz Luhrmann, Sheryl Lee Ralph and Jeff Bridges also taking home some of the night’s top honors. Jamie Lee Curtis was recognized with the AARP Career Achievement Award, just a few days after receiving her first Oscar nomination for Everything Everywhere All at Once.

With an event once again hosted by Alan Cumming, the Movies for Grownups Awards celebrate projects that resonate with mature viewers while advocating for the 50-plus audience. Cumming, who has hosted the awards show multiple times, opened the night with a musical number in the event’s post-pandemic return, joking, “it’s so nice to be back where we belong: in a fancy ballroom in Beverly Hills.”

Among the night’s biggest awards, Austin Butler was on hand to present best director to Baz Luhrmann,...

“Top Gun” Maverick” was named Best Picture/Best Movie for Grownups at the 21st annual AARP Movies for Grownups Awards on Saturday night. Michelle Yeoh won Best Actress for “Everything Everywhere All at Once” and Brendan Fraser was honored as Best Actor for “The Whale.” The event was held at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills and were hosted by Tony winner and four-time Emmy nominee Alan Cumming.

“Maverick” won out for the year’s top film over “Elvis,” “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” “The Fabelmans,” “Tár,” “The Woman King” and “Women Talking,” while Yeoh was chosen over Cate Blanchett (“Tár”), Viola Davis (“The Woman King”), Lesley Manville (“Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris”) and Emma Thompson. Fraser received the nod as lead actor over Tom Cruise (“Top Gun: Maverick”), Tom Hanks (“A Man Called Otto”), Bill Nighy (“Living”) and Adam Sandler (“Hustle”).

SEEOscars Best Actress battle rages on after...

“Top Gun: Maverick” took home the top prize of best picture at AARP’s Movies for Grownups Awards on Saturday.

“I’ve produced over 50 movies and more than 2,000 hours of television but there was one question that everybody kept asking, ‘Will there ever be another “Top Gun?”‘ “Maverick” producer Jerry Bruckheimer said. “After almost four decades, all the pieces fell into place and we finally released the much anticipated sequel just when everybody seemed to need it the most.”

“Elvis” director Baz Luhrmann was presented with the best director award by the film’s star Austin Butler, and the biopic was also recognized in the best time capsule category. “The Old Man,” which was renewed for a second season in June 2022, saw similar success at the ceremony, with lead performer Jeff Bridges taking home the award for best television actor. The show performed well overall with a nod in the...

Exclusive: Sheila McCarthy, who can currently be seen in Sarah Polley’s Oscar-nominated film Women Talking, has signed with Atlas Artists for management.

McCarthy appears opposite Frances McDormand, Claire Foy, Judith Ivey, Rooney Mara, Jessie Buckley, and Ben Whishaw in Women Talking, nominated for two Oscar nominations including Best Picture. For her role as Greta, McCarthy was awarded the Career Achievement Award at the 2022 Denver Film Festival and shares in the Film Independent Spirit Awards’ Robert Altman Award, given to one film’s director, casting director and ensemble cast.

Over a four-decade career, the Toronto-born McCarthy is a two-time Canadian Screen Award winner for I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing and Lotus Eaters. She also received two Canadian Television Awards for Sesame Street and Emily Of New Moon, among other honors.

McCarthy recently wrapped her first short film in the director’s chair, Russet Season, and starred in Little Black Dress,...

(l-r) Rooney Mara stars as Ona, Claire Foy as Salome, Judith Ivey as Agata, Sheila McCarthy as Greta, Michelle McLeod as Mejal and Jessie Buckley as Mariche, in director Sarah Polley’s film Women Talking. An Orion Pictures Release. Photo credit: Michael Gibson. © 2022 Orion Releasing LLC. All Rights Reserved.

There is a lot of talk about Women Talking – awards talk. The title of this electrifying ensemble drama may suggest something tame but the fiery Women Talking is no polite, quiet chat but a deep, sarcastic, no-holds-barred, even funny, and thought-provoking discussion among a group of Mennonite women who are meeting secretly in a barn to talk about what to do after a series of brutal attacks on them.

Women in the colony have been waking up beaten, bloody and in pain, with no memory of what had happened. The men tell them they are being attacked by the devil, or...

Sarah Polley (“Women Talking”) think she knows why she was just snubbed for Best Director at the 2023 BAFTA Awards. And it has nothing to do with her filmmaking abilities. Responding to upset fans on social media, the director jokingly tweeted, “I appreciate that but to give context to the snub — I did eat an astonishing (and greedy) number of scones and sandwiches at the BAFTA tea party. My plate was piled so high. I got some warning looks. I didn’t heed them. But it was worth every delicious morsel. No regrets.”

Aww, we love how Polley is able to find some humor in her awards misfortune. The good news is that, even though “Women Talking” was blanked at the BAFTAs, it’s still predicted to nab Oscar nominations on January 24 for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay (Polley) and Best Score (Hildur Guðnadóttir), according to Gold Derby odds. And Polley...

Sarah Polley is talking about her 2023 BAFTA Awards snub.

The “Women Talking” writer-director responded to the star-studded film being iced out of the British awards ceremony following the announcement that Netflix’s “All Quiet on the Western Front” broke a new record for nominations.

Polley retweeted film awards podcast host Matt Neglia’s post saying his “heart is truly broken” for “Women Talking.”

She replied, “I appreciate that, but to give context to the snub, I did eat an astonishing (and greedy) number of scones and sandwiches at the BAFTA tea party. My plate was piled so high. I got some warning looks. I didn’t heed them. But it was worth every delicious morsel. No regrets.”

The BAFTA tea party was held at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills January 15.

Polley also praised “The Woman King” director Gina Prince-Bythewood’s nomination, writing, “Gina!!!! So happy for you. May this deserved recognition continue.

Orion Pictures has released two new clips from the new film from writer/director Sarah Polley entitled Women Talking. Check them out below, along with a statement from the director herself.

In this first clip, from Women Talking, Claire Foy (as Salome) advocates to fight back alongside Sheila McCarthy (as Greta) and Judith Ivey (as Agata).

This second clip, from Women Talking, features Rooney Mara (as Ona) and Ben Whishaw (as August).

The following is a statement from writer/director Sarah Polley:

“In Women Talking, a group of women, many of whom disagree on essential things, have a conversation to figure out how they might move forward together to build a better world for themselves and their children.

“Though the backstory behind the events in Women Talking is violent, the film is not. We never see the violence that the women have experienced. We see only short glimpses of the aftermath.

The following contains spoilers for the endings of “Tár” and “Women Talking”

Few film endings this year were as funny or as ambiguous as the ending to Todd Field’s “Tár,” which saw the titular character (played by Cate Blanchett), “canceled” following revelations of improper relationships with younger women, working as a conductor for live performances of the “Monster Hunter” video game score. The unexpected ending is laugh-inducing, but since the film premiered to acclaim at the Venice International Film Festival, critics and fans have debated how the audience is supposed to interpret Tár’s final fate: as a final humiliation for her, a hint toward an eventual career resurrection for a monster, or a bittersweet happy ending showing she will always have music in her life.

Hildur Guðnadóttir, the composer behind the original compositions of Lydia Tár, leans into the latter camp. While at the Critics Choice Awards on Sunday,...

Content warning: This article contains references to widespread sexual assault depicted in the film "Women Talking."

Do nothing. Stay and fight. Or leave. Those are the three choices the women of "Women Talking" are faced with. Based on a true story, the new film by writer and director Sarah Polley tells the story of women in a fictional Mennonite colony who learn that some of the men in the community have been secretly drugging them and assaulting them during the night for years. When a woman would wake up confused, in pain, or bleeding, the men would tell them they'd been attacked by devils or demons. At the beginning of the movie, the women finally learn the truth. Police arrest the eight men responsible, and when almost all the colony's men head to town to bail them out, the women have to decide what to do, leaving them with the three choices.

Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson in ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ (Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures © 2022 20th Century Studios)

The love for The Banshees of Inisherin and Everything Everywhere All at Once has spread to the Screen Actors Guild. Nominations for the 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards have been announced and Banshees and Everything Everywhere topped the list on the film side, earning five SAG Awards nominations each.

The final season of Ozark led the TV nominations, picking up four nominations.

Winners will be announced on Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 5pm Pt/8pm Et. This year marks the first time the SAG Awards will be broadcast live on Netflix’s YouTube channel. Beginning in 2024, the awards show will stream live on Netflix.

The 2023 SAG Awards recognize the best performances of 2022 in television and movies.

SAG Awards Motion Picture Nominees:

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

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The Screen Actors Guild unveiled nominations Wednesday for its 29th annual SAG Awards as the movie awards season arrives full-steam, coming the same week as last night’s Golden Globes and Sunday’s Critics Choice Awards.

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The marquee ensemble film award category this year features Paramount’s Babylon, Searchlight’s The Banshees of Inisherin, A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once, Universal’s The Fabelmans and United Artists’ Women Talking. Banshees and Fabelmans are having a good week, having taken the top film prizes at last night’s Globes.

Banshees and Everything Everywhere led all films with five nominations apiece in today’s noms announcement.

Over the course of 27 years, a total of 16 individuals have each received solo and cast Screen Actors Guild Awards for a single film, with the most recent case having involved “Coda” supporting actor Troy Kotsur. This year, Angela Bassett (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”) and Jamie Lee Curtis (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”) appear primed for a dual face-off in the Best Supporting Actress and Best Ensemble categories, and either could plausibly take both prizes. If one of the sexagenarians does become the 17th entrant on said list, she will be the oldest performer in the group by a margin of four years.

Curtis and Bassett, who are both 64 years old, presently rank second and third on Gold Derby’s Best Film Supporting Actress SAG Award predictions list. The frontrunner is Kerry Condon, while the last two slots in our current top five are filled by Janelle Monáe and Jessie Buckley.

This story about “Women Talking” star Claire Foy first appeared in the Awards Preview issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.

“Women Talking” is a quiet film that goes deep into the righteous anger of women who have been violently abused for years and finally decide: No more. It is based on a shocking true story of the serial rape of a group of Mennonite women in Bolivia over several years.

Why Claire Foy, the elegant British actress best known for playing Queen Elizabeth II in the highbrow series “The Crown,” chose to explore the roiling emotions raised by this narrative and portray one of the women leaders who debate stark decisions — from violence to remaining passive — is surprising indeed. “It was like nothing I’d ever read,” said Foy of the film written and directed by Sarah Polley from the novel by Miriam Toews. “It’s more honest to the...

Screenwriter and director Sarah Polley’s latest feature film is Women Talking. Based on the best-selling novel by Miriam Toews, Women Talking follows a group of women in an isolated religious colony as they struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony’s men.

Starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, with Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand, see Women Talking In Theaters Everywhere January 20.

Advance Screening is Wednesday, January 18, 7:00pm at Landmark’s Plaza Frontenac.

The screening will be filled on a first come first served basis, so we encourage you to arrive early. Seats will not be guaranteed.

Enter at the link below.

Sweepstakes Link: http://uareleasingscreenings.com/main/sweepstakes/fcJLl89106

Winners will be selected and notified next Friday.

PG-13 for mature thematic content including sexual assault, bloody images, and some strong language

Purchase your tickets for select theaters* today!

Alcarràs, winner of the Golden Bear in Berlin, opens on five screens in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, presented by Mubi; Quiver Distribution releases Candy Land in nine theaters; and Sony’s Tom Hanks-starring A Man Called Otto, Uar’s Women Talking and IFC Films’ Corsage move into moderate expansions as the broader specialty market barrels into Oscar nominations and a new year of reckoning with adult audiences.

The conversation about what ails the arthouse market is still treading water. Some major arthouses are Mia in a key market. With rare exceptions, audiences are failing to embrace indie titles with the gusto they’ve shown in the past. Everything Everywhere All At Once cleaned up but that’s feelgood, versus downbeat, which an emotionally exhausted moviegoing public may be avoiding. It’s not clear awards kudos will change that.

“The marketplace needs to listen to...

Sarah Polley’s Women Talking features a large ensemble of accomplished and award-winning actresses, so it would not have been a surprise to see one (or several) take the stage Thursday at the Palm Springs Film Awards, where Polley was honored with a director of the year prize.

But instead it was Eric Idle, the Monty Python star, who presented Polley with her award. His appearance was especially profound for Polley as it provided a public reunion for the two co-stars from Terry Gilliam’s The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. “About 34 years ago, I was on the set of a movie in Rome and I said farewell to a little girl of 8 who starred in the movie,” Idle said. “We had all been scarred on this movie … going on nine months before we’d been able to escape.” Idle called some of the scenes “life-threatening.”

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Editor’s note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race.

Should we stay, or should we go? This is the question asked by the women of an isolated religious community in the awards-contending drama Women Talking, written and directed by Sarah Polley.

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The film from MGM’s Orion Pictures, Plan B Entertainment and hear/say is based on the bestselling 2018 novel of the same name by Miriam Toews, itself was inspired by real events within Bolivia’s Manitoba Colony.