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Steve Pond

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Steve Pond’s inside look at the artistry and insanity of the awards race, drawn from more than three decades of obsessively chronicling the Oscars and the entertainment industry.

  • ‘EPiC’ Review: Baz Luhrmann Doesn’t Need Austin Butler to Make Another Rockin’ Elvis Movie

    TIFF 2025: The director’s new film, which stands for “Elvis Presley in Concert,” mixes live footage with rehearsals, backstage moments and Elvis’ own voiceovers

    By

    Steve Pond
    September 6, 2025 @ 5:55 PM
    Report From Toronto
    5:55 PM
    ‘EPiC’ Review: Baz Luhrmann Doesn’t Need Austin Butler to Make Another Rockin’ Elvis Movie
  • ‘The Lost Bus’ Review: Paul Greengrass Turns Up the Heat in Visceral Wildfire Story

    Toronto Film Festival: Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera star in a headlong piece of terrifying real-life action

    By

    Steve Pond
    September 5, 2025 @ 11:08 PM
    Awards
    11:08 PM
    ‘The Lost Bus’ Review: Paul Greengrass Turns Up the Heat in Visceral Wildfire Story
  • ‘John Candy: I Like Me’ Review: Colin Hanks’ Affectionate Documentary Opens Toronto Film Festival

    Toronto Film Festival: A crowd-pleasing festival kicks off with a generous and goodhearted doc about a crowd-pleasing Canadian icon

    By

    Steve Pond
    September 4, 2025 @ 7:17 PM
    Report From Toronto
    7:17 PM
    ‘John Candy: I Like Me’ Review: Colin Hanks’ Affectionate Documentary Opens Toronto Film Festival
  • ‘A House of Dynamite’ Review: Kathryn Bigelow’s Riveting Thriller Is a Nuclear Nightmare

    Venice Film Festival: The director’s story of a potential missile launch aimed at the U.S. delineates the inner workings of the national security apparatus with a muscularity that is all her own

    By

    Steve Pond
    September 2, 2025 @ 10:00 AM
    Report From Venice
    10:00 AM
    ‘A House of Dynamite’ Review: Kathryn Bigelow’s Riveting Thriller Is a Nuclear Nightmare
  • ‘The Smashing Machine’ Review: A Calm Dwayne Johnson Anchors Raw Martial Arts Drama

    Venice Film Festival: Benny Safdie’s debut as a solo director has plenty of bloody fights, but it’s more interested in what comes after

    By

    Steve Pond
    September 1, 2025 @ 10:48 AM
    Report From Venice
    10:48 AM
    ‘The Smashing Machine’ Review: A Calm Dwayne Johnson Anchors Raw Martial Arts Drama
  • Venice and Telluride So Far: Awards Season Arrives With Monsters and Ghosts as ‘Frankenstein,’ ‘Hamnet’ Make Waves

    The first fall festivals have showcased a variety of Oscar contenders, Guillermo del Toro and Chloé Zhao’s films foremost among them

    By

    Steve Pond
    August 31, 2025 @ 4:49 PM
    Movies
    4:49 PM
    Venice and Telluride So Far: Awards Season Arrives With Monsters and Ghosts as ‘Frankenstein,’ ‘Hamnet’ Make Waves
  • ‘The Wizard of the Kremlin’ Review: Paul Dano Is the Only Quiet Thing in This Big Satire About Putin’s Rise

    Venice Film Festival: Jude Law plays the Russian president in Olivier Assayas’ film, but Dano holds things together as a mysterious mastermind

    By

    Steve Pond
    August 31, 2025 @ 7:30 AM
    Report From Venice
    7:30 AM
    ‘The Wizard of the Kremlin’ Review: Paul Dano Is the Only Quiet Thing in This Big Satire About Putin’s Rise
  • ‘Calle Malaga’ Review: Spanish Legend Carmen Maura Charms Her Way Through Moroccan Crowd-Pleaser

    Venice Film Festival: Writer-director Maryam Touzani takes a situation that could be milked for drama and outrage and treats it with lightness and charm

    By

    Steve Pond
    August 30, 2025 @ 3:39 PM
    Awards
    3:39 PM
    ‘Calle Malaga’ Review: Spanish Legend Carmen Maura Charms Her Way Through Moroccan Crowd-Pleaser
  • ‘Motor City’ Review: Shut Up, We’ve Got an Action Flick Goin’ On Here

    Venice Film Festival: Director Potsy Ponciroli has set out to tell a bloody revenge story with (almost) no dialogue at all

    By

    Steve Pond
    August 30, 2025 @ 3:07 PM
    Report From Venice
    3:07 PM
    ‘Motor City’ Review: Shut Up, We’ve Got an Action Flick Goin’ On Here
  • ‘Hamlet’ Review: Riz Ahmed Is a Not-Very-Melancholy Dane in Revved-Up Adaptation

    Telluride Film Festival: Director Aneil Karia’s adaptation is a visceral, streamlined and furious journey through the text, leaving a lot out and speeding up what’s left

    By

    Steve Pond
    August 30, 2025 @ 10:09 AM
    Report From Telluride
    10:09 AM
    ‘Hamlet’ Review: Riz Ahmed Is a Not-Very-Melancholy Dane in Revved-Up Adaptation
  • ‘Frankenstein’ Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Passion Project Is Monstrously Moving

    Venice Film Festival: The director hijacks the flagship story of the horror genre and turns it into a stunning tale of forgiveness

    By

    Steve Pond
    August 30, 2025 @ 9:45 AM
    Report From Venice
    9:45 AM
    ‘Frankenstein’ Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Passion Project Is Monstrously Moving
  • ‘Below the Clouds’ Review: Italian Documentary Explores Gorgeous, Haunted City of Naples

    Venice Film Festival: Gianfranco’s doc is a tone poem paying tribute to a region that is suffused with beauty in the shadow of enormous loss

    By

    Steve Pond
    August 30, 2025 @ 7:15 AM
    Report From Venice
    7:15 AM
    ‘Below the Clouds’ Review: Italian Documentary Explores Gorgeous, Haunted City of Naples
  • ‘Broken English’ Review: Marianne Faithfull Gets a Dark, Complicated Documentary

    Venice Film Festival: The film from Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth s part documentary, part art project, part philosophical treatise, part celebration and part provocation

    By

    Steve Pond
    August 30, 2025 @ 5:00 AM
    Report From Venice
    5:00 AM
    ‘Broken English’ Review: Marianne Faithfull Gets a Dark, Complicated Documentary
  • ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ Review: Is This the Anti-‘Bohemian Rhapsody?’

    Telluride Film Festival: Scott Cooper’s film, starring Jeremy Allen White, is a bracing and moving antidote to beefed-up, heavily fictionalized rock biopics

    By

    Steve Pond
    August 29, 2025 @ 8:00 PM
    Report From Telluride
    8:00 PM
    ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ Review: Is This the Anti-‘Bohemian Rhapsody?’
  • ‘Highway 99 a double album’ Review: Ethan Hawke Throws a Long Party for Merle Haggard

    Telluride Film Festival: Hawke’s three-hour documentary features more than two dozen performances of Haggard’s songs by Dwight Yoakam, Lucinda Williams, Rosanne Cash and more

    By

    Steve Pond
    August 29, 2025 @ 3:15 PM
    Report From Telluride
    3:15 PM
    ‘Highway 99 a double album’ Review: Ethan Hawke Throws a Long Party for Merle Haggard
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