Steve Pond
Steve Pond
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.
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‘Flag Day’ Film Review: Sean Penn Directs His Daughter in Rocky Family Drama
While the true-life film sometimes struggles with disparate tones, it’s a solid, subtle drama that opts in most cases for restraint over excess
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‘Ted Lasso’ Stars Admit Ted’s Sunny Philosophy Doesn’t Always Work
TheWrap magazine: “It’s a beautiful lie,” says Brett Goldstein of one particularly common inspirational thought from Coach Lasso
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Here’s the Emmy Category That’s Full of Oscars Documentary Leftovers
One of the nonfiction categories is made up entirely of films that were on the Oscar doc shortlist but weren’t nominated
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‘CODA’ Film Review: A Heartfelt Crowd-Pleaser About a Deaf Family With a Hearing Daughter
Sian Heder’s film, which set a Sundance sales record, is modest but thoroughly satisfying, corny but effective, never edgy and always likable
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Michael Caine to Receive Crystal Globe Award at Karlovy Vary Film Festival
Ethan Hawke was previously announced as an honoree at the festival in the Czech Republic
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‘Val’ Film Review: Val Kilmer’s Old Home Movies Are Only Part of This Story
The documentary from directors Leo Scott and Ting Poo makes abundant use of vintage footage, but it’s really about coming to terms with the present
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Oscars Academy Re-Elects David Rubin to 3rd Term as President
The casting director will have to leave office next year because of term limits
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Toronto Film Festival Adds Cannes Winner ‘Titane,’ Documentary ‘Attica’ to Lineup
The September festival added films in its TIFF Docs, Contemporary World Cinema and Midnight Madness sections
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The Oscars Will Be Earlier Next Year, But the Season Will Be Even Longer
Did the Independent Spirit Awards move to an earlier date because they didn’t want to wait so long for the late-March Oscars?
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‘Joe Bell’ Film Review: Mark Wahlberg Hits the Road to Make You Cry
The earnest drama directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green and written by Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry is awkward at times, quietly affecting at others
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‘How It Ends’ Film Review: It’s the End of the World as We Know It, and You’ll Feel Fine
Daryl Wein and Zoe Lister-Jones’ comedy is like Lars von Trier’s “Melancholia,” but without all the, um, melancholia
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‘Titane’ Wins Palme d’Or in Chaotic Cannes Film Festival Ceremony
Cannes 2021: There were bold choices and a big blunder from jury president Spike Lee – complete list of winners
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Will a Weird Cannes Give Us a Weird Palme d’Or Winner?
Cannes 2021: The movies that have been getting all the buzz aren’t necessarily the ones that’ll meet favor with Spike Lee’s jury
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‘The Restless’ Film Review: Potent Belgian Drama Explores Family Torn Apart by Bipolarity
Cannes 2021: Damien Bonnard is riveting as an artist struggling with the condition, as is Leïla Bekhti as a wife trying to keep the family together
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Emmy Analysis: Voters Get Awfully Lazy in the Acting Categories
Do they really have to give all those nominations to actors from just a handful of shows?
