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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‘The Owners’ Film Review: Maisie Williams Is in Big Trouble – Again
Based on a French comic book, “The Owners” escalates from creepy to ludicrous over the course of 92 deliberately unpleasant minutes
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Fall Film Festivals Struggle for Relevance in the Year of Coronavirus
Scaled-down Venice and Toronto festivals and MIA movies will likely mute the impact of the events that usually launch awards season
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Chadwick Boseman’s Manifesto: ‘I Want to Break Barriers in Every Way I Can’
“As an African American artist and filmmaker, that’s my goal, every time,” the actor told TheWrap
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‘The Personal History of David Copperfield’ Film Review: Armando Iannucci Meets Charles Dickens
The creator of “Veep” and “The Death of Stalin” has fun with a color-blind take on Dickens’ large and wacky cast of characters
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Keanu Reeves Recalls 7-Hour ‘Orgy’ of Auditions for Original ‘Bill & Ted’ in Unpublished 1987 Interview (Exclusive)
“I have other interests, but none as all-consuming as this godawful job,” a 22-year-old Reeves said in this previously unpublished interview
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Here’s an Excellent Flashback: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter’s Earliest ‘Bill & Ted’ Interviews (Exclusive)
“I’m pretty bad,” Reeves said of his acting on the set of the cult classic from 33 years ago
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‘Bill & Ted Face the Music’ Film Review: Our Heroes Battle an Excellent Midlife Crisis
Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves return in a long-awaited third “Bill & Ted” movie that would rather be charming than frantic, and ups the stakes without feeling the need to get louder or more aggressive
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‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ Film Review: Charlie Kaufman Is Messing With Our Heads Again
Watch out, “Tenet” — Christopher Nolan is not the only director making long, stylish brain-teasers these days
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‘You Cannot Kill David Arquette’ Film Review: Enjoy the Documentary, But Don’t Trust It
The film about Arquette’s return to professional wrestling sends up plenty of red flags, but it’s also a robust (albeit bloody) piece of entertainment
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‘#Unfit’ Film Review: Documentary Offers a Scary Diagnosis of Donald Trump, But Will Voters Listen?
In the era of a Twitter-driven presidency and an around-the-clock barrage of revelation, accusation and condemnation, it’s hard for even a hard-hitting documentary feature not to feel a step or two slow
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How Female Directors Overcame Years of Bias to Score Record Number of Emmy Nominations
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “There’s only so many years you can go into a meeting and hear, ‘We hired a woman once, and it didn’t work,’” Lesli Linka Glatter says
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What the Emmys Learned From Previous Makeovers (Including Rod Serling’s 1965 Disaster)
TheWrap Emmy magazine: This year’s coronavirus-caused Emmy makeover isn’t the first time the Television Academy has overhauled its show
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‘Coup 53,’ ‘Desert One’ Film Reviews: Documentaries on Iran Offer Troubled History Lessons
The films by Taghi Amirani and Barbara Kopple are detailed examinations of collisons between Iran and the West that helped shape our current world
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Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy on Baby Yoda, ‘The Mandalorian’ and the Future of ‘Star Wars’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “There was an opportunity to create a workflow that’s different than what has essentially existed for the last hundred years,” “Mandalorian” executive producer says
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How Baby Yoda Became the Surprise Breakout Star of ‘The Mandalorian’ – And This Emmy Season
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “I don’t think anybody anticipated the degree to which he would catch on,” executive producer and Lucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy says
