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 Painter and the Thief’ Film Review: Art Heist Documentary Gets Downright Weird
The story of an artist who recruited the man who stole her paintings to pose for her, Benjamin Ree’s film is a fascinating, perplexing, occasionally annoying chronicle of a truly crazy relationship
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Producers Guild, Directors Guild Awards Allow Streaming Releases to Qualify for Top Film Honor
The move follows similar action from the Oscars, Golden Globes and SAG Awards, among others
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‘Inheritance’ Film Review: Lily Collins and Simon Pegg Face Off in Clunky Potboiler
The Vaughn Stein film acts as if it would like to be a meditation on power and guilt, but at heart it’s a pulpy thriller in a bespoke suit
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New Oscars Documentary Rules Have Already Qualified More Than 90 Docs
But voters with lots of time on their hands still can’t see most of the contenders
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‘The Trip to Greece’ Film Review: Fourth Time’s Still a Charm for Steve Coogan-Rob Brydon Talkfest
Like the three previous “Trip” movies, the two men drive around a beautiful location, eat fabulous meals, talk about stuff and try to make each other laugh, often with dueling impersonations
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‘Scoob!’ Film Review: Animated Scooby-Doo Reboot Starts by Making Fun of Itself
The film determined to have its cake and eat it, too – to give the kids an animated action mystery but also keep up a steady stream of inside jokes
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Academy Allows Documentaries to Qualify for Oscars at Film Festivals
For the first time, films will be able to qualify for the Best Documentary Feature award without playing theatrically
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‘Hollywood’ Fact Check: What Really Happened at the Oscars in 1948?
Ryan Murphy’s version of the 20th Academy Awards gives Oscars to a bunch of fictional characters, but here’s who really won that night
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‘Hollywood’ Fact Check: Was Rock Hudson’s Agent a Sexual Predator?
In the Ryan Murphy miniseries, Jim Parsons plays Henry Willson, a notorious talent agent who specialized in handsome young men
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‘Hollywood’ Fact Check: Was a Gas Station Really the Front for a Hollywood Escort Service?
The genial Hollywood flesh-peddler in Ryan Murphy’s limited series is based on a real person whose claims met with some skepticism
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‘Capone’ Film Review: Tom Hardy Plays Aging Gangster in Bonkers Blood-Soaked Biopic
You haven’t seen Al Capone until you’ve seen him chomping on a carrot and wielding a machine gun while wearing a droopy diaper
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‘Have a Good Trip’ Film Review: It’s All About the Celebrity Drug Stories
There’s more to the Netflix documentary than Sting, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Bourdain and A$AP Rocky telling tales about their use of hallucinogens — but not much more
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Cannes Admits Physical Festival Is Impossible, Turns to Other Plans
General Delegate Thierry Fremaux says the Cannes selection will be announced in June, and the festival will then work to promote films that would have been included
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Little Richard Appreciation: He Summed Up Rock ‘n’ Roll in a Phrase
The first line of Little Richard’s hit “Tutti Frutti” doesn’t make a lick of sense, but it also serves as a damn good definition of early rock music
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Golden Globes Relax Rules for Foreign-Language Films
In light of worldwide theater closings, films can now qualify for the Globes even if they don’t receive theatrical releases in their countries of origin
