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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‘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
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‘The One and Only Ivan’ Film Review: Disney+ Movie Puts a ‘Tiger King’ Spin on ‘Dumbo’
Director Thea Sharrock’s adaptation of the children’s book isn’t afraid to explore the human exploitation of animals, which gives it an unexpected melancholy
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First Ladies Storm the Emmys: Behind Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama’s Nominated Shows
TheWrap Emmy magazine: The Hulu nonfiction series about Hillary Clinton and the Netflix documentary on Michelle Obama are both in the running this year
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How Dread of Donald Trump Inspired Robin Thede’s ‘A Black Lady Sketch Show’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “Trump’s going to get us all killed, so why don’t we just extrapolate that into an end-of-the-world scenario?” Thede says of a running sketch in her Emmy-nominated comedy series
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How Quibi Overcame a Rocky Start to Dominate Emmy Nominations in Short-Form Categories
TheWrap Emmy magazine: Actors Christoph Waltz and Jasmine Cephas Jones talk about the new service that landed as many Emmy nominations as all other short-form providers combined
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How ‘Hollywood’ Star Jim Parsons Tried to Find the Heart of a ‘Despicable Character’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “The job as an actor is to see the most seemingly despicable characters as the humans they are,” says the actor who played talent agent Henry Willson in Ryan Murphy’s miniseries
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How Regina King Drew on ‘All My Experiences as a Black Woman’ for ‘Watchmen’
TheWrap Emmy magazine: “It was not lost on me that our show definitely shined a big spotlight on racists who have come out of the woodwork,” says the three-time Emmy winner
