TV Recap: “Little Fires Everywhere” Episode Eight (Finale) –“Find a Way”
The end is finally here, and the little fires are truly everywhere. The “Little Fires Everywhere” shows no interest in mending fences. Instead, its characters quite literally opt to burn everything...
View ArticleOscar Circuit: The Return of the Suffering Wife – Supporting Actress Predictions
It begins. 2011 film year is behind us and we saw Octavia Spencer crowned Best Supporting Actress for her work in “The Help.” As we embark on the 2012 film year together, I will be breaking down each...
View ArticleAwards Profile: Django Unchained
Directed By: Quentin Tarantino Written By: Quentin Tarantino Cast: Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph-Gordon Levitt, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington, Sacha Baron Cohen, Christoph Waltz, Don...
View ArticleTrailer for “Django Unchained” hits!
As we were all hoping, Quentin Tarantino’s anticipated follow-up to “Inglourious Basterds” got a trailer today. “Django Unchained” (the “D” is silent) stars Academy Award winners Jamie Foxx, Christoph...
View ArticleEmmy Chatter: Drama Series, Pt. 2 – Lead Actor, Actress and Series Predictions!
This is Part 2 of the Drama Series chat. You can check out Part 1 where Joseph and I discussed the supporting actors here. Terence: Well since you mention sign sealed and delivered awards last time, do...
View ArticleQuentin Tarantino has a new ‘Django Unchained’ Trailer to share with us!
I still have no idea what to make of ‘Django Unchained’ in terms of its awards potential, but one things for sure…every look I get of Quentin Tarantino’s new film makes me like it more and more. This...
View ArticleThe Details (**)
I enjoy a black comedy as much as anyone, but I do require that there be a point to things. That’s an area where the well acted but hollow film ‘The Details’ utterly fails in regard to. Its tone is all...
View ArticleAwards Circuit Power Hour Episode 24: Lincoln, Argo, Flight, and the Oscar...
This week’s Power Hour focuses on the large amount of news, premieres, and other awards worthy citations from the week. We spend a good amount of time on “Trailer Talk” Gangster Squad got a new...
View ArticleOscar Circuit – The Calm Before the Storm (No Pun Intended)
Writing this LIVE in the middle of Hurricane Sandy on the East Coast, what’s a better time to talk about Oscar Predictions than now. As we enter the leg of the season this November, some categories...
View ArticleScript Review: Django Unchained
Usually I’ve focus on more “talky” types of screenplays, from ‘Charlie Wilson’s War’ and ‘Margot at the Wedding’ years back, to ‘Funny People’, ‘The Social Network’, and ‘The Beaver’ more recently, not...
View ArticleDjango Unchained (***)
There’s been no film more divisive or more igniting in terms of strong Oscar speculation then Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained. After months of shooting, word of a last minute edit (some believe...
View ArticleThe Golden Globes: Worst Dressed
Does it every cross your mind what persuaded someone to pick a certain outfit to wear on the red carpet? Over the years I’ve grown to love fashion, and if I had the money to dress better I would, but...
View ArticleDe Niro Among New List of SAG Presenters Announced
Here we go again! The Screen Actors Guild has announced their third list of presenters for the SAG Awards, which includes Robert De Niro, Ben Affleck, Taye Diggs, Naomi Watts, Kerry Washington, and...
View ArticleScreen Actors Guild Awards: Worst Dressed
When it comes to fashion we all have different tastes. But sometimes we all find ourselves agreeing on one thing, the celebrities who really messed up on the red carpet. The popular trend at the Screen...
View ArticleOscar 2013 Will Win/Should Win Selections (Young)
(The annual “Will Win/Should Win” of the Awards Circuit has been our most popular yet most challenging series where each writer let’s their final thoughts be known on the Oscar categories. Each writer...
View ArticleJane Fonda, Jennifer Garner, Kristen Stewart And Kerry Washington To Present...
The producers of the 85th Academy Awards Oscars continue to do a great job not only with who they are getting to present, but the order in which they are releasing the names of the presenters. Each...
View ArticleEmmy Chatter: Drama (Lead Actress and Drama Series)
This is the final part of a 4 part conversation regarding the Emmy nominations, which will be announced on on Thursday, July 18th. Parts 1-3 can be viewed here, here, and here. Terence: Now we get to...
View ArticleSaturday Night Live Recap: 39.05 “Kerry Washington/Eminem”
I never imagined or thought that one could be so bored while watching SNL, until this week’s episode happened. I’m probably in the minority here, but this show, hosted by Kerry Washington, was so dull...
View ArticleQuentin Tarantino wants to make a ‘Django Unchained’ miniseries?
One of the coolest things going on at the Cannes Film Festival besides, you know, the movie screenings, happened to be the celebration of Quentin Tarantino‘s Pulp Fiction. Tarantino was in Cannes...
View ArticleSam’s FINAL 2014 Emmy Nomination Predictions
You’ve read the Emmys Circuit series, now it’s time for my final Emmy predictions, just in time for the Emmy nominations on Thursday, July 10. Be sure to check out Clayton’s predictions, too (even...
View ArticleJENNIFER ANISTON, SIENNA MILLER, DAVID OYELOWO, CHRIS PRATT, JOHN TRAVOLTA...
LOS ANGELES, CA—Jennifer Aniston, Sienna Miller, David Oyelowo, Chris Pratt, John Travolta and Kerry Washington will be presenters at this year’s Oscars, show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron...
View ArticleTV Review: HBOs ‘Confirmation’ (★★★★)
HBOs “Confirmation,” a film about the famous case in which Anita Hill (Kerry Washington, “Scandal”) accused her former employer, Clarence Thomas (Wendell Pierce, “The Wire”), who would later be...
View Article2016 BET Awards Nominations Announced
The nominations for the annual BET Awards were announced earlier today, and the list features some of Hollywood’s biggest names in entertainment. The awards, which were created in 2001 by the Black...
View ArticleEmmy Episode Analysis: Can Julia Louis Dreyfus Win Emmy Number 7?
While film struggles to find interesting stories for women, TV seems to revel in it. After watching all eighteen nominated performances, it is no wonder movie stars, such as Viola Davis, have made the...
View Article2017 Awards Circuit In Line Series: 25 Actresses for an Oscar Nomination
Welcome to the official 2017 AWARDS CIRCUIT IN LINE SERIES! The Academy Awards get tons of flack for not rewarding actors and actresses in the prime of their careers. It often boils down to poor...
View ArticleShonda Rhimes’‘Scandal,’‘How To Get Away With Murder’ Crossover Event in the...
Two very different characters in Shondaland will cross paths for the first time. Shonda Rhimes, the creative force behind “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Scandal” and “How To Get Away With Murder” (HTGAWM)...
View ArticleCostume Designers Guild Awards: ‘I, Tonya’ Costume Designer Jennifer Johnson...
Some of 2017’s biggest films and TV shows received accolades for costume designer at Tuesday night’s annual Costume Designers Guild Awards in Beverly Hills, CA. According to Variety, most of the...
View ArticleTop 10: From Mozart to NWA, the Best Music Biopics So Far
Who doesn’t love a good music biopic? This subgenre has all the ingredients of what people love about the movies. The central roles give A-list actors the chance to transform into a similarly physical...
View ArticleSix Circuit: Which 2012 Supporting Actress Got ‘Les Miserables’ News on Oscar...
Welcome to the thirty-third entry in our Six Circuit series. “It Came True.” From the announcement of Tom Hooper’s “Les Miserables,” Anne Hathaway was proclaimed frontrunner for her role as Fantine,...
View ArticleTV Review: Netflix’s ‘American Son’ is a Lifeless Adaptation of an Acclaimed...
“American Son” is Netflix’s television adaptation of the acclaimed Broadway play of the same name that tells the story of an interracial couple’s search for their missing bi-racial teenage son one...
View ArticleWhat’s On TV? – Friday (11/01/19) – Long Live Netflix’s ‘The King’
The first Friday in November premiers the newest 2019 awards contender from Netflix with David Michôd’s “The King.” Along with a film adaption of a culturally relevant Broadway play, the popular...
View ArticleWhat’s On TV? – Wednesday (12/18/19) –‘All in the Family’ Returns With...
While our favorite shows are now on winter break, ABC airs it’s sequel to the Norma Lear special, “Live In Front of a Studio Audience: ‘All In the Family’ and “Good Times.'” Despite the break,...
View ArticleTV Recap: “Little Fires Everywhere” Episode One
We waste no time setting suburbia on fire. The first shot of Hulu’s latest miniseries “Little Fires Everywhere” follows firetrucks racing towards the burning McMansion of the Richardson family. The...
View ArticleTV Recap: “Little Fires Everywhere” Episode 2 –“Seeds and All”
If the pilot episode of “Little Fires Everywhere” asked the question “What is it like to move into a wealthy, all-white community?” the second question asks a simpler and more direct one: “Have you...
View ArticleTV Recap: ‘Little Fires Everywhere’ Episode Three: “Seventy Cents”
“Little Fires Everywhere” has always been about motherhood. Elena (Reese Witherspoon) and Mia (Kerry Washington) have been fighting and testing their daughters’ allegiances since episode one. Episode...
View ArticleTV Recap: “Little Fires Everywhere” Episode Four –“The Spider Web”
After keeping them in the background for all of the season, the episode finally leads with the McCullough family. We first flashback to one of Linda’s (Rosemarie DeWitt) previous pregnancies. The...
View ArticleTV Recap: ‘Little Fires Everywhere’ Episode Five –“Duo”
We’ve made it to episode five of “Little Fires Everywhere,” isn’t it time we finally concentrate on Reese Witherspoon? Oh, wait, is that what we’ve been doing the past four episodes? Oh well, this...
View ArticleTV Recap: “Little Fires Everywhere” Episode Seven –“Picture Perfect”
We may be finally at the great big Bebe vs. McCullough court case, but Episode Seven of “Little Fires Everywhere” begins with one of its other feuds. Izzy (Megan Stott) and April (Isabel Gravitt) are...
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