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The Film: It's hard to believe that it's already been over 20 years since Antoine Fuqua's gritty cop drama "Training Day" hit the screen. In 2001, corrupt cop flicks were hardly anything new, and while the film received somewhat mixed reviews, one thing that most agreed on was that it featured a pair of powerful performances from its two stars, Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke. In fact, they were so strong, both received Oscar nominations that season, with Washington pulling

The Screen Actors Guild has just finished announcing their recipients for 2022, and it comes as no surprise that Best Cast, the guild's top honor, went to "Everything Everywhere All at Once," completing its sweep of the industry's "Triple Crown" (PGA, DGA, and SAG). In another sweep this evening, the film also received Lead Actress (Michelle Yeoh), Supporting Actor (Ke Huy Quan) and, in the night's biggest shock, Supporting Actress (Jamie Lee Curtis), the latter of which was

The Producers Guild of America has just handing out their awards for 2022, and it comes as no surprise that "Everything Everywhere All at Once" has won their top honor, and therefore cementing its frontrunner status for the Best Picture Oscar. The Daniels (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) won the Directors Guild's top honor last week, and the film is also up for several SAG Awards tomorrow evening, where it could be the first film in several years to win the "Triple Crown" (

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has just finished handing out their awards for 2022, and to simply say that there were a few surprises would be quite the understatement. The first big surprise is that Edward Berger's "All Quiet on the Western Front" dominated the awards with seven wins that included Best Film, Director, Adapted Screenplay, and Film Not in the English Language. Martin McDonagh's "The Banshees of Inisherin" and Baz Luhrmann's "Elvis" fol

The Directors Guild of America has just finished handing out their awards for 2022, with the top awards unsurprisingly going to Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (aka "The Daniels") for "Everything Everywhere All at Once." They've been far and away the most popular pick for Best Director throughout the critics' awards, and it would appear the directors themselves agree. This officially makes them the frontrunner for the corresponding Oscar next month. Coming up tomorrow, we ha

The Film: For decades, master filmmaker Steven Spielberg has given us some of the greatest and most beloved movies of all time, including "Jaws," "Raiders of the Lost Ark," "E.T.," "Schindler's List," and "Saving Private Ryan," but there's one story that he's been waiting all this time to tell: His own. How did he get his start in making movies, and what was it that sparked his love of cinema in the first place? With his latest project, "The Fabelmans," he takes us back to wh