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The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) has announced their winners for 2025, with Ryan Coogler's "Sinners" dominating the awards with a record-setting ten wins, including Best Film, Director, Actor, Original Screenplay, and Ensemble. Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another" followed in a very distant second place with three wins for Adapted Screenplay, Supporting Actor, and Supporting Actress. Please see a full list of winners below. Film WINNER: S

The National Board of Review has announced their winners for 2025 with Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another taking the top prize, along with Best Director, Actor, Supporting Actor, and Breakthrough Performance. Best Film: One Battle After Another Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another Best Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another Best Actress: Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You Best Supporting Actor: Benicio Del Toro, One Battl

The New York Film Critics Circle has just finished announcing their awards for 2025, with Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another" taking the top prize. The film also won Best Supporting Actor for Benicio del Toro. The only other film to win more than one award was "The Secret Agent," which took Best Actor for Wagner Moura and Best International Feature. Please see below for a complete list of winners. BEST FILM: One Battle After Another BEST DIRECTOR: Jafar Panahi,

The Film: Hot on the heels of "Hard Boiled" and the "A Better Tomorrow" Trilogy, Shout! Studios is continuing their Hong Kong Cinema Classics series with what is very likely world-renowned action director John Woo's most popular & well-known work, 1989's "The Killer." The film is being given an incredible 4K upgrade for a new three-disc set, packed with over two and a half hours of commentaries, featurettes, and more, so now it's time once again to go back and revisit this ac

The Film: "The Conjuring" series has been a somewhat unusual roller coaster ride over the course of its 12-year existence. It started off pretty shaky with a surprisingly dull entry that didn't do much to elicit scares, but came back pretty strong with a sequel that fixed many problems that plagued the original. However, the third film (the poorly-titled "The Devil Made Me Do It") fell back on the same tired cliches & issues that held back the first entry. Now we come to what

The Show: There have been a few shows that have attempted to tell a story set in the world of TV news/journalism, most notably Aaron Sorkin's marvelous "The Newsroom," which had an all-too-short 25-episode run, but there haven't really been any that have tried to focus on something that's usually a lot less serious: Morning Shows, which certainly have their own share of news, but also consist of a wide-variety of segments like cooking, fashion, music, and more. However, just

The Film: Time and time again, we've seen how filmmakers have struggled greatly to do anything new or interesting in the horror genre, but another genre that suffers just as much from this lack of originality is the romantic-comedy. It seems like 99% of the time we'll see the same tired formula over and over again, which has the audience ahead of the film every step of the way, leading right up to its easily predictable conclusion. Try as they might, they find it extremely di

The Films: World-renowned action director John Woo has been known for a number of remarkable works throughout his incredible career, including "The Killing" and "Hard Boiled," as well as a number of American films, such as "Face/Off" and "Mission: Impossible 2." However, one that doesn't seem to get mentioned all that much is the dramatic actioner "A Better Tomorrow," a film that would go on to spawn a whole trilogy. In celebration of these films, the first of which is about

The Film: Justin Tipping's "Him," a supernatural horror flick released merely two months ago, was a rather bizarre case of a film that built up its hype based solely on the fact that Academy Award-winner Jordan Peele, noted for his own horror films like "Get Out" and "Nope," was one of its producers. The film received overwhelmingly negative reviews and failed to drum up any interest at the box office, causing it to disappear from theaters pretty quickly, along with the hype

The Film: Academy Award-nominated director Darren Aronofsky has had quite an amazing career thus far, with a body of work that has included such remarkable films as "Requiem for a Dream," "The Fountain," the Oscar-winning "Black Swan," and most recently, "The Whale," which took home two Oscars of its own for Best Actor (Brendan Fraser) and Best Makeup. Now he returns with his latest project, "Caught Stealing," a crime thriller based on the novel by Charlie Huston, who also ad