It's been nearly 40 years since a fatal train crash rocked Greater Manchester. The rail tragedy happened in Eccles when an express passenger train crashed into a freight train carrying oil tankers.
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Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Awards Circuit Column: It’s not just about “Barbenheimer” and biographical dramas. Awards voters need to look beyond the shiniest Oscar contenders to find under-heralded gems. From documentaries about musical greats to coming-of-age stories that brilliantly tap into the tribulations of being a tween, several movies deserve to be in the conversation for top prizes.
BAFTA first round voting opens on Friday, Dec. 8, along with Critics Choice film ballots due. In addition, Golden Globe nominations are coming on Monday, Dec.
11. Here’s to hoping the groups can look far beyond two summer blockbusters. Read: Variety’s Awards Circuit for the latest Oscars predictions in all categories.
As an annual holiday plea, here are 10 films voters should view before casting their ballots. You can also read the 10 underrated performances of 2023, which cite more incredible movies. Honorable mentions: “Beau is Afraid” (A24); “Chevalier” (Searchlight Pictures); “Every Body” (Focus Features); “Flamin’ Hot” (Hulu/Searchlight Pictures); “Flora and Son” (Apple Original Films); “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” (Neon); “Joy Ride” (Lionsgate); “Little Richard: I Am Everything” (Magnolia Pictures); “Migration” (Illumination); “The Peasants” (Sony Pictures Classics) Director Matthew Heineman follows Jon Batiste as he prepares for a Carnegie Hall concert while his wife battles cancer.
It’s a moving look at an artist coping with personal and professional challenges, and a film too beautiful to ignore. Beyond bestowing a nod for doc feature (a no-brainer), it’s time for the Oscars to nominate a nonfiction movie for best picture. That’s a milestone that other masterpieces of the genre, such as “Hoop Dreams” or “Searching for
.It's been nearly 40 years since a fatal train crash rocked Greater Manchester. The rail tragedy happened in Eccles when an express passenger train crashed into a freight train carrying oil tankers.
Wilds of Fortune, more and more of us are taking this fresh enthusiasm for slots, poker, roulette and casinos as a whole into our TV viewing too.Netflix is a hotbed for this, but what are the best gambling documentaries on the streaming platform right now?While not strictly a gambling documentary, The Queen of Versailles provides a fascinating glimpse into the extravagant lifestyles that often accompany the world of high-stakes gambling. The film follows David and Jackie Siegel, a wealthy couple building a lavish mansion inspired by the Palace of Versailles.
Sir Tom Jones was visibly struggling to make his decision on who to send home during Saturday night's episode of The Voice UK.
This Deadline feature, now in its fourth year, seeks to spotlight the work of some of the buzziest new European writers in the business.
Banksy has unveiled a new anti-war artwork in London which only stayed up for an hour before it was supposedly stolen.The new piece was found in Peckham, south London, and featured a “stop” traffic sign emblazoned with 3D war planes, which is believed to relate to the current conflict in Israel and Palestine.Less than one hour after its arrival, PA captured images of two anonymous men removing the artwork. One stood on a Lime Bike to get to the sign, while the other held it in place.Earlier, Banksy had shared a photo of the artwork to his Instagram to officially confirm he was behind its creation.
Fontaines D.C., Massive Attack and Young Fathers have teamed up for a limited edition 12” single to support the charity Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF).The release, which is available to pre-order now, will feature material by Fontaines and a collaboration between Young Fathers and Massive Attack, alongside a sleeve and print designed by Robert Del Naja.100 per cent of the profits from the single will be donated to the charity to help their emergency operations in Gaza and the West Bank. In a statement, the artists have also called for an immediate ceasefire in the region, “in solidarity with the Palestinian people living under a brutal military operation”The reverse of the sleeve includes a quote from a hospital whiteboard in Gaza written by MSF medic Dr.
Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Get in, loser. We’re riding with Rachel McAdams because she’s still Queen Bee. Since she’s become a mother, life has changed.
Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul have shared a joyous Christmas single titled ‘HOHO’ in honour of the holiday season. Check it out below.‘HOHO’ is a comical reworking of the duo’s track ‘HAHA’ from their debut album ‘Topical Dancer, which was released last year via Soulwax’s label, Deewee.
Quentin Tarantino’s scrapped Star Trek film has been compared to an unexpected Marvel movie.Earlier this week, news emerged that the Oscar-winning director had reportedly abandoned the project because he didn’t want it to be the final film of his career.The director has long spoken of his intention to retire after his tenth and final film, the title of which, The Movie Critic, was revealed earlier this year.Screenwriter Mark L. Smith, who worked on the script for Tarantino’s Star Trek film, explained in a new interview with Collider that after some “back and forth”, the director “started worrying about the number, his kind of unofficial number of films”.He went on to shed some light on what the scrapped project might have been like, comparing it to the script for Taika Waititi’s Thor: Ragnarok, in that that it would have been very different to the rest of the franchise.“I liked it because I think it’s different, but the way that [Thor] Ragnarok changed things.
We’re just a few days away from the holidays and Netflix has a ton of holiday movies that are ready to stream!
Derek Hough is providing a new update on his wife Hayley Erbert‘s condition after she was rushed to the hospital and had emergency brain surgery last week.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Hinge, the dating app owned by Match Group, has recruited Tamika Young as VP of global communications. Young most recently worked in PR for Netflix and prior to that spent more than five years at Spotify. She will lead global communications strategies across corporate, brand, consumer, trust and safety as Hinge continues to focus on reaching Gen Z and LGBTQIA+ communities around the world.
Jonathan Bailey is getting candid about a terrifying moment in Washington, D.C.
Meek Mill is the latest voice to speak out against the use of lyrics as evidence against rappers in criminal trials. posting his take on Tuesday (December 11) to X.
MSNBC is launching a live event series, MSNBC Live, that will mark the return of Luke Russert.
Barbie has topped a list of the top-trending Google searches across the year in movies.Greta Gerwig’s film, which is the highest-grossing movie of the year, came out on top of Google’s year-in-review 2023 lists for movie search data in the US and globally.The lists, released on Monday (December 11), track queries that had the highest spikes in traffic over a sustained period this year as compared with 2022.Unsurprisingly, due to the Barbenheimer phenomena, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer placed in second across both lists.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director It’s impossible to imagine “The Devil Wears Prada” without Meryl Streep‘s icy, Oscar-nominated performance as Miranda Priestly, but it turns out there was initial resistance to casting the acting icon in the 2006 classic. During a recent appearance on the “Hollywood Gold” podcast, producer Wendy Finerman revealed Streep was almost passed over for the role because some people thought “she has never been funny a day in her life.” “Meryl, people thought we were crazy,” Finerman said.
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya coming out on top.The list on the review aggregator site compiles the top films based on their critics scores on the site, with the criteria simply being “movies that were drawn and animated in Japan”.The list was unveiled to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the release of the 1988 classic Akira, directed by Katsuhiro Ohtomo, which comes in at number 26 on the list.The Tale of the Princess Kaguya was co-written and directed by Isao Takahata, adapted from a 10th century Japanese literary tale. Takahata, who co-founded Studio Ghibli in 1985 and passed away in 2018, also takes the second and third spots in the list, with 1991’s Only Yesterday and 1988’s Grave of the Fireflies, respectively.Fourth place goes to 2022’s The First Slam Dunk, directed by Takehito Inoue and based on his own manga series, whilst 2016’s Your Name is in fifth place.Check out the top 10 below:Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron lands at number 12 on the list, and is due to be released in UK cinemas on December 26.
Donald Glover and Maya Erskine star in the debut trailer for Mr. & Mrs. Smith, their new series at Amazon’s Prime Video!
Phoebe Violet has always dreamt of one day walking the catwalk but never in her wildest dreams did she think a Chanel runway would appear on her street.