‘Lonely’ But ‘Rewarding’: Oscar Contender Screenwriters Get Candid About Writing

according to reports.Wilde was incarcerated at Reading between 1895 and 1897, accused of “gross indecency.” The prison, formerly known as Reading Gaol, was shuttered in 2013, and a bid to sell it to developers fell through in November. Reading’s local council is hoping to turn the building, which is located in the town center, into an arts venue.

Oscar Isaac and Pedro Pascal celebrated 2021 in good company!The stars and longtime pals rang in the new year together — and took the best photo to prove it. Isaac's wife, Elvira Lind, snapped the now-viral photo in which Pascal, 45, sits on Isaac's lap as he takes a swig of his beer.

At the age of 83, Sergio Chamy got the opportunity of a long lifetime—the chance to go undercover to sleuth out possible skullduggery at an old folks home in his native Chile. The assignment would take all his observational skills and technical savvy.

One of our favorite pair best friends rang in 2021 together!

Star Wars actor Oscar Isaac playing in ska bands before he was famous.Names of the bands included The Worms, Closet Heterosexuals, Petrified Frogs and The Underdogs, the latter of whom once opened for Green Day and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones in the 1990s.After a photo was shared on Twitter of Isaac with The Underdogs, footage began circling of a number of his bands playing across the late ’90s and early 2000s.Still thinking about Oscar Isaac’s ska band that opened for Green Day and The Mighty

Related: The most notable US athletes of 2020: No 6 – Mike Tyson, back from the abyss After declaring García could be a bigger star than he was, De La Hoya confirms he wants to box again, perhaps against Gennady Golovkin. Before GGG’s successful extension of his own career this month, he all but threatened to kill De La Hoya if they shared a ring.

Guy Lodge Film CriticCertain films aren’t made for elevator pitches. “Arthouse ‘Gilmore Girls’ meets ‘The Fault in Our Stars'” would be one way to describe the array of familiar elements in “Asia,” while erasing any hint of the rare delicacy and emotional acuity with which Israeli writer-director Ruthy Pribar assembles them.

The Oscar-contending documentary 76 Days, set in hospitals in Wuhan, China as the city endured lockdown after the eruption of Covid-19, is cinéma vérité par excellence. No sit-down interviews, no TV news reports spliced in—just the pure visual drama of medical workers and patients ensnared in an unprecedented crisis.

If you’re looking for some great movies to watch over the holiday break, it’s the perfect time to catch up on all the contenders for the upcoming awards season!

For years the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked a tightrope—balancing his access to powerful Saudi Royals while pushing for reform in the kingdom—until the tightrope became a noose.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentAndalusia’s La Claqueta and the Basque Country’s Irusoin, producers of Spanish Oscar entry “The Endless Trench,” have re-teamed to buy big screen adaptation rights to Txani Rodríguez’s novel “Los últimos románticos.”The deal builds on one of the most fruitful regional production alliances in Spain, whose co-productions to date take in not only “The Endless Trench,” a big winner at the 2019 San Sebastian Film Festival, but also true-crime series

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentSaudi director Shahad Ameen‘s feminist fable “Scales” has been selected as Saudi Arabia’s official candidate for the Oscar in the international feature film category.“Scales” draws on Arabic folklore about a young woman named Hayat – played by newcomer Basima Hajjar – who rebels against the tradition in her fishing village of sacrificing female children to monstrous mermaids lurking in the sea.

Guy Lodge Film CriticYou can take the girl out of the woods, but you can’t take the woods out of the girl — unless, of course, you take the woods away altogether. Such are the tough lessons learned in “Toorbos,” a satisfying marriage of folky period romance and environmental parable from the misty, mossy depths of South Africa’s Knysna forest region: a national beauty spot much enshrined in local literature and lore, but rarely given this kind of grand-scale screen showcase.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIn 1970, Gil Scott-Heron recorded his famous poem-song “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.” But that anthemic line, as forceful as it was, has been proved wrong time and again. Two years earlier, starting on Sept.

Pete Davidson and Timothée Chalamet got the internet talking during the Oscar nominee’s Saturday Night Live hosting debut on Saturday, December 12.The Call Me by Your Name actor, 24, and the comedian, 27, appeared in multiple sketches together during the episode.

Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg is back in the Oscar race with Another Round (Druk), a film whose star, Mads Mikkelsen, calls “an embracement of life.”

The documentary Assassins, opening in theaters today, is part legal thriller, part spy thriller, and part true crime story, “on literally the largest geopolitical scale,” as director Ryan White puts it.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentIf you suspect that Hollywood has always been male-centric, there’s more evidence (not that there was ever much doubt).