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Demi Moore lost the Oscar but she’s still a winner
by Cláudio Alves THE SUBSTANCE (2024) Coralie Fargeat | © MUBI Bedecked in a silvery Armani Privé number and Chopard diamonds, Demi Moore arrived at the 97th Academy Awards like a winner. She left a...
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Reader Poll: Which acting nominee will be back again quickly?
by Nathaniel R One of our recent traditions here at TFE is to guess which of the season's most celebrated actors will be the quickets to be enmeshed in Oscar battles again before you know it? VOTE...
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What was the first film you watched post-Oscars?
By Juan Carlos Ojano An unpredictable awards season ended in an ANORA near-sweep at the Oscars. It's been a week now since the Oscars. The winners have celebrated, the losers have extended their...
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Drag Race RuCap: “Villains Roast”
Villains look good in red, don't you think? NICK TAYLOR: What a maddening episode of television this was. Don’t get me wrong, I had a lot of fun with the Villains Roast. This cast continues to surprise...
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The 97th Academy Awards (Cláudio's Version)
by Cláudio Alves ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT | © Janus Films / SideshowIt's been a week and change since the 97th Academy Awards. At this point, we have to start saying goodbye to the season that was and...
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Final Best Actor & Best Supporting Actor Thoughts
Dearest Reader, we know you want to move on from 2024 but please allow us our final indulgences for only one more week - promise! Jason Schwartzmann (Queer) was one of MANY supporting performances...
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A Supporting Actress Dozen (aka Nathaniel's Favourites)
by Nathaniel R Joan Chen would have made such a magnificent Oscar nominee for "Didi" While I realize my advocacy for actual supporting performances would do more good earlier in the year, I am who I am...
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Actressexual Honors - Best Leading Actresses of 2024
By Nathaniel R It took me a second viewing to appreciate what Margaret Qualley was up to in "The Substance". Great work! Reckless sex workers, repressed CEOs, witches-in-training, and a triple helping...
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Drag Race RuCap: “Ross Matthews vs The Ducks”
Jewels wasn't the only one yawning through this acting challenge. CLÁUDIO ALVES: After last week’s shitshow of an episode, the follow-up would necessarily feel like something of a disappointment. Don’t...
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VistaVision @ the Oscars
by Cláudio Alves With The Brutalist, Brady Corbet and cinematographer Lol Crawley revived VistaVision for a 21st century cinema. In the process, they also brought the format back to the Oscar stage,...
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Happy Birthday Glenn Close!
Photo via Glenn Close's Instagram (she's great at social media!) The great and still Oscar-less Glenn Close is 77 today. If seven is a good luck number than we wish her a double-lucky year that somehow...
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Review: "Snow White" exceeds expectations, but that's not saying much
by Cláudio Alves When was the last time the live-action remake of one of Disney's animated properties presented something worth watching? One supposes Cruella had those Jenny Beavan-designed...
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Fatal Attraction Pt 1: Everything AND the Kitchen Sink
Three-Part Mini-SeriesEvery once in a blue moon we'll take a movie and baton pass it around the team and really dive in. This time Nathaniel's going solo. But if you like this approach to investigate a...
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Drag Race RuCap: “Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve & Talent Monologues”
For a second there, it looked like Detox was back on the Drag Race stage. NICK TAYLOR: As with last season’s top six challenge, we get a pairs main challenge which relies heavily on the queen’s...
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Are you ready for "Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale"?
by Nathaniel R "What are you doing here?" When I first heard the news that there would be a third Downton Abbey film I thought,' that's crazy, you've killed off the most quotable character in the...
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Fatal Attraction Pt 2: She's not going to be IGNORED, Dan!
by Nathaniel R In Act 1 of Fatal Attraction (for a three-part retrospective), we met the happily married Gallaghers and their longsuffering dog Quincy, who was neglected for almost a whole weekend. The...
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Fatal Attraction Pt 3: Who is the monster and who is the victim?
by Nathaniel R Glenn Close at the Oscars, awaiting on the verdict yet again Welcome back to the boiling and bloody finale of our three-part retrospective of Adrian Lyne's classic thriller Fatal...
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Drag Race RuCap: “Drag Baby Mamas”
GET OUT 2 will star Onya Nurve. Start polishing the Oscar. CLÁUDIO ALVES: It’s no secret that I don’t tend to like makeover challenges on RuPaul’s Drag Race and that the last few episodes of season 17...
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A Soderbergh Double Feature: "Black Bag" and "Presence"
by Cláudio Alves One third of the year over, and already Steven Soderbergh reveals himself to be one of 2025's most exciting filmmakers. In this short span of time, the Oscar-winner has released two...
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Streaming Recommendation: "Lost Boys & Fairies"
by Nathaniel R Fra Fee (Hawkeye, Prime Target) and Sion Daniel Young (Slow Horses, The Left Behind) are would-be parents in LOST BOYS & FAIRIES Herewith a very modern problem. You see something...
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