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Friday, Dec. 29, 2023
Guild Awards Preview--Television: A Mix Of New and Emmy-Nominated Fare
With the guild awards season fast approaching, we can expect as in years past a series of currently Emmy-nominated TV shows, telefilms and limited series to gain recognition as they retain eligibility for the ACE Eddie, Art Directors Guild Excellence in Production Design, ASC, VES, Golden Reel,...
Friday, Dec. 29, 2023
Production Outlook: What’s Next In 2024? Predictions, AI, DEI, Lessons Learned
It’s that time of year--for a new beginning, for New Year’s resolutions, which often aren’t kept, and predictions, which often aren’t accurate. Nonetheless SHOOT called upon a brave cross-section of advertising agency executives, chief creative officers, creative directors, heads of production,...
Friday, Dec. 22, 2023
Review: Director Blitz Bazawule's "The Color Purple"
Exuberant performances from a cast led by Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson and Danielle Brooks breathe life into Blitz Bazawule's stirring "The Color Purple," adapted from the Tony-winning Broadway production. Alice Walker 's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel, which Steven Spielberg turned into...
Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023
Review: Director George Clooney's "The Boys in the Boat"
Director George Clooney both begins and ends "The Boys in the Boat " on a sun-dappled lake. It's a seductive sight, calm and soothing, and aptly reflects the ethos of a film that often feels like one has walked into an oil painting: well-crafted, lovely to look at, and rather old-fashioned. Telling...
Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023
Review: Director Andrew Haigh's "All of Us Strangers"
Andrew Scott plays a writer trying to write something about his dead parents in Andrew Haigh's transcendent drama "All of Us Strangers." His parents' death is not recent – they died when he was 12. Not that one ever really gets over that kind of loss. But we meet Adam at a moment where he is not...
Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023
Review: Writer-Director Sean Durkin's "The Iron Claw"
It doesn't take long to understand the level of commitment Zac Efron brings to "The Iron Claw" as Texas wrestling brother Kevin Von Erich. Just one look at the taut mass of muscle and sinew he's become for the role will do the trick. It's also clear from the get-go how invested writer-director Sean...
Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023
Review: Director Benjamin Renner's "Migration"
Illumination, maker of "Despicable Me," "Sing" and "The Super Mario Bros. Movie," has built its animation empire by mostly staying close to a child-like outlook. Illumination's in-house mascots, the Minions, are basically themselves careening toddlers. But the studio's latest, "Migration," carries...
Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023
Review: Director Michael Mann's "Ferrari"
Napoleon Bonaparte. Leonard Bernstein. Willy Wonka. Aquaman — there are a ton of Guy Movie Heroes out there as 2023 ends. And yet up zooms another — in "Ferrari." Director Michael Mann has put his stylish spotlight on yet one more stoic, brilliant and broken uber-masculine dudes, Enzo Ferrari. The...
Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023
Review: Writer-Director Jonathan Glazer's "The Zone of Interest"
It's just a woman trying on a fur coat alone in her room, and sampling a lipstick. It's just a few friends discussing toothpaste orders over coffee in the kitchen. It's just a housewife showing off her new garden and children's pool, or a dad taking his kids fishing in a river. The crucial context...
Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023
Review: Director Paul King's "Wonka"
The original 1971 "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" may have been a delicious dream, lined with trees of gumballs and fields of lollipops. But never has there been a more cautionary tale about the danger of too much of a good thing. Magical as that Roald Dahl-scripted film was, it remains...