Brutally Honest Oscar Ballot  #1: ‘Sentimental Value’ “Nearly Perfect,” “Didn’t Want [‘Hamnet’s] Jessie Buckley Turned Up to a 10 the Entire Time”

Brutally Honest Oscar Ballot #1: ‘Sentimental Value’ “Nearly Perfect,” “Didn’t Want [‘Hamnet’s] Jessie Buckley Turned Up to a 10 the Entire Time”

A female member of the Academy’s 719-person documentary branch who has no connection to any of this year’s nominees, granted a cloak of anonymity in return for candor, speaks with THR about her ballot. Best picture I put Frankenstein at number 10 because I haven’t seen it, which is unfair, but I ran out of time…

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Telluride Awards Analysis: ‘Hamnet,’ Chloé Zhao’s Pic About the Shakespeares’ Love and Loss, Is Talk of Fest

Telluride Awards Analysis: ‘Hamnet,’ Chloé Zhao’s Pic About the Shakespeares’ Love and Loss, Is Talk of Fest

Hamnet, the latest work of the wonderful Chinese filmmaker Chloé Zhao, who won best picture and director Oscars for 2020’s Nomadland, is an adaptation, written by Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell, of O’Farrell’s bestselling 2020 novel of the same name about the Shakespeare family. A tearjerker of the first order, it has become — in the wake…

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#‘Fingernails’ Review: Jessie Buckley and Riz Ahmed Quietly Ignite a Low-Tech Sci-Fi Exploration of Romantic Love

#‘Fingernails’ Review: Jessie Buckley and Riz Ahmed Quietly Ignite a Low-Tech Sci-Fi Exploration of Romantic Love

In the present-day-adjacent time period in the unspecified city where Fingernails unfolds, a newish technology has been embraced by a growing number of couples. Promising “no more uncertainty” and “no more divorce,” the simple but physically daunting test enables people to be sure they’ve found a true love connection. All that’s required is the removal…

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#SAG Award Nominees Colin Farrell, Stephanie Hsu, Seth Rogen and More Explain What Makes a Good Co-Star

#SAG Award Nominees Colin Farrell, Stephanie Hsu, Seth Rogen and More Explain What Makes a Good Co-Star

SAG Award Nominees Colin Farrell, Stephanie Hsu, Seth Rogen and More Explain What Makes a Good Co-Star Sheila McCarthy on Jessie Buckley Jessie Buckley; Sheila McCarthy Courtesy of Michael Gibson/Orion Pictures Corp/Courtesy Everett Collection; Jerod Harris/Getty Images I first met Jessie Buckley over an email while I was watching her in her extraordinary film Wild…

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#Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley Join Women Talking Cast – /Film

#Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley Join Women Talking Cast – /Film

“#Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley Join Women Talking Cast – /Film” Writer/director Sarah Polley is directing an adaptation of Miriam Toews’ bestselling novel Women Talking, which now has an extensive cast complete with seasoned actors, as well as some fresh faces. MGM’s Orion Pictures and Plan B Entertainment have cast Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Rooney Mara, and Ben Whishaw…

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