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3 For one blissful month, it seemed like the defining moment of movie culture this year might be the most joyful one, too. Bong Joon Ho’s class warfare crowd-pleaser, Parasite, had beat the odds, shattered precedent, and overcome an American aversion to subtitles to win the Oscar for Best Picture. What a thing it was to experience live—a wonderful glitch in the simulation! Sadly, that night now feels miles away, a distant glimmer in the rearview mirror, a speck of light from the before times of ancient February. Just a few weeks after Parasite made history, James Bond made other plans: ...

Gif: Allison Corr Don’t trust anyone who says it’s impossible to make a best movies list in 2020. There were plenty of films to like and even love over this dark, strange, unprecedented year. Just ask the 12 contributors to The A.V. Club’s list. Each made a ranked ballot of their 15 favorites of 2020, and while there’s certainly overlap on all of them, you’ll also find passion picks sprinkled throughout: the movies that spoke, powerfully and singularly, to one critic in particular. We call those the outliers—the films that appeared on one ballot and no others—and they’re amon...

▶︎  Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets is in UK cinemas and on Curzon Home Cinema from 24 December. There is a line in Pablo Neruda’s poem Keeping Quiet that goes: “What I want should not be confused with total inactivity. Life is what it is about; I want no truck with death.” Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, directed by the Ross brothers Bill and Turner, reflects this sentiment. It is a film about life, connections, pleasure and the stories we tell. In the Roaring ’20s, a dive bar somewhere in Las Vegas, an assortment of regulars assemble for the closing night...

Jose Feliciano, Barenaked Ladies, Josh Groban top this week’s online concerts Updated Dec 16, 2020; Posted Dec 16, 2020 FILE - Musician Jose Feliciano performs during the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize tribute concert on March 13, 2019, in Washington. Feliciano is celebrating 50 years of his bilingual Christmas classic “Feliz Navidad" (Photo by Brent N. Clarke/Invision/AP, File)Brent N. Clarke/Invision/AP Facebook Share CLEVELAND, Ohio -- It has been, believe it or not, 50 years since Jose Feliciano turned the Spanish holiday greeting “Feliz Navidad” into a worldwide smash -- a...

Gunda are a few of the films nominated for the 14th annual Cinema Eye Honors. Time (pictured), Bradley’s portrait of a family’s struggle over years of incarceration, was nominated for six Cinema Eye Honors, including outstanding feature, direction, editing, score and debut. Both Nanau’s Collective – about journalists who uncovered health care fraud in the wake of a deadly nightclub fire in Bucharest, Romania, in 2015 — and Kossakovsky’s Gunda — which follows the daily life of a pig, two cows, and a one-legged chicken — had four nominations and joined Time in being nominate...