The High Stakes at Emmy FYC Campaign Events to Score Votes
From the Museum of Modern Art to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and prestigious venues in between, Emmy voters have been offered a banquet of For Your Consideration events over the past three months. Networks, streamers and studios have been pulling out all the stops to win their votes during this first round of balloting before the nominations are announced July 15. Some events are very successful, others not so much. Points...
LGBTQ+ Celebration of Cinema and Television Honors Trailblazers Including Wanda Sykes, Bowen Yang and Niecy Nash-Betts
There wasn’t a better way to kick off the first weekend of Pride Month than at the 2nd annual Critic Choice LGBTQ+ Celebration of Cinema and Television. The festive fete at the Fairmont Century Plaza recognized more than a dozen performers and producers whose work has served to shine a light on a wide range of LGBTQ+ experiences. Actor and standup comedian Sherry Cola, who emceed last year’s inaugural celebration, returned to host the...
Funny AF (as Foxx) at the Netflix is a Joke Festival
To see Jamie Fox strutting his stuff and telling jokes on stage at the iconic Comedy Store in Los Angeles, you would never know this was a man who only recently recovered from a severe stroke that almost left him for dead. Yet the Oscar winning actor-musician-comedian, who was felled during a movie shoot in Atlanta in 2023 and spent months hospitalized there, seemed to be better than ever: more physical, more focused, more funny. He...
‘The Last of Us’ Season Finale: A Huge Perspective Shift
As fans of the game well know, anything can happen on HBO’s hit adaptation of The Last of Us. And it did at the close of the Season 2 finale, as the audience is led to believe that the entire point of view will shift when the third season comes around– which is thought to be a very long time from now. Sigh. But here’s some good news. Just a few days before the season finale ran on Sunday night, creators Craig Mazin and Neil...
It’s Pee-wee Herman As You’ve Never Imagined Him in New HBO Documentary
After interviewing his subject for more than 40 hours, director Matt Wolf may know more about Paul Reubens than the actor/comedian more widely known as Pee-wee Herman knew about himself. During a preview screening event at the Museum of Modern Art in New York for the first episode of the new HBO original documentary, Pee-wee as Himself, Wolf confessed the hard realization, however, that he did not know during the production that...
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