Yesterday: Best Screenplay   Vera Farmiga, “The Conjuring” In a genre traditionally associated with wooden, fresh-faced twenty-somethings, it was incredibly refreshing to see someone commit so fully to crafting a fully flesh-and-blood human bein …Read more

Here at StageBuddy, we love movies.  Which means we love the Oscars, but loving the Oscars means having our hearts broken when our favorite movies and actors aren’t nominated.  So in honor of the snubbed, the overlooked, and the under-appreciated, we …Read more

HBO Sundays @ 10:30pm ET What’s it about? “Looking” offers up the unfiltered experiences of three close friends living — and loving — in modern-day San Francisco. Friendship may bind them, but each is at a markedly different point in his journey: P …Read more

FOX Thursdays @ 9pm ET What’s it about? On a single day, Keegan Deane is described as many things – most of which are far from flattering. His ex-wife calls him “unreliable”; to his fellow lawyers he’s “an obstruction”; judges think he’s “an outrage” …Read more

Last week, my StageBuddy colleague Nick wrote an article claiming that David O. Russell’s “American Hustle” is a worse version of Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf Of Wall Street”.  While varying perspectives are essential to art of any kind, I couldn’t ju …Read more

2013 is already a fading memory.  We’re now deep in the grips of January (aka the month where bad films go to die), which means it’s time to take a moment and look at what the next eleven months have in store for us.  Unlike last year, 2014 appears t …Read more

The nominations for the 86th annual Academy Awards were announced this morning.  Who got recognized?  Who got snubbed?  What does it all mean?  Here are our immediate reactions to this year’s nominees: 9 Best Picture nominees…again? Three years ago …Read more

HBO Sundays @ 9pm ET What’s it about? In 2012, Louisiana State Police Detectives Rust Cohle and Martin Hart are brought in to revisit a homicide case they worked in 1995.  As the inquiry unfolds in present day through separate interrogations, the two …Read more

Last night’s Golden Globes ceremony was a delightfully brisk, fun affair anchored by hilarious vignettes from co-hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, and full of a perfect blend of both deserved wins and surprising upsets — and it appears America noticed …Read more

With the Oscars you get movies, with the Emmys you get television…and with the Golden Globes, you get both!  Yesterday we broke down our predictions for the film categories at Sunday night’s broadcast of the Hollywood Foreign Press Assocation’s boo …Read more