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Actor Frank Vallelonga Jr. found dead

Posted 3 years ago

Frank Vallelonga Jr., who appeared in the Best Picture winner Green Book, was found dead this week outside of a factory in the Bronx. He was 60. According to police, “Upon arrival, police observed an unidentified adult male, unconscious and...

Green Book: Viggo Mortensen thinks backlash over the film was misinformed

Posted 5 years ago

Even though Green Book was a fine film that featured strong performances from Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, the 2018 Best Picture Oscar winner is remembered more today for the controversy surrounding it. Its depiction of race relations became a...

Viggo Mortensen and Peter Farrelly reteam for The Greatest Beer Run Ever

Posted 6 years ago

After teaming for the Academy Award-winning film GREEN BOOK, Viggo Mortensen and director Peter Farrelly are set to join forces once again for a new film. Unlike his starring role for GREEN BOOK, Mortensen plans to board Farrelly's latest project in a...

Trailer for Arman Nshanian’s Songs of Solomon will not be silenced

Posted 7 years ago

Today brings an emotionally-charged trailer for SONGS OF SOLOMON, an upcoming historical drama from producer Nick Vallelonga, known to many as the Oscar-winning producer/screenwriter of director Peter Farrelly's GREEN BOOK. Based on true events, SONGS OF SOLOMON tells the powerful...

Peter Farrelly to follow-up Green Book with The Greatest Beer Run Ever

Posted 7 years ago

Earlier this year, GREEN BOOK took home the Academy Award for Best Picture, and director/co-writer Peter Farrelly is setting up his next feature film, which sounds like it could be another easy-going Oscar contender. Variety reports that Peter Farrelly is...

Steven Spielberg planning to voice concerns about Netflix at Academy meeting

Posted 7 years ago

It wasn't that all that long ago that the idea of a Netflix movie being a serious contender at the Academy Awards would have been laughable, but fresh off the 91st Academy Awards, Alfonso Cuaron's ROMA took home the awards...

Oscars 2019 Round 3: Post-Oscar nominations, Golden Globes and more

Posted 7 years ago

Well, folks, when it comes to awards season, we’re in the home stretch. We’re in the final round, the fourth quarter or whatever other sports euphemism you want to use, but the point is we’re almost done. This move towards...

The Favourite, Roma lead 2019 Oscar nominations

Posted 7 years ago

Alright, folks, we’re almost at the finish line. Many of the guilds have announced their winners (and in effect, losers) and the critics have spoken. It’s been a divisive awards season, but it’s all almost at an end with the...

Review: Green Book

Posted 7 years ago

This is a repost of our TIFF 2018 review.  PLOT: In the early sixties, a famous pianist, Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) agrees to a tour of the Deep South, hiring a loosely connected wiseguy, Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen) to be...

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