“The Power of the Dog led the winners in the film categories, earning four awards including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Jane Campion, and Best Cinematography for Ari Wegner. Belfast and Dune followed closely behind in the trophy count with three awards each. In the series categories, Ted Lasso took home four trophies, winning Best Comedy Series, Best Actor in a Comedy Series for Jason Sudeikis, Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for Hannah Waddingham, and Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for Brett Goldstein.” Read more about the Critics Choice Awards here Oscar-winning actor and MCU regular William Hurt has passed away at the age of 71. Read more at The Mary Sue Superhero families are pitted against each other in the first look at The Umbrella Academy season 3. “Throughout the first two seasons of Netflix’s adaptation of The Umbrella Academy, the superpowered Hargreeves kids have gotten themselves mixed up in all sorts of weird time travel nonsense that the superhero genre is generally known for. Having believed they fixed the timeline for good at the end of season two, it ended up being a pretty big sucker punch for the Hargreeves to return to their original time and see their dead brother Ben (Justin Min) now alive and kicking. What hurt more was that he both didn’t remember them and was now standing alongside a different group of superpowered kids called the Sparrow Academy. And as the teaser for season three shows, there’s about to be some physical pain in store for the ragtag heroes as well.” Read more at Gizmodo Could we finally find out who’s more powerful between Scarlet Witch and the Sorceror Supreme in the upcoming Doctor Strange sequel? Read more at Empire Pixar’s latest flick, Turning Red, has been making headlines ever since it premiered on Disney+ last week. Here are the reasons why it might be the more culturally important film the studio has made to date. “Roger Ebert once called movies ‘a machine that generates empathy,’ and there’s almost no studio that manufactures that product better or more consistently than Pixar. Starting with its earliest films, the animation powerhouse has given viewers an opportunity to see themselves, and others, from a variety of perspectives—parent or child, savior or scoundrel, instigator or spectator, and so on. Turning Red is by far Pixar’s most sophisticated character portrait to date, and one of its most challenging, albeit not necessarily for reasons tied to the film’s skilled and joyful cultural and geographic specificity.” Read more at The A.V. Club The term “special effects” probably invokes thoughts of CGI dinosaurs or massive explosions, but there were still these sorts of effects in the silent film era. Read more at Mental Floss
