Little Gold Men

Steven Spielberg’s The Post is technically still under embargo, but early buzz suggests a major contender is about to overturn the Oscar race as we know it.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Rebecca Keegan reports back on the Academy’s Governor’s Awards, The Darkest Hour director Joe Wright stops by for an interview, and the terribleness of Justice League is discussed at length.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Discussing the recent Disney v. Los Angeles Times kerfuffle, plus analyzing the trailer for The Post.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Kevin Spacey was a contender for a best supporting actor statue, until allegations against him put the fate of his entire movie in doubt. How Hollywood continues to move on from the latest sexual assault scandal.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Every year Oscar pundits get excited when there doesn’t seem to be a best picture frontrunner, but this year it really seems to be true. How 2017 turned out to be such a puzzling Oscar year.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Elizabeth Marvel, who stars in Noah Baumbach’s new film The Meyerowitz Stories, talks to Richard Lawson about her long and enviable career. Plus, conversations about the ongoing Harvey Weinstein fallout, Woody Allen’s latest, and, somehow, American Vandal.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The producer who changed the Oscars and defined independent film for decades has been fired from his company after allegations of widespread sexual assault. So what happens now?  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The sci-fi drama opens this week with rave reviews and two big stars, but is Oscar glory ahead? Plus a look at the long, successful road of Call Me By Your Name and some debate on what Netflix is even doing in Oscar season.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A look at the films from earlier in the year working to be remembered, at films opening in the crush of fall movie season hoping to be noticed, and also *Kingsman: The Golden Circle*, just because.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

In one day, the Emmy Awards were handed out and the Toronto Film Festival announced its most surprising Peoples Choice Award winner in years. We break down what it all means.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

An episode recorded literally inside the heart of TIFF, talking about the biggest films of the festival, and featuring a conversation with TIFF Long Take hosts Rob and Geoff about how the festival became central to awards season.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Gary Oldman is a frontrunner, Emma Stone is back in the race, and a movie about a woman falling in love with a sea creature may be surprisingly moving: Richard Lawson reports back from the Telluride Film Festival.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

At the Venice and Telluride Film Festivals this weekend, some of the biggest movies of the fall season— and maybe the most Oscar-worthy— will premiere. Here’s your guide for what to expect and how to interpret the avalanche of buzz coming our way.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A conversation with BBC Culture’s Christian Blauvelt about the list of the 100 greatest film comedies ever made. Plus, interviews with Emmy nominees Ann Dowd (of *The Leftovers* and *The Handmaid’s Tale*) and Lena Waithe (*Master of None*).  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

As the current season winds down, and the series finale looms in the distance, we wonder if Game of Thrones can continue to be critic-proof to the very end. Plus conversations about The Killing of a Sacred Deer and Steven Soderbergh’s new movie Logan Lucky.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Emmy-nominated actress Carrie Coon stops by to talk Leftovers, Fargo, and what's next.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

In honor of Halle Berry's latest thriller, Mike, Joanna, and Richard discuss Oscar-winning actors who need a little boost. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Amid rumors he won’t play Batman much longer, Ben Affleck seems a long way from the Oscar-winning director of Argo he was just five years ago. How did that happen, and what on earth is going on with Batman, anyway?  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Christopher Nolan’s war movie is beautiful and thrilling, but can it be an awards contender? Plus discussion of the Game of Thrones season premiere, the confusing state of Twin Peaks, and the controversial new project from the Game of Thrones creators.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A look at the snubs and surprises of this year’s Emmy nominations, plus discussion of the new season of Game of Thrones and War for the Planet of the Apes.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices