Pete, widely considered to be one of the preeminent awards analysts for both film and television, has for the past seven years been Deadline's Awards Columnist covering what is seemingly now the year-round Oscar and Emmy seasons. He is also Deadline's Chief Film Critic, having previously reviewed films for MovieLine, Boxoffice magazine, Backstage, Hollywood.com and Maxim. In addition to writing, Pete is also host of the year-round KCET Cinema Series, where he screens a selection of films prior to their theatrical release and interviews filmmakers. He previously held producing positions at Entertainment Tonight, Extra, Access Hollywood, The Arsenio Hall Show, The Martin Short Show and AMC Network and is the recipient of five Emmy nominations for writing.
EXCLUSIVE: The new NBC Sunday night musical series Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, which is about the title character, played by Jane Levy, who has the ability to hear the innermost thoughts of people around her in terms of popular songs and big dance numbers, has been building a dedicated following and is a priority…
Writer-director Prentice Penny pops open a modest but enormously engaging story about a young African-American employee in a wine store who wants nothing more out of life than to become a master sommelier. Since there are only 230 of them in the entire world that is quite an uphill climb, but the imposing numbers…
From 2009’s Earth to 2019’s Penguins, with the likes of Oceans, African Cats, Chimpanzee, Monkey Kingdom, Born In China, Bears and so on in between, the decade-old reboot of Walt Disney’s multi-Oscar-winning True-Life Adventures series has been a reliable theatrical staple every April just in time for Earth Day. But…
The American Film Institute is looking somewhere over the rainbow to put a little hope in our new daily routines in this age of the coronavirus.
On Tuesday, AFI unveiled the launch of AFI Movie Club, designed to be “a daily virtual gathering to leverage our collective love of film on behalf of optimism in this time of…
You probably can tell right from its title that the blissfully politically incorrect Crip Camp is not going to be the standard documentary about the lives of America’s disabled population. Far from it. This freewheeling, uninhibited, lively and spirited film takes a different and refreshing approach that makes it a…
Looking for some good movies to keep you occupied while self-quarantining at home these days? How about watching some certified classics like Lawrence Of Arabia, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Miracle Worker, The Manchurian Candidate, Sweet Bird Of Youth, The Longest Day, Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? , The Music Man…
Jesse Eisenberg was Oscar nominated for his performance as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, so maybe it's appropriate that he has a year’s worth of feature film work debuting on the same day that you can access right through the Internet. It is highly unusual for an actor to see two new movies opening against…
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association on Thursday said it will be altering long-standing rules for Golden Globe motion picture eligibility and screenings for the coming year, change that could include the unheard of step of first being seen even on broadcast TV. However, producers and studios must prove they had a…
It was less than two weeks ago when I saw a trailer at a local Los Angeles art house theater for new documentary The Dog Doc. It seems like an eternity ago, but though the theatrical release plans for March 20 fizzled with the closure of theaters due to the coronavirus outbreak, the good news — the very good news — is…
Well, it’s certainly no Crash. But that 2004 Oscar-winning Best Picture has a cult of haters it has collected in ensuing years, so hearing the new film Human Capital is not quite up to snuff with that Paul Haggis movie might make them actually think better of it. I liked Crash with its multi-story structure and starry…
In the new comedy Big Time Adolescence,Saturday Night Live regular Pete Davidson finds a screen vehicle perfectly suited to his quirky talents, and in fact even manages a few scenes that actually bring more than one dimension to a strictly one-dimensional character. Hulu started streaming the film early this week…
A Best Screenplay winner at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival and an Indie Spirit nominee, Amazon Studios’ deliciously entertaining and witty noir Blow the Man Down clearly is inspired by work of the Coen brothers, particularly Fargo and Blood Simple. The only catch is this one is strictly female-driven and reps the…
