Ed Gonzalez

2 weeks ago | slantmagazine.com | Ed Gonzalez

We’re very excited by the prospect of seeing a big-screen adaptation of Death Stranding, even if the bulk of its runtime consists of Norman Reedus trekking across Icelandic-looking landscapes while carrying weird shit inside his arsenal of carriers. And today, we find ourselves especially excited by the news that Michael Sarnorski, director of Pig and A Quiet Place: Day One, has been tapped to direct the film for A24 and Kojima Productions.

1 month ago | slantmagazine.com | Seth Katz |Ed Gonzalez

After such high-profile flops as 2010’s The Wolfman and 2017’s The Mummy, the latter of which failed to launch Universal Pictures’s intended Dark Universe franchise, came a rare standout amid the studio’s ongoing project of rebooting its classic horror movies: Leigh Wannell’s The Invisible Man, which reframed the 1933 film (based on H.G. Wells’s novel) as an extreme case of stalking and gaslighting.

1 month ago | slantmagazine.com | Ed Gonzalez

We admit to kicking this category down the road to see if the The Brutalist’s A.I. controversy would make any measurable ripples in this race—that is, outside the social media bubble of extremely online non-voters.

1 month ago | slantmagazine.com | Ed Gonzalez

Here’s one that we expected to call early on, given that Emilia Pérez’s nominations haul—a record for a non-English-language film—positioned it as more than just a sure bet in this category. But the firestorm that erupted around Karla Sofía Gascón’s social media posts forced us to kick the category down the road, so that we could look for signs that the scandal might be having measureable effects on the film’s Oscar chances here and elsewhere.

1 month ago | slantmagazine.com | Ed Gonzalez

We’ve put too much stock on the winners of the ASC prize in past years, like when we thought that Łukasz Żal’s cinematography for Cold War would persevere over Alfonso Cuarón’s for Roma on Oscar night. That particular pick was further justified by Paweł Pawlikowski’s nomination for his direction, as there’s a strong link between films winning in this category and their being nominated for directing and, especially, best picture.