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In her rave review out of Venice, IndieWire’s Kate Erbland called “One Night in Miami” a “vividly imagined” film “that crackles with all the hopes and fears and dreams and possibilities of both the men it tracks and the blossoming filmmaking talent behind the camera. …an emotionally accurate telling, one that always endeavors to find the real people underneath the famous gloss. ‘One Night in Miami’ hits so hard because it remains joyfully, often painfully grounded in what makes a person extraordinary, even when the world isn’t ready for them....

The actress, alongside co-hosts Wanda Sykes and Regina Hall, opened the March 27 ceremony with many a zinger, like how it was cheaper for the Academy to hire three female hosts than one man. While Hall thanked the opportunity to represent women of color onstage, Schumer added that she’ll be representing the “unbearable white women who call the cops when you get a little too loud.” Yet during Schumer’s later monologue, she ribbed the Oscars Best Picture nomination for “Don’t Look Up,” joking that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences clearly “‘Don’t Look Up’ reviews....

Case in point: Her Majesty was a David Lynch fan. In an interview with NME that has resurfaced in light of the Queen’s death, Lynch’s longtime composer Angelo Badalamenti, recalled Paul McCartney telling him that the Queen was a fan of “Twin Peaks.” Badalamenti composed music for both the show’s original run and its 2017 revival, so the former Beatle thought he’d get a kick out of learning that his work had made it to Buckingham Palace....

The Oscar winner detailed the formative moviegoing experience that shaped how he viewed masculinity after his mother’s boyfriend took him as a child to see “100 Rifles.” Starring Jim Brown, Burt Reynolds, and Raquel Welch, the film is a classic American Western about a thief (Reynolds) who is trying to outrun the local sheriff (Brown). Tarantino explained on “Real Time with Bill Maher” while promoting the book “Cinema Speculation,” out November 1, that he watched “100 Rifles” with an all-Black audience, and the crowd loudly complained about opening film “The Bus Is Coming....

“It wasn’t a theater piece, and it wasn’t a film piece. I’ve never been in a situation where from the beginning of rehearsals, the cinematographer is in complete collaboration with you,” Buckley said to the Television Critics Association’s Winter Press Tour on Friday. “Even though the space and the lens and the theatrical space is smaller, the emotional space, especially with this story, is huge. This love is massive.” As part of a virtual PBS panel, Buckley, O’Connor, and director Simon Godwin explained how the project adjusted and reformed during the pandemic, ending up at a feature-length version of a classic story....

In this week’s episode of Screen Talk, Eric Kohn and Anne Thompson debate both movies and how their Oscar campaigns are likely to take shape. They also address Sophia Loren’s Oscar odds in “The Life Ahead,” touch base on election season for the last time before it (hopefully!) comes to an end on Tuesday, and close out with a couple of horror movie recommendations for the weekend. Listen to the full episode below....

Host: Kieran Culkin The most important part of Culkin’s monologue — other than him wanting to make clear that he’s not at all like his “Succession” character, Roman Roy — was the promise of what was to come. Specifically, the promise that he would be picked up by a cast member during the episode’s goodnights, much like he made Kevin Nealon pick him up during the goodnights of the aforementioned Macaulay Culkin-hosted “SNL” episode....