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An in-depth look at the life of Long Island songster Billy Joel is heading your way in a new documentary entitled Billy Joel: And So It Goes. The first installment of the doc, of which there are two, recently debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in the wake of the news that Joel is taking a break from performing for health reasons.

And now the first trailer for And So It Goes has debuted. The preview features clips of interviews with Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Howard Stern, and Joel himself.

So ahead of its broadcast and streaming premieres next week, here's everything you need to know about Billy Joel: And So It Goes.

What's it about?

Billy Joel.

Ok, if we're going to get more specific, here's how the official synopsis describes the project:

The two-part film is crafted around in-depth, exclusive interviews with Joel, illuminating the key moments that...

Every Friday, Gold Derby rounds up some of the best stories of the week from our friends across the web. Maybe you missed these, maybe you were too busy to read them at the time, maybe you bookmarked them and forgot, but hopefully you'll have some over the weekend to check them out. Happy reading!

'Everyone Wants a Piece of Pedro Pascal'

Everyone wants a piece of Pedro Pascal, and Vanity Fair got him as its latest cover star. The Last of Us, Materialists, Fantastic Four, and Eddington (and that's just this summer!) star reflects on his late-blooming career, turning 50, and his late beloved mother, Verónica, whom he lost to suicide when he was 24, and dog during his lean years, Gretta.

'How Much Do Celebrities Make From Fashion Deals?'

The New York Times examines the rise of the celebrity "brand ambassador" x fashion house collab that coincided with the ascent of social media.

The release of a new Tom Cruise film is less about the film than it is about Tom Cruise. Ceaseless junket and red-carpet interviews with supposed journalists who were perhaps invented on the spot to ask him questions, clips of these interviews that quickly go viral, endless rankings of the movies, and between all of it the… acknowledgement, perhaps, that Cruise is connected to (or currently participates in) the horrific doings of Scientology. It doesn’t take much to discern that our collective fascination is fueled by the wonder at who exactly this man is, and if that man is, for lack of a better word, evil.

Thus I asked a cadre of luminaries in the film world to answer two questions.

First: Is Tom Cruise evil?

Second: In what film does Tom Cruise most play himself?

Answers from our own B-Side and Jordan Raup, Extended Clip, Jokermen, Hesse Deni,...

Every Friday, Gold Derby rounds up some of the best stories of the week from our friends across the web. Maybe you missed these, maybe you were too busy to read them at the time, maybe you bookmarked them and forgot, but hopefully you'll have some over the weekend to check them out. Happy reading!

Why Netflix makes perfect sense as a home for 'Sesame Street' — and Max did not

Netflix is now the way to get to Sesame Street, but maybe it should've been that way all along (or since the start of the streaming wars). Caroline Framke explains in the Boston Globe why the streaming giant and not Max, which did not renew its contract with the show, is the ideal home for Big Bird & Co.

The 'Final' 'Mission: Impossible' Movie May Mark the End of More Than Just the Franchise

Mission: Impossible — The...

“No Challengers in original score… I feared days like this would come,” New York Times culture writer Kyle Buchanan lamented on social media after the Oscar nominations were announced. “I think the lack of an original score nomination for Challengers renders the entire Oscar nominations list invalid,” opined Hollywood Reporter commentator Daniel Feinberg. When it comes to the Academy Awards, Best Original Score isn’t usually a category rife with controversy, but this year’s lineup stoked outrage when Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross weren’t nominated for their pulse-pounding compositions from the provocative tennis drama.

So what happened?

Just weeks earlier, Reznor and Ross won the Golden Globe for their score, defeating four of the films that did get Oscar nominations: The Brutalist, Conclave, Emilia Pérez, and The Wild Robot. The fifth Oscar nominee, Wicked, missed the cut at the Globes.

The composing team is also Oscar-pedigreed. Reznor and Ross,...

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

Crossing (Levan Akin)

There’s no description of Levan Akin’s Crossing that won’t make it sound like the kind of feel-good dramedy which would have taken Sundance by storm in 2006. It has all the key ingredients: an inter-generational friendship forged between a curmudgeonly retired teacher and a young burnout desperate to escape his hometown; an epic road trip where they come to understand each other more; and the older of the two confronting her internal bigotry as they search for her transgender niece. Above all, any description makes this sound like the worst kind of LGBTQ story, which we finally seem to have moved past as a culture––the story of queer people aimed firmly at a straight audience. It...

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.

Today we talk about one of the great ones: Martin Scorsese. Who’s better than Marty? Myself, Conor O’Donnell, and guest Jake Kring-Schreifels. Our B-Sides today include Italianamerican, Kundun, Bringing Out the Dead, and Silence.

We talk about a lot in this one. How to pronounce Scorsese! How to pronounce Coppola! Catholicism! Buddhism! Making films about religions in your life! This is an episode with lofty ambitions, not unlike most Scorsese pictures!

In examining Italianamerican we muse on Marty as documentarian, including the mention of an incredibly-underrated Scorsese documentary that’s hard to find: Public Speaking starring Fran Lebowitz. We reflect on the guardedness of memory by older generations. We also recount the Muddy Waters – László Kovács...

Apple TV’s “Slow Horses” has quickly become one of television’s most exciting shows. Based on the book by Mick Herron, the show combines razor-sharp writing (from showrunner Will Smith of “The Thick of It” fame) with masterclass acting from the likes of Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas.

The series follows the lives of those working at Slough House, a division of MI5 where disgraced agents who have made mistakes are exiled. It’s full of wit and humor, as one would expect from a show created by an alum of “The Thick of It,” but it’s also a genuine thriller, too, as all the best spy stories are. And critics have fallen for it since its inception, continuing to heap praise on this third season.

Fran Hoepfner (Slate) noted: “Part ‘Killing Eve’, part John le Carré lite, ‘Slow Horses’ continues to stand head and shoulders above...

One of the best works to premiere at Sundance in 2023, filmmaking pioneer Deborah Stratman’s Last Things explores the planet and our history through the point of view of rocks and minerals in formally thrilling ways. With it now set for a 35mm run at Anthology Film Archives starting next week, playing alongside shorts by Cauleen Smith and Shambhavi Kaul, we’re pleased to exclusively premiere the first trailer and poster courtesy Cinema Guild.

Here’s the synopsis: “Last Things looks at evolution and extinction from the perspective of the rocks and minerals that came before humanity and will outlast us. With scientists and thinkers like Lynn Margulis and Marcia Bjørnerud as guides and quoting from the proto-Sci-fi texts of J.H. Rosny, Deborah Stratman offers a stunning array of images, from microscopic forms to vast landscapes, and seeks a picture of evolution without humans at the center.”

Naming it...

We don’t want to overwhelm you, but while you’re catching up with our top 50 films of 2023, more cinematic greatness awaits in 2024. Ahead of our 100 most-anticipated films (all of which have yet to premiere), we’re highlighting 30 titles we’ve enjoyed on the festival circuit this last year that either have confirmed 2024 release dates or await a debut date from its distributor. There’s also a handful of films seeking distribution that we hope will arrive in the next 12 months, as can be seen here.

As an additional note, a number of 2023 films that had one-week qualifying runs will also get expanded releases in 2023, including Origin (Jan. 19), Tótem (Jan. 26), Perfect Days (Feb. 7), The Taste of Things (Feb. 9), About Dry Grasses (Feb. 23), Shayda (March 1), La Chimera (March 29), and Robot Dreams.

The Settlers (Felipe Gálvez; Jan. 12)

The barbaric, bloody sins of the past come to define what entities govern certain land today,...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2023, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists.

I love going to the movies every year, but I really loved going to the movies this year. I saw Knock at the Cabin in Providence, I saw May December in Tallinn. I saw Enys Men in a small theater at Village East where it felt like everyone in the audience turned against the film but me. Somehow I liked Equalizer 3 despite loathing the other two. The worst movie I saw in theaters was Fast X, which I watched on an edible that put me to sleep during a set piece. I missed out on seeing Magic Mike’s Last Dance with some friends who wound up running into Christopher Nolan going to see Skinamarink. I loved breaking Yom Kippur fast during The Beast (out next year—I...

Cinephile Game Night has returned with Cinephile Summer, a brand new season featuring your favorite podcasters and filmmakers going head-to-head to see who is the ultimate cinephile. Hosted by The Film Stage’s Jordan Raup, Conor O’Donnell, and Dan Mecca along with Cinephile: A Card Game creator Cory Everett, the series debuts new episodes bi-weekly on The Film Stage Show podcast feed and The Film Stage YouTube channel.

For the season finale of Cinephile Summer, we were thrilled to face off against our friends at Bright Wall/Dark Room: Chad Perman, Eli, Fran Hoepfner, and Veronica Fitzpatrick. Check out the episode below and stay tuned for updates as Cinephile Game Night will return live in person at the 61st New York Film Festival!

Each episode features teams facing off for rounds of Filmography, Movie-Actor and Six Degrees and the team with the most points is crowned the winner. Internet glory ensues.

The Equalizer 3 draws mixed reactions from critics as early looks at the vigilante action thriller paint a picture of what fans can expect when it hits theaters.

Per the early reviews, feedback from critical screenings of the Antoine Fuqua-helmed effort is in, with the Sony Pictures title praised for its action but slammed for its writing and pacing. Variety critic Murtada Elfadl called The Equalizer 3 a "brutal" threequel while hailing Denzel Washington's performance as Robert McCall, calling the central character a "benevolent but ruthless friend." Meanwhile, The Guardian's Charles Bramesco called the film "forgettable and gory" while DiscussingFilm's Andrew J. Salazar called the film "boring" due to its subpar writing.

Related: Denzel Washington Brings the Pain in The Equalizer 3 Clip

Washington's commitment to his role and action sequences were widely lauded by critics while some called the upcoming threequel an intriguing watch. It...

In the new Hulu docuseries “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields,” the actress — who began modeling at 11 months and at age 12 and starred as a child prostitute in Louis Malle’s controversial film “Pretty Baby” — looks back on the pressures and insanity of being a worldwide sex symbol at such a young age.

Lana Wilson directed the two-part series, which premiered in January at the Sundance Film Festival and will debut on Hulu on April 3. The film marks the debut project from BedBy8, the newly formed production company by Ali Wentworth, George Stephanopoulos and partner Alyssa Mastromonaco.

The trailer starts with a clip in which talk show host Mike Douglas makes the teenager visibly uncomfortable as he tells her, “You really are an exquisite-looking young lady.”

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Brooke Shields Calls Teenage Barbara Walters Interview ‘Practically Criminal’

Shields then says in voiceover, “The entirety of my life, it was, ‘She’s a pretty face.

Tom Brady may have just announced his retirement (for real this time), but there’s already a feature film about his adoring fans.

“80 for Brady” is a star-studded comedy about four friends traveling to the Super Bowl in 2017 to watch the Brady and New England Patriots take the Atlanta Falcons. Spoiler alert, the Pats win, but does everyone in the film have a happy ending? Read on for everything you need to know about where and how to watch “80 for Brady.”

When Does “80 for Brady” Come Out?

“80 for Brady” opens in theaters on Friday, Feb. 3, 2023

Is “80 for Brady” Streaming?

“80 for Brady” in currently only in theaters, so check your local listings to find it in a theater near you.

However, as a Paramount Pictures film, it will eventually stream on Paramount+ sometime in the next few months.

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Kelly Clarkson Shocked That Tom...

Voting for the 95th Academy Awards ceremony begins today, and as the studios wrap up their vigorous campaigns for Oscar nominations, a grassroots push for actress Andrea Riseborough in “To Leslie” has emerged. The Texas-set indie drama premiered last March at SXSW and is now available to rent on Amazon Prime — and to stream in the Academy’s members-only Screening Room.

Riseborough, the prolific 41-year-old British actress, has been a presence in films and TV for more than 15 years, from “Birdman” to “Black Mirror.” In 2022, she was also in “Matilda the Musical” and “Amsterdam,” but it was her performance in “To Leslie” that critics have hailed as perhaps her best ever. “Riseborough, often a chameleon in television and film, takes center stage here in a raw, lived-in performance,” wrote TheWrap’s Fran Hoepfner at SXSW.

In the film by first-time feature director Michael Morris, Riseborough plays a woman whose life...

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Dan Mecca joins Bill Graham and Robyn Bahr, along with special guest Fran Hoepfner, to discuss Todd Field’s TÁR, now in theaters and on VOD.

Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. For a limited time, all new Patreon supporters will receive a free Blu-ray/DVD. After becoming a contributor, e-mail podcast@thefilmstage.com for an up-to-date list of available films.

Subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Overcast, or stream below.

The Film Stage Show is supported by Mubi, a curated streaming service showcasing exceptional films from around the globe. Every day, Mubi premieres a new film. Whether it’s a timeless classic, a cult favorite, or an acclaimed masterpiece — it’s guaranteed to be either a movie you’ve been dying to see...

“The Good Nurse” premiered at the Toronto Film Festival on September 11, 2022 and is available to stream on Netflix on October 26. Critics are giving high marks to the film from director Tobias Lindholm, cementing its place in the Oscar conversation this awards season. The cast is led by Academy Award winners Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne and tells the true story of Amy Loughren, a nurse suspicious that her colleague Charlie Cullen (Redmayne) is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths. With a score of 77 on Rotten Tomatoes, let’s look at what some critics are saying.

According to Gold Derby’s odds, Redmayne is in the best position to return to the Oscars for playing against type in this sinister role. He ranks ninth in our Best Supporting Actor odds with support of four experts: Christopher Rosen, Wilson Morales, Andrea Mandell and Shawn Edwards (who currently predicts the “Theory...

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Bill Graham, and Robyn Bahr are joined by Fran Hoepfner to discuss Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter, now in theaters.

Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. For a limited time, all new Patreon supporters will receive a free Blu-ray/DVD. After becoming a contributor, e-mail podcast@thefilmstage.com for an up-to-date list of available films.

Subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Overcast, or stream below.

The Film Stage Show is supported by Mubi, a curated streaming service showcasing exceptional films from around the globe. Every day, Mubi premieres a new film. Whether it’s a timeless classic, a cult favorite, or an acclaimed masterpiece — it’s guaranteed to be either a movie you’ve been dying to see or one you...

Tune into all episodes live on Twitter.

This spring here at The Film Stage we partnered with Cinephile to present Cinephile Game Night, a livestream series on Twitter that aims to bring attention and support to charities supporting the film community and beyond. We’re now excited to announce our summer lineup, featuring The Big Picture podcast, the Unspooled podcast, Pajiba, ScreenCrush, Battleship Pretension, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Vidiots, and more.

Each evening features The Film Stage crew, including Jordan Raup, Conor O’Donnell, Dan Mecca, and Cinephile creator Cory Everett, and a rotating roster of special guests as we test our knowledge of movie trivia in this online version, adapted for our current self-isolated times. With each show lasting about an hour, we’ll square off and play a few rounds of Cinephile: A Card Game, including Filmography, Movie-Actor, and Six Degrees.

Viewers are invited to tune in and follow along with the cinema-related fun!

Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday.

This week’s question: What’s the best Christmas movie for people who hate Christmas movies?

Ken Bakely (@kbake_99), Freelance for Film Pulse

If you want a movie that emulates the feeling of the holidays without being directly about them, look no further than Todd Haynes’s “Carol,” with the film’s first act taking place against the backdrop of the last days before Christmas. In establishing its characters and setting, everything from the winter weather, crowded department stores, and putting up Christmas trees is included with a delicate sense of detail that is simply haunting. It’s emblematic of how note-perfect and intimately precise the entire movie is, sublimely starting at a time of year rooted in high expectations and the feeling of possibility, and expanding out from there in the development of its central romance,...

Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday.

This week’s question: The last few days have been extremely trying. And sometimes, when the world feels like it’s folding in on itself, people turn to the movies for a pick-me-up or some other kind of self-care.

To that end, we asked our panel of critics to select their favorite comfort film. Their choices run the gamut from Busby Berkeley musicals to “The Tree of Life.”

Mae Abdulbaki (@MaeAbdu), The Young Folks, Movies with Mae

When things seem at their worst or even when I’m having a bad month (or year), “13 Going on 30” is one of my go-to comfort films for many reasons. There’s the idea that no matter how bad things may seem and no matter the mistakes made, things can get better and sometimes...