The Best Movie Performances Of 2022

Premiership champions Celtic are putting the finishing touches to their pre-Rangers preparations.

A North Lanarkshire wholesaler that specialises in high-quality meat claims it abandoned exports to the European Union following Brexit as it was left with no option.

UK government reforms could all but end English clubs entering any new talks of a European Super League - but Celtic and Rangers have been warned the idea itself can NEVER be written off.

Scottish ministers were concerned about NHS staff being “victimised as a group” after the Glasgow Airport attack, new papers show.

A 'Living Nostradamus' has predicted the 'end of time' with the Antichrist set to return in 2023. Athos Salomé, 35, claims he has a track record having predicted Coronavirus, the Queen's death, Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter.

Tom Cruise is on a roll.On Wednesday he was nominated for a Critics Choice Award for Best Actor for his work in Top Gun: Maverick, which made more than $1.48 billion worldwide at the box office, and will debut December 22 on Paramount+.And the next day the movie star landed in the same category for the same blockbuster film for the AARP The Magazine Movies For Grownups Awards which will air in January. Flying high: Tom Cruise is on a roll.

Tom Cruise has been nominated in the Best Actor category for the Critics Choice Awards just days after being snubbed by the Golden Globes.The 60-year-old A-lister was recognized for his work in blockbuster sequel Top Gun: Maverick when nominations were announced for the Critics' Choice Movie Awards on Wednesday.He will face stiff competition as he is up against: Austin Butler – Elvis, Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin, Brendan Fraser – The Whale, Paul Mescal – Aftersun, and Bill Nighy – Living. On top: Tom Cruise has been nominated in the Best Actor category for the Critics Choice Awards just days after being snubbed by the Golden Globes Top Gun: Maverick will also be up for top honor of the night Best Picture.Earlier this week Tom's name was noticeably absent when the nominations for the 80th annual Golden Globes nominations were announced on Monday morning.

Greetings from the movies corner of the pop culture world. You remember movies, right? All of three years ago, the brightest and the best offerings shined on the big screen. (Your diverse 2019 offerings included universally acclaimed hits such as Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Knives Out and Parasite.)

Critically-acclaimed favorites Everything Everywhere All At Once and Tar continue to pick up momentum as awards season heats up, with both films tying for Best Picture at The Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards.The LAFCA have only voted for a tie for Best Picture four times in its 47-year history, the first coming in its inaugural year in 1975 when they voted for Dog Day Afternoon and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Best Picture.They also tied in 1976 (Network and Rocky) and 2013 (Her and Gravity), and the picks could offer a sneak peek at what the Oscar nominations look like when they're announced on January 24. Tie: Critically-acclaimed favorites Everything Everywhere All At Once (above) and Tar continue to pick up momentum as awards season heats up, with both films tying for Best Picture at The Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards.

The NYFCC had their say, the National Board of Review surprised and, now, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association has anointed their Best Film for 2022. Or, should we rephrase that as “films”? For the first time since 1976, LAFCA chose two films for their top prize: Todd Field’s “TAR” and The Daniels’ “Everything Everywhere All At Once.” “Tar” also took Best Director, Best Screenplay and one of the Lead Performance honors.

Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale from A24 swam to the biggest limited opening of the year in NY and LA this weekend, beating the per screen record set by in late spring by the indie distributor’s Everything, Everywhere All At Once.

One film that has been surprisingly absent from many of the U.S. year-end awards lists is Ruben Östlund’s “Triangle of Sadness.” The social media skewing farce took the Palme d’Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival but fizzled with critics in the U.S.

Michelle Yeoh has joined the star-studded cast for Wicked.The actress, 60, will play Madame Morrible in the Jon M. Chu directed project, which also stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, according to Variety.Madame Morrible is the headmistress of Crage Hall at Shiz University, originally played by actress Carole Shelley in the original Broadway Wicked musical.

The National Board of Review today named the top-grossing film of 2022 as its Best Film of the year.

Brendan Fraser - who recently opened up about wearing a fat suit for The Whale - and Christina Applegate are teaming up to lead an all-star cast for a virtual table read of the holiday classic It's A Wonderful Life.Fraser will portray George Bailey (originally played by James Stewart) with Applegate portraying his wife Mary (originally played by Donna Reed), according to a press release.The one-night-only virtual event will take place Sunday, December 11 at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT, which benefits the Ed Asner Family Center, with tickets available at EdAsnerFamilyCenter.com/Wonderful. Lead: Brendan Fraser - who recently opened up about wearing a fat suit for The Whale - and Christina Applegate are teaming up to lead an all-star cast for a virtual table read of the holiday classic It's A Wonderful Life Virtual event: The one-night-only virtual event will take place Sunday, December 11 at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT, which benefits the Ed Asner Family Center, with tickets available at EdAsnerFamilyCenter.com/Wonderful James Cromwell has been cast as Pa Bailey (originally portrayed by Samuel S.

Nine months after world premieringtheir martial arts fantasy feature Everything Everywhere All at Once to roaring crowds at SXSW and watching it go on to become the highest grossing specialty title of the year, A24’s best ever, at $70M US/$103M WW, directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert remain gobsmacked.

and 's “Actors on Actors” interview for Variety hit the internet on December 7, and one clip in particular had Twitter going bananas within minutes. Lawrence was trying to make a point about how roles for women and men in Hollywood differ—often unfairly—but one factual error had the whole internet shouting “BS” instead.“I remember when I was , nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie because it wouldn't work, we were told,” Lawrence says to Davis, who murmurs in agreement.

Jennifer Lawrence has bizarrely claimed she was the first woman ever cast in the lead of an action movie when she starred as Katniss Everdeen in the first Hunger Games film in 2012.The actress, 32, who played the rebel protagonist in four films, told Variety's Actors on Actors issue that executives were concerned that boys 'wouldn't be able to identify' with a female lead.Jennifer's casting in the film follows a succession of iconic female action heroes who have starred in hugely successful films pre-2012 - notably Sigourney Weaver who played Ellen Ripley in the Alien franchise, Milla Jovovich as Alice in the Resident Evil films, and Angelina Jolie who portrayed Lara Croft in two Tomb Raider movies.Discussing the early days of The Hunger Games, Jennifer said: 'I remember when I was doing Hunger Games, nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie because it wouldn’t work — because we were told girls and boys can both identify with a male lead, but boys cannot identify with a female lead.  PMC Privacy Policy Really? Jennifer Lawrence has bizarrely claimed she was the first woman ever cast in the lead of an action movie when she starred as Katniss Everdeen in the first Hunger Games film in 2012 (pictured)'And it just makes me so happy every single time I see a movie come out that just blows through every one of those beliefs, and proves that it is just a lie to keep certain people out of the movies. 'To keep certain people in the same positions that they’ve always been in.' Jennifer won critical acclaim for her portrayal of Katniss in the film Hunger Games film, which was followed by 2013's The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 and Part 2, released in 2014 and 2015

The Flash movie has been moved up by one week despite troubling behavior from the film's star Ezra Miller.Warner Bros. Pictures will release The Flash on June 16, 2023, after being originally scheduled for release on June 23, according to an article on Monday by Deadline.The Flash will be competing on the next Father's Day weekend with the original Pixar movie Elemental and the R-rated Jennifer Lawrence film No Hard Feelings.