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Adam Sandler just walked away with the Best Male Lead prize at the 2020 Spirit Awards. And his acceptance speech was very on brand. The 53-year-old actor secured the award for Uncut Gems, in which he portrayed the gambling-addicted New York jeweler Howard Ratner. Though the A24 film had generated serious awards season buzz, it was ultimately snubbed […]

It’s probably fair to assume that Adam Sandler wasn’t getting a whole lot of award show practice following the releases of Pixels, The Ridiculous 6, and, well, we’ll just leave it at “others.” But that didn’t stop Conan O’Brien from busting his balls after he botched basic award show procedure by advancing to the stage […]

By now, Josh and Benny Safdie’s decade-long journey to making the most ardently celebrated film of the year has been well chronicled: Uncut Gems owes its feverish appeal to the Safdies’ many years of field research in New York’s Diamond District, their practical and psychological guile sharpened by making similarly rattling fare such as Heaven Knows What and Good Time, and […]

The Safdie Brothers’ intense Adam Sandler-starring thriller Uncut Gems has set a new record for A24. Variety reports that the movie has brought in $18.8 million domestically since it opened on Wednesday, besting Midsommar from earlier in the year to become the distributor’s biggest five-day launch. Following a limited run, Uncut Gems has now brought in a total of $20 million in North America. […]

Adam Sandler went even deeper on the story behind how he landed perhaps the most acclaimed role of his career in Uncut Gems on Tuesday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. Sandler, who was also asked if he was “offended” by the praise for the movie in comparison to his usual output, was joined by co-star Kevin […]

Frazier and khal are joined by Complex’s Editor-in-Chief Damien Scott and Load Management‘s own Chopz for this week’s episode, where they not only break down the Golden Globes nominations—including all of the snubs and surprises—but also get into a conversation on the state of the DC film universe. The squad also talks the ’80s-inspired trailers […]