
Michael Ordoña
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Michael Ordoña covered film and television for the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle for more than a decade. He has also reviewed movies for Common Sense Media. He is an alumnus of both the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and Berkeley High School, and freely admits to a blatant Bay Area bias in all sports.
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The 2025 Emmys BuzzMeter launches with predictions in this year’s glamour category: drama series, where ‘Severance’ faces off with ‘The Last of Us’ and ‘The Pitt.’
‘Severance’s’ Adam Scott and ‘The Pitt’s’ Noah Wyle lead the Emmys’ race for best drama actor, according to our expert panel.
Can anyone beat ‘Matlock’s’ Kathy Bates in the Emmys’ drama actress category? Britt Lower (‘Severance’) and Bella Ramsey (‘The Last of Us’) aim to try.
This year’s nominees include ‘Beautiful Men,’ ‘Yuck!,’ ‘Wander to Wonder,’ ‘In the Shadow of the Cypress’ and ‘Magic Candies.’
Director Chris Sanders takes us inside the images that make up the emotional touchstones of the film.
This year’s Oscar-nominated live-action shorts place viewers in the shoes of people on the front lines of thorny sociopolitical issues, including immigration and child labor.
This year’s nominees examine the aftermaths of gun violence and two female musicians — one a trailblazer and the other just getting started.
The director believes the icon himself wanted to better understand the period in his life depicted in the film, especially the anger that greeted his going electric at a folk festival.
The actor returns to “Star Trek,” reprising her character Philippa Georgiou, who leads the franchise’s first television movie now streaming on Paramount+.
The movie’s underlying economic circumstances — society-wide financial straits driving people to extreme measures — rings true for the filmmaker.