Facebook has already profoundly transformed how we understand ourselves in the digital age in a way that cannot be undone. Whether it survives is almost irrelevant — the problems that swirl around it will persist. - Los Angeles Times
Of the 23 competitive awards, eight — editing, sound, makeup, original score, production design, and the live action, animated, and documentary shorts — will be announced and presented before the main ceremony and then edited into the live broadcast. - The Hollywood Reporter
“Our responsibility is to save the BBC from itself, because it is that polar bear on a shrinking ice cap,” she said. “It’s a global British brand, which must be protected.” - Deadline
"My driving question for all of this ... has been: What does this mean to a Black person? And not just the Black people I know or hope to know. But what does this mean to a Black person who may not be familiar with film?" - The Hollywood Reporter
"In interviews, 10 former and six current WHYY staffers cited lower pay than at other media outlets, a lack of opportunities for advancement, a haphazard emphasis on short news pieces to the detriment of longer stories that attracted them to public radio." - The Philadelphia Inquirer
While it seemingly has attracted broad interest, many users who attempted to sign up for Truth Social accounts on Monday (Feb. 21) have reported encountering error messages reading “Something went wrong. Please try again” when they have tried to sign up. - Variety
It's not just about music, but "as Latin music’s popularity balloons well beyond the Hispanic community, podcasters see opportunities for additional growth." Podcasts, like a lot of media in the US, need to expand beyond a majority white, mainly affluent audience. - Los Angeles Times
A new show with veteran journalist Lisa Ling does what Ling's 10-year-old self could only imagine. "Food and travel shows sometimes take an idealistic approach, positioning food as a unifier," but in this one, "Food has become a vehicle for unlocking stories that have gone untold." - HuffPost
Shows like Who Do You Think I Am have "this effect of normalizing disability and showing us that people with Down syndrome are part of our culture and part of our society and part of our stories." - CBC
The streamer is always on the hunt for new talent, so an emerging director showcase is logical. One director: "I jokingly say it’s like film school but . ... It gives you a sense of what that real film world is going to be like." - Los Angeles Times
Only pundits know, and even they don't really know much. "The Academy declared 276 films from 2021 as Oscar-eligible, and much of the responsibility for spotlighting films falls on bloggers and columnists." But Film Twitter isn't real-life voting. - Variety
On the good side, "you no longer have to shell out hundreds of dollars for a VHS set or rely on pirated versions of new episodes with subtitles made by fans who took liberties of their own in the translation." On the other side, wow, so many streamers. - Vulture
Titane is not easy to parse. "Julia Ducournau is willing to explore the strange, to show us our own bodies, soft and hard, that surprise and fail us, that are the source of pain and pleasure, leak strange fluids, grow old or ugly." - Los Angeles Review of Books
What's that about? "There’s a great artistic freedom in horror that’s perhaps not available in other genres. Obviously, in a drama, you can’t have a worm growing out of someone’s nostril, or something else so bold or artistic. But horror has really incredible freedom." - The New York Times
In Berlin, during the many nasal swab tests, "I look up and to the right as the technician inserts the little wand, either affecting an air of nonchalance or pretending I’ve been struck by a highly original thought. I know others make idle chitchat." - The New York Times
