When the Venice Film Festival kicks off next Wednesday it will signal the unofficial start of the 2017-2018 awards season.  Yes, it’s that time again.  It feels like the improbable Best Picture win by “Moonlight” over “La La Land” was just yesterday, doesn’t it? Perhaps it’s because there has been so little to celebrate in the world in the months since. Well, except for some good movies, that is.

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Summer is almost over, so get to the beach while you can in these dwindling dog days of August. Though the season is winding down, the fall film festival circuit is just around the corner. As usual, blockbusters will move aside, for the bounty of riches of more adult fare for the aficionado of cinema and humanist dramas. But don’t worry, there’s a “Star Wars” movie and a DC Films picture on the way if you’re so inclined too.

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Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Matthew Rhys, Bradley Whitford, Carrie Coon, Jesse Plemons, David Cross, Tracy Letts, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Zach Woods. That is the astoundingly stacked cast of Steven Spielberg’s upcoming Pentagon Papers film, “The Papers,” which is due out in time for Oscar season on December 22nd.

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When you’re Steven Spielberg, you can get whoever the hell you want to star in your movies, especially if it’s gunning for Oscar glory. It may be June, but the director is fast-tracking his Pentagon Papers movie “The Papers” (formerly known as “The Post“), that will be led by Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks. And if that leading duo wasn’t impressive enough as it is, the supporting ensemble is a bounty of talent.

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