Welcome to Director Watch! On this AwardsWatch podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter attempt to breakdown, analyze, and ultimately, get inside the mind of... Read More
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The African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) has announced its winners of this year’s AAFCA TV Honors, its annual TV Top 10 list and its... Read More
The Critics Choice Association (CCA) today revealed the winners for the seventh annual Critics Choice Real TV Awards, which recognize excellence in nonfiction, unscripted and... Read More
Are you a Carrie, a Miranda, a Samantha, or a Charlotte? Sex and the City first aired almost thirty years ago, and yet, find a... Read More
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all rights in North America, Latin America, Eastern Europe, South East Asia and India to Directors’ Fortnight People’s Choice Award... Read More
From boys to men, these three films look at a teen’s coming out, a man’s struggle with his darkest demons and two men who find... Read More
“The best way to criticize a film is to make one.” Jean-Luc Godard’s famous quote, among many others, finds its way early in Nouvelle Vague... Read More
The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival has ended but not without a few bumps along the way, including a full city power outage... Read More
Belgian brothers in both blood and cinema, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have long been masters of portraying the gritty realities of working-class life in their... Read More
Early in Kelly Reichardt’s new anti-heist film, The Mastermind, J.B. Mooney (Josh O’Connor) stops in front of a security guard on his way out of... Read More

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