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Opening, Centerpiece and Closing Night Films For 58th San Francisco International Film Festival Announced

Erik Anderson March 26, 2015

Alex Gibney’s Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, James Ponsoldt’sThe End of the Tour and Michael Almereyda’s Experimenter to Be Celebrated at Festival’s Key Events San Francisco, CA... Read More

Why ‘Looking’ Being Canceled is a Good and a Bad Thing

Erik Anderson March 25, 2015

HBO decided to cancel Looking today, just a few days after its superb 2nd season finale. It didn’t come as too much of a surprise;... Read More

Guillermo del Toro to Receive Irving M. Levin Directing Award at 58th San Francisco International Film Festival

Erik Anderson March 23, 2015

Film Society to Honor the Celebrated Filmmaker at Awards Night And Screen Career Highlights with The Devil’s Backbone at the Castro Theatre San Francisco, CA — The San... Read More

68th Directors Guild Sets Awards for February 6th, 2016

Erik Anderson March 19, 2015

The 68th Directors Guild of America has set its annual awards ceremony for Saturday, February 6th, 2016, at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los... Read More

EMMYS: Glee, Shameless, Jane the Virgin Can Compete as Comedies

Erik Anderson March 17, 2015

After the announcement from the Television Academy that one-hour shows must compete in the drama category, it was swiftly that the Fox, Showtime and the... Read More

2016 Oscars: Is Sally Field About to Crash the Best Actress Race?

Erik Anderson March 16, 2015

We’ve got a new entry in the Best Actress race for next year’s Oscars and it’s two-time Oscar winner Sally Field. Her performance in Hello,... Read More

Retrospective: Worst Picture/Best Picture Series – Cocktail and Rainman (1988)

Jeff Beachnau March 12, 2015

Cockman: or (The Unexpected Virtue of Autism) Tom Cruise began his film career in 1981 and soon he became the heartthrob everyone knows him to... Read More

Emmy Predictions: How New Rules and New Shows Promise to Shake Up the Emmys

Erik Anderson March 7, 2015

Awardswatch Emmy Expert Chris Pepper has some thoughts about the Television Academy’s overhaul of the Comedy and Drama categories and offers his first predictions for... Read More

MUSIC REVIEW: Madonna – ‘Rebel Heart’ (★★★½)

Erik Anderson March 6, 2015

Madonna’s had a tough couple of months. Just before Christmas last year a handful of demos from her new album were leaked to the public... Read More

2016 Oscars: BEST ACTRESS Contenders (Blanchett, Moore, Lawrence, Kidman, Roberts!)

Erik Anderson February 26, 2015

Next up in my 2016 Contenders list is BEST ACTRESS. Amazingly, we could be looking at the richest Best Actress slate in years, including the... Read More

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