Weekly Roundtable: The Week of October 7, 2013 Looking for your new obsession in the music world? Want to know what everyone at AW is... Read More
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A record 76 countries have submitted films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 86th Academy Awards®. Moldova and Saudi Arabia are... Read More
From the first notes of slow burning opener “Adore You,” we can hear that it’s happened: Miley Cyrus has been reborn. “Well duh,” you say?... Read More
In late 2009 a new sound was released unto the world in the form of Sleigh Bells, a two person noise pop band from Brooklyn.... Read More
2013 seems to be the year of survival stories. From Gravity to All is Lost and here with Captain Phillips the one man (or woman)... Read More
I’m going to start this review by flat-out admitting that I don’t think Panic! At The Disco will ever be able to top Pretty. Odd. again. A... Read More
Since the Best Picture lineup was expanded to include more than 5 films four years ago, we have seen a couple of different scenarios: in... Read More
Since Alfonso Cuarón’s audacious dystopian sci-fi film, Children of Men, was released in 2006, cinephiles everywhere have been wondering how, and later as the years ticked... Read More
Pop music is built on extremes so it’s only fitting that in the year of Miley Cyrus, of twerking, foam finger excess, hanging naked on... Read More
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AwardsWatch Weekly Music Roundup – Week of October 7
Record 76 Countries Officially Submitted for Foreign Language Film Oscar
Review: Miley Cyrus – Bangerz
Review: Sleigh Bells – Bitter Rivals
Review: Captain Phillips (Paul Greengrass, 2013)
Review: Panic! At the Disco – Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!
Oscar at 2013’s Box Office
Review: Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, 2013)
Review: Lorde – Pure Heroine
Breaking Bad and the increasing tyranny of the drama pantheon
Golden Globe Awards Predictions – Motion Picture: Will it be One Award After Another or Will Voters be Sentimental?
American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Nominations: ‘Frankenstein,’ Marty Supreme’ Make the Cut, ‘Hamnet’ Misses
DGA Awards: Directors Guild Nominates Paul Thomas Anderson, Ryan Coogler, Guillermo del Toro, Josh Safdie, Chloé Zhao