‘Wishful Thinking,’ ‘Over Your Dead Body’ Among 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival Juried and Audience Award Winners 
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 144 – ‘A Matter of Life and Death (Powell and Pressburger, 1946) with Special Guest Jesse Nussman 
Association of Motion Picture Sound (AMPS) Television and Nonfiction Nominations Announced: ‘Adolescence,’ ‘Black Mirror,’ ‘Slow Horses’ and More 
Trailer Watch: ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day,’ ‘Dune: Part Three,’ Disclosure Day,’ ‘Wild Horse Nine’ 
‘Anima’ Review: Sydney Chandler and Takehiro Hira Ground Brian Tetsuro Ivie’s Low-Fi Sci-Fi Road Movie [B+] SXSW 
Six Join 51st Residence of the Festival de Cannes, including Harry Lighton, Mansi Maheshwari, Oliver McGoldrick 
‘Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat’ Review: The Emmy-Nominated Hit Returns as an Hilarious Workplace Comedy [B+] 
‘The Comeback’ Season 3 Review: Cherish is the Word I Use to Describe Lisa Kudrow [A-] 
Trailer Watch: ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day,’ ‘Dune: Part Three,’ Disclosure Day,’ ‘Wild Horse Nine’ 
Six Join 51st Residence of the Festival de Cannes, including Harry Lighton, Mansi Maheshwari, Oliver McGoldrick 
Trailer Watch: ‘Superman,’ ‘M3GAN 2.0,’ ‘The Naked Gun,’ ‘The Accountant 2,’ ‘Karate Kid: Legends,’ ‘Fountain of Youth,’ ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 2’
Another big week of trailer and teasers, largely thanks to CinemaCon 2025, which gave tons of exclusive sneak peeks to the Las Vegas attendees (like... Read More
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Director Watch Podcast Ep. 93 – ‘The Heartbreak Kid’ (Elaine May, 1972) with Special Guest Jake Tropila
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
Academy Announces Janet Yang Endowment for Asian, Asian American and Pacific Islander Filmmaking
Endowment provides essential funding and resources to support Asian and AAPI programming at the Academy Museum and acquisitions into the Academy Collection Academy President Janet... Read More
‘Hacks’ Season 4 Review: The LA-Set Late Night Season Finds Deborah and Ava in a War of the Words [B+]
A good rivalry features two opponents so intent on causing damage to the others’ life that the only reasonable outcome would be for one of... Read More
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 6 Review: The Revolutionary and Prescient Series Comes to a Thrilling Close [A]
It’s been three years since the fifth season finale of The Handmaid’s Tale in which June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) and her baby daughter Nicole boarded... Read More
‘A Minecraft Movie’ Review: The Best-Selling Video Game of All Time Becomes Generic Building Blocks in Uninspired Adaptation [C]
The troubled relationship between cinema and video games—namely, the former’s filmic interpretations of the latter—can often be distilled down to an attempt to translate an... Read More
Sony Pictures CinemaCon 2025: Double ‘Spider-Man,’ ‘The Beatles,’ ‘Karate Kid Legends,’ ’28 Years Later,’ ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ and More
Sony Pictures hit Las Vegas yesterday with its splashy slate of upcoming from ranging from legendary IP, auteur directors, the a four-film event of the... Read More
Sony Pictures Classics Acquires Rights to Live Filmed Version of Tony Award-Winning ‘Merrily We Roll Along’
Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired worldwide rights to the film of the recent, smash Tony Award-winning musical performance, Merrily We Roll... Read More
‘The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event’ Announces Paul Mescal, Joseph Quinn, Barry Keoghan, Harris Dickinson as the Fab Four with April 2028 Release Date
After months of speculation, Sony Pictures officially confirmed the cast of The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event, directed by Sam Mendes at CinemaCon 2025 in Las Vegas. Harris... Read More
Interview: How Billy Bryk, Finn Wolfhard, and Fred Hechinger Found the Contemporary Sincerity of Their Coming-of-Age Slasher Comedy ‘Hell of a Summer’
Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk are nearly half as old as the first Friday the 13th movie, making them promising candidates to overhaul the iconic... Read More
‘Wishful Thinking,’ ‘Over Your Dead Body’ Among 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival Juried and Audience Award Winners 
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 144 – ‘A Matter of Life and Death (Powell and Pressburger, 1946) with Special Guest Jesse Nussman 
Association of Motion Picture Sound (AMPS) Television and Nonfiction Nominations Announced: ‘Adolescence,’ ‘Black Mirror,’ ‘Slow Horses’ and More