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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Daisy Ridley makes a triumphant return to the big screen, trading her vigilante hat in The Marsh King’s Daughter for a swim cap in a... Read More
It was a huge trailer drop this morning for a host of upcoming summer and fall films starring Oscar winning superstars like Emma Stone, Nicole... Read More
Can you believe it’s been about a decade since the last major film that addressed HIV and AIDS? For a long while the theme dominated... Read More
Initially premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall where it won Best Canadian Feature Film, Solo is a captivating love story that challenges... Read More
The Western is a tricky genre to fully define. Whereas horror movies have to have scares and musicals have to have songs, it’s not always... Read More
On episode 233 of The AwardsWatch Podcast, Executive Editor Ryan McQuade is joined by AwardsWatch Editor-In-Chief Erik Anderson to discuss director George Miller’s latest film,... Read More
Mahdi Fleifel’s directorial debut in fiction, To a Land Unknown, follows the harrowing journey of Chatila (Mahmood Bakri) and Reda (Aram Sabbah), two Palestinian cousins... Read More
British filmmaker Andrea Arnold has always been interested in humans: the way they live, love, and carry their wounds through a world that is not... Read More
Sean Baker’s sex worker drama-comedy-romance Anora has won the Palme d’Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival. Baker is the first American filmmaker to take... Read More

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Director Watch Ep. 48 – ‘Top Gun’ (Tony Scott, 1986)
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Interview: Writer-Director Sophie Dupuis on Toxic Relationships, the Power of Drag, and Creating Safe, Authentic Spaces on Set in ‘Solo’
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AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 233: ‘Furiosa’ Review, Cannes Winners, First Oscar Predictions
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‘Bird’ Review: Andrea Arnold’s Fable is Salvation in Pure Cinematic Form | Cannes
77th Cannes Film Festival Awards: ‘Anora’ Wins Palme d’Or, Four ‘Emilia Pérez’ Women Take Best Actress
‘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