‘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 
AwardsWatch Podcast #203: The WGA Strikes an Historic Deal and our Top 5 Sci-Fi Films of All Time
On episode 203 of The AwardsWatch Podcast, Executive Editor Ryan McQuade is joined by AwardsWatch contributors Nicole Ackman and Dan Bayer to give out their... Read More
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It’s 2065 in The Midwest. The climate crisis has ravaged the planet with floods, fires, and a slew of natural disasters. A piece of the... Read More
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 12 – ‘Blade Runner 2049’ (Villeneuve, 2017)
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
Fantastic Fest Dispatch #2: Videotapes, A.I., Oh My!
Talk about starting strong at Fantastic Fest! After the first few days of the festival, I ended up taking a day to catch up with... Read More
44th News and Documentary Emmy Awards: CNN Leads with 10 Wins, Vice News with 9 Wins; Wolf Blitzer Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award
Winners of the News categories of the 44th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards were announced last by The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS)... Read More
2023 AFI FEST Reveals Full Lineup: World Premieres of ‘Freud’s Last Session,’ Albert Brooks Doc; 18 International Feature Oscar Entries
Special Screenings Include All of Us Strangers, American Fiction, The Bikeriders, The End Where We Start From, Fingernails and Memory The American Film Institute (AFI) announced... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTRESS (September)
With Lily Gladstone (Apple’s Killers of the Flower Moon) officially over in Best Actress, Supporting Actress becomes one of the most wildly competitive categories of... Read More
Interview: Cinematographer Oren Soffer on Creating ‘The Creator,’ DVD Extras and Karaoke
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Lila Avilés Receives Mill Valley Film Festival Mind the Gap Creation Prize for Mexico Oscar Entry ‘Tótem’
The Mill Valley Film Festival announced today that Lila Avilés is the 2023 Mind the Gap (MTG) Creation Prize recipient, and will receive $10,000 accolade,... Read More
Interview: John Carney on Coming Back to Dublin and the Home Viewing Experience in ‘Flora and Son’
Since his 2007 breakout hit Once, which won an Oscar for its signature song “Falling Slowly,” writer-director John Carney has been a reliable provider of... 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