DGA Awards Predictions: Is it a Paul Thomas Anderson Coronation or Can Ryan Coogler Prevail? 
How Writer-director Emilie Blichfeldt and the Oscar-nominated Hair and Makeup Team Behind ‘The Ugly Stepsister’ Twisted Cinderella Into a Gruesome Cautionary Tale [VIDEO INTERVIEW] 
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 138 – ‘Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles’ (Chantal Akerman, 1975) with special guest Morgan Roberts 
SXSW Adds 50+ Titles to 2026 Festival Slate Including ‘The Comeback’ Season 3, Two Thrillers with Adam Scott 
Interview: ‘A Poet’ filmmaker Simón Mesa Soto on How His Literary Madcap Comedy Came to Be 
‘zi’ Review: Kogonada’s Latest is a Return to Minimalism But Frustratingly Unfocused [C+] Sundance 
Gotham Film Institute Reveals Dates for 2026 Film and Television Awards 
‘Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back’ to Close 69th San Francisco International Film Festival (SFFILM) at The Castro Theatre 
SXSW Adds 50+ Titles to 2026 Festival Slate Including ‘The Comeback’ Season 3, Two Thrillers with Adam Scott 
Gotham Film Institute Reveals Dates for 2026 Film and Television Awards 
Frontrunner Friday Oscar Predictions: We Need to Talk About ‘Marty’ 
Frontrunner Friday: First Take on 2026 Oscar Winner Predictions 
‘Wake Up Dead Man’ Review: Rian Johnson’s Latest Puzzlebox Takes Benoit Blanc to Church on an Unholy Whodunit [A-]
The latest whodunit from writer-director Rian Johnson, Wake Up Dead Man, starts with a confession; not one of guilt or sin, but of absolute truth. Written... Read More
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Rian Johnson, Josh O’Connor and Glenn Close Talk ‘Wake Up Dead Man’ [VIDEO INTERVIEWS]
I talked to Rian Johnson and Josh O’Connor recently about their new film Wake Up Dead Man, how Johnson’s religious background found its way into... Read More
2026 Oscar Predictions: FILM EDITING and CINEMATOGRAPHY (November)
Critics Choice has announced its shortlists of contenders in 11 categories, including Makeup and Hairstyling and Visual Effects. There is a caveat with the list however, which... Read More
2026 Oscar Predictions: COSTUME DESIGN and PRODUCTION DESIGN (November)
Critics Choice has announced its shortlists of contenders in 11 categories, including Makeup and Hairstyling and Visual Effects. There is a caveat with the list however, which... Read More
‘The Secret Agent’ Review: Kleber Mendonça Filho Returns with a Timely Tale of Brazilian Corruption and Persecution [A-]
One year after over-performing at the Oscars with the sleeper hit I’m Still Here, Brazil is poised to potentially do it again with another film analyzing... Read More
‘Hamnet’ Review: Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal Will Break Your Heart in Chloé Zhao’s Timeless Tale of Profound Loss and Boundless Love [A]
All that lives must die,/Passing through nature to eternity.” -Hamlet Act One, Scene 2 Early in Chloé Zhao’s staggering Shakespearean fairytale, Hamnet, Agnes (Jessie Buckley) asks... Read More
Novelist/Screenwriter Maggie O’Farrell on Taking ‘Hamnet’ From the Page to the Screen [VIDEO INTERVIEW]
Maggie O’Farrell didn’t intend to turn her best-selling novel Hamnet into a film when she wrote it but when director Chloé Zhao said she wouldn’t... Read More
Interview: Renate Reinsve on Collaborating with Joachim Trier to Create a Family Portrait in ‘Sentimental Value’
Joachim Trier’s latest film, Sentimental Value, begins with the feeling of a fairy tale, as a narrator recalls a time when our protagonist, Nora Borg... Read More
2026 Oscar Predictions: MAKEUP and HAIRSTYLING and VISUAL EFFECTS (November)
Critics Choice has announced its shortlists of contenders in 11 categories, including Makeup and Hairstyling and Visual Effects. There is a caveat with the list... Read More
‘Zootopia 2’ Review: The Fast and the Furriest [B-]
During our precarious social moment in America—where wealth inequality continues to skyrocket, federal police forces are taking to the streets to strip vulnerable people of... Read More
DGA Awards Predictions: Is it a Paul Thomas Anderson Coronation or Can Ryan Coogler Prevail? 
How Writer-director Emilie Blichfeldt and the Oscar-nominated Hair and Makeup Team Behind ‘The Ugly Stepsister’ Twisted Cinderella Into a Gruesome Cautionary Tale [VIDEO INTERVIEW] 
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 138 – ‘Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles’ (Chantal Akerman, 1975) with special guest Morgan Roberts