‘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 
Kate Hudson to Receive Icon Award, Actress for ‘Song Sung Blue’ from Palm Springs International Film Awards
The Palm Springs International Film Awards has announced that Kate Hudson is the recipient of the Icon Award, Actress for her performance in Focus Features’... Read More
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2026 Oscar Predictions: The Awards Alchemist Checks In After Week One of Precursors
In the past week, a slew of major awards bodies handed out prizes or announced nominations. That includes the Gothams, the National Board of Review... Read More
Bearing Witness to a Vanished Lake and the People Who Still Row: First Time Directors Talk ‘Qotzuñi’ [VIDEO INTERVIEW]
When filmmakers Michael Salama and Gaston Zilberman traveled to Bolivia, they thought they were documenting the disappearance of Lake Poopó. “We even came to the story... Read More
How ‘Marty Supreme’ Composer Daniel Lopatin Created a 1950s Landscape with a 1980s Vibe [VIDEO INTERVIEW]
Anachronisms are a funny thing. Sometimes it’s jarring and the clash isn’t playfully incongruent but distractingly bizarre. Sometimes it just makes sense in a ‘you... Read More
Interview: Alexander Skarsgård on His New Dom-Com ‘Pillion’ and Presenting Kink with Care
Alexander Skarsgård’s photo on IMDB is one of the actor “at an event for 2016 MTV Movie Awards” where he showed up without pants. Looking... Read More
Interview: Cinematographer Łukasz Żal on Creating Death’s Point of View and the Magical Realism of ‘Hamnet’
When I learned that Łukasz Żal was the cinematographer for Chloé Zhao’s latest film, Hamnet, I was immediately intrigued. Known for his striking black-and-white photography... Read More
Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) Nominations: ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Sinners’ Lead with 12; Eva Victor Lands Most Individual Nods
The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) today announces nominees for their top film honors of 2025. Leading with twelve total nominations each are Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle... Read More
The Lung of the Earth: Richard Ladkani’s Defining Portrait of Juma Xipaia in ‘Yanuni’ [VIDEO INTERVIEW]
For more than a decade, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Richard Ladkani has shaped some of the most urgent environmental documentaries of our time. With films like The Ivory Game and Sea of... Read More
Ego Nwodim to Host 41st Film Independent Spirit Awards
Film Independent, the nonprofit arts organization dedicated to fostering independence and inclusivity in visual storytelling, announced this morning that acclaimed actress and comedian Ego Nwodim... Read More
‘Sinners’ Tops African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) Awards
The African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) today announced the winners of its 17th annual AAFCA Awards, recognizing outstanding contributions to cinema, along with its... 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