AwardsWatch

2021 Tony Award winners: ‘The Inheritance’ upsets in Best Play, Aaron Tveit and Matthew López make history

Erik Anderson September 26, 2021

After two and a half years without Broadway’s biggest night, the Tony Awards came roaring back. Hosted by 6-time Tony winner Audra McDonald from the... Read More

NYFF Review: Engrossing ‘Prism’ doc examines how photographic technologies favor white skin, questions the “neutral camera” [Grade: A]

Maria Garcia September 25, 2021

Eléonore Yameogo, An van Dienderen, Rosine Mbakam’s Prism may spark an entirely new conversation about racial bias in filmmaking, namely the “problem” of calibrating non-white skin tones.... Read More

‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’ NYFF review: A beautiful film, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing [Grade: B]

Amelia Merrill September 24, 2021

Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth premiered at the New York Film Festival with little fanfare—a morning screening, a press conference with COVID-induced microphone restrictions,... Read More

Directors Guild to ‘temporarily alter’ eligibility for 2021 day-and-date releases

Erik Anderson September 24, 2021

The Directors Guild of America National Board at its recent meeting made the decision to temporarily alter its 2022 DGA Awards eligibility criteria for its... Read More

2022 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR (September)

Erik Anderson September 24, 2021

41 years. That’s how long it’s been since the Best Actor category at the Academy Awards was comprised entirely of previous winners or nominees. In... Read More

Montclair Film Festival announces complete 2021 lineup; Maggie Gyllenhaal to receive Breakthrough Director and Writer award

Erik Anderson September 24, 2021

Today, Montclair Film announced the full program for the 1Oth annual Montclair Film Festival (MFF), presented by Investors Bank, taking place October 21-30, 2021, in... Read More

‘My Own Private Idaho’ at 30: Revisiting the seminal arthouse indie through the eyes of a lonely, horny teenager [Retrospective]

Retrospective

‘My Own Private Idaho’ at 30: Revisiting the seminal arthouse indie through the eyes of a lonely, horny teenager [Retrospective]

Daniel Theophanous September 24, 2021

To this day, I still feel a close kinship with the disenfranchised, strung-out, narcoleptic gay hustler of Gus Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho. The... Read More

TV Review: With ‘Foundation,’ AppleTV finds its ‘Game of Thrones’ [Grade: A]

TV Reviews

TV Review: With ‘Foundation,’ AppleTV finds its ‘Game of Thrones’ [Grade: A]

Meghan White September 23, 2021

A trilogy first published in the 1950s, Isaac Asimov’s sprawling narrative spans millennia, follows tyrannical galactic dynasties, imagines opaque and cult-like religions, depicts advanced technology... Read More

2022 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTOR (September)

Erik Anderson September 23, 2021

Veteran British actor Timothy Spall feels like he’s been on the verge of an Oscar nomination more than a few times and he might have... Read More

2021 Middleburg Film Festival to open with ‘King Richard,’ close with ‘The Power of the Dog’

Erik Anderson September 23, 2021

Belfast is the Centerpiece Film; Red Rocket, The Hand of God and Flee are Spotlight Films The Middleburg Film Festival announced today a first round... Read More

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