AwardsWatch

TIFF Review: ‘Penguin Bloom’ avoids ableist pitfalls with a compelling narrative and standout performance by Naomi Watts

Diego Andaluz September 12, 2020

Australian director Glendyn Ivin’s newest film Penguin Bloom tells the true story of Sam Bloom, who suffers a tragic accident during a vacation that changes... Read More

TIFF Review: A brilliant performance by Peter Sarsgaard anchors the harrowing true story of ‘Mr. Jones’

Mina Takla September 11, 2020

Plot: Based on true events, Mr. Jones dramatizes the story of Gareth Jones, a journalist from Wales, who in 1933 travels to the Soviet Union... Read More

TIFF Review: Despite a compelling Kate Winslet, ‘Ammonite’ remains at a distance

Mina Takla September 11, 2020

Plot: In 1840s England, a fossil hunter, Mary Anning who owns her own fossil business but rarely gets proper credit for her major discoveries, falls... Read More

TIFF Review: ‘Shiva Baby’

Meghan White September 11, 2020

It would be easy to dismiss Danielle (Rachel Sennott) as a wildly self-absorbed and irresponsible college student. Out of the nest, half-settled on a “frivolous”... Read More

TIFF Review: In ‘Penguin Bloom,’ Naomi Watts can’t save a Hallmark card exhibition of resilience and rebirth

Prahlad Srihari September 11, 2020

“Everything was perfect,” says young Noah Bloom (Griffin Murray-Johnston), as he recollects his family’s Thailand vacation in Penguin Bloom. Then, it was not. Noah’s mother... Read More

Saban Films closing on Fragile Films’ comedic thriller ‘Pixie’ with Olivia Cooke, Ben Hardy, Colm Meaney and Alec Baldwin

Erik Anderson September 11, 2020

Saban Films is closing on North American distribution rights to Pixie starring Olivia Cooke (Ready Player One, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl), Emmy and Golden Globe... Read More

Zazie Beetz, Delroy Lindo, LaKeith Stanfield and Regina King saddle up for Idris Elba/Jonathan Majors Black western ‘The Harder They Fall’

Erik Anderson September 11, 2020

Zazie Beetz, Delroy Lindo, LaKeith Stanfield, Danielle Deadwyler, RJ Cyler and Academy Award winner Regina King have been added to ever-growing, star-studded cast of Netflix’s... Read More

New York Film Critics Circle choose December 18 for awards, will not consider any film released after December 31

Erik Anderson September 11, 2020

The New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) announced today that it will reveal its yearly award winners for film on December 18, 10 days later... Read More

Emmy Podcast #36: Final Emmy Predictions with special guest, GoldDerby’s Robert Licuria [VIDEO]

Erik Anderson September 11, 2020

In the most unprecedented year imaginable, with a raging global pandemic shutting down businesses and all entertainment productions, there has almost never been more of... Read More