AwardsWatch

TIFF: Roadside Attractions picks up Sebastian Stan-led Vietnam war film ‘The Last Full Measure’

Erik Anderson September 6, 2018

Roadside Attractions, a sister company of Lionsgate, has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to Todd Robinson’s The Last Full Measure, which recounts an extraordinary, untold story... Read More

Oscars: Kathleen Kennedy, Marvin Levy, Frank Marshall, Lalo Schifrin, Cicely Tyson to receive Honorary Oscars

Erik Anderson September 5, 2018

Kennedy is the first woman to receive the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award; Levy is the first publicist to receive an Honorary Oscar. The Board... Read More

Willem Dafoe as Vincent van Gogh in first trailer for Julian Schabel’s ‘At Eternity’s Gate’

Erik Anderson September 5, 2018

“Sometimes they say I’m mad but, a grain of madness is the best of art.” From Academy Award-nominated director Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and... Read More

Paul Greengrass takes on Norway’s deadliest terrorist attack in trailer for ’22 July’

Erik Anderson September 4, 2018

Director Paul Greengrass is not one to shy away from difficult material. While he’s given us blockbusters in the Bourne franchise, he’s probably most known... Read More

Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz in new trailer for ‘The Favourite’

Erik Anderson September 4, 2018

“We are at war.” “We won!” “No, it is not over, we must continue.” “Oh! Oh, I did not know that.” So begins the darkly... Read More

Telluride: ‘The Front Runner’ is most definitely not

Erik Anderson September 3, 2018

Jason Reitman’s second film of 2018 after his critically raved Tully this spring is not being met with quite the same response, unfortunate that a... Read More

Interview: Darko Štante, director of TIFF world premiere ‘Consequences’

Erik Anderson September 3, 2018

Darko Štante was born in 1975 in Ljubljana. He graduated from the Facultyof Social Work at the University of Ljubljana. At the moment, he is... Read More

‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’ Yes, says Telluride

Erik Anderson September 2, 2018

Melissa McCarthy is earning the best reviews of her career for Can You Ever Forgive Me?, which just premiered at Telluride, certainly since her Oscar-nominated... Read More

‘Boy Erased’ means well but falters at Telluride

Erik Anderson September 2, 2018

Joel Edgerton’s Boy Erased made its world premiere at Telluride but without its star, Lucas Hedges, in tow. He was busy with a play in... Read More

Looking at the LGBTQ films at TIFF 2018

Erik Anderson September 2, 2018

The LGBTQ selections at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival spread over continents, genders, nationalities and colors. They feature intense family dramas, personal coming out... Read More

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