Director Watch Podcast Ep. 65 – ‘Knight of Cups’ (Terrence Malick, 2015) with special guest Jesse Nussman
Welcome to Director Watch! On this AwardsWatch podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter attempt to breakdown, analyze, and ultimately, get inside the mind of... Read More
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GKIDS Announces English-Language Voice Cast for ‘The Boy and the Heron’ Including Christian Bale, Robert Pattinson and Florence Pugh
GKIDS has announced the English voice cast for acclaimed Oscar-winning filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki’s first feature in a decade, The Boy and the Heron. The English language... Read More
Director Watch Podcast Ep 3: ‘I’m Not There’ (Haynes, 2007)
Welcome to Director Watch! On this AwardsWatch podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter attempt to breakdown, analyze, and ultimately, get inside the mind of... Read More
‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ review: Natalie Portman kicks ass, Christian Bale terrifies in Waititi’s best MCU entry yet [B+]
From the inception of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the foundation of the franchise has been the original Avengers: Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, Black Widow,... Read More
2022 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR (June)
It’s starting to look like 2001 again… 20 years ago, Denzel Washington won his first lead acting Oscar for Training Day, and his second Oscar... Read More
2022 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR (May)
When studios packed up 2020 films and shuffled them off to 2021 after the coronavirus closed theaters for the majority of the year, it created... Read More
Oscar winner Hildur Guðnadóttir to score David O. Russell’s next film with Christian Bale, Margot Robbie and John David Washington
Hildur Guðnadóttir (Academy Award winner for Joker and Emmy Award winner for Chernobyl) confirmed at today’s first panel at Variety’s Music for Screens Summit that she will be scoring... Read More
2021 Oscars: The Best Actor Contenders (February)
Looking over the Best Actor hopefuls for this year the striking thing is that there aren’t nearly as many potential first-time nominees as this category... Read More
Potential 2020 Oscar Nomination Stats: BEST ACTOR
Each year of Oscar nominations brings with it the possibility of breaking records, making history, extending history, moving people around in all-time rankings or just... Read More
2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST ACTOR (December)
Best Actor, one of the most competitive categories of the season, is taking some shape as three contenders have secured Critics Choice, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations but that... Read More
2024 North Texas Film Critics Association (NTFCA) Nominations 
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 78 – ‘The Holiday’ (Nancy Meyers, 2006) 
Hollywood Biopics and Mental Health Through the Lenses of ‘The Aviator’ (2004), ‘A Beautiful Mind’ (2001) and ‘Love & Mercy’ (2014) 
2024 Online Association of Female Film Critics (OAFFC) Winners: ‘The Substance” Dominates