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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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
The opening frame of Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical is startling, absurd, as animation-like rays beam off of newly born children as their parents sing... Read More
In the middle of all of the festival lineup announcements, which are all a part of the abacus-like, ever-moving machine of Oscar predicting, the New... Read More
Forget the Keanu-aissance, we need to be all in for the Emma-aissance. While she never went away, it does feel as if universal treasure Emma... Read More
Two days after the new Disney film Cruella screened for critics, the studio invited press to two virtual roundtables, where the actors and artisans discussed the... Read More
No matter how much independent film flourished in 2020, which was one of the few positive things that came out of the pandemic, we all... Read More
The Walt Disney Company has released a new trailer and poster for its all-new live-action feature film Cruella, starring Academy Award-winners Emma Stone and Emma... Read More
The Golden Globes are known for a lot of things: A precursor for the Oscars, that time Leonardo DiCaprio recoiled in horror when Lady Gaga... Read More
Everything old is new again! Five or ten years back, a gentle little comedy like Late Night might have come and gone without a trace. It was... Read More

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