When Oscar Bait Fails: How Film Festival Response Makes or Breaks a Film
What has happened to this Oscar season? The Toronto International Film Festival, currently underway, is normally the jumping off point, or in some cases... Read More
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Our Brand Is Crisis and The Danish Girl Land Top Slots at TIFF
Sometimes timing is everything. If you look at past schedules for the Toronto International Film Festival you’ll notice a few things; which films get... Read More
TIFF40 Adds I Saw the Light, Our Brand Is Crisis, Truth, 45 Years, About Ray
You didn’t think the first announcement was all there was, did you? TIFF director Cameron Bailey is still dead set on Toronto being the... Read More
Sony Pictures Classics Picks Up Don Cheadle’s ‘MILES AHEAD’
Wouldn’t you know it, right after we post our August predictions for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress comes the news that Don Cheadle’s decade-long... Read More
REVIEW: ‘Irrational Man’ (★★★)
After a joyful return to form with 2011’s Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen’s slump of To Rome with Love, Blue Jasmine (yes, as great... Read More
New Trailers for ‘Spectre,’ Cannes Winners ‘Dheepan,’ ‘Son of Saul’
A trio of trailers are coming your way. First the highly anticipated first full trailer for the new Bond film, Spectre. Featuring lots of... Read More
Sony Pictures Classics Gives ‘Grandma’ a poster and an Oscar Push
Sony Pictures Classics has released the poster for their August release Grandma, starring Lily Tomlin. And hey, quote blurbs from our friends Nathaniel Rogers at... Read More
Gold Rush Gang 2016 Oscar Predictions: BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR (July)
Robert De Niro (Joy) continues his pretty comfortable lead on his nearest competitor, Tom Hardy (The Revenant) and actually increases a bit. De Niro is... Read More
Gold Rush Gang 2016 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTRESS (July)
As is often the case with Awardswatch and our Gold Rush Gang, the Best Actress race is usually our best category and we’ve been solid... Read More
2015 SUNDANCE Film Festival Winners: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and More
The winners were announced this weekend for the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and after 10 days of snow and cinema the big winners of the... Read More
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