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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That The Killer is David Fincher’s first film with a runtime under two hours in more than twenty years is a telling sign of its... Read More
As mentioned in this month’s Supporting Actor piece yesterday, the awards history for The Color Purple, the 1985 film, 2005 Broadway musical and its subsequent... Read More
When we first meet Alejandro at a young age in Problemista, he is dreaming of a world beyond the one that we live in. His... Read More
Late in Joanna Hogg’s exquisite autobiographical b-side, The Souvenir Part II, our protagonist finds herself wandering through a hall of mirrors. Julie Hart (Honor Swinton... Read More
Telling someone they are being “very British” is almost never meant as a compliment. The cursed phrase connotes repression, quiet, politeness over honesty, a love... Read More
If, like me, news of a George Miller movie at Cannes piqued your appetite for another dripping hamburger in the vein of Mad Max: Fury... Read More
MGM and United Artists Releasing have offered the full trailer for George Miller’s latest creation, Three Thousand Years of Longing, starring Academy Award winner Tilda... Read More
It starts with a bang. Not the metaphorical, head-first into action kind of bang — not that you would ever expect that from an Apichatpong... Read More
“The New Yorker will be the magazine not published for the old lady in Dubuque,” editor Harold W. Ross wrote in the founding prospectus for... Read More

Director Watch Podcast Ep. 16 – ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’ (Ramsay, 2011)
‘The Killer’ Review: Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before | Venice
2024 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTRESS (May)
‘Problemista’ review: Julio Torres’s inventive immigration satire finds him bonded with an extra kooky Tilda Swinton | SXSW
‘The Eternal Daughter’ review: Tilda Swinton sees double in Joanna Hogg’s mother-daughter gothic ghost story [A-] | NYFF
‘The Eternal Daughter’ review: Tilda Swinton shines in Joanna Hogg’s painful, personal drama [A] | Venice Film Festival
Cannes Review: ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ is a gentle feast about the endurance of love in all its forms from master George Miller [Grade: B+]
Trailer: George Miller’s ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ conjures up fantasy and mayhem with Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba
‘Memoria’ review: Tilda Swinton investigates an eerie mystery in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s slow-burning epic [Cannes Review]
‘The French Dispatch’ review: Wes Anderson dials up the quirk in anthological homage to journalism [Cannes Review]
‘Jay Kelly,’ ‘Hamnet,’ ‘Pluribus,’ ‘Task’ and More on AFI’s Top 10 Films and Television of 2025 Lists
‘Frankenstein’ to Receive Visionary Honor from Palm Springs International Film Awards
Robert Yeoman to be Honored with American Society of Cinematographers’ Lifetime Achievement Award
National Board of Review: ‘One Battle After Another’ Tops in Film, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor; Netflix Lands Four in Top 10