I’ve always been scared my eventual life partner would kill me. Perhaps not in the traditional sense of being murdered, but the loss of life via forging everything I’ve built into someone else’s ...

The toughest above the line race of the season, as the roller coaster of accolades kept changing hands, giving us historic wins, memorable speeches and surprise victories. A much closer race than ...

A complicated romantic dramedy, a cat and mouse thriller involving art forgery, and a slice of life epic from the South make up the titles in the latest dispatch from the 2025 SXSW Film Festival. The ...

What do you get when you mix fatherhood anxiety with male loneliness and a touch of aliens? The result is Descendent, a thoughtful piece of sci-fi drama that feels way more personal than the premise ...

You’d be pretty hard-pressed to find a post-apocalyptic film that doesn’t feel cobbled together from a storied history of derivative parts. Stories of loners, families, or factions surviving a world ...

The blinding darkness of a forest hides the blood-suckers. Trees shoot from the ground and extend themselves towards the sky, the tops a canopy for the ecosystem underneath. The undergrowth conceals ...

In my first dispatch for the 2025 SXSW Film Festival, I take a look at three of the headliners from the festival line-up that features the anticipated follow-ups to the A Simple Favor and The ...

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 some of cinema’s greatest auteurs.

The 97th Oscars have officially come to a close with Anora taking home Hollywood’s top prize, alongside winning Best Director, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing. Neon’s ...

In what’s been the top Oscar race without a true frontrunner for most of the season now finds itself like every competition, we have a two-horse race in Best Picture that will go right down to the ...

I have a confession to make. I don’t really like predicting that much anymore. Don’t get me wrong, it’s probably why most of you are here and have been here since the beginning and I thank you. Don’t ...

Here are my final 2025 Oscar predictions in all 23 categories for the 97th Academy Awards, all in one place. Click on each category for deeper analysis.