Takashi Yamazaki’s ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ to World Premiere at 64th New York Film Festival as Spotlight Gala

In a rather surprising turn, Film at Lincoln Center has announced the world premiere of Takashi Yamazaki’s Godzilla Minus Zero as the Spotlight Gala selection for the 64th New York Film Festival. At the premiere presentation at Alice Tully Hall on September 26, Yamazaki and members of the cast and crew will be in attendance. Presented by Film at Lincoln Center in partnership with Rolex, the 64th New York Film Festival will take place from September 25 through October 12.

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2026 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Centerpiece, Classics and Wavelength Titles Announced

Today, the Toronto International Film Festival made its biggest announcement yet, with the Official Selections of its 2026 Centerpiece program, presented by Intrepid Travel, the main section of the Festival. The 51st edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, presented by Rogers, runs September 10–20, 2026. This year’s slate features 54 titles from filmmakers representing 50 countries, including Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, the Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Mexico, Nigeria, Thailand, and more.

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Michelle Pfeiffer and Elle Fanning Discuss their Emmy-Nominated Work in the Apple TV Series ‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’

Both have already built celebrated acting careers throughout their lives, but Michelle Pfeiffer and Elle Fanning recently combined forces on the hit comedy series, Margo's Got Money Troubles on Apple TV, which has received 8 Emmy nominations this year. With Pfeiffer nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series (for the episode “Flamingos”) and Fanning nominated in the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series category (for the episode “Lock and Load”), I sat down with these two Hollywood powerhouses to uncover each of their creative processes and interests when approaching episodic storytelling versus their seasoned filmmaking work.

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AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 356 – Reviewing ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ and Our Favorite Films of 2026 So Far

On episode 356 of The AwardsWatch Podcast, Executive Editor Ryan McQuade is joined by AwardsWatch contributors Mark Johnson and Karen Peterson to give their thoughts on the latest film MCU, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, as well as discuss their favorite films of 2026 so far. You can listen to The AwardsWatch Podcast wherever you stream podcasts, from iTunes, iHeartRadio, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Spotify, Audible, Amazon Music and more.

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Worst Picture/Best Picture: ‘I Know Who Killed Me’ and ‘No Country for Old Men’ (2007) Retrospective

“The final thirty minutes of the film was a non-stop laugh riot. The packed theater of varying demographics was rolling in the aisles as cliché after hackneyed cliché flew off the screen in rapid succession to hilarious results.” - mephij2003, IMDb.com “The Coens are back with a vengeance, showing their various imitators and detractors what great American film-making looks like.” - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian…

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‘petal’ Album Review: Ariana Grande’s Flower is Beginning to Wilt [C+]

Ariana Grande’s petal pairs some of the best production of her career with some of her weakest writing. Its closing track explains both the album’s central idea and the reason that idea never fully comes alive. Ariana Grande and Ilya Salmanzadeh built nearly all of petal, with Max Martin joining them on three songs and a small group of additional contributors appearing around the edges.

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Guillermo del Toro Takes the Comic Con Stage for 20th Anniversary Re-release of ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’

Another San Diego Comic Con has come and gone, bringing some of pop culture’s best to Hall H and beyond, with a smattering of worthy updates this year. Avengers: Doomsday still feels like a desperate Hail Mary. The announcements that Ryan Gosling will don Ghost Rider’s flaming skull (stealth Drive sequel?) and that the excellent David Jonsson is set to play T’Challa’s son in Ryan Coogler’s…

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2026 Emmys: Michael J. Fox (‘Shrinking’) Could Become Second Performer to Score Wins in Both Comedy and Drama Guest Actor Categories

With five victories across 18 career nominations, Michael J. Fox has proven a beloved mainstay at the Emmy Awards. This year, more than four decades since his first nomination, in Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for Family Ties, Fox is back in Emmy contention with a 19th bid, this time in Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for…

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‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ Review: I Saw the Twin Peaks Glow [A-]

When watching a film by director Jane Schoenbrun, one can’t help but dive back into their own past. As their protagonist Kris (Hannah Einbinder) explains their relationship to the fictional Camp Miasma film franchise that she’s been hired to resurrect, I couldn’t help but think of myself as a young boy from the late 1990s who would wait till his parents were asleep and turn back on the TV in his room and surf the channels looking for something to watch.

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Director Watch Ep. 166: ‘An Angel at My Table’ (Jane Campion, 1990)

On episode 166 of the Director Watch Podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter to discuss the second film in their Jane Campion series, An Angel at My Table (1990). Welcome back to Director Watch! On this AwardsWatch podcast, the boys attempt to breakdown, analyze, and ultimately, get inside the mind of some of cinema’s greatest auteurs. In doing so, they will look at their filmographies, explore what drives them artistically and what makes their decision making process so fascinating.

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2027 Oscars: Official International Feature Film Submissions

The race for the 2027 Oscar for Best International Feature Film has begun and Slovakia is the first out of the gate with a submission in a season that brings a sweeping new rule for the 70-year old category. The first official submission for this year's race comes from Slovakia with Flood (Potopa) by Martin Gonda. The film (co-written with Dominika Udvorková and Martin Šuster) takes place in 1980 communist Czechoslovakia, where Mara dreams of leaving her village to study in the city and become a pilot.

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Intervivew: Director Kent Jones on the Ghosts of New York Past That Haunt ‘Late Fame’

The more I listen to Kent Jones, former Director of the New York Film Festival and director of the lovely soon-to-be-in-theaters Late Fame, talk about the days when Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood was abuzz with artists following their bliss in affordable lofts, the more I want to bring up Madonna. “Confessions II” has been on permanent rotation, and her tribute to the Lower East Side of her youth feels akin to Jones’s musings about the “old New York” that he knew, even if they were of different eras.

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2027 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE and BEST DIRECTOR (July)

With the Venice lineup and the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Gala and Special Presentations programs announced, we've fully morphed into fall festival, early Oscar season. We'll be getting our first look at Danny Boyle's Ink, the potentially scathing biopic of Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch, which Netflix picked up just before the Venice announcement. The Lido will also debut…

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‘Tony’ Review: Matt Johnson’s Sweet Anthony Bourdain Pic Offers a Salty Appetizer of His Life [B-]

Tony, the upcoming biopic of the famous chef and restaurateur, focuses on the pivotal summer of 1975 in the future celebrity chef’s life, when he was just nineteen. From watching the film, however, you would not necessarily realize that this young teenager would go on to become world famous or that he suffered from any issues that would lead to his life ending tragically.

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Penélope Cruz, Lee Chang-dong, Rosalind Eleazar, Siân Heder, and Isabelle Huppert Set for 2026 TIFF Tribute Awards

TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey and the Toronto International Film Festival have announced the recipients of the first round of 2026 TIFF Tribute Awards. The annual awards gala will take place on Sunday, September 13, at Fairmont Royal York Hotel Toronto. Academy Award–winning actor Penélope Cruz will receive the TIFF Special Tribute Award, presented by CHANEL; director Lee Chang-dong will be honoured with the TIFF Ebert Director Award, presented by The Tory Family; actor Rosalind Eleazar and French screen legend Isabelle Huppert will be presented with TIFF Tribute Performer Awards; and Academy Award–winning filmmaker Siân Heder will receive the TIFF Tribute Award in Impact Media, presented by Anne-Marie Canning.

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‘I Want Your Sex’ Review: Cooper Hoffman and Olivia Wilde Get Natural and Habitual in Gregg Araki’s Surprisingly Insightful Dom-Com [B+]

The moment Cooper Hoffman’s Elliot awakens with a bloody lip and wearing only a pink lacy bra and panties, it’s clear Gregg Araki’s new film I Want Your Sex is going to be a kinky, chaotic ride. And that is exactly what Araki brought to an eager crowd of Sundance faithfuls when it premiered Friday night at the Eccles Theater in Park City back in January.

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Time Is Luck: 20 Years of Go-Fast Boats, Mojitos, and Michael Mann’s ‘Miami Vice’ (2006)

Michael Mann’s 2006 adaptation of the hit buddy-cop crime series he once executive-produced, Miami Vice, currently holds a 47% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The television show helped revolutionize the medium while instilling a new cultural understanding of Miami as a place of lavish ’80s cocaine-chic opulence, Art Deco luxury, and criminal spectacle. The Rotten Tomatoes “Critics Consensus” synopsis for the film keeps that original conception of the show in mind: “

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World Premiere of Tony Gilroy’s ‘Behemoth!’ is Centerpiece Selection of 64th New York Film Festival (NYFF)

Film at Lincoln Center announces Tony Gilroy’s Behemoth! as the Centerpiece selection of the 64th New York Film Festival, making its world premiere at Alice Tully Hall on Friday, October 2, with Gilroy, Pedro Pascal, and additional members of the cast in attendance. Presented by Film at Lincoln Center in partnership with Rolex, the 64th New York Film Festival (NYFF64) will take place from September 25 through October 12.

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‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Review: Peter Parker Fights His Demons and Himself in 4th Web-slinging Adventure [B-]

When it was first revealed that Spider-Man would join the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Captain America: Civil War, there were a lot of questions about whether that would work. There had already been two Spider-Men in recent memory and rebooting the character yet again was questionable. But then they cast Tom Holland who brought a youthful exuberance that neither Maguire nor Garfield had really been able to capture.

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Casting Society (CSA) Elects Board of Governors, Sets 2027 Artios Awards Date and Timeline

Casting Society (CSA) today announced its newly elected Board of Directors for the 2026-2027 term, along with the date, venues, and voting timeline for the 42nd Annual Artios Awards. The awards will be held on Thursday, February 18, 2027, with in-person events taking place simultaneously at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA; the Edison Ballroom in New York, NY; and One Moorgate Place in London, UK.

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12 Years Later: Richard Linklater on Adolescence, Parenthood, Generational Optimism, and Everlasting Memories of ‘Boyhood’ [AUDIO INTERVIEW]

Over the course of his career, no other director has documented the passage of time better on screen than writer-director Richard Linklater. The Texas filmmaker, synonymous with being one of the vital voices of the independent film movement of the 1990s, has used his filmography to record the most vital parts of our lives, and how those moments from our past and present can shape our future.

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AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 355: Oscars Retrospective of the 79th Academy Awards

On episode 355 of The AwardsWatch Podcast, Executive Editor Ryan McQuade is joined by AwardsWatch Editor-In-Chief Erik Anderson and AwardsWatch contributors Josh Parham and Karen Peterson to go back 20 years and take a look at the 79th Academy Awards, covering the films of 2006. The AW team goes back twenty years to take a look back on a time that was a nail biter of a season that resulted in Martin Scorsese coming out on time, winning his long awaited Oscar for the crime, gangster thriller…

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Interview: Gregg Araki and the Joy of Sex

Gregg Araki is admiring my voice recorder app, which looks like an old cassette tape from the 80s. “It's cool because you actually can see that it's running too,” he says, noticing the rolling tape once i hit record. Just as quickly, he zeroes in on my t-shirt, vintage Madonna (we had talked at length about her the night before at dinner).

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‘Corpus’ Review: Corrin Evans’s Shows Promise With Queer Thriller Debut That Peaks Too Soon [C+] Fantasia

A strong opening is important for any piece of narrative art, and Corrin Evans’s Corpus begins with a startling one. What seems to be an unremarkable introductory photoshoot of a young model (Nuha Jes Izman) turns into something far more atypical and malevolent when the unseen photographer calls in a second model. Clearly, the first model is uncomfortable by this previously-unannounced co-star but, wanting to make a good impression, she doesn’t object.

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GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics Announces Winners of the 2026 Crimson Honors

GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics announced today the winners of its latest Crimson Honors college scholarship contest, awarding three LGBTQ+ college students $1,000 each for excellence in entertainment criticism or journalism. The students, either current attendees or recent graduates of a higher education institution in the United States or its territories, will also receive two years of free membership in GALECA as well as mentorship from the membership association’s 591 established entertainment journalists.

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2027 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR and BEST ACTRESS (July)

Like in the supporting categories, everything's coming up Odyssey and central star Matt Damon is set to benefit the most from it in the acting race. Already an Oscar winner for his original screenplay Good Will Hunting, penned with best bud Ben Affleck nearly 30 years ago, Damon has had just two acting nominations since then and it might be his time.

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Director Watch Podcast Ep. 165: ‘Sweetie’ (Jane Campion, 1989)

On episode 165 of the Director Watch Podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter to discuss the first film in their Jane Campion series, Sweetie (1989). Welcome back to Director Watch! On this AwardsWatch podcast, the boys attempt to breakdown, analyze, and ultimately, get inside the mind of some of cinema’s greatest auteurs. In doing so, they will look at their filmographies, explore what drives them artistically and what makes their decision making process so fascinating.

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2027 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTOR and SUPPORTING ACTRESS (July)

Not many of us had John Leguizamo and Samantha Morton on their prediction lists for The Odyssey--most didn't even know she was in the film until it started screening--but now they're both heralded as scene stealers in a film packed with Oscar winners and A-listers, with Leguizamo looking for his first-ever nomination and Morton for her third. And there's still Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson to consider from Christopher Nolan's epic for a place at the table.

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AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 354: Breaking Down the Venice Film Festival Lineup and Early Oscar Predictions

On episode 354 of The AwardsWatch Podcast, Associate Editor Sophia Ciminello is joined by Editor-In-Chief Erik Anderson, Executive Editor Ryan McQuade, and Mark Johnson, aka The Awards Alchemist, to chat about the lineup for the 83rd Venice International Film Festival and to share their first Oscar podcast predictions for Adapted and Original Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture.  First, they dive into Venice's world premieres, including 

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2026 Toronto International Film Festival Primetime Lineup: TIFF TV Section Shines with Josh Hartnett, Linda Cardellini, Hudson Williams and François Arnaud

The Toronto International Film Festival, presented by Rogers, has announced its 2026 Primetime program spotlighting episodic storytelling and auteur-driven television from around the world. The 51st edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, presented by Rogers, runs September 10–20, 2026. This year’s Official Selections features major World Premieres and new seasons of compelling dramas, thrillers, and docuseries starring François Arnaud, Bérénice Bejo, Linda Cardellini, Jon Hamm, Carrie-Anne Moss, Gary Oldman, Hudson Williams, and more.

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