Although Kenneth Branagh‘s black-and-white coming-of-age comedy-drama film Belfast has yet to be released to the public, it’s already getting widespread attention online, mainly from critics who praised the film after viewing it at the Telluride Film Festival on September 2nd (and Joey out of TIFF here). However, that’s not stopping the studio from pushing it […] More
The New Jersey set film festival is set to show off Maggie Gyllenhaal‘s The Lost Daughter. This film is set to receive a Breakthrough Director & Writer award for her debut. Alongside her film, the festival showcases a stacked lineup including: Memoria, Souvenir Part 2, The Worst Person in the World, Spencer, Belfast, among others. […] More
I’m hardly the only person to make this remark, but there are a number of black and white films in contention for Oscar attention this year. 2021 may well be a banner year for black and white cinema. Not only is Belfast a known quantity and immediate Best Picture frontrunner, this post is going up […] More
Well, that was something. The 2021 Toronto International Film Festival is in the books. After expressing here some reservations about whether or not it was a good idea, I think it was overall a net positive to attend TIFF. COVID protocols were in place and strictly enforced. Theaters were at half capacity, even the big […] More
*Editor’s Note: This doesn’t surprise me in the slightest. As I tweeted earlier tonight, TIFF tends to either make the Audience Award a crowd-pleasing Oscar player or something way off the beaten path. This time around, they very much went for the former. Is this the start of a march towards Academy Award success? Stay […] More
Welcome back to the Awards Radar Podcast. In each episode, Editor Joey Magidson (that’s me!) will be joined by some of the staff of Awards Radar to talk about the latest in film, television, and entertainment in general. The show will obviously have an awards season slant to it, but we won’t forget about other […] More
Well, it happened. Here in Canada at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, a surefire Oscar player has emerged. Belfast is going to be impossible not to fall in love with, which will likely result in it being cited in multiple categories at the Academy Awards. Not only is the quality there, as this is […] More
Yesterday, Kenneth Branagh‘s new feature film as a director, Belfast, premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, which seems to be getting some fairly solid reviews since its premiere at the festival. It next heads to the Toronto International Film Festival, where Joey will be among the attendees to take it in. But unless you were […] More
Just a day before the 2021 festival begins, the full Telluride Film Festival lineup has been announced. As per usual, the lineup features potential Oscar hopefuls such as The Power of the Dog, King Richard, Spencer, and Belfast, which was supposed to have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival but is now […] More
Focus Features has announced today that it has set the release date for Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast. The movie is hitting theaters on November 12th, almost two months after another Branagh directed film, Death on the Nile, is set for release. Focus describes Belfast as “a poignant story of love, laughter and loss in one boy’s […] More
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