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Joey’s Home Movies For the Week of September 13th – Adventures with ‘Black Widow’ and ‘Zola’
Welcome back to my Home Movies! Today, we have a bit of a top-heavy bonanza. Not only do we have Black Widow and Zola hitting shelves, The Shawshank Redemption gets a 4K release. Today also brings a new entry into the Criterion Collection. Read on for more… Joey’s Top Pick Zola One of the year’s best […] More
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Awards Radar Community: Are We Sleeping on First Half Contenders?
As with most years, we seem to be building up to a final quarter of the 2021 cinematic year that’s filled with awards contenders. From September (and especially October) until the end of the year, Oscar hopefuls will all but litter the film landscape. Aside from a few big popcorn flicks, that will be a […] More
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Awards Radar Podcast #42: Joey, Myles, Ryan, and Steve Take a Trip With ‘Zola’
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
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Interview: Riley Keough Discusses the Wild Ride That Is ‘Zola’
If you see Riley Keough in a movie, chances are it’s going to be a thought provoking one. To be sure, her latest turn in Zola is chief among them, but it’s hardly the only one. Other films such as American Honey, The House That Jack Built, It Comes At Night, Jack & Diane, The […] More
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Box Office Report for the Week of July 4th
Movie theaters have been slowly reopening all around the world, and because many viewers have been stuck inside having to watch their entertainment at home instead of in nice leather seats with a big crowd, it seems like more and more people are heading out to their local theatre to get reminded of just how […] More
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Awards Radar Podcast #41: Joey, Myles, and Steve Put a Bow on the First Half of 2021
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
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Film Review: ‘Zola’ is the Epitome of a Modern Story and a Wonderfully Scathing Social Commentary
Twitter is a dumpster fire. We’ve all more or less come to that agreement, right? It’s an awful place we still go to out of either a work obligation, morbid curiosity, or a straight up social media addiction. And yet, every so often, something amazing comes out of it. The series of tweets from A’Ziah […] More
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Interview: ‘Zola’ Co-Writer Jeremy O. Harris Discusses the Journey of Bringing the Epic Twitter Thread to the Big Screen
Turning a 148-tweet thread from Twitter into a feature film is a heck of a way to make your first go at writing a screenplay for the big screen, and Jeremy O. Harris has never been one to play it safe. The award-winning playwright behind Slave Play was more than up to tackling the story of Aziah “Zola” King, whose […] More
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A24 Releases A’Ziah King’s Twitter Thread as a Book
In anticipation for the release of Zola, A24 has released the infamous twitter thread from A’Ziah “Zola” King as a book, which immortalizes her “surreal saga in print for the first time.” Read more: More
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Awards Radar’s Summer Movie Preview!
On the Radar… (Summer Edition) Summer! When the weather goes from bitter cold to scorching hot all of the sudden, the big spectacles open up in the hopefully not-yet-extinct theaters, and thousands of cicadas are everywhere (that happens every summer, right?). As is usually the case, most of the major awards players wait until the […] More
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Awards Radar Podcast #36: A New/Upcoming Film Grab-Bag with Joey, Myles, and Steve
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
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‘Zola’ Trailer Highlights Why This A24 Release is So Hotly Anticipated
“Y’all wanna hear a story about why me & this bitch here fell out? It’s kind of long but full of suspense” That’s how the infamous 148-tweet Twitter thread from Aziah “Zola” Wells (under the Twitter handle _zolarmoon) began in October 2015, and what a story it was. Over this extensive tale, Wells detailed how she and a […] More
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