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Interviews
Dwight Cleveland on What Lobby Cards Tell Us About Film History
- Excerpt: In the earliest days of movie history, women played key roles on screen and behind the scenes. Dwight Cleveland, author of Cinema On Paper: The Graphic Genius of Movie Posters (Assouline) is helping to document their contributions with a curated collection of lobby cards, circulated by the filmmakers to promote the movies.
Sentimental Value — Joachim Trier Interview
Andrea Chase @ Behind the Scenes (PRX)
- Excerpt: Joachim Trier talks building to silence, avoiding nostalgia, and getting to intimate places.
Skill and Dedication: Nelson Pressley on Fonda on Film: The Political Movies of Jane Fonda
- Excerpt: Nelson Pressley’s Fonda on Film: The Political Movies of Jane Fonda is a meticulously researched and insightful examination of a performer who, despite decades of respect and awards for the quality of her work as an actress and filmmaker, her films were still too often eclipsed in the public eye by her political activism.
Festival Coverage
5 Films to Watch at SXSW 2026
Christopher Reed @ Film Festival Today
- Excerpt: The slate this time includes 120 feature films—with 90 world premieres—and plenty more. On top of the Film & TV Festival, there’s also Comedy, Innovation, and Music, with each conference presenting a variety of exhibits, panels, mentoring sessions, and keynote speakers. Everything runs concurrently now, from March 12-18.
HtN’s 15 Most Anticipated Films Of SXSW 2026
Christopher Reed @ Hammer to Nail
- Excerpt: SXSW 2026 runs March 12-18. With 120 features, 90 of which are world premieres, plus assorted television pilots, XR exhibits, shorts, not to mention panels, mentoring meetups, keynote speakers, and so much more (and that’s not counting the other conferences, which include Music and Innovation). From big studio films to micro-budget indies, SXSW has an enormous amount of creativity on offer.
Our most anticipated films of SXSW 2026
- Excerpt: The movies we’re most looking forward to in Austin include a Japanese ghost story, the Dean Of American Rock Critics, and a Cornbread Mafia.
Awards Coverage
98th Oscars: Oscar Guy’s Final Thoughts
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Exploring This Year’s Oscar-Nominated Shorts: Animated
- Excerpt: Discover more Sundance Film Festival Netflix Extra Geography Unless you frequent the film festival circuit, you’re probably relatively unfamiliar with the short films nominated across the Animated, Live Action, and Documentary categories when the Oscars roll around every year. We should revisit the vintage concept of screening one or two shorts (and maybe even a newsreel) before feature films playing in movie theaters; alas, the powers that be prefer that we sit through a cavalcade of advertisements and trailers for coming attractions instead.
Exploring This Year’s Oscar-Nominated Shorts: Live Action
- Excerpt: This year’s Oscar-nominated Live Action Short Films are screening theatrically together in a program distributed by Roadside Attractions. However, apart from all being nominated for the Oscar, these films have very little in common.
Oscar’s Gold
Kristian Lin @ Fort Worth Weekly
- Excerpt: The Academy Awards are being held later than usual this year because of the Winter Olympics, and this has likely contributed to some actual suspense with many of the major awards.
Path to Oscar: Actor
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Path to Oscar: Actress
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Path to Oscar: Adapted Screenplay
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Path to Oscar: Cinematography
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Path to Oscar: Original Screenplay
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Path to Oscar: Picture
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Path to Oscar: Sound
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Poll: Re-Awarding Best Original Screenplay, 2006
Who will win and who should win at the 2026 Oscars
- Excerpt: There’s already a silver lining to the 2026 Oscars no matter who wins: the record-breaking number of nominations is for a far more palatable film this year than it was last year. Sinners is thankfully no Emilia Pérez.
Upcoming Film Previews
Backrooms
The Christophers
Hamlet
Late Shift
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
Newborn
Pressure
Reminders of Him
Scary Movie 6
Scream 7
Slanted
The Stranger
Other Types of Articles
Movie Madness Episode 637: Sometimes Dead IS Better
Erik Childress @ Movie Madness
- Excerpt: This week in physical media you’ve got Bunuel, Brando, Peter Sellers and River Phoenix. Plus cult films from the 70s & 80s, Al Pacino as the Devil and Kenneth Branagh’s incredible 1991 mystery.
Peter O’Toole Oscar Nomination Number Five: An Analysis
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: Poor Peter O’Toole was not going to win. The Ruling Class faced off against other films that had more nominations and more recognition.
The Take-Up Podcast: Aftersun
Ted: Season 1
Sebastian Zavala @ NoEsEnSerie.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: A consistently funny, surprisingly sweet, and at times even surprising show that should appeal to both fans of edgy humour and those simply looking for a good story.
Ted: Season 2
Sebastian Zavala @ NoEsEnSerie.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: It combines vulgar and sexual humour, memorable and well-developed characters, some emotionality and a touch of social and political commentary, to generate laughter, tears and, well… more laughter.
Box Office History (Week 10, 2026)
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: March 06
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: March 07
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Oscar History: March 08
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: March 09
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Oscar History: March 10
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Oscar History: March 11
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Oscar History: March 12
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Poll: Best of Mar. 2025, Limited
Poll: Now That You’ve Seen “Hoppers”
Poll: What Are You Watching? (Mar. 13-15, 2026)
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