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The nominees for the 37th @filmindependent #SpiritAwards are...

Now that the HFPA and CCA have announced their nominees, it’s time for the indies. Earlier this morning, Film Independent announced their nominees for the 37th Film Independent Spirit Awards. Film Independent Josh Welsh was joined by former Spirit Awards winners Naomi Watts, Regina Hall and Beanie Feldstein in prerecorded video segments. If you missed the livestream, you can watch it…

The 27th #CriticsChoiceAwards nominees are....

Mere hours after the HFPA announced their Golden Globe nominees, the Critics Choice Association (CCA) has revealed theirs. Ever since NBC dropped the 79th Golden Globes, the two associations have been in a love-hate relationship. The two ceremonies will take place on January 9th, 2022 and for a time, the idea was floated that the Critics Choice Awards would hold their ceremony in The Beverly…

The 79th #GoldenGlobes nominees are....

After almost a year of controversy, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has announced the nominees for the 79th Golden Globes. To catch you up to speed, the HFPA was revealed to have numerous ethical and financial lapses surrounding the popular ceremony a week before last year’s Globes. Two days before the 78th Globe Awards, the HFPA issued a short statement addressing the situation, but not…

Now in theaters and on demand, Pablo Larraín's #Spencer is finally here as "a fable from a true tragedy" look at Princess Diana's 1991 Christmas stay at the Queen's Sandringham Estate. Read my review below!

Will they kill me, do you think?Princess Diana (played by Kristen Stewart) When Princess Diana died on August 31st, 1997, in a grizzly car crash with Dodi Fayed and her driver, Henri Paul, I was 20 months old. So, I never got to see Princess Diana’s charity work or any of the wonderful things she did while she was alive. It has been only since her death that I have picked up these details,…

Since the early 1980s, Robert B. Weide has been making a documentary about Kurt Vonnegut. Almost 40 years later, @IFCFilms finally released his comphehensive documentary. Read the review below!

Kurt Vonnegut once told me, “We don’t understand a thing about time.”, he said he put his head up against the trunk of a tree and he saw everything that had happened.Robert B. Weide Before watching Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time, I knew nothing about Kurt Vonnegut other than he was an author of some renown. So going into this documentary, I had no idea of what to expect other than the below…

Now streaming on Netflix: the directorial debut of Rebecca Hall -- Passing. Read my review at the link below!

We’re all passing for something or other, aren’t we?Irene (played by Tessa Thompson) Passing is the concept that a member of a race group can “pass” for a member of another race. Existing as early as 1664, passing was adopted by enslaved black women who were being raped on plantations to increase the slave population. In the antebellum period (the span of time between the War of 1812 and the…

It's been almost 6 months since The Austin B Media Podcast. Soon, the podcast will relaunch. Get all the deets below!

Hey there everybody! Leading up to the relaunch of my website, I’ll be sharing updates with you regarding pre-existing things you’ve seen me stop producing or produce less of. Two huge examples are my newsletter, Austin B Updates, and my podcast, The Austin B Media Podcast. Today, I want to focus on The Austin B Media Podcast, its relaunch, and how my format will change accordingly. First and…

The @CriticsChoice Association's Documentary Branch revealed their winners at the #CCADocAwards on November 14. Read the winners list at the link below!

On November 14th, the Critics Choice Association‘s Documentary Branch announced their winners for the sixth annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards. Click below to see the winners. BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Ascension (MTV Documentary Films)Attica (Showtime)Becoming Cousteau (Picturehouse/National Geographic Documentary Films)The Crime of the Century (HBO Documentary Films)A Crime on the Bayou…

This week, I'll be heading (virtually) to @AFIFEST to cover all things you'd expect at a film festival. What am I covering? Read what I'll be watching below.

This week’s the week that I cover AFI Fest 2021, my second year of attending AFI Fest (albeit virtually) and I wanted to take the time before I get crazy busy with the festival to showcase what I’ll be watching. AFI Conservatory Showcases 1-3 AFI Summit Documentaries Citizen AsheThe First WaveJuice WrldSimple As WaterTo What Remains Meet The Press Film Festival Shorts 1-5 Short Film…

Wes Anderson's latest film, The French Dispatch, has arrived in theaters. Undecided on whether to see it? Check out my 1,400+ word review at the link below.

It’s that time yet again: there is a new Wes Anderson film for people to see in theaters. Beginning its life as a musical set in post-World War II France, The French Dispatch is the most Wes Anderson film ever to exist. There’s his trademark oddball comedic timing, mixed with his need to tell the most human stories (even if they do sound a bit ridiculous when you talk about the moment-to-moment…

This past week, I got the chance to sit down with the director of the 2022 Oscar-qualified short film Free Fall. Check out the interview at the link below!

Just off of the short film’s 2022 Oscar-qualifying run at the Saguenay International Film Festival, I had the wonderful opportunity to virtually sit and talk with Emmanuel Tenenbaum, the director of Free Fall, a short film about a stock trader taking advantage of the 9/11 attacks.   Free Fall has screened at a variety of film festivals including Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival from…

Now that my Eligible Film List is now live, it's time to go a step further. The #2021ReelAwards Nominations Ballot is now open from now until December 31st, 2021. Vote at the link below!

Now that my Eligible Film List is out, nominations balloting is now open for the 2021 Reel Awards®. You can vote using this Google Form.As a reminder, the eligibility period for the 2021 Reel Awards matches the Academy’s, so films released from 3/1/21 through 12/31/21 are eligible for consideration, no matter if it’s a domestically-released feature film, international film, or documentary. The…

#AFIFest2021, the last fall film festival of the year, will showcase over 100 tiles this November. Get the full list at the link below!

With just under a month until the festival opens, the American Film Institute (AFI) has announced the full lineup for this year’s AFI Fest, which adds Sony Picture Classic‘s Parallel Mothers, written and directed by Academy Award® winner Pedro Almodóvar, as a Red Carpet Premiere at the TCL Chinese Theatre on Saturday, November 13th. Parallel Mothers joins Lin-Manuel Miranda’s tick, tick…BOOM!,…

In the fifth entry in the #Scream franchise, Ghostface returns to Woodsboro. Watch the trailer at the link below! #Movies #News #Trailers #ScreamMovie

Paramount Pictures has released the first official trailer for Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s Scream, the fifth film and reboot (not unlike David Gordon Green’s 2018 Halloween, which will have a sequel of its own this weekend with Halloween Kills). Click the play button below to watch the trailer. Plot Synopsis: Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet…

Erin Elder's directorial debut, The Cleaner is now available on digital and on-demand! Should you watch it? Yes, but not for the reasons you'd think. Read my review at the link below!

Over the years, American audiences have been subjected to countless “normal person turned private investigator” stories. I think it’s one of the most often-told types of stories, likely just behind police dramas or westerns. The latest addition to that repertoire is The Cleaner, a story about a middle-aged house cleaner, Buck Enderly, who takes on a new client who, instead of cleaning her house,…

Awards season starts right now. The Eligible Film List for my #2021ReelAwards is now live. Get all the details below!

Awards season is starting soon, and that means that Reel Awards deliberations are now underway! Six hundred forty-nine feature films have been determined to be eligible for the 2021 Reel Awards®. To be eligible for consideration, feature films can either open in a movie theater in any part of the United States by December 31, 2021 and complete a minimum qualifying run of seven consecutive days…

Now streaming on #PrimeVideo, the latest documentary from Betsy West & Julie Cohen uncovers a previously unknown activist - Pauli Murray. Read my review below!

I want to see America be itself.Pauli Murray We all know the name Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, and other civil rights heroes from the 1960s. Most documentaries will often cover these people, the events that surrounded them, or other social issues of the time. However, My Name Is Pauli Murray‘s titular subject is not a name I’d heard before, nor was many of the…