A Look Back At The Surprises and Snubs of Emmy Nomination Morning
It’s been three weeks since Emmy nominations were announced July 16 by D’Arcy Carden and Ken Jeong at The Wolf Theatre, and it’s with the benefit of that hindsight that TV Awards Editor Libby Hill and...
View ArticleFive Dark Horse Emmy Nominees Voters Should Consider
The 2019 Emmy Awards kicked off their final round of voting on Thursday, which led to TV Awards Editor Libby Hill and TV Deputy Editor Ben Travers sitting down in studio to stump for five underdog...
View ArticleIndieWire Celebrates Female Filmmakers at TIFF Dinner With Canada Goose — Watch
On the night of September 8, IndieWire hosted a dinner, presented by Canada Goose, for female filmmakers at the Toronto International Film Festival. Marielle Heller, Kasi Lemmons, Julie Delpy, Unjoo...
View ArticleHow the ‘Apollo 11’ Filmmakers Spooled More Than 11,000 Hours of Audio and...
Any moon-landing conspiracy theorist who sees director Todd Douglas Miller’s mesmerizing documentary “Apollo 11,” which captures the 1969 lunar adventure of astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong,...
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Is ‘This Is Us’ Making You Seasick? You’re Not Alone
“This Is Us” has always been a moving show, typically about the Pearson family’s trials and tribulations, but a recent technological intrusion has cropped up in the show’s fourth season that pretty...
View Article‘Watchmen’: The Easter Eggs and Graphic Novel References in the Pilot — Watch
[Editor’s Note: The following article contains spoilers for “Watchmen” Episode 1, “It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice.”] The first episode of HBO’s “Watchmen” premiered this past Sunday, and if...
View Article‘Treadstone’: How the ‘Bourne’-Spinoff Engineered That Insane Paris Car Chase...
“You never want to crash a car twice.” This is how Buster Reeves, stunt coordinator and second unit director on USA’s new Bourne spinoff “Treadstone” succinctly described the “measure 20 times, cut...
View ArticleTodd Phillips Cut Zazie Beetz ‘Joker’ Scene That Confirmed Her Fate —...
The debate over Zazie Beetz’s fate in “Joker” came to an end last month when cinematographer Lawrence Sher said her character, Sophie, was not killed by Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur. Director Todd Phillips...
View ArticleThe Best TV Pilots of the Decade, Ranked
Each of these 20 series expertly built worlds of their own, breaking the rules to make them feel all the more relevant to ours.
View Article‘Truth Be Told’ First Look: Behind the Scenes with Octavia Spencer on Apple...
Apple continues to roll out new original series now that its premium streaming service, Apple TV+, is live, and coming up next is the legal drama “Truth Be Told,” starring Octavia Spencer, Aaron Paul...
View ArticleThe Best Music Videos of the Decade
Music videos have long been a proving ground for some of the most innovative filmmaking ideas. Sometimes those breakthroughs come as stylistic flourishes. Other times, it means breaking down a simple...
View ArticleThe Best Overlooked TV Performances of the Decade
There are so many elements of a great TV show that it’s sometimes hard to recognize when one is so vital that its absence would collapse the series around it. It can be a vital music cue, a key...
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The Best New TV Shows of 2019
Until some overly ambitious tech company cracks a secret formula, figuring out what audiences are going to like is always going to have an air of impossibility. With the inundation of new series...
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The Best TV Performances of 2019
There are the performances you count on and the ones meant to knock you off your own axis. The best part about the sheer volume of TV these days is that this year there was plenty of each. As part of...
View ArticleRob Huebel on Filming ‘Medical Police’ in Croatia With the Crew From ‘Game of...
“There’s just not that much backstory to my character, Owen Maestro. I’m just a doctor. I don’t even know what kind of doctor I am. I think I’m a brain surgeon.” That’s how Rob Huebel described the...
View Article‘Westworld’: Luke Hemsworth Tore His Bicep ‘Off The Bone’ Before His Axe...
[Editor’s Note: The above video and article contains spoilers for “Westworld” Season 3, Episode 2, “The Winter Line.”] “That was never supposed to be one-armed.” That’s how “Westworld” actor Luke...
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‘Mrs. America’ and the Hard Truths of Feel-Bad Television — TV Podcast
FX’s “Mrs. America” is a tremendous limited series depicting the dueling efforts behind the push for (and against) the Equal Rights Amendment throughout the 1970s. Sterling performances from many of...
View Article‘Mythic Quest’: Go Behind-the-Scenes with Rob McElhenney on Apple’s Epic...
The Apple TV+ series “Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet” has captured fans hearts in a short amount of time, enough that it’s already been greenlit for a second season. The sitcom, co-created by “It’s...
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‘The Comedy Store’ Review: Showtime’s Doc Squanders a Great Premise on Too...
There’s a moment in the fourth episode of Showtime’s “The Comedy Store” where Neal Brennan is interviewing Jay Leno about what the former “Tonight Show” host thinks about the current use of podcasts as...
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‘The Right Stuff’ Review: Disney+’s Space Epic Is Focused on the Wrong Things
Space and space exploration are having a moment in the pop culture zeitgeist. Just in the past year, we’ve seen Netflix alone trot out “Space Force,” “Away,” and “Over The Moon.” It’s with that in mind...
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