April 2025 — Features, Musings & More

Frank Housh –

• A Critic’s Manifesto – Chapter 1: I’m A Writer, Not Middle Management – 4/1/25

Jared Mobarak –

• Posterized April 2025: April, The Ugly Stepsister, Emergent City & More – 4/4/25

Joe Reid –

• The Era of Network Nostalgia Is Here, and The Pitt Stands to Benefit – 4/12/25
• Calling It Early: These Narratives Will Dominate the Emmys Race – 4/19/25
• Inside the Emmys Race to Take Down the ‘Big 4’ Comedies – 4/26/25

Christopher Schobert –

• An April getaway for WNY film fans – 4/1/25
• Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: Visionary Female Directors, De Palma’s Underrated War, Almodóvar, and Anthony Mann – 4/23/25
• Cinema Road Trips – 4/24/25

Jordan M. Smith –

• Monday Memo: DOGE National Endowment for the Humanities Cuts, MPA, DGA and IATSE Submissions to U.S. Gov’t – 4/7/25
• Monday Memo: Filmmakers Reeling After Trump Kills Humanities Grants, Catapult Announces 2025 Research Grant Cohort – 4/14/25
• Monday Memo: PBS Pulled a Film for Political Reasons Then Changed Mind, Palestinian Subject of Upcoming Doc Allegedly Killed by Israeli Missile – 4/21/25
• Monday Memo: Shirley Vercruysse is Retiring from NFB, Hot Docs 2025 In Progress, New Lab Initiative Doc Producing South – 4/28/25