Matthew Passantino –
• Circuit Consideration 2019: Gugu Mbatha-Raw in ‘Fast Color’ (Best Actress) – 1/7/20
• Circuit Q&A: What Film Do You Want To Receive A “SURPRISE”… – 1/7/20

Jeff Simon –
• The Golden Globes were good. The Michelle Williams Show was better – 1/6/20
• Two cheers for Meghan and Harry’s planned ‘Megxit,’ one for Oscar noms – 1/13/20
• Take a good look, SAG Awards announced some new things – 1/20/20

Christopher Schobert –
• Toy store adventures for kids & kids-at-heart – 1/24/20

Jordan M. Smith –
• Monday Memo: Oscar Nominated Filmmaker Feras Fayyad Denied American Visa, Streaming Platforms Dominate Oscar Doc Shortlists – 1/6/20
• Monday Memo: 2020 Cinema Eye Honors, MoMA’s Doc Fortnight Lineup Revealed, as Kathy Im Challenge’s the ‘Master Narrative’ – 1/13/20
• Monday Memo: PBS’s MLK Collection, 2020 Oscar Noms, New Euro Doc Association Soon To Launch & SXSW Lineup Unveiled – 1/20/20
• Monday Memo: Sundance 2020 In Full Swing, Women Push Directors Guild for Better Parental Benefits, Davis Guggenheim Launches Concordia – 1/27/20

Adam Lubitow –
• New Guillermo del Toro joint ‘Nightmare Alley’ to be filmed in Buffalo – 12/11/19

Jared Mobarak –
• Posterized December 2019: ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire,’ ‘A Hidden Life,’ ‘In Fabric,’ and More – 12/5/19

Matthew Passantino –
• Circuit Q&A – Favorite Actor/Actress Pairings – 12/3/19
• Circuit Consideration 2019: Sienna Miller for ‘American Woman’ (Best Actress) – 12/16/19

Christopher Schobert –
• Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: The Souvenir, New Hollywood, Eyes Wide Shut, and More – 12/26/19

Jeff Simon –
• Books are always in season for Hanukkah – 12/10/19
• Are American movies broken? Reaction to the Golden Globe nominations – 12/13/19
• A totally wasted life without selfies – 12/17/19
• Eddie Murphy comes back with a vengeance – 12/24/19

Jordan M. Smith –
• Monday Memo: Winners from IDFA & British Independent Film Awards Unveiled, Sundance Nonfiction Grantees Announced & An Anti-List Manifesto – 12/2/19
• Monday Memo: IDA & Doc Society Sue the State Department + Awards Mania ~ IDA, Gotham, European Film Awards & More! – 12/9/19
• Monday Memo: DOC Institute Honours, Doc Additions to the National Film Registry, An Examination of the #DecolonizeDocs Movement & More! – 12/16/19
• Monday Memo: The 92nd Oscars Shortlists, a new Agnès Varda Retrospective, the NFB Turns 80 & a Debate of Syrian Documentary and its Public – 12/23/19

Adam Lubitow –
• FILM | ‘Filmi Worlds’ – 11/20/19
• Mistletoe and Holly(wood) – 11/20/19

Jared Mobarak –
• Posterized November 2019: ‘Waves,’ ‘Knives Out,’ ‘Marriage Story,’ and More – 11/1/19

Jeff Simon –
• What you should know about the original ‘Nightmare Alley’ – 11/6/19
• Books on Nichols, Stritch will make theater geeks delirious with joy – 11/8/19
• Jazz doesn’t merely live on records, it triumphs – 11/15/19
• Music and books: A steady stream of great stuff next to river of holiday commerce – 11/27/19

Jordan M. Smith –
• Monday Memo: DOC NYC Opens Wednesday, special flash sale on select screenings; and more! – 11/4/19
• Monday Memo: DOC NYC Continues, Cinema Eye Unveiled 2020 Feature Nominees, Firelight Media Documentary Lab Fellows Announced & More! – 11/11/19
• Monday Memo: 2019 DOC NYC Award Winners, Grierson Award Winners, Oscar Race Submissions and More! – 11/18/19
• Monday Memo: The Paramount Decree of 1948 Reversed, the Arrival of the Streaming Era, an Award Season Update & Much More! – 11/25/19

M. Faust –
• More science than fiction: Anya – 10/31/19

Adam Lubitow –
• Film preview: Rochester Labor Film Series – 10/1/19
• Film preview: Witness Palestine Film Festival – 10/8/19

Jared Mobarak –
• Posterized October 2019: ‘The Lighthouse,’ ‘Parasite,’ ‘Joker,’ and More – 10/3/19

Jeff Simon –
• The TV season is new, most of its ideas are not – 10/1/19
• Don’t invite Martin Scorsese to the next Marvel comic book movie – 10/8/19
• The constant pleasures of an impolite history of music – 10/15/19
• Ishmael Reed, ‘the purest literary troublemaker we currently have’ – 10/23/19
• An open letter to Rob Gronkowski – 10/25/19
• Finding awe in books as a kid – 10/29/19

Jordan M. Smith –
• Monday Memo: Robert Greene on a Decade of Radical Changes, Doclisboa Unveils ’19 Program and Kartemquin Reveals $90k in Funding for 12 New Projects – 10/7/19
• Monday Memo: IDA Documentary Awards Shortlists Revealed, DOC NYC 2019 Program Announced, Laura Poitras Steps Down From Field of Vision – 10/14/19
• Monday Memo: Critics’ Choice Doc Awards Noms, AFI Fest Launches Inaugural Doc Section, 20+ Alanis Obomsawin Now Streaming on NFB.ca – 10/21/19
• Monday Memo: Cinema Eye Honors, IDA Awards & IFP Gotham Awards Reveal Noms, Plus MoMA Reopens as The New Yorker Launches Web Series – 10/28/19

Adam Lubitow –
• Peter Bagrov named new curator at Eastman Moving Image Department – 9/10/19
• Film preview: ‘Projecting Our Voices’ – 9/17/19

Jared Mobarak –
• Posterized September 2019: ‘Ad Astra,’ ‘IT Chapter Two,’ ‘The Death of Dick Long,’ and More – 9/4/19

Jeff Simon –
• A new guide on how to love classical music – 9/6/19
• New readers for a great critic, new listeners for a singer-songwriter – 9/13/19
• The Times reporters who dynamited the #MeToo floodgates – 9/14/19
• Is country music better than ‘Country Music?’ – 9/17/19
• An imperfect, but invaluable biography of literary titan Susan Sontag – 9/25/19

Jordan M. Smith –
• Monday Memo: Doc Box Office Is Art House Lifeline, Telluride Lineup, Filmmaker Mag’s 25 New Faces + – 9/2/19
• Monday Memo: Robert Frank & Daniel Johnston Die, Creative Arts Emmy Award Winners, and Reports from TIFF & Camden – 9/16/19
• Monday Memo: 2019 Grierson Awards Nominees, Wiseman to be Honored at 2019 Critics’ Choice & Kent Jones to Exit NYFF – 9/23/19
• Monday Memo: Lisa Valencia-Svensson on Diversity & Representation in Docs, 35 Years of IDA Documentary Awards, DOC NYC Short Lists & More! – 9/30/19

Matt Marshall –
• Box Office: ‘Hobbs & Shaw’ Powers Past ‘The Lion King’ in Latest Fast and Furious Chapter – 8/4/19
• Box Office: ‘Good Boys’ Ends R-Rated Comedy Drought, ‘Hobbs & Shaw’ Drifts to Second – 8/18/19
• Box Office: ‘Angel Has Fallen’ Rises with $21M Opening in Late Summer Weekend – 8/25/19
• Netflix’s ‘The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance,’ ‘Stranger Things 3’ and the Summer of Nostalgia – 8/30/19

Jared Mobarak –
• Posterized August 2019: ‘The Nightingale,’ ‘La Flor,’ ‘Genesis,’ and More – 8/2/19

Matthew Passantnio –
• Awards: Can Terrence Malick Find His Way Back to the Oscars With ‘A Hidden Life?’ – 8/21/19
• Circuit Q&A: Who Is Your Favorite Venice Film Festival Alumni? – 8/23/19
• Awards: Will the Best Picture Winner Play at Telluride This Year? – 8/27/19
• Circuit Q&A: What Was Your Favorite Movie of the Summer? – 8/30/19

Christopher Schobert –
• Six of WNY’s must-visits for kids – 8/9/19
• Buffalo Film Seminars brings Mitchum, Mel Brooks, ‘Moulin Rouge’ to Amherst Theatre – 8/20/19
• Fattey Beer Co. is a chilled-out craft beer destination – 8/26/19

Jeff Simon –
• Why did America let TV take over presidential elections? – 8/1/19
• They call it ‘The lost Miles Davis record’ – 8/5/19
• A return to Woodstock with Dale Anderson, Jeff Simon and Jeff Miers – 8/9/19
• The creative new ‘sisterhood’ of Channel 2’s ‘Most Buffalo’ – 8/9/19
• Abbie Hoffman, Woodstock’s greatest mythologist – 8/15/19
• The perfect storm that was ‘The Natural,’ and hopes it could happen again – 8/28/19
• Ken Burns on ‘Country Music,’ Emily Nussbaum’s collection of TV series reviews – 8/30/19

Jordan M. Smith –
• Monday Memo: Direct Cinema Pioneer D.A. Pennebaker Dead at 94 – 8/5/19
• Monday Memo: IFC Center Announces Craft Ed. Seminars, 2019 TIFF Docs Revealed & iPic Entertainment Files Chapter 11 – 8/12/19
• Monday Memo: Independent Lens Drop Fall Lineup, The Obamas’ First Film Coming Soon & Camden’s 2019 Slate Announced – 8/19/19
• Monday Memo: #200 – 8/23/19

M. Faust –
• Screwing with people’s heads a little: An interview with “Weird Al” Yankovic – 7/23/19

Adam Lubitow –
• Film: reflecting on Rutger Hauer’s work – 7/26/19
• FILM | “Wally Got Wasted” Screening and Q&A – 7/31/19

Jared Mobarak –
• Posterized July 2019: ‘Once Upon a Time In… Hollywood,’ ‘Midsommar,’ ‘The Farewell,’ and More – 7/5/19

Matt Marshall –
• Box Office: ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home,’ ‘Toy Story 4’ Hold Off ‘Crawl’ and ‘Stuber’ – 7/15/19
• Box Office: Disney’s Lion King Spells End for Harry Potter Record, ‘Endgame’ Dethrones ‘Avatar’ – 7/22/19
• Box Office: Disney’s ‘Lion King’ Hits $350M, Career-High ‘Hollywood’ Shines Bright for Tarantino – 7/29/19

Matthew Passantino –
• Top 5 Movies of 2019, So Far Movie Review – 7/1/19
• Top 10: Underrated Performances from 1999 – 7/14/19

Christopher Schobert –
• Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: Making ‘Alien,’ Chantal Akerman, Analyzing ‘Peterloo’ & More – 7/10/19
• Playtime has arrived: A family guide to Canalside’s Explore & More – 7/18/19
• Great Lakes Christian Film Fest is an outlet for faith-based projects – 7/30/19

Jeff Simon –
• Ideal books for summer’s short bursts of attention – 7/2/19
• Tanks, flyovers and a big, fat, inadvertent laugh – 7/5/19
• ‘Mad’ was satire you could bring home to show mom – 7/11/19
• If your TV isn’t fired up on Sunday nights, when is it? – 7/12/19
• Provocative film sheds light on Marshawn Lynch’s history of silence – 7/17/19
• Chappaquiddick- The 50th anniversary that’s painful to remember – 7/19/19
• ‘Big Little Lies’ finally showed us why you hire Meryl Streep – 7/22/19
• In world full of opinions, where are fresh ones? – 7/29/19

Jordan M. Smith –
• Monday Memo: Threats to Press Freedom, Exhibitors Speak Out & John Cooper Announces Departure From Sundance – 7/01/19
• Monday Memo: New Academy Members, Doclisboa Co-Director Heads to Sheffield & DOC NYC Expands For 10th Anniversary – 7/08/19
• Monday Memo: Doc Engagement Creating Space for Change, Alamo Drafthouse to Revive Video Store, and New Senses of Cinema – 7/15/19
• Monday Memo: Mental Health in the Doc Industry, 71st Emmy Nominees & Martin Bell’s Restored Street Docs Return – 7/22/19
• Monday Memo: POV Shorts Season 2, News & Doc Emmy Noms, Grierson Awards Short List & More – 7/29/19

Adam Lubitow –
• We’re past the ‘Endgame’ now – 6/5/19

Matt Marshall –
• Box Office: ‘Godzilla: King of the Monsters’ Wins Weekend Battle Over ‘Rocketman,’ ‘Ma’ – 6/2/19
• 15 Years Later, ‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’ Remains Wizarding World’s Best – 6/4/19
• Box Office: ‘Men in Black: International’ Continues Sequel Summer Slump with $28.5M Debut – 6/17/19
• Box Office: Pixar’s ‘Toy Story 4’ Debuts with $118M as Fourth-Biggest Animated Opener – 6/23/19
• Box Office: ‘Toy Story 4’ Tops Second Weekend of Doll Mania Over ‘Annabelle Comes Home’ – 6/30/19
• 15 Years Later, Sam Raimi’s ‘Spider-Man 2’ Ranks as Marvel’s Greatest Superhero Sequel – 6/30/19

Jared Mobarak –
• Posterized June 2019: ‘The Last Black Man in San Francisco,’ ‘Our Time,’ ‘The Chambermaid,’ and More – 6/7/19

David Palmer –
• The Best (and Worst) of 2019 Movies So Far – 6/30/19

Matthew Passantino –
• What Is Your Favorite Hitchcock Scene? – 6/16/19

Christopher Schobert –
• Extra Points: Jobs, Buffett … Keanu? Why the ‘John Wick’ Star Should Be Your Business Role Model – 6/28/19

Jeff Simon –
• I’ll take ‘Truth without Math,’ Alex – 6/7/19
• Two Buffalo institutions collaborate on bang-up movie book – 6/14/19
• Sunday peak TV’s bad boys Vs. empowered women – 6/14/19
• Return of Christine Baranski corrects three-year mistake – 6/19/19
• Pauline Kael roars back in readers’ memories – 6/21/19
• The 21st century vocabulary for abuse – 6/25/19
• This weekend’s ‘The Loudest Voice’ on Showtime begins with a bang – 6/28/19

Jordan M. Smith –
• Monday Memo: DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40, Schmeer Fellowship’s Diversity in the Edit Room Program & LEAVING NEVERLAND Wins in Court – 6/3/19
• Monday Memo: YouTube Controversy, Sheffield Doc/Fest Previews, Pride Month Cinematic Celebrations & More – 6/10/19
• Monday Memo: Scorsese’s ROLLING THUNDER REVUE Drops, Docs As Ads, Realities of True Crime Docs & More! – 6/17/19
• Monday Memo: Will Cinema Survive The Future? + Streaming Fatigue, AFI Docs, and a Wang Bing Dossier – 6/24/19