Awards Radar: The Podcast

For episode 274, I’m joined once again by my co-host Myles Hughes, with producer Steve Prusakowski working behind the scenes. This is our penultimate episode before the Oscar nominations are announced, so we're talking about what the Academy might do. Beyond that, we cover the Golden Globe results, which had a thing or two worth discussing. Beyond the awards, Myles has caught up on Hedda and K...

For episode 273, I’m joined once again by my co-host Myles Hughes, with producer Steve Prusakowski working behind the scenes. This time around, we're deep into the precursors. We talk about the Actor Award/SAG nominations, the results of the Critics Choice Awards, as well as our final predictions for the Golden Globes. In terms of new releases, I discuss Primate (reviewed here ), while Myles h...

For episode 272, I’m joined once again by my co-host Myles Hughes, with producer Steve Prusakowski working behind the scenes. This episode closes the book on 2025 and welcomes in 2026. We start by looking at my list of some of the 2025 films to anticipate, before turning our attention to Myles' takes on Marty Supreme (my rave review is here ) and Song Sung Blue (my rave is here ). Finally, we...

For episode 271, I’m joined once again by my co-host Myles Hughes, with producer Steve Prusakowski working behind the scenes. This episode is, in some ways, our Christmas spectacular. As always my friends and faithful listeners/readers, I do hope you all enjoy the latest episode of the Awards Radar Podcast, our 271st one to date (here’s to many more). Of course, feel free to revisit the previous i...

For episode 270, I’m joined once again by my co-host Myles Hughes, with producer Steve Prusakowski working behind the scenes. This time around, the Oscar gods have given us plenty to dig into. Earlier this week, the shortlists in a dozen Academy Award categories were revealed (seen here ), so we get into that. The Academy also announced that the Oscars will be moving from ABC to YouTube after the...

For episode 269, I’m joined once again by my co-host Myles Hughes, with producer Steve Prusakowski working behind the scenes. This episode features us going over the Golden Globe nominations, as well as a quick mention of the Critics Choice nominations. The Globe nods are where we focus a lot, given how it's the highest profile precursor so far, if not the most Oscar related. Speaking of the A...

For episode 268, I’m joined once again by my co-host Myles Hughes, with producer Steve Prusakowski working behind the scenes. This time around, we're discussing the beginning of precursor season, alongside some heavy hitter films. I recently saw Avatar: Fire and Ash , as well as Ella McCay , which I detail to Myles. He's seen Zootopia 2 , so he can tell me about that one, while he's ca...

For episode 267, I’m joined once again by my co-host Myles Hughes, with producer Steve Prusakowski working behind the scenes. This is our Thanksgiving episode, featuring some Turkey Day awards season chatter. We also spend more time talking Train Dreams (my rave review is here ) and Wicked: For Good (reviewed here ), now that Myles has seen both. Throw in your questions and you can celebrate the h...

For episode 266, I’m joined once again by my co-host Myles Hughes, with producer Steve Prusakowski working behind the scenes. This episode is full of our takes on new/recent and upcoming releases. I've seen Marty Supreme , No Other Choice , and Wicked: For Good (reviewed here ), while Myles has caught up with Keeper and Predator: Badlands . There's also your questions, as well as even some...

For episode 265, I’m joined once again by my co-host Myles Hughes, with producer Steve Prusakowski working behind the scenes. Apologies for the short one this week, but Myles had to hit the road for a trip, so we squeezed the episode in where we could. This time around, we've both seen some things and are eager to discuss with the other, hence not delaying the recording. Myles has gotten aroun...

For episode 264, I’m joined once again by my co-host Myles Hughes, with producer Steve Prusakowski working behind the scenes. This episode was recorded early last week, so forgive us not having any up to date news/topics. As such, we opted to, after a discussion of The Great Gatsby (it's fun, I promise), look at some very early Golden Globe predictions. You can find my updated predictions for...

Welcome back to the Awards Radar Podcast. In each episode, Editor Joey Magidson (that’s me!) will be joined by some of the staff of Awards Radar to talk about the latest in film, television, and entertainment in general. The show will obviously have an awards season slant to it, but we won’t forget about other movies and shows, that’s for sure! For episode 263, I’m joined once again by my co-host...

For episode 262, I’m joined once again by my co-host Myles Hughes, with producer Steve Prusakowski working behind the scenes. This episode comes one before our annual Halloween Spooktacular, though we're still talking horror movies. In particular, we're discussing some cult classics like A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge and the Sleepaway Camp franchise. We also get into Bl...

For episode 261, I’m joined once again by my co-host Myles Hughes, with producer Steve Prusakowski working behind the scenes. This time around, we discuss spooky season viewings a bit, but much more time is given to our Oscar predictions, as well as two big films. One has already opened in Roofman (my rave review out of TIFF is here ), which Myles caught. The other is the New York Film Festival&#3...

For episode 260, I’m joined once again by my co-host Myles Hughes, with producer Steve Prusakowski working behind the scenes. This episode kicks off with us discussing spooky season, namely what I've been revisiting or watching for the first time, while Myles has caught up with Good Boy (which I reviewed  here ). There's also a back and forth over The Smashing Machine (reviewed by yours tr...

For episode 259, I’m joined once again by my co-host Myles Hughes, with producer Steve Prusakowski working behind the scenes. This time around, I’m talking more to Myles about  Paul Thomas Anderson ‘s  One Battle After Another  (my rave review is  here ), now that he's seen the film. He has, let's say, a different take on the movie. In addition to that flick, we rank PTA's outings (my...

For episode 258, I’m joined once again by my co-host Myles Hughes, with producer Steve Prusakowski working behind the scenes. This time around, I'm telling Myles about Paul Thomas Anderson 's One Battle After Another (my rave review is here ). We'll get into it more once he sees it for the next episode, but I'm fairly effusive in my praise. Many of our questions are about the film...

For episode 257, I’m joined once again by my co-host Myles Hughes, with producer Steve Prusakowski working behind the scenes. This episode is an Oscar season vibe check, as Myles and I do some category pondering. There's no big declarations or anything of the sort, though some potentially narratives are emerging. We also talk about The Long Walk (reviewed here by yours truly) now that Myles ha...

For episode 256, I’m joined once again by my co-host Myles Hughes, with producer Steve Prusakowski behind the scenes working on Emmys coverage and adding more guests for season three of  TV Topics . This episode is our wrap up of the Toronto International Film Festival. Sure, Myles also talks Peacemaker , but this is mostly yours truly going over TIFF. My coverage can be found here , but we get in...

For episode 255, I’m joined once again by my co-host Myles Hughes, with producer Steve Prusakowski behind the scenes working on what’s now Phase Two Emmys coverage and the new season of  TV Topics , which are in abundance on the site currently. This time around, the episode is focused mainly on two different film festivals. I had just returned from the Telluride Film Festival (recapped here ) and...

or episode 254, I’m joined once again by my co-host Myles Hughes, with producer Steve Prusakowski behind the scenes working on what’s now Phase Two Emmys coverage and the new season of  TV Topics , which are in abundance on the site currently. This episode is largely our annual Telluride Film Festival preview. We look at prior movies that have played at the festival, as well as another gander at w...

For episode 253, I’m joined once again by my co-host Myles Hughes, with producer Steve Prusakowski behind the scenes working on what’s now Phase Two Emmys coverage and the new season of  TV Topics , which are in abundance on the site currently. This time around, we're talking about some upcoming releases like Blue Moon and Eleanor the Great , which I've recently screened. I tell Myles abou...

For episode 252, I’m joined once again by my co-host Myles Hughes, with producer Steve Prusakowski behind the scenes working on what’s now Phase Two Emmys coverage and the new season of  TV Topics , which are in abundance on the site currently. This week, we're running a little ragged, as we only had one late night opportunity to record, and didn't want to leave you all hanging. So, we&#39...

For episode 251, I’m joined once again by my co-host Myles Hughes, with producer Steve Prusakowski behind the scenes working on what’s now Phase Two Emmys coverage and the new season of  TV Topics , which are in abundance on the site currently. This time around, we're obviously focused on Zach Cregger and Weapons . My rave review is here , though Myles and I really do get into it. There's also you...

For episode 250, I’m joined once again by my co-host Myles Hughes, with producer Steve Prusakowski behind the scenes working on what’s now Phase Two Emmys coverage and the new season of  TV Topics , which are in abundance on the site currently. This episode has Myles giving his take on The Fantastic Four: First Steps  (which I reviewed  here ), a discussion of our Marvel Cinematic Universe ranking...