The Supporting Actress Smackdown season is roaring along. Up next on August 20th, in two weeks time we'll talk 2005. Let's meet the panelists!
PLEASE WELCOME (IN ALPHA ORDER)...
ALI BENZEKRI
Ali Benzekri is the head of film and non-film archives at the Cinematheque of Tangier. Writes about film. Shoots pictures. Totally obsessed with actresses. [Twitter | Instagram]
JUSTIN CHANG
Justin Chang is the film critic for the Los Angeles Times and NPR’s “Fresh Air.” He serves as secretary of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and chair of the National Society of Film Critics. [Twitter | Instagram]
JOEY MOSER
Joey Moser is a senior contributor at Awards Daily TV and he has started dabbling on the main film side last year. He can be heard weekly testing the patience of his fellow podcasters on the Water Cooler Podcast. Joey recently moved to Columbus, Ohio, and you can find him trying new cheeses and tending to his cat. [Twitter | Instagram]
AND...
KERRY O'MALLEY
Kerry O’Malley’s most recent foray on TV was as First Class Passenger Lilah Folger on TNT’s Snowpiercer. She can also be seen on CBS All Access’ Strange Angel, Showtime’s Shameless, HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, E&E’s Those Who Kill, Amazon’s The Last Tycoon, and Survivor’s Remorse on STARZ. Her many Broadway appearances include her Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle-nominated turn as The Baker’s Wife in the Tony Award-Winning Revival of Into the Woods, and as Betty Haynes (The Rosemary Clooney role) in Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. She is a huge Boston sports fan who currently resides in Los Angeles. [Twitter | Instagram | IMDb]
HOSTED BY...
NATHANIEL ROGERS
Nathaniel is the creator and owner of The Film Experience. He is a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association and The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics and a longtime Oscar pundit here at TFE. His writing has also appeared in Vanity Fair, Vulture, Slate, and Towleroad.
If you are a working actor, a renowned critic, film historian, a novelist, or an arts professional of some kind, chances are good that he has meant to invite you to a Smackdown panel, or would have if he happened to know you were obsessed with actresses. [Twitter | Contact | Instagram]
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