All posts by Brian Hickey
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Neville Page, Creature Designer
If you’re the type of person who stays after a film to watch the end credits, you know how many people it takes to make...
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In Theaters Now: Doubt, The Reader, The Day the Earth Stood Still
Doubt directed by John Patrick Shanley There’s Oscar bait, then there’s Doubt. Where to even start? Meryl Streep is looking for her 13th nomination (not...
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In Theaters Now: W., What Just Happened?, Sex Drive, Max Payne, The Secret Life of Bees
W. directed by Oliver Stone Oliver Stone has soared the highs with movies like 1986’s Platoon and scraped the bottom of the barrel with movies...
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Producers Guild of America Makes Movies
The Producer’s Guild of America (PGA) is a resource for all things producing. It allows producers to interact and share information, as well as get...
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Give Til It Hurts This Halloween
The SAW franchise, unlike the characters in its films, is unkillable. But would you believe the slasher franchise is actually saving lives? Lionsgate, the franchise’s...
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The Heartbreak Kids: Bobby & Peter Farrelly
Watching the Farrelly brothers’ career evolve is a lot like watching a kid grow up. They started primarily with writing and directing gross-out humor (see...
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Pocket Releasing with Power UP
New movie studios and new divisions of existing movie studios are created (or closed) almost every day, with little to no fanfare. Usually, it’s not...
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In Theaters Now
3:10 to Yuma directed by James Mangold Call it the fall of the west, but the coming season holds no less than three high-profile Westerns:...
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In Theaters Now
Balls of Fury directed by Ben Garant The writers of this film, Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant, are best known for their work on “The...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
1Inside the Issue: Directing
Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...