Stories By Grant Vance
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Movie News
In the Earth Explores the Power of Myth in the Pandemic
February 4, 2021Ben Wheatley used his new Sundance film In the Earth to keep himself together during the...
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Movie News
How Knocking Uses Its Visuals as a Vessel to Empathize with the Ignored
February 2, 2021After a beautiful overhead shot opens director Frida Kempff’s psychological thriller Knocking, we are immediately pulled...
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Festivals
In “Kung Pao Corpse,” A Delivery Driver Talks Prejudice With a Zombie
October 15, 2020What a time to be alive. The Atlanta Horror Film Festival begs the question, but not...
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Acting
Flash Forward: Maya Erskine on Her Unlikely Meet-Cute with Comedy and Finding an Authentic Rhythm in Plus One
August 6, 2019“Comedy is very rhythmic,” Maya Erskine says, carefully calibrating her comedic process in Jeff Chan and...
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Directing
Landing the Punch: Riley Stearns on Carefully Crafted Satire and Establishing Tone in The Art of Self-Defense
July 26, 2019Although only one requires a cool costume with colorful belt options, karate and satire have a...
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Book Reviews
Book Review: Shaping Light for Video in the Age of LEDs
April 10, 2019“Lights, camera, action!”—the classic, Old Hollywood call to arms. The adage remains, but—as articulated by career...
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Directing
Exclusive: An Apple A Day Keeps The System Away In This Clip from Vladimir de Fontenay’s Mobile Homes (Video)
November 2, 2018Adapted from his 2013 short of the same name, writer-director Vladimir de Fontenay paints a beautifully uncomfortable...
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Book Reviews
Book Review: Ad Nauseam is a Charming Trip Through Curated ’80s Horror Newsprint Ads
October 17, 2018Like your favorite fright flick marathon, Michael Gingold’s Ad Nauseam: Newsprint Nightmares from the 1980s is a nostalgic...
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Festivals
Festival Beat: Beyond Fest Founders On Building A Genre Festival From Goblin to Cronenberg
October 9, 2018Among their many eccentric counterparts over the years, insect politicians, Haddonfield historians and bitchin’ scary German...
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Directing
Exclusive: French Moviemaker Anne Émond on Adapting the Different Characters Crafted by Notorious Writer Nelly (Video)
September 7, 2018French writer Nelly Arcane’s debut novel, Putain, put her on the map as a respected writer documenting...
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Movie News
Crowdfunder Pick: "The Guiding Light"
August 31, 2018Crowdfunding has become an invaluable tool for the indie filmmaker seeking funds for the start or...
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Movie News
Exclusive: Explore Postmodern Genre Moviemaking With Sebastian Gutierrez’s Visceral Elizabeth Harvest (Video)
August 14, 2018It’s like they always say: if your marriage isn’t going the way you planned, try to...
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Other
Exclusive: Boogie Woogie to Ari Gold’s Musically-Inclined Nostalgic Drama The Song of Sway Lake
August 6, 2018A valuable jazz record incites a romantic adventure in the ripples of a nostalgic lakeside community....
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Directing
Scary Surfing: Director Stephen Susco on Fearing the Internet and How Style Informs Story in Unfriended: Dark Web
July 20, 2018In the varying family dynamics within tentpole genre movies, horror has always been the outlier, cannibalistic...
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Festivals
Exclusive Preview: New Media Film Festival 2018 to Offer Emmy Consultation and Broadcasting
June 13, 2018An all-encompassing media art showcase, New Media Film Festival (NMFF) continues to carve its own niche...
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Festivals
Festival Spotlight: HorrorHound Director Jason Hignite on the Genre Convention’s Evolution into Adding a Film Festival
May 21, 2018Lurking in the midwestern shadows of Indianapolis and Cincinnati lies something full of more horror than...
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Book Reviews
Space Odyssey: Beautiful New Book Examines Two Geniuses’ Creative Relationship Operating At Its Peak
May 16, 2018Destined to sit on the dusty bedside tables of young film students and seasoned fanatics alike,...
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Movie News
Full Circle: Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead Cement Their Indie Horror Mastery With UFO Cult Chiller The Endless
April 17, 2018Ever relive a moment over and over again until you realize you’re in a UFO-obsessed death...
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Other
Exclusive: Ultrasound Images Spark a Timely Debate in This Clip from Leena Pendharkar’s 20 Weeks (Video)
April 12, 2018With 35 weeks in a traditional nine-month pregnancy, there’s a good 245 days (give or take)...
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Directing
Exclusive: Up-and-Comer Faraday Okoro Lauded by Crew on the Set of Nigerian Prince (Video)
March 2, 2018A bustling Nigerian city and by-the-books calm composure flesh out the world of AT&T’s Untold Stories...
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Directing
Exclusive: Thomas Middleditch and Jess Weixler Dive in and Let Go in This Underwater Clip from Entanglement (Video)
February 5, 2018Entanglement flirts with life’s quantum “what ifs” in a pseudo-sceintific equation composed of yarn, romance and Thomas...
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Other
Exclusive: Psychoanalyze This in the Trailer for Cinema Libre’s Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity To Be Free (Video)
January 26, 2018“What does not engage our feelings does not long engage our thoughts either.”—Lou Andreas-Salomé Andreas-Salomé may...
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Directing
Exclusive: Dominic Cooper and Tom Felton Prepare to Confront a Dangerous Rogue in This Clip from Stratton (Video)
January 9, 2018John Stratton (Cooper) of MI6’s Special Boat Services (SBS) has his espionage cut out for him—tracking...
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