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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
September 5, 2023
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 gave star Nia Vardalos the courage she needed to return to the director’s chair for the first time since 2009
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie cinematographers
August 24, 2023
The three cinematographers behind Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie explain how they worked together over several years on the Apple TV+ doc
Sasha Colby
August 24, 2023
Sasha Colby’s interest in movies started at a young age. Long before she won Season 15 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, […]
In Blue Beetle, Xolo Mariduena and Angel Manuel Soto Tell a Magical Realist Superhero Story
August 17, 2023
Blue Beetle — a big-budget superhero movie that just may point the way forward for the whole DC Universe — […]
Barbenheimer
July 18, 2023
Barbenheimer, anyone? Be sure you see Oppenheimer before Barbie. Because anything else is the path of madness, as Joshua Encinias explains.
Y2k
June 23, 2023
Brian Becker and Marley McDonald’s new documentary Time Bomb Y2K, created entirely from five years of archive footage leading up […]
The Flash Ezra Miller Andy Muschietti
June 14, 2023
The Flash is finally coming to theaters, and you can thank Barbara and Andy Muschietti.  Warner Bros. originally planned to […]
Body Electric doc
June 12, 2023
Nick Demos’s documentary Body Electric, about body dysmorphia in the queer community, follows his experience between the ages of 45 […]
Skinamarink Director Kyle Edward Bell Shot His Well-Planned Nightmare for $10K
April 26, 2023
Skinamarink, by Kyle Edward Ball, appears on the surface to be a massive success story. But its success was hard-fought, and filled with troubles no one anticipated
Ray Romano on Somewhere in Queens, his directorial debut
April 26, 2023
Ray Romano was sad — sad because his youngest son, Joseph, was near the end of his high school basketball […]
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
April 14, 2023
How to Blow Up a Pipeline, the new movie by director Daniel Goldhaber, is an eco-thriller that burns with anger […]
Teyana Taylor and Aaron Kingsley Adetola in A Thousand and One, directed by A.V. Rockwell
April 10, 2023
A Thousand and One, the directorial debut of A.V. Rockwell, is a survival story of a single mother protecting her […]
Pope Francis Gives Private Advice to a Filmmaker: 'Be Courageous and Risk'
April 7, 2023
Pope Francis cares deeply about forced migration, and it’s at the center of the new film from Gianfranco Rosi, an […]
Tetris Movie With Taron Edgerton directed by Jon S. Baird
April 3, 2023
Tetris feels more like an ’80s buddy-cop movie than a typical video game story, and director Jon S. Baird very […]
Brian Wallach Is waging No Ordinary Campaign against ALS
March 13, 2023
Christopher Burke’s SXSW documentary No Ordinary Campaign is one of countless films to be delayed by Covid. But the pandemic […]
Jesus Revolution
March 6, 2023
Jesus Revolution is a box office surprise, and a different kind of Christian film: It is unabashedly evangelistic, but aims […]
Kenya Barris You People
February 12, 2023
Kenya Barris’ You People originated from a 30-minute meeting with Jonah Hill that turned into two weeks of working together on a pitch, Barris says in a new interview.
Brandon Cronenberg Doesn't Want Revenge in Infinity Pool
February 1, 2023
“We tend to frame punishment in terms of prevention and correction,” says Brandon Cronenberg, director of the new film Infinity […]
Skinamarink Director Kyle Edward Ball on the Tragic Loss Behind His Horror Sensation
January 27, 2023
Skinamarink director Kyle Edward Ball discusses the tragic loss of his friend and collaborator Josh Bookhalter during the making of the film.
Rian Johnson talks Poker Face, with Natasha Lyonne
January 27, 2023
Rian Johnson reveals how Poker Face, his new Peacock series starring Natasha Lyonne, plumbs his love for ’70s detective. We’re far from Glass Onion.
Kevin Williamson on His COVID horror film Sick and Making a Scream Without Neve Campbell
January 24, 2023
Kevin Williamson on writing COVID Jokes for Sick, the gay embrace of horror, and making Scream VI without Neve Campbell on board.
Jesse Eisenberg and Finn Wolfhard on the Fake-Generation Gap, Poetic Masturbation and When You Finish Saving the World
January 18, 2023
When You Finish Saving the World director Jesse Eisenberg and star Finn Wolfhard discuss the fake generation gap and poetic masturbation.
Rian Johnson on Benoit Blanc's Private Life, Darth Vader's Junk and the Best Films of 2022
December 23, 2022
Rian Johnson on why Benoit Blanc isn’t necessarily the protagonist of Glass Onion, befriending Frank Oz, and the Darth Vader penis mystery.
Luca Guadagnino on Making Shoes and Not Caring About the Cannibalism
November 18, 2022
Luca Guadagnino on Luca his new films Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams and Bones and All, starring Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell as cannibal lovers.