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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

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

Kyle Edward Ball’s debut feature film Skinamarink is an indie horror sensation, but its journey to theaters this past Friday

Rian Johnson talks Poker Face, with Natasha Lyonne
January 27, 2023

Rian Johnson’s new Peacock show Poker Face sees the director plumb his passion for a TV genre that hasn’t gotten

Kevin Williamson on His COVID horror film Sick and Making a Scream Without Neve Campbell
January 24, 2023

Sick filmmaker Kevin Williamson was worried the Covid pandemic was too tragic to send up in a slasher flick —

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’s story began as a series of monologues from a father who

Rian Johnson on Benoit Blanc's Private Life, Darth Vader's Junk and the Best Films of 2022
December 23, 2022

Glass Onion director Rian Johnson says it would be a mistake to think of Benoit Blanc — the Southern detective

Luca Guadagnino on Making Shoes and Not Caring About the Cannibalism
November 18, 2022

Luca Guadagnino has two movies out: the documentary Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams, about shoemaker to the stars Salvatore Ferragamo, and

Bones and All Star Taylor Russell Doesn't Want Easy or Gentle Roles
November 18, 2022

Taylor Russell says making the new film Bones and All, in which she stars opposite Timothée Chalamet as a young

Tulsa King Boss Terence Winter on Finding the real Sylvester Stallone
November 16, 2022

Tulsa King showrunner Terence Winter wouldn’t usually jump at the chance to make a Western. But a Western about a

Halloween Ends director David Gordon Green on killing your expectations
October 18, 2022

Love it or hate it, Halloween Ends, by director David Gordon Green, is a love letter to John Carpenter movies.

October 13, 2022

John Carpenter is a man of few words whose massive stature in the film world has only grown thanks to

Walter Hill on Making the Unwoke Western Dead for a Dollar
September 29, 2022

Walter Hill says a lot in a few words, but when you remove sound and tone, his words can read

See How They Run Director Tom George on Outsmarting Agatha Christie
September 16, 2022

The backstory of See How They Run, the new film from Tom George, is as twisty as an Agatha Christie

Patton Oswalt James Morosini I Love My Dad
August 22, 2022

When we hear about people being catfished, it’s usually from the point of view of the person who’s been catfished.

Tamra Davis
August 12, 2022

Talk of cult classics usually involves midnight movies, predominantly directed by men. So how do Billy Madison, CB4, Half Baked,

Kevin Spacey in They/Them
August 5, 2022

John Logan has written many devilish characters for the screen, like Sweeney Todd, Silva from Skyfall, and The Aviator’s take

Bill Murray Won't Be in Asteroid City From Wes Anderson
July 20, 2022

Bill Murray will not appear in Asteroid City, the latest film from Wes Anderson — despite Murray’s consecutive appearances in the last nine Anderson

Cooper Raiff and Dakota Johnson in Cha Cha Real Smooth
June 16, 2022

Cooper Raiff plays the lead characters in his movies Shithouse and the brand-new Cha Cha Real Smooth, and his Cha Cha

Fire Island directed by Andrew Ahn
June 3, 2022

Affable is the best way to describe Fire Island filmmaker Andrew Ahn. We met in 2016 at New York City’s