Joshua Encinias

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  • Movie News

Julio Torres on Solving the Problemista of Problemista

For Julio Torres, the writer-director-star of the A24 comedy Problemista, the word problemista represents an entanglement of one’s aspirations and…

4 weeks ago
  • Interviews

Eli Roth Q&A on Thanksgiving, ‘the Only Critic That Matters,’ and Protecting Cats

Thanksgiving director Eli Roth is known for merciless horror, but he has his limits. He'll peel the skin off a…

2 months ago
  • Movie News

Takashi Yamazaki on the ‘Striking’ Connection Between Godzilla Minus One and Oppenheimer

Set in the ruins of post-World War II Tokyo, Takashi Yamazaki's Godzilla Minus One introduces the famous lizard monster as…

3 months ago
  • Interviews

June Squibb on Being a Breakout Sundance Star at 94 for Thelma: ‘The World Has Changed’

Thelma star June Squibb’s moment in the spotlight is a long time coming. Squibb’s acting career began in 1948 at…

3 months ago
  • Cover Story

Drive-Away Dolls: How Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s Long Marriage Shaped Their Lesbian Road-Trip Movie

The backstory of Drive-Away Dolls begins in the winter of 1989, when a recent New York University film grad named…

3 months ago
  • Films at Any Budget

Skinamarink Director Kyle Edward Ball Shot His Well-Planned Nightmare for Just $10K

On the surface, Skinamarink looks like one of the greatest indie-film success stories. Director Kyle Edward Ball says he and…

4 months ago
  • Interviews

With Rustin, George C. Wolfe Brings a Civil Rights Hero Out of the Shadows

You might not know a thing about Bayard Rustin, the architect of the 1963 March on Washington that brought the…

5 months ago
  • Movie News

Ridley Scott Q&A on Making Napoleon — the Story That Eluded His Friend Stanley Kubrick

Ridley Scott has shot enough action to know that too much of it is dull. With his new film Napoleon,…

5 months ago
  • Interviews

With The Holdovers, Alexander Payne Gets to Make His 1970s Movie

Director Alexander Payne doesn’t just set his new movie in the 1970s — he tried to make The Holdovers exactly…

6 months ago
  • Interviews

Godfrey Reggio Enlists Greta Thunberg and Mike Tyson to Save the World in Once Within a Time

Godfrey Reggio is a master of silent film. The one-time monk-in-training turned filmmaker is known for his QATSI trilogy, best…

6 months ago
  • Movie News

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 Gave Star Nia Vardalos the Courage to Direct Again

Nia Vardalos didn’t believe she could direct again. After her feature directorial debut, 2009’s I Hate Valentine’s Day, died on…

8 months ago
  • Movie News

How a Trio of Cinematographers Brought STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie to Life

STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie tells the actor’s life story both before and since his Parkinson’s diagnosis. But what…

8 months ago
  • Interviews

RuPaul’s Drag Race Winner Sasha Colby Shares Her Favorite Stories of Inspiration

Sasha Colby’s interest in movies started at a young age. Long before she won Season 15 of RuPaul’s Drag Race,…

8 months ago
  • Cover Story

In Blue Beetle, Xolo Maridueña and Ángel Manuel Soto Tell a Magical Realist Superhero Story

Blue Beetle — a big-budget superhero movie that just may point the way forward for the whole DC Universe —…

8 months ago
  • Commentary

Barbenheimer Strategy: Why You Must See Oppenheimer Before Barbie

Oppenheimer is a three-hour epic about the power to end humanity. Barbie is a 1-hour, 54-minute candy-colored feminist romp. If…

9 months ago
  • Movie News

‘Nothing Could Be Worse Than the Current World’: New Y2K Doc Looks at 1999 Excitement for the Apocalypse

Brian Becker and Marley McDonald’s new documentary Time Bomb Y2K, created entirely from five years of archive footage leading up…

10 months ago
  • Movie News

The Flash Duo Barbara and Andy Muschietti on Ezra Miller, Moms, Babies and Double Flashes

The Flash is finally coming to theaters, and you can thank Barbara and Andy Muschietti.  Warner Bros. originally planned to…

11 months ago
  • Movie News

Body Electric Looks at the Gay Male Gaze and Body Dysmorphia

Nick Demos’s documentary Body Electric, about body dysmorphia in the queer community, follows his experience between the ages of 45…

11 months ago
  • Movie News

Ray Romano on His Somewhere in Queens Inspiration: ‘It’s All Real, It’s All True’

Ray Romano was sad — sad because his youngest son, Joseph, was near the end of his high school basketball…

1 year ago
  • Movie News

How to Blow Up a Pipeline Lays Out the Liberal — and Conservative — Case for Eco-Vigilantism

How to Blow Up a Pipeline, the new movie by director Daniel Goldhaber, is an eco-thriller that burns with anger…

1 year ago
  • Interviews

A Thousand and One Director A.V. Rockwell on Her Stunning Story of New York City Losing Itself

A Thousand and One, the directorial debut of A.V. Rockwell, is a survival story of a single mother protecting her…

1 year ago
  • Movie News

Pope Francis Gives Private Advice to a Filmmaker: ‘Be Courageous and Risk’

Pope Francis cares deeply about forced migration, and it’s at the center of the new film from Gianfranco Rosi, an…

1 year ago
  • Interviews

Tetris Director Jon S. Baird on Treating a Video Game Movie Like an ’80s Buddy Cop Story — and His Insane Favorite Shape

Tetris feels more like an '80s buddy-cop movie than a typical video game story, and director Jon S. Baird very…

1 year ago
  • Interviews

Brian Wallach Got an ALS Diagnosis of 6 Months to Live — 6 Years Ago. No Ordinary Campaign Chronicles His Victories Since

Christopher Burke’s SXSW documentary No Ordinary Campaign is one of countless films to be delayed by Covid. But the pandemic…

1 year ago