Joshua Encinias

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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
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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
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Jesus Revolution Is a Christian Hit That Takes Lessons From Blumhouse and Paul Thomas Anderson

Jesus Revolution is a box office surprise, and a different kind of Christian film: It is unabashedly evangelistic, but aims…

1 year ago
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Kenya Barris: You People Shows How Black and Jewish Cultures Are ‘Better Together’

Kenya Barris’ You People originated from a 30-minute meeting with Jonah Hill that turned into two weeks of working together…

1 year ago
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Brandon Cronenberg Tells Us Why He Doesn’t Want Revenge in Infinity Pool

“We tend to frame punishment in terms of prevention and correction,” says Brandon Cronenberg, director of the new film Infinity…

1 year ago
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Skinamarink Director Shares the Tragic Loss Behind the Horror Phenomenon

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

1 year ago
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We Gently Interrogate Poker Face Creator Rian Johnson, Laid-Back ’70s Detective Style

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

1 year ago
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Kevin Williamson on His COVID ‘Period Piece’ Sick — and Scream Without Neve Campbell

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

1 year ago
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Jesse Eisenberg and Finn Wolfhard on the Fake Generation Gap and Saving the World

When You Finish Saving the World director Jesse Eisenberg’s story began as a series of monologues from a father who…

1 year ago
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Rian Johnson Q&A on Glass Onion, Frank Oz and Darth Vader’s Junk

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

1 year ago
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Bones and All Director Luca Guadagnino on Love, Steven Spielberg — and Tarantino’s Foot Fixation

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

1 year ago
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Bones and All Star Taylor Russell Doesn’t Want Easy or Gentle Roles

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

1 year ago
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Tulsa King Boss Terence Winter on Finding the Real Sylvester Stallone

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

1 year ago
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Halloween Ends Director David Gordon Green on Killing Your Expectations

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

2 years ago
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John Carpenter on Halloween Ends, Music v. Movies, and a Thing Sequel

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

2 years ago
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Walter Hill on Making the Unwoke Western Dead for a Dollar

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

2 years ago
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See How They Run Director Tom George on Outsmarting Agatha Christie

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

2 years ago
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James Morosini Got Catfished by His Father. He Made a Movie About It, I Love My Dad

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

2 years ago
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From Britney to Basquiat to Sandler to Chappelle: How Tamra Davis Shaped America

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

2 years ago
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They/Them Director John Logan on the Devilish Manipulation of ‘Gay Conversion Therapy’

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

2 years ago
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Bill Murray Won’t Be in Wes Anderson’s Latest Asteroid City — After 9 Films Together

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

2 years ago
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Cooper Raiff is Happy to Share the Stage in Cha Cha Real Smooth

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

2 years ago
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Fire Island Director Andrew Ahn on His Gay Pride and Prejudice

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

2 years ago