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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.
Bones and All Star Taylor Russell Doesn't Want Easy or Gentle Roles
November 18, 2022
Taylor Russell says making Bones and All, co-starring Timothée Chalamet, “was not the easiest and most gentlest of processes.” It’s not a complaint.
Tulsa King Boss Terence Winter on Finding the real Sylvester Stallone
November 16, 2022
Tulsa King showrunner Terence Winter wouldn’t usually do a Western. But a mob Western with Taylor Sheridan and starring Sylvester Stalone?
Halloween Ends director David Gordon Green on killing your expectations
October 18, 2022
Halloween Ends director David Gordon Green says he wasn’t interested in a “final showdown-type brawl” between Laurie Strode and Michael Myers.
October 13, 2022
John Carpenter says he never imagined the Halloween franchise he created lasting this long, but praises Jamie Lee Curtis and the director of Halloween Ends.
Walter Hill on Making the Unwoke Western Dead for a Dollar
September 29, 2022
Dead for a Dollar director Walter Hill says the film honors Western traditions, while addressing modern issues — but in 1897 terms.
See How They Run Director Tom George on Outsmarting Agatha Christie
September 16, 2022
See How They Run is inspired by The Mousetrap, an Agatha Christie play that she tried to keep from being made into a movie — via a tricky legal maneuver.
Patton Oswalt James Morosini I Love My Dad
August 22, 2022
Most catfishing movies are from the perspective of the victim. But in I Love My Dad, James Morosini gives us the persective if the catfish — his own father.
Tamra Davis
August 12, 2022
13: The Musical director Tamra Davis has directed iconic films, and worked with everyone from Britney to Basquiat to Sandler to Chappelle to Cher.
Kevin Spacey in They/Them
August 5, 2022
In They/Them, John Logan uses a Blumhouse horror film to explore the devilish manipulation of the con job known as “gay conversion therapy”
Bill Murray Won't Be in Asteroid City From Wes Anderson
July 20, 2022
After nine consecutive feature films together, Bill Murray will not appear in the latest film from Wes Anderson, Asteroid City.
Cooper Raiff and Dakota Johnson in Cha Cha Real Smooth
June 16, 2022
Cooper Raiff wrote, directed and starred in Cha Cha Real Smooth, but shares the stage with collaborators like Dakota Johnson and DP Cristina Dunlap.
Fire Island directed by Andrew Ahn
June 3, 2022
Fire Island filmmaker Andrew Ahn on adapting Pride and Prejudice, hesitation, visual influences, and the art of gay stuntwork