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May 22, 2018
Fans of Morris—best known for his 1988 The Thin Blue Line, which earned him a MacArthur Genius Grant, helped to reinvent the documentary film, and led to its subject’s life sentence being overturned—will not be surprised by the spirit of The Ashtray. It is, as is often with Morris’ work, an expedition…
May 3, 2018
Seven decades, three remakes, and a collective 17 Oscar nominations haven’t distorted or even dented the effect of William Wellman’s original A Star is Born. A nitrate print of the film in glittering technicolor closed out this year’s TCM Classic Film Festival in its most iconic venue: Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre.
April 18, 2018
Friday, April 20 marks the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School shootings. In this MovieMaker-exclusive clip of And Then I Go, the adaptation of Jim Shepard’s novel Project X, high school outcasts are bound together by private suffering and public humiliation.
March 22, 2018
The Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area is fast becoming one of the largest in the country, and its film scene is bustling with energy and opportunity.
March 15, 2018
All Square stars Michael Kelly as a struggling small town bookie, and Pamela Adlon as his boozy ex-girlfriend. Here, MovieMaker.com debuts an exclusive clip from the film which just premiered at SXSW 2018.
January 16, 2018
MovieMaker debuts two exclusive clips from Josh Helman’s sharp new indie Kate Can’t Swim. Celeste Arias’ Kate is forced to assess the very foundation of her young life when her best friend Em returns home with a surprise companion.
January 2, 2018
In this MovieMaker.com-exclusive clip from the farcical social commentary Crazy Famous, we get a glimpse at one unhinged man’s desperate gambit for fame.
December 27, 2017
“Life is nasty and brutish and short.” “Thomas Hobbes said that,” explains Scott Cooper, the director of possibly the most brutal film of 2017, Hostiles.