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‘Southland Tales Will Always Be My Favorite’: Richard Kelly on His Divisive Donnie Darko Follow-Up, Casting The Rock, and Plans for a Six-Hour Version
Five years after his 2001 breakthrough Donnie Darko, Richard Kelly risked making the epic-scale followup Southland...
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Baby God: Meet the Vegas Fertility Doc Who Secretly Used His Own Sperm on Countless Women
Baby God chronicles how Las Vegas fertility doctor Quincy Fortier impregnated patients with his own sperm,...
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Promising Young Woman Is Like a Great First Date Gone Bad, Writer-Director Emerald Fennell Says
Promising Young Woman writer-director Emerald Fennell says the Carey Mulligan revenge thriller was designed to feel...
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Soul: An Animated Film About a Mid-Life Crisis
Soul intriguingly disguises an existential crisis for adults as kids’ entertainment. It’s like many Pixar projects that...
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Fatale: Deon Taylor and Roxanne Avent on Erotic Thrillers and How the Genre ‘Checks All the Boxes’
Fatale director Deon Taylor and producer Roxanne Avent say their Hilary Swank and Michael Ealy erotic thriller...
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Errol Morris’ My Psychedelic Love Story: Joanna Harcourt-Smith and the Art of Documentary Performance
Joanna Harcourt-Smith, the focus of the new Errol Morris documentary My Psychedelic Love Story, connects countless interesting...
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How Wander Darkly Director Tara Miele Turned a Car Crash Into Inspiration
Wander Darkly director Tara Miele and her husband were driving home from a date night when...
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Sound of Metal Takes Us to the Brink of Despair — and Back
The Sound of Metal begins with an interesting premise that may seem impossible to pull off...
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Julie Taymor on The Glorias’ Surprisingly Even-Handed Handling of One of Our Most Contentious Issues
The Glorias, the new Gloria Steinem biopic from Julie Taymor, has an almost shocking approach to...
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Soros Director Jesse Dylan on How George Soros Became a ‘Boogeyman’ of the Right
George Soros may seem a strange target for political vitriol: He’s a Holocaust survivor and philanthropist...
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Joe Manganiello Poured Batman Heartbreak Into Archenemy
Joe Manganiello says not getting to play the villain Deathstroke in the abandoned Ben Affleck movie...
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Lovers Rock Captures the Silly Games and Complex Politics of a House Party
Lovers Rock, the second film in the Small Axe anthology from Steve McQueen, seems as simple,...
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How Does Legion M Work? Inside the Fan-Focused Backer of Mandy and the New Archenemy
You’ve probably heard of Legion M, which bills itself as the first fan-owned entertainment company and...
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64 Died in a Nightclub Fire — and a Whole Government Resigned
The horrors of the 2015 Colectiv nightclub fire in Bucharest, Romania — as recounted in the...
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How Quarantine Inspired Keith Dennie to Make The Moment: ‘You Can Only Watch Netflix and Play Video Games for So Long’
Every week on the Low Key podcast, Keith Dennie talks about TV shows and movies. It...
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Woodstock on Wheels? The Failure of Medicine Ball Caravan
In 1970, Warner Brothers had a surprise hit on its hands with the documentary/concert film Woodstock....
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Bret Easton Ellis Serializes New High School Serial Killer Story — on His Podcast
For the last six episodes of his podcast, American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis has held...
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The Half of It Director Alice Wu on How Algorithms Devalue the ‘Currency of Intimacy’
Alice Wu, director of The Half of It, misses the times when you had to know...
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Queen’s Gambit: How Accurate Is Its Portrayal of Child Prodigies?
In The Queen’s Gambit, Anya Taylor-Joy plays Beth Harmon, who is orphaned at a young age,...
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Let Him Go Writer-Director Thomas Bezucha Built a House to Burn it Down
Thomas Bezucha insisted on authenticity for every aspect of Let Him Go — and nothing epitomized that...
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‘Let’s Make Diamonds Out of Dad’: Amy Seimetz Mixes Light and Dark in She Dies Tomorrow
She Dies Tomorrow writer-director Amy Seimetz wanted to be sure her film mixed the big questions...
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His House and Refugee Horror: a Haunting No One Can Escape
There’s an old joke in the Black community that a haunted house film with a Black...
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His House Director Remi Weekes on His ‘Good Immigrant’ Horror Story
His House, the feature directorial debut of Remi Weekes is the story of a young couple...
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How the Ashland Independent Film Festival Is Fighting Through Fires and the Pandemic
Richard Herskowitz, artistic director of the Ashland Independent Film Festival, is a native New Yorker who...
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