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Possessor Director Brandon Cronenberg Took Inspiration From a Real Scientist With a Remote-Control Bull (Podcast)
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In Hosts, Chekhov’s Gun Is Replaced by a Hammer (Podcast)
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Yellow Rose Director Diane Paragas on the Scene She Took Directly from the News (Podcast)
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Before The Boys Season 2 Finale, Listen to This (Podcast)
This week on the Low Key podcast we dive into Season 2 of The Boys, one...
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What American Murder Left Out, According to Director Jenny Popplewell
Jenny Popplewell had a wealth of video footage from Shanann Watts for the Netflix documentary American...
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Class Action Park: Where Many Kids Had Their First Kiss, First Beer and First Serious Injury
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Residue, Gentrification, and Trying to Go Home Again (Podcast)
A young Black filmmaker named Jay tries to go home again in Residue, the new debut...
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In Woke, a Cartoonist Is Transformed by Police Brutality (Podcast)
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How Superman IV Became a Disaster — But Made Morgan Freeman a Star
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DTF Tracks a Widowed Pilot’s Tinder Sex Spiral
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Boys State Directors on What Surprised Them About Conservative Texas Teenage Boys (Podcast)
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1BR Has Interesting Things to Say About How People Justify Violence (Podcast)
The new horror film 1BR scored the number one spot on Netflix’s movies chart with little...
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How Mickey Reece Built a DIY Oklahoma Film Empire (Podcast)
Ask Mickey Reece, director of the film festival darling Climate of the Hunter, how he deals...
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‘He’s in the Red Sand With the Ancestors’: a Thank You to Chadwick Boseman (Podcast)
On Sunday, my wife and I spoke to our toddler about what happened to the actor...
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Charlie Kaufman and I’m Thinking of Ending Things: ‘We Live in Memory’ (Podcast)
The new Charlie Kaufman film I’m Thinking of Ending Things returns to two of his most...
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Fugitive Dreams Director Jason Neulander Covers the Big Questions — Including Where to Get a Train (Podcast)
Fugitive Dreams, the debut film from Jason Neulander, asks big questions about life, love and justice....
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Does Project Power Do Too Much Universe-Building? (Podcast)
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Let’s Talk About the Domestic Horror of Shirley (Low Key Podcast)
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Spree Director Eugene Kotlyarenko Wrote All 7,000 Internet Comments That Appear in the Film
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