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These movie masks helped filmmakers build menacing — or just mysterious — stories, and hook us quickly into their complicated…

We love uplifting movies, but not fake movies. Here's are movies about inspiring ordinary people — many of them real.

In Juneteenth: Faith and Freedom, Rasool Berry speaks to the descendants of the emancipated about the true stories of our…

Nadine Crocker made Continue hoping people considering suicide will stay alive long enough to overcome the pain. She knows it…

Jeff Nichols fell in love with the bikers of Chicago through Danny Lyon’s nonfiction 1967 book The Bikeriders. Full of

Film postscripts — that pre-credits epilogue text — can be a useful tool when used correctly. Our favorites: from Do…

American Psycho was a breakthrough for Christian Bale and one of the first 2000s classics. Here are some things you…

Dear Santa reveals the postal workers and other helpers who answer children's letters to Santa Claus and make their wishes…

Ryan Dickie and Abigail Horton thought Blow Up My Life might be shot on a large scale, but the pandemic…

Think you know who Abraham Lincoln really was? Here are five harsh truths exposed in the Will Smith Netflix series…

Objects, by Vincent Liota, is a docunentary about people deeply attached to them — like Rick Rawlins, owner of a…

The Mynah Birds, with Rick James and Neil Young, had a shot at making it big with Motown. Then everything…

Nepo baby stars are everywhere — can a regular person still break through without famous parents? Yes: Here are 15…

Follow Her director Sylvia Caminer discusses making the film written by and starring Dani Barker, which avoids genre tropes in…

House of the Dragons has learned a few things from Game of Thrones — and also dropped a few elements…

The Cutting Room Floor filmmaker Victoria DeMartin got the first inkling of the idea for her story of an editor…

Colm Bairéad directed drama film The Quiet Girl is a love letter to the Irish language, following a shy girl…

Everyone around Jamie Lee Curtis warned her not to do The Daniels' Everything Everywhere All At Once — but Russell Goldman…

Jijo Reed of Sugar Studios is at the center of the indie film universe. He's worked on everything from Casino…

Kevin Williamson on writing COVID Jokes for Sick, the gay embrace of horror, and making Scream VI without Neve Campbell…