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Coolest Movie Masks
August 15, 2025
These movie masks helped filmmakers build menacing — or just mysterious — stories, and hook us quickly into their complicated…
Uplifting Movies
August 13, 2025
We love uplifting movies, but not fake movies. Here's are movies about inspiring ordinary people — many of them real.
Juneteenth Faith and Freedom with Opal Lee and Rasool Berry
June 19, 2025
In Juneteenth: Faith and Freedom, Rasool Berry speaks to the descendants of the emancipated about the true stories of our…
Nadine Crocker Continue
September 4, 2024
Nadine Crocker made Continue hoping people considering suicide will stay alive long enough to overcome the pain. She knows it…
The Bikeriders: Jeff Nichols, Austin Butler and Jodie Comer on Their Mad Love Triangle on Wheels
June 20, 2024
Jeff Nichols fell in love with the bikers of Chicago through Danny Lyon’s nonfiction 1967 book The Bikeriders. Full of
Slash Guns N Roses Movie
June 20, 2024
Slash says there will never be a Guns N Roses movie — or a Slash movie. But you can check…
film Postscript text post-script film epilogue credits do the right thing a hidden life barry lyndon
April 2, 2024
Film postscripts — that pre-credits epilogue text — can be a useful tool when used correctly. Our favorites: from Do…
American Psycho Christian Bale
January 30, 2024
American Psycho was a breakthrough for Christian Bale and one of the first 2000s classics. Here are some things you…
Dear Santa Operation Santa Dana Nachman
December 15, 2023
Dear Santa reveals the postal workers and other helpers who answer children's letters to Santa Claus and make their wishes…
Blow Up My Life by Ryan Dickie and Abigail Horton
November 21, 2023
Ryan Dickie and Abigail Horton thought Blow Up My Life might be shot on a large scale, but the pandemic…
5 Ugly Truths About Abraham Lincoln Exposed in Netflix's Amend: The Fight for America
October 31, 2023
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 Documentary Beautifully Unstuck in Time
October 12, 2023
Objects, by Vincent Liota, is a docunentary about people deeply attached to them — like Rick Rawlins, owner of a…
Rick James and Neil Young band The Mynah Birds
September 2, 2023
The Mynah Birds, with Rick James and Neil Young, had a shot at making it big with Motown. Then everything…
Jennifer Lawrence
June 15, 2023
Nepo baby stars are everywhere — can a regular person still break through without famous parents? Yes: Here are 15…
Follow Her Dani Barker
June 2, 2023
Follow Her director Sylvia Caminer discusses making the film written by and starring Dani Barker, which avoids genre tropes in…
4 House of the Dragon Changes From Game of Thrones
May 8, 2023
House of the Dragons has learned a few things from Game of Thrones — and also dropped a few elements…
The Cutting Room Floor Laura Piccoli
May 4, 2023
The Cutting Room Floor filmmaker Victoria DeMartin got the first inkling of the idea for her story of an editor…
Amanda Seyfried Skin & Bone Indy Shorts
March 14, 2023
Amanda Seyfried and Skin & Bone director Eli Powers first met on the set of Ted 2 in Boston after…
Who is the enemy in Top Gun: Maverick?
March 12, 2023
Who is the enemy in Top Gun: Maverick? Although no enemy is named in the Tom Cruise film, we have…
Colm Bairéad's The Quiet Girl Is a Love Letter to the Irish Language
March 12, 2023
Colm Bairéad directed drama film The Quiet Girl is a love letter to the Irish language, following a shy girl…
Jamie Lee Curtis Almost Didn't Do Everything Everywhere All At Once
March 12, 2023
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 Went from Punk to the Penthouse
January 25, 2023
Jijo Reed of Sugar Studios is at the center of the indie film universe. He's worked on everything from Casino…
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…
Michael B. Jordan on directing Creed III
January 22, 2023
Michael B. Jordan has starred in some of the biggest and most important movies of our time. With Creed III,…