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Jack Nicholson The Shooting Monte Helman Acid Western
May 27, 2022
Melissa Hellman honored her father, director Monte Hellman, with a tribute to his Acid Western films starring Jack Nicholson
the batman steven spielberg matt reeves jonah hill
January 20, 2022
Matt Reeves takes inspiration from these '70s thrillers for The Batman; Steven Spielberg salutes Buster Keaton; We salute Jonah Hill…
Perfecting The Green Knight; 400 Million+ Exorcist Deal; Calgary Wants You
July 27, 2021
David Lowery re-edited The Green Knight in lockdown; a new Exorcist trilogy will soon possess more than $400 million; the virtues of…
The Big Goodbye Chinatown
January 30, 2020
Sam Wasson’s book The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood, is available on Tuesday. Here is an…
June 10, 2019
Sitting at his dining room table surrounded by his family’s paintings and drawings, Eli Wallach shared this career-spanning conversation with…
November 6, 2017
Richard Linklater's humanist touch and trademark ease allows him to gracefully engage with a few of our country's hot button…
April 22, 2017
In this video, Jack Nicholson’s body of work is drawn up as a fascinating case study of how on-screen rage…
October 10, 2016
Your screenplay's theme is foundational DNA on which its plot, characters, scenes and everything else hang. Hammer it home using…
September 11, 2016
Learn surprising screenwriting structure from the plant and payoff threads that ripple through the extraordinary mosaics of The Orphanage and…
October 28, 2013
Halloween is right around the corner and to celebrate, MovieMaker is going to be posting spook-tacular articles from our archives…