In September, director Jeremy Saulnier and screenwriter Macon Blair attended Fantastic Fest 2018 to present Hold the Dark—a fully-immersive cinematic…
At its heart, Fantastic Fest is not simply a film festival: It's a weeklong experience of controlled extremity, in which…
Since Jeremy Saulnier’s second feature, the slow-burn revenge tale Blue Ruin premiered to rave reviews at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival,…
Macon Blair is no stranger to Sundance. The actor is the childhood friend of, and a long-time collaborator with, writer-director…
24 years ago today, Reservoir Dogs, the debut from Quentin Tarantino, was released, bringing with it a vicious wake-up call to…
The MovieMaker staff was shocked and saddened to hear about the untimely passing of actor Anton Yelchin on Sunday, June…
Raising the stakes. That's what moviemaker Jeremy Saulnier does so well in his new film Green Room (read our full…
We've covered Green Room's director and cast in previous articles this week. Today we round out our exploration of Jeremy…
In Jeremy Saulnier's Green Room, a punk band dubbed The Ain't Rights (played by actors Anton Yelchin, Alia Shawkat, Joe…
Is there a more overused word in film journalism than "visceral?" The adjective is applied and misapplied with such frequency…
Does second album syndrome apply to moviemaking, too? Absolutely. It's one thing to cobble together favors and enthusiasm for your…
To ring in the new year here at MovieMaker, we're doing a little bit of a 2014 in Review thing,…
Prologue I’ve come to embrace the story of Blue Ruin as one of smashing success. My initial attempts to diminish…