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Dolemite Is My Name Dave Chappelle Wesley Snipes D'Urville Martin
April 9, 2020
Dave Chappelle, it turns out, inspired a scene in Dolemite Is My Name in which Wesley Snipes' character worries about…
How Accurate Is Just Mercy Destin Daniel Cretton Jamie Foxx Michael B. Jordan podcast Just Mercy Is Very Accurate Bryan Stevenson
March 24, 2020
Destin Daniel Cretton says Just Mercy, with Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx, is very accurate, thanks to Bryan Stevenson
Rishi Rajani Queen & Slim Lena Waithe Hillman Grad contact
January 15, 2020
Rishi Rajani knows what it's like to climb the rungs in Hollywood: The president of Lena Waithe's Hillman Grad Productions…
tenet in a theater
January 15, 2020
Let's nerd out on 2020 movies, from Tenet to Birds of Prey to Black Widow to Chris Rock's take on…
Parasite Human Capital Kustendorf
January 15, 2020
For the fans of Parasite, MovieMaker recommends the 2013 film, Human Capital, which equally blends comedy and thriller elements in…
1917 Birdman Russian Ark Alfred Hitchcock Rope
January 14, 2020
Watching 1917 in 2020 was a jarring experience for me: My broken attention span isn't used to watching continuous, unbroken…
Margot Robbie interview Bombshell
January 14, 2020
Margot Robbie researched her Bombshell role with some help from Twitter. She also talks about working at Subway and a…
Victoria Mahoney Star Wars the Rise of Skywalker
December 21, 2019
Victoria Mahoney, second unit director of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, spoke to us about discovering Star Wars as…
Two Popes Anthony McCarten ABBA Dancing Queen
December 19, 2019
Anthony McCarten has a big surprise on the very first page of his The Two Popes script: It's funny. He…
Sophia Takal Black Christmas
December 12, 2019
Black Christmas, the new film from director Sophia Takal, focuses in on the misogyny portrayed in the original, which largely…
irishman easter eggs
December 2, 2019
Bret Easton Ellis, one of our most interesting film critics, reviews likely Oscar contenders The Irishman, Marriage Story and Parasite…
Alex Gibney
November 27, 2019
Citizen K director Alex Gibney shares how the 2016 election forced him to investigate Russia's role in the world and…
Knives and Skin Jennifer Reeder
November 20, 2019
Director Jennifer Reeder wanted her debut feature Knives and Skin "to be a feminist film where at the center of…
Waves soundtrack Trey Edward Shults Waves soundtrack Trey Edward Shults
November 19, 2019
The Waves soundtrack is unlike any other. Director Trey Edward Shults takes us through the songs to decode them track…
Thanksgiving, Queen & Slim, Lena Waithe, Melina Matsoukas
November 13, 2019
Queen & Slim creators Lena Waithe and Melina Matsoukas began their collaboration on the Master of None story episode "Thanksgiving."
Edward Norton Motherless Brooklyn
November 9, 2019
Edward Norton says that Wes Anderson is the exception to the rule that most moviemakers work with their composers too…
Harriet Tubman Kasi Lemmons Cynthia Erivo
November 5, 2019
Kasi Lemmons notes that Harriet doesn't focus on the physical horrors of slavery, and the acclaimed director said that's very…
Phillip Youmans Burning Cane
November 4, 2019
"Burning Cane" director Phillip Youmans won a Tribeca Film Festival award for his debut film at just 19. It premieres…
Breaking Bad El Camino opening scene river
October 12, 2019
El Camino solves several of the mysterious Vince Gilligan left at the end of Breaking Bad, but Gilligan uncharacteristically leaves…
MovieMaker Coolest Film Festival Festivals
October 1, 2019
Block-rockin’ parties, boundary-pushing programming, and awesome oddities abound: These are the 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World in 2019.
September 26, 2019
Jim Hemphill’s The Art and Craft of TV Directing reassesses the old adage that TV is a “writer’s medium," urging…