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April 9, 2020
Dave Chappelle, it turns out, inspired a scene in Dolemite Is My Name in which Wesley Snipes' character worries about…
March 24, 2020
Destin Daniel Cretton says Just Mercy, with Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx, is very accurate, thanks to Bryan Stevenson
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…
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…
January 15, 2020
For the fans of Parasite, MovieMaker recommends the 2013 film, Human Capital, which equally blends comedy and thriller elements in…
January 14, 2020
Watching 1917 in 2020 was a jarring experience for me: My broken attention span isn't used to watching continuous, unbroken…
January 14, 2020
Margot Robbie researched her Bombshell role with some help from Twitter. She also talks about working at Subway and a…
December 21, 2019
Victoria Mahoney, second unit director of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, spoke to us about discovering Star Wars as…
December 19, 2019
Anthony McCarten has a big surprise on the very first page of his The Two Popes script: It's funny. He…
December 12, 2019
Black Christmas, the new film from director Sophia Takal, focuses in on the misogyny portrayed in the original, which largely…
December 2, 2019
Bret Easton Ellis, one of our most interesting film critics, reviews likely Oscar contenders The Irishman, Marriage Story and Parasite…
November 27, 2019
Citizen K director Alex Gibney shares how the 2016 election forced him to investigate Russia's role in the world and…
November 20, 2019
Director Jennifer Reeder wanted her debut feature Knives and Skin "to be a feminist film where at the center of…
November 19, 2019
The Waves soundtrack is unlike any other. Director Trey Edward Shults takes us through the songs to decode them track…
November 13, 2019
Queen & Slim creators Lena Waithe and Melina Matsoukas began their collaboration on the Master of None story episode "Thanksgiving."
November 9, 2019
Edward Norton says that Wes Anderson is the exception to the rule that most moviemakers work with their composers too…
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…
November 4, 2019
"Burning Cane" director Phillip Youmans won a Tribeca Film Festival award for his debut film at just 19. It premieres…
October 12, 2019
El Camino solves several of the mysterious Vince Gilligan left at the end of Breaking Bad, but Gilligan uncharacteristically leaves…
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.