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Almost Love Mike Doyle gay romantic comedy gay rom-com
May 14, 2020
Almost Love by Mike Doyle is an ensemble gay romantic comedy, set in New York — and is something of…
Mads Mikkelsen Death Stranding
March 23, 2020
Death Stranding star Mads Mikkelsen shares 10 ways to command your audience and your career by thinking and acting radically.
Martin Scorsese Killers of the Flower Moon
February 18, 2020
Martin Scorsese says his next film, Killers of the Flower Moon, feels like a Western — a genre he's never…
Irishman Oscars shutout Scorsese
February 9, 2020
Is the Oscars' shut out of The Irishman the end of Netflix’s long, costly bid for a Best Picture Oscar?…
Alex Gibney Martin Scorsese
December 1, 2019
Alex Gibney says working with Martin Scorsese on the PBS documentary The Blues changed his career and his entire moviemaking…
The Mustang Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
November 5, 2019
As Martin Scorsese has made clear, his main problem with Marvel movies isn't that they are "not cinema." It's what…
Scorsese Marvel theme park invaded Irishman
October 13, 2019
Martin Scorsese discussed "theme park" movies and how they've "invaded" theaters in comments that are bound to be misinterpreted. Watch…
January 10, 2019
Divided into two distinctively wondrous halves, modern parable Happy as Lazzaro is a stroke of genius from Italian director Alice…
November 20, 2018
Manchester by the Sea earned Kenneth Lonergan an Oscar in 2016, and he's cashed in by spreading his influence back…
August 11, 2017
Good Time's one-sheet shows Robert Pattinson sporting a half-assed dye job and perched precariously on the lips of a larger-than-life…
July 21, 2017
“Cissé was urgent in expressing the need for African cinema to be preserved,” said Margaret Bodde, executive director of nonprofit…
March 14, 2017
Adapting boxing champ Jake LaMotta's life for the screen, says director Martin Guigui, involved a constant battle between hard facts…
February 22, 2017
Karla Souza is uninterested in pursuing work that perpetuates outdated depictions of Latinas in entertainment, thank you very much.
January 24, 2017
Ten of these empathetic films were picked by us, and five were chosen from the answers of our online readers…
January 11, 2017
Short scripts need a 100 percent workable structure. There's no room for slack or meandering. Take out all you don’t…
January 7, 2017
This thought-provoking, evocative video essay speculates that perhaps Martin Scorsese's camera is taking cues from a higher power.
January 3, 2017
Winter weather, the holidays, the end of 2016... All pretty damn cool. So was December 2016 on Moviemaker.com, the best…
January 2, 2017
A no-budget indie often demands the director be his or her own editor. The loss of a second pair of…
December 21, 2016
Liam Neeson is having a big week, with primary roles in both J. A. Bayona’s A Monster Calls and Martin…
December 6, 2016
Learn simple storyboarding technique to make your life easier during production from Star Wars: The Force Awakens and A Hologram…
November 14, 2016
Ben Younger’s Bleed For This was executive-produced by none other than Martin Scorsese. “Martin Scorsese is my rabbi,” Younger laughs.
Paul Schrader Dog Eat Dog
November 7, 2016
Paul Schrader, the screenwriter behind Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and many more, is an essential voice in American cinema, and…
October 24, 2016
"Theme" is a term that gets tossed around a great deal in the film world. So what do we mean…
October 11, 2016
Andrzej Wajda, the powerhouse purveyor of Polish cinema with a celebrated knack for devastating depictions of war-torn Europe, passed away…