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My Wife From Kazakhstan Saw Borat. I Interviewed Her About It.
October 25, 2020
When I first met Aigul Kaparova, the woman whom I would eventually marry, she told me she was from Kazakhstan.…
Hosts Samantha Loxley
October 16, 2020
In the new British horror film Hosts, Chekhov's gun is replaced a hammer, very unsubtly. Does it work? We debate in…
Yellow Rose Diane Paragas
October 13, 2020
In Yellow Rose, director Diane Paragas tells a story of a country-western loving girl whose dreams are threatened when her…
The Boys Season 2 finale
October 9, 2020
Here's a rundown of all the subtext and exploding heads in Season 2 of The Boys, Amazon Prime's volatile superhero…
Radha Blank Forty-Year-Old Version
October 9, 2020
Radha Blank wrote, directed, produced and stars in The Forty-Year-Old Version, in which she plays a struggling playwright who breaks…
Class Action Park interview with directors Chris Scott and Seth Porges
October 1, 2020
Action Park, focus of Class Action Park, didn't just give kids a sense of danger — it put them in…
Antebellum Bush + Renz Gerard Bush Christopher Renz
September 18, 2020
What does Antebellum, the new Janelle Monae horror film, add to Hollywood's confounding history of films dealing with slavery?
Superman 4 Superman IV The Quest for Peace Christopher Reeve Morgan Freeman
September 16, 2020
Superman IV — in which Morgan Freeman does not appear — helped make the actor an Oscar nominee and a…
DTF Alan Bailey
September 16, 2020
In DTF, British filmmaker Alan Bailey tries to help his airline pilot friend, "Christian" find love on Tinder after the tragic death…
Red sand Black Panther Chadwick Boseman
September 4, 2020
On Sunday, my wife and I spoke to our toddler about what happened to Chadwick Boseman, the actor who plays…
I'm Thinking of Ending Things Charlie Kaufman Jessie Buckley
September 3, 2020
In I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Charlie Kaufman returns to two of his main subjects: the struggle to communicate clearly,…
Project Power
August 27, 2020
Project Power, like recent Netflix action hits, doesn't just feel like a movie: It feels like the setup for future…
Shirley Shirley Jackson Elisabeth Moss Odessa Young Josephine Decker
August 21, 2020
The latest Low Key podcast covers Shirley, a film about the brilliant American Gothic author Shirley Jackson, played by Elisabeth…
Daryl Davis KKK Trump Klansmen Accidental Courtesy
July 31, 2020
Daryl Davis is a Black musician who has convinced 200 white supremacists to renounce their ways. He talks to us…
Amaryllis Fox Business of Drugs
July 30, 2020
The Business of Drugs host Amaryllis Fox says she 'can't help wonder whether legalization and regulation is the only real…
The Rental Dan Stevens Sheila Vand
July 24, 2020
Dan Stevens and Sheila Vand have a complictaed on-screen dynamic that fuels the suspense and horror in The Rental, the…
Blood Circus Santo Gold
July 22, 2020
Blood Circus failed to combine horror, wrestling and rock music into a feature-film. But it succeeded as one of the…
Do the Right Thing Low Key podcast
July 2, 2020
Do the Right Thing still feels sharply relevant after 31 years: Every group feels aggrieved, lashing out with both words
Eurovision Tupac David Dobkins Rachel McAdams Will Ferrell
July 2, 2020
Netflix's Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga was a return to form for director David Dobkins. He got…
June 26, 2020
I live in Tennessee. Keith Dennie, one of my Low Key Podcast co-hosts, lives in Texas. And another, Tim Molloy,
What is the Snyder Cut
June 1, 2020
The Justice League Snyder Cut will be released as an HBO Max exclusive sometime in 2021. In the latest Low…
We Summon the Darkness My Friend Dahmer Alexandra Daddario as Alexis, Amy Forsyth as Bev, and Maddie Hasson as Val
April 10, 2020
We Summon the Darkness and My Friend Dahmer, two of prolific director Marc Meyers latest films, offer almost opposite takes…
Marc Maron Lynn Shelton Sword of Trust
March 23, 2020
How Marc Maron and Lynn Shelton gained each other's trust before their collaboraton on Sword of Trust, which is now…
Parasite Bong Joon-ho Bret Easton Ellis
January 29, 2020
Parasite, Bong Joon-ho's Oscar-nominated thriller, challenges our sympathies throughout: Do we sympathize with the Kim family? Or the wealthy Parks?