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May 29, 2022
The Taking director Alexandre O. Philippe examines the problematic history of Western cinema — but he doesn't want to cancel…
April 17, 2018
Behind Warwick Thornton's laid-back persona and dry sarcasm is an equally unmistakable anger—a rage that simmers beneath the rapturous visuals,…
December 27, 2017
“Life is nasty and brutish and short.” “Thomas Hobbes said that,” explains Scott Cooper, the director of possibly the most…
May 11, 2017
Knowing when a visual is appropriate is just as important as the description itself. Here are the dos and do…
April 3, 2017
For the moviemakers featured in our slate of content throughout March 2017, resourcefulness was the name of the game. Whether
March 13, 2017
John Ford's The Searchers effectively depicts romance while hardly showing any intimacy at all. This breakdown of the film's first…