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All of You Review – An Unapologetic Tale of What It Means To Be Messy and Human
In recent years, we have seen a host of gracious movies about lost love.
Months later, Pablo Berger's Robot Dreams similarly strolled onto the scene, sinking into people's souls through its benevolent depiction of a fleeting encounter between two friends whose companionship lasted just one sweet summer.
We Live in Time Review – A Sincere, Effervescent and Intimate Tale of How We Use Our Time Here
Time is our most precious commodity, and in John Crowley's latest we get an intimate look at how we choose to exchange our 86,400 seconds each day can ultimately impact the course of our lives.
INTERVIEW: “We Really Want People To Have Permission to Enjoy” – Michael Jackman Discusses New Film Conclave
Conclave held on until late August to kick off its festival run, debuting at the prestigious Telluride Film Festival, an exclusive event held each year high up in the mountains in Colorado across Labor Day weekend.
INTERVIEW: “It’s Hard To Hate up Close” – Josh Greenbaum Discusses His New Film Will & Harper
The great American road trip has long been a cornerstone of cinema. From Little Miss Sunshine to Nomadland, audiences have, for years, been swept away in scenic landscapes, watching meditatively as family and friends fall more in love, know one another more deeply, and learn something new about themselves in return.
Joker Folie à Deux Review: Joker 2 Is the Very Thing It Is Trying To Reject
Todd Phillips' sequel is a baffling and boring mishmash of thoughtless platitudes.
INTERVIEW: Director Behind New Prime Video Docuseries "Evolution of the Black Quarterback" Details Reasons for Telling the Story Now
History was made on February 12, 2023, when the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles stepped into State Farm Stadium in Arizona, making Jalen Hurts and Patrick Mahomes the first Black starting quarterbacks to compete against one another in 57 years of the Super Bowl.
INTERVIEW: Max and Sam Eggers on Directing The Front Room, Casting Kathryn Hunter, and Musicals
The debut film of directors Max and Sam Eggers, The Front Room, hit theaters this weekend, starring Brandy as Belinda and Kathryn Hunter as Solange, a mother/daughter-in-law duo at odds as Solange's health declines.
INTERVIEW: Andrew Burnap on The Front Room, the Horror Genre, and New Snow White
This week, twin brothers Max and Sam Eggers are releasing their directorial debut, The Front Room, adapted from Susan Hill's short story from her collection 'The Travelling Bag and Other Ghostly Stories'.
INTERVIEW: “I Hope People See the Human Potential Behind the Walls” – Greg Kwedar Discusses His New Film Sing Sing
In 2005, at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, the men of the Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA): Prison Arts Programs performed Breakin' the Mummy's Code, a play penned for them by Brent Buell, who now serves as co-producer on Greg Kwedar's new film, Sing Sing.
Our introduction to the ensemble in Kwedar's film happens through an ex...
INTERVIEW: “This Is To Help People” - The Inspiring Story Behind New Documentary The Mountain Within Me
"Our subconscious draws us to stories that we need to evolve," director Polly Steele shares with me when we sit down to discuss her latest documentary, The Mountain Within Me, a 90-minute tale of overcoming adversity and the power of community through the lens of one man.
The Mountain Within Me documents Ed's journey to recovery, now dealing with Brown-Sequard Syndrome, a r...
Borderlands Review: A Lifeless Cash Grab That Doesn’t Respect Itself or the Audience
In a recent interview, Vince Vaughn divulged a not-so-well-kept Hollywood secret: studios are all-in on IP-driven storytelling.
"The people in charge don't want to get fired more so than they're looking to do something great," he told Sean Evans during a spicy episode of Hot Ones.
Twisters Review: Lee Isaac Chung Delivers an Epic Summer Spectacle
Lee Isaac Chung – who charmed us in 2020 with his Oscar-winning indie Minari – has traveled one state to the west for his first big-budget studio movie Twisters, a loving reboot of Jan de Bont's 1996 Twister, who follows two close-to-divorce storm chasers on a mission to create a weather alert system.
Longlegs: How NEON Marketed the Horror Film of the Year
On January 5 this year, independent film production and distribution company NEON dropped a 36-second teaser on YouTube titled "Every year there is another".
No film title. No cast. No release date. Just a photo and a cryptic scrawl of symbols on the end slate to inform that something was coming. We didn't yet know what – or who – it was, but NEON had piqued our interest.
INTERVIEW: “Is That Meryl Streep?” — Longlegs’ Editors Recall People Seeing Nicolas Cage for the First Time
"When the footage came in, it was very surprising to see Cage for the first time," Graham Fortin tells me over a Zoom call from the edit suite he shares with Greg Ng.
In the background, screens glow the signature red of Longlegs, the latest film the duo have cut: a serial killer Silence of the Lambs-esque joint marketed to perfection by indie darling NEON, who have taken the "scariest movie of the decade" reviews and spun them into gold, teasing out the question everyone wants an answer to: "Who is Longlegs, and what does he look like?"
Longlegs Review: Nicolas Cage Crawls Under Your Skin in This Hypnotic, Unnerving Tale
Longlegs, gaining its traction from the hyperbole spilling out of early screenings, is marketed as "the scariest film of the decade".
The tale from Osgood Perkins about the eponymous serial killer and the FBI agent chasing him down has caught the eye of everyone looking for a thrill at the theater this summer.