I recently caught up with Joel Kim Booster and Andrew Ahn to chat about Fire Island's laugh-out-loud humor, romantic heart and social critique.…
Read MoreIt’s All Relative: Chicago Filmmaker Michael Glover Smith Examines Family at Crossroads
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Smith has crafted a funny and wistful observance on coming to terms with the passage of time and life between parents, adult children and siblings.…
Read MoreA renaissance of female filmmakers producing works of substance and volume with accomplished storytelling and filmmaking prowess suggests an industry sea change.…
Read MoreIn this landscape, sophisticated and discerning moviegoing audiences will be largely out of luck.…
Read MoreThe Oscars face diminished cultural relevance in a modern era where nominated films largely lack prestige and the notion of Hollywood grandeur has long since faded to black. Here's why.…
Read MoreI sat down with director/writer/producer Michael Angelo Covino and writer Kyle Marvin at Google HQ to discuss The Climb, their film about a tumultuous but enduring friendship.…
Read MoreInto the Wild: Benh Zeitlin on Filmmaking as Exploration of Faraway Lands, Childhood Wonders
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Benh Zeitlin’s Oscar-nominated, 2012 masterpiece Beasts of the Southern Wild was a preternaturally accomplished first feature, a richly evocative portrait of a young girl’s coming of age in a Louisiana delta that was part social, and part magical, realism. As a most deserving Best…
Read More“A Great Way to Live a Life”: Just Mercy Stars Karan Kendrick and Tim Blake Nelson on Illuminating Real-Life Drama
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In Just Mercy, young, Harvard-educated attorney Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) eschews a big law firm career in favor of starting a life-changing Alabama organization dedicated to exonerating wrongly accused death row inmates. It’s a strong, thoughtful and moving drama with as good an…
Read MoreFilmmaker Tom Harper on Flying High with The Aeronauts’ Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne
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Filmmaker Tom Harper on Flying High with The Aeronauts’ Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne Filmmaker Tom Harper is having quite a year, first with Wild Rose, about a Glasgow ex-con nursing a dream of becoming a Nashville country star, and now his new picture…
Read MoreTrey Edward Shults, Kelvin Harrison, Jr. and Taylor Russell Make Waves in Emotional Story of American Family
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Trey Edwards Shults’ emotional Waves begins with a swirling camera capturing a moment ripped out of life, or time, in the romance of a south Florida teen couple who, for a brief moment, have what seems like about everything. They are young, smart, popular and…
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