I caught up with Hannah Marks and Mia Isaac for a chat on the film’s multiple, ambitious agendas and their enthusiasm about their futures, which appear limitless, in the American movie industry.…
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It is difficult to believe that only two short years ago theatrical exhibition was writing its obituary during lockdowns as studios pulled or postponed their theatrical slates in favor of new distribution models, premiering first-run pictures simultaneously, or altogether, on streaming platforms and radically…
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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.…
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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.…
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A renaissance of female filmmakers producing works of substance and volume with accomplished storytelling and filmmaking prowess suggests an industry sea change.…
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In this landscape, sophisticated and discerning moviegoing audiences will be largely out of luck.…
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The 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.…
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I 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.…
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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…
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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…
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