We discussed pulling off the tonal balance, casting Ryan Reynolds, moving from animation to live-action, the importance of directorial control, how the film feels like a drug experience, her recent favorite films, and much more....
Film festivals sometimes treasure specific directors for reasons that remain unfathomable to external observers. The Berlinale’s continued advocacy of Isabel Co...
Just moments after wrapping up Sundance 2015, South by Southwest have unveiled their feature line-up for this year's event. The major titles are heavy on come...
A strong and impressive debut, Take Me To The River was one of the most accomplished features we saw at Sundance. Telling the story of a teenager Ryder (Log...
Early on in Kris Swanberg's Unexpected, inner-city school teacher Samantha Abbott (Cobie Smulders) finds out that she's pregnant. The timing's off, as the Chica...
We talk with the director of one of 2015's best films about audience reaction, his lack of interest in psychoanalyzing his characters, and why The Duke of Burgundy is a “party-pooper film.” ...
While I certainly won't evoke Chicken Little, and while the box office was down this year, the sky is not totally falling cinematically. But if we're speaking...
This weekend, New York City's Film Society of Lincoln Center is kicking off one of the finest, most comprehensive retrospectives of the year with Let There ...
While we discuss a breadth of films each year, few things give us more pleasure than the arrival of bold, new voices in the world of filmmaking. It's why we venture to film festivals and pore over a variety of different features in order to bring to light emerging talent. This year was an especially notable time for new directors making their stamp and today we're highlighted the fifteen debuts that most impressed us....
