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An Interview with E. Max Frye
E. Max Frye is an Academy Award nominated screenwriter and director known for Something Wild, The Alienist, Where the Money Is, and...
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oliverjlwebb
- Jun 14, 2022
- 3 min
An Interview with Bill Kelly
Bill Kelly is an actor known for his work on Bloodline, The Banker and Hillbilly Elegy. I spoke with Bill about landing his first role,...
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Alex Harper
- Jun 3, 2022
- 4 min
Film of the Week: Men
Director Alex Garland and star Jessie Buckley call out the #NotAllRoryKinnears argument in this divisive, gnarly, feminist folk horror.
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Alex Harper
- May 13, 2022
- 3 min
Film of the Week: We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, and it’s a surprising trip in Jane Schoenbrun’s horror-drama on gender dysphoria and online subculture.
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Alex Harper
- Apr 30, 2022
- 3 min
Film of the Week: Happening
The “quiet one” of French independent cinema’s 2021 surge, Audrey Diwan’s Happening is harrowing, important, and deserving of more fanfare.
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oliverjlwebb
- Apr 28, 2022
- 8 min
An Interview with Dedee Pfeiffer
Dedee Pfeiffer is an actor known for her work on Vamp, Cybill, Falling Down, and Frankie and Johnny. She currently stars as Denise on Big...
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oliverjlwebb
- Apr 13, 2022
- 7 min
An Interview with Cynda Williams
Cynda Williams is an actor known for her work on One False Move, Mo’ Better Blues, Tales of The City, and Introducing Dorothy Dandridge....
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oliverjlwebb
- Mar 31, 2022
- 6 min
An Interview with editor Carole Kravetz Aykanian
Carole is an editor known for her work on acclaimed films and series such as The Morning Show, Ghost World and The Affair. She has...
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oliverjlwebb
- Mar 29, 2022
- 4 min
90s rock And Black Eyeshadow: The Genius of Pattinson's Batman
By Danielle Momoh I have always been unable to take the concept of Batman seriously. It was not the fact that Batman’s superpowers are...
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Alex Harper
- Mar 6, 2022
- 3 min
Film of the Week: Petrov’s Flu
In light of world events, we look at Kirill Serebrennikov’s anti-Kremlin Russian parable—where a flu epidemic wrecks havoc on Yekaterinburg.
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oliverjlwebb
- Mar 1, 2022
- 3 min
Actor Jamie Robson on The British Weird Wave
You're accredited with helping spearhead a film movement that’s been labelled 'The British Weird Wave.' Could you tell me more about it...
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oliverjlwebb
- Feb 27, 2022
- 3 min
Suspiria (1977): A fever you don't want to sweat out
By Danielle Momoh Two girls tread water in a pool, one whispering strange revelations to the other. We view them from overhead, the...
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oliverjlwebb
- Feb 11, 2022
- 5 min
An Interview with Neraida Bega
Neraida Bega is an actor and mocap actor known for her work on WandaVision, American Bred, APEX Legends, and the upcoming film Dog. I...
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Alex Harper
- Feb 10, 2022
- 3 min
Film of the Week: Flee
An Afghan refugee’s story of how he arrived alone in Denmark aged 15 is told in Flee, Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s powerful animated documentary.
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oliverjlwebb
- Feb 3, 2022
- 5 min
An Interview with Lotte Munk
Lotte Munk is an actor known for The Idiots, The Bridge and The Killing. I spoke with Lotte about training at the Drama School at Aarhus...
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oliverjlwebb
- Jan 27, 2022
- 7 min
Director Julian Schwandner on his short film, Anamesa
Anamesa is an atmospheric representation of the connection the three friends Maria, Markos and Julian share with the same island in...
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oliverjlwebb
- Jan 22, 2022
- 5 min
The Matrix Resurrections—A Failed Blade Runner 2049?
By Evelio Zavala What made The Matrix trilogy work is why The Matrix Resurrections fails: timing. In 1999, it was the turn of a new...
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Alex Harper
- Jan 18, 2022
- 3 min
Film of the Week: The Humans
Walls groan, light bulbs detonate, figures stare in from outside windows. In Stephen Karam’s The Humans, home is a nightmare for the lonely.
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oliverjlwebb
- Jan 17, 2022
- 2 min
Shut up and deal: Billy Wilder’s 1960 classic, The Apartment
By Mae Brando The first time I came across The Apartment would’ve been during the colder month of January back in 2018. It was perfectly...
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oliverjlwebb
- Jan 6, 2022
- 5 min
An Interview with DP Ruairí O'Brien
Ruairí O'Brien is a cinematographer known for his work on Dating Amber, The Fall, Five Minutes of Heaven, The Winter Lake, and Line of...
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