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Riley Stearns (Faults) Talks Ariel Kleiman’s Partisan

A longtime fan of one of the best short filmmakers around dives into his much-anticipated debut feature.

October 5, 2015

Talkhouse Film Contributors Talk Watching Movies Under the Influence

Because sometimes seeing a film straight just isn't the right choice...

David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints) Talks Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario

A procedural set against the backdrop of the war against drugs, Villeneuve's new movie is powerful, unsettling stuff.

October 2, 2015

Lloyd Kaufman (The Toxic Avenger) Talks Ondi Timoner’s Brand: A Second Coming

This doc portrait of a revolutionary, messianic narcissist takes on added resonance if viewed during and juxtaposed with the Pope's recent U.S. visit.

October 1, 2015

Shannon Plumb (Towheads) Talks Nancy Meyers’ The Intern

Some thoughts on Meyers' latest comedy, the elderly, the pleasure of the old school, this generation's hyperactive multi-tasking, and Robert De Niro.

September 30, 2015

Jeff Reichert (Remote Area Medical) Talks Jafar Panahi’s Taxi

In the concluding part of his trilogy made since being banned from filmmaking, the Iranian director continues to show invention and spirited defiance.

September 29, 2015

TV Writer Chris Goodwin (China, IL) Talks Scott Cooper’s Black Mass

A Boston native who grew up during the time of Whitey Bulger's reign sizes up this movie about the mobster's legend.

September 28, 2015

Jim Hemphill (The Trouble with the Truth) Talks Texasville, the Greatest Sequel That Hardly Anybody Saw

25 years after its release, it's time for a critical reappraisal of Peter Bogdanovich's unfairly dismissed follow-up to his most famous film.

September 26, 2015

Julia Pott (Belly) Talks Tony McNamara’s Ashby

Is it a retired hitman movie or an upbeat teen romcom? Either way, it's Emma Roberts' Eloise who gets the fan art.

September 25, 2015

Milcho Manchevski (Before the Rain) Talks Daniel Barber’s The Keeping Room

This feminist revisionist Western has a compelling and brilliantly constructed opening sequence, but can the rest of the film build on that promise?

September 24, 2015

Alex Ross Perry (Queen of Earth) Talks Eli Roth’s The Green Inferno

After more than half a decade away, the Splat Pack director returns with a disgusting, vile, morally dubious cannibal movie. Yes, it's that good.

September 23, 2015

Actor/Screenwriter Randy Russell Talks Robert Cohen’s Being Canadian

A potential future Canadian resident scopes out the country through this doc by an L.A.-living Canuck comedy writer.

September 22, 2015