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Barry Jenkins and the Fearless, Heartbreaking Honesty of Moonlight

Aaron Stewart-Ahn's deeply personal take on one of the most moving and important American films of recent years.

October 24, 2016

Protesting HBO’s Mogadishu, Minnesota and Why Filmmakers Must Not Take Ownership of Others’ Stories

Musa Syeed on the cable giant's new show now shooting in Cedar-Riverside, and his own film, A Stray, which he made about the same community.

October 21, 2016

The Problem with Spoiler Culture

Clay Liford tries to work through his issues with the current fixation on spoilers and get to the root of why it all annoys him so much.

October 20, 2016

Damn You, Hollywood, For These Unrealistic Expectations

Sasha Gordon, writer-director of It Had to Be You, on those disappointing moments when life falls short of the movies.

October 18, 2016

Motherhood Made Me Invisible. Making My First Film Made Me See Myself Again.

Hope Dickson Leach on her struggles to combine parenthood and a filmmaking career, and how her debut feature, The Levelling, has changed her.

October 17, 2016

The Missing Masterpiece of the Found-Footage Horror Genre

Jim Hemphill bangs the drum for Michael Goi's Megan is Missing, the one found-footage movie he thinks is worth a damn.

October 14, 2016

Black-Masked Bands, Cannibals, Deranged Old Men and Other Highlights of Fantastic Fest

Writer-director Zach Clark recounts his adventures, both on and off screen, at the beloved genre film festival in Austin, Texas.

October 13, 2016

Video Essay: Mr. Holland’s Opus — What Music Is?

Kentucker Audley continues his series of video essays with a new entry that focuses on the classic '90s drama starring Richard Dreyfuss.

October 12, 2016

Why The Larry Sanders Show is the Greatest Comedy TV Series Ever

Daniel Schechter on the late Garry Shandling's innovative, iconoclastic sitcom and its special place in television history.

October 11, 2016

Queen of Katwe Is a Movie You Should Be Supporting. Why Are People Not Seeing It?

Terence Nance on Mira Nair's Disney movie about a young Ugandan chess prodigy, a film that's as uplifting as it promises to be.

October 10, 2016

Why We Must Rethink the Metrics of Success (When Even Stranger Things Can’t Rescue a Film from Obscurity)

Alex Ross Perry ponders the problems caused by the non-disclosure of digital film sales numbers and the inability of movies to stand out on VOD.

October 7, 2016

Some Spoken Word Poetry and General Euphorics in Praise of Issa Rae and Insecure

Stephen Winter waxes lyrical about the brilliant young comedic voice and her new HBO show, the first ever to be fronted by an African-American woman.

October 6, 2016