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The Yellowing Wallpaper of the 1990s

Director Megan Griffiths on '90s nostalgia, normalized predatory behavior and her new coming-of-age film, Year of the Fox.

August 19, 2025

On Nature and Creativity

The award-winning international actress, whose new film Went Up the Hill hits theaters today, on her connection to the wilds.

August 15, 2025

Music in the Key of Blue: How Making a Film About a Teen With Synesthesia Helped Me Discover My Own Neurodivergence

Writer-director Nicola Rose on the way in which her new film, Magnetosphere, suddenly became very personally resonant for her.

August 13, 2025

Hair Hopper For Life

Filmmaker Julia Marchese on two crowd-pleasers from 1988 that make an irresistible double bill: The In Crowd and Hairspray.

August 6, 2025

Please Don’t Ask Me That: Kelsey Taylor Interviews Herself

As her debut feature To Kill a Wolf hits theaters, writer-director Kelsey Taylor comes face to face with her harshest critic ...

August 1, 2025

Revisited: The Summer I Wanted to Be American

Canadian writer-director Philippe Lesage, whose new film Who By Fire came out earlier this year, looks back on a simpler time.

August 1, 2025

Revisited: Corvette Summer, A Hidden Gem of New Hollywood

Jim Hemphill celebrates the Blu-ray release of the 1978 film from the unheralded partnership of Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins.

July 30, 2025

Revisited: Bruce LaBruce’s Academy of the Underrated: Last Summer

LaBruce extols the virtues of Frank and Eleanor Perry’s shocking coming-of-age drama that captures the loss of innocence of the late 1960s.

July 28, 2025

Shadow Work: From Once Were Warriors to Angela’s Shadow

Writer-director Jules Arita Koostachin on the profound impact Lee Tamahori's 1994 film had on her and her new film, Angela's Shadow.

Revisited: How I Made Summer Night — Even Though the Money Fell Through a Week Into Shooting

Actor Joseph Cross on how he fulfilled a childhood ambition by directing his first movie, thanks to a crew who went above and beyond.

July 25, 2025

Revisited: Actor/Screenwriter Randy Russell Talks Onur Tukel’s Summer of Blood

It's all blood and fear and a lot of laughs as a schlubby Brooklyn loser gets his teeth into life after an encounter with a vampire.

July 24, 2025

Video Premiere: Samuel Habib’s My Inclusive Life

As his new feature, The Ride Ahead, premieres today on POV, Samuel Habib shares a personal video essay on his backstory.