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Jeff Baena’s Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie

The man behind Showtime's new anthology show Cinema Toast spent 12 years creating the best cookie in the world. Now you can make it yourself.

May 5, 2021

Three Great Things: Jeff Baena

The writer-director, whose found-footage anthology series Cinema Toast just hit Showtime, shares some of the things that bring him joy in life.

May 5, 2021

From One (Great) Man to Another: Darius Marder and the Story of Sound of Metal

Shannon Plumb on how her friend and fellow filmmaker came to make his acclaimed, double Oscar-winning drama.

May 4, 2021

Three Great Things: RJ Mitte

The Breaking Bad alum, whose inspirational new movie Triumph hits theaters today, shares some of the things he loves best in life.

April 30, 2021

Finding Limbo

Writer-director Ben Sharrock on how he made the first feature film to be shot on the Uists, a remote chain of islands 30 miles off the Scottish coast.

April 30, 2021

From Cupcakes to Kimmel, Movies and Beyond!

Maureen Bharoocha, whose new film Golden Arm is out Friday, traces her unlikely and eventful journey to the director's chair.

April 28, 2021

After Telling the Stories of Others, It’s Time to Find My Own

Anton: Circling Home director Katy Swailes on what moonlighting as a filmmaker has taught her about work, life and the nature of success.

April 27, 2021

On Meeting Monte Hellman

Caveh Zahedi recalls his encounters with the legendary director of Two Lane Blacktop, who passed away last week at the age of 91.

April 26, 2021

Three Great Things: Theo Rossi

The Sons of Anarchy fan favorite, soon to be seen in Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead, on fatherhood, running and creating awareness.

April 23, 2021

Terrifying. Unexpected. Beautiful: The Making of Concrete Cowboy

Writer-director Ricky Staub on the life-changing experience of making his Philadelphia-set debut feature, and the remarkable people he met on the way.

April 21, 2021

How One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Helped Me Embrace My Transmasculinity

Lane Michael Stanley, writer-director of Addict Named Hal, on how Ken Kesey’s book and its iconic film adaptation changed how they see gender.

April 19, 2021

Bonnie McKee Talks with Carlson Young on the Talkhouse Podcast

Hit songwriter McKee and actor Young discuss their mutual move into writing and directing, plus COVID, psychodrama, moving scams, and more.

April 15, 2021