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Kris Swanberg (Unexpected) Talks Victor Levin’s 5 to 7

This charming, old-style romance with comedic touches offers a look at a very unusual marital setup, but does it deliver on its premise's promise?

April 6, 2015

Jim Hemphill (The Trouble with the Truth) Talks Matthew Modine’s Full Metal Jacket Diary Audiobook

The actor's memoir about working on Kubrick's penultimate movie provides insight into the great director, Modine himself and '80s Hollywood life.

April 4, 2015

Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze) Talks Josef Kubota Wladyka’s Manos Sucias

A Spike Lee protégé makes an impression with his debut feature, an intense moral thriller that puts a human face on South American drug trafficking.

April 3, 2015

Brandon Colvin (Sabbatical) Talks Hal Hartley’s Ned Rifle

One of the leading lights of '90s American independent cinema has been out of the spotlight for years. But his new film should change all that.

April 2, 2015

Zach Clark (White Reindeer) Talks Abel Ferrara’s Welcome to New York

The latest film from one of indie cinema's most vital directors is not, in fact, his film at all. And that's the problem.

April 1, 2015

Rick Alverson (Entertainment) Talks Kornél Mundruczó’s White God

The writer/director shares his thoughts while watching the Hungarian filmic fable that won the Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes last year.

March 30, 2015

Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) Talks Anja Marquardt’s She’s Lost Control

This psychosexual thriller, about a sexual surrogate and the unhinged client who gets too close, conjures up a convincingly depressing world.

March 27, 2015

Bill Plympton (Cheatin’) Talks Dave Boyle’s Man from Reno

The legendary animator (and sometime live-action director) becomes enmeshed in this serpentine thriller that's US-based but foreign in its mentality.

March 26, 2015

Clay Liford (Wuss) Talks Tommy Wiseau’s The Neighbors

The man who made arguably the best bad movie of the 21st century has finally returned with a TV series. But does it disappoint in the right way?

March 25, 2015

Jennifer Phang (Advantageous) Talks Robert Schwentke’s The Divergent Series: Insurgent

The director of a new female-driven sci-fi indie finds resonance in the second part of the futuristic trilogy based on Veronica Roth's YA novels.

March 24, 2015

TV Writer Chris Goodwin (Lucas Bros. Moving Co.) Talks Lee Daniels and Danny Strong’s Empire

The mixture of nighttime soap, family drama and gangster saga attracted ever-increasing audiences, and Fox's new year hit may get even better.

March 23, 2015

Dave Boyle (Man from Reno) Talks Pierre Morel’s The Gunman

A Liam Neeson fanatic goes to see the latest entry in the Great One's canon (except it's actually Sean Penn who's in this one, not Liam).

March 20, 2015