film essay

Comedian Mary Houlihan, whose The Mary Houlihan Show is now streaming, on her experiences rewriting Thoreau.

David Moscow traces his journey from child actor to producer to the host of the new Peacock food show From Scratch.

Documentary filmmaker Rachel Elizabeth Seed shares post-Sundance reflections after the festival’s last ever edition in Park City.

Writer Laura Hunter Drago and director Jacob Combs give us the inside track on their collaboration on the new short film Tradwife.

Will Thwaites on the curious chain of events that led to his new film Crime & Parody, which premieres at Big Sky this weekend.

Samantha Smart, the writer, producer and star of Charliebird, on how music shaped her and her work as a filmmaker.

Filmmakers Timour Gregory and Sasha Schneider on their new documentary, Beam Me Up, Sulu — and why Star Trek is still important.

Writer-director Emma Higgins shares some of the tracks that underpin her new music-centric film Sweetness, which is in theaters now.

Former TV writer Jon Stahl on the unlikely genesis of his new comedy web series, Casen Pointe: True Crime Detective.

Newly returned from Sundance, Sandbox Films' Jessica Harrop on her attempts to reconceive what science documentaries can be.

Janek Ambros on how studying the iconic director - and getting personal advice from Coppola himself - has guided him in his film career.

A year after David Lynch’s death, filmmaker Robert Kolodny reveals the idiosyncratic way he has been processing the loss of the iconic auteur.