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Aaron Katz (Land Ho!) Talks Maclain Way and Chapman Way’s The Battered Bastards of Baseball

By Aaron Katz | July 15, 2014

Aaron Katz (Land Ho!) Talks Maclain Way and Chapman Way’s The Battered Bastards of Baseball

I wish The Battered Bastards of Baseball were half as rowdy as its subject matter. The film examines the Class A Portland Mavericks...

Nancy Savoca (Dogfight) Talks Aarón Fernández’s The Empty Hours

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By Nancy Savoca | July 14, 2014

Nancy Savoca (Dogfight) Talks Aarón Fernández’s The Empty Hours

In the Mexican independent production The Empty Hours, 17-year-old Sebastián and twentysomething Miranda spend...

Screenwriter Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith (Legally Blonde) Talks Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens’ Land Ho!

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By Kirsten Smith | July 11, 2014

Screenwriter Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith (Legally Blonde) Talks Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens’ Land Ho!

I may not be the target demographic for Land Ho!, but my parents are. I was lucky enough to watch the film with my folks...

Nancy Savoca (Dogfight) Talks Steve James’ Life Itself

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By Nancy Savoca | July 9, 2014

Nancy Savoca (Dogfight) Talks Steve James’ Life Itself

The psychologist James Hillman writes about our attraction to biographies in his book The Soul’s Code...

Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up Philip) Talks Scott Derrickson’s Deliver Us From Evil

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By Alex Ross Perry | July 8, 2014

Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up Philip) Talks Scott Derrickson’s Deliver Us From Evil

“From the director of Sinister.” Sold. Scott Derrickson’s Sinister was not only one of my favorite films...

Joe Swanberg (Happy Christmas) Talks Ben Falcone’s Tammy

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By Joe Swanberg | July 7, 2014

Joe Swanberg (Happy Christmas) Talks Ben Falcone’s Tammy

I walked to my neighborhood theater to see Tammy last night, excited to finally catch one of Melissa McCarthy’s movies.

Ian Harnarine (Doubles with Slight Pepper) Talks Ann Druyan and Steven Soter’s Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

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By Ian Harnarine | July 4, 2014

Ian Harnarine (Doubles with Slight Pepper) Talks Ann Druyan and Steven Soter’s Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

The best television show this year was not True Detective or Mad Men or Girls or something on any cable channel...

Mark Rappaport (From the Journals of Jean Seberg) Talks Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer

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By Mark Rappaport | July 1, 2014

Mark Rappaport (From the Journals of Jean Seberg) Talks Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer

I never liked science-fiction movies. I always thought they were propaganda for a neat, tidy, immaculately designed future...

Tim Sutton (Pavilion) Talks Michael Bay’s Transformers: Age of Extinction

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By Tim Sutton | June 30, 2014

Tim Sutton (Pavilion) Talks Michael Bay’s Transformers: Age of Extinction

One of the greatest artists in the history of the universe, Thelonious Monk, was once asked why his compositions were so complex, so dense...

Jim Hemphill (The Trouble with the Truth) Talks Clint Eastwood’s Jersey Boys

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By Jim Hemphill | June 27, 2014

Jim Hemphill (The Trouble with the Truth) Talks Clint Eastwood’s Jersey Boys

Clint Eastwood's Jersey Boys made me almost unbearably nostalgic, but not in the ways you might think.