film reviews
Brea Grant (Best Friends Forever) Talks Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland’s Still Alice
A deeply personal look at this moving portrait of an Alzheimer's patient featuring an Oscar-nominated performance from Julianne Moore.
Jim Hemphill (The Trouble with the Truth) Talks Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper
A filmmaker who became a director because of Clint Eastwood considers the retired actor's latest effort behind the camera.
Barry Jenkins (Medicine for Melancholy) Talks Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Blending fantasy and reality, this soaring, star-studded success reveals a different side to the virtuosic Mexican master.
David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints) Talks Richard Linklater’s Boyhood
On a plane going to the other side of the world, the Texas filmmaker tries to Linklater's long-gestating masterpiece.
Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s What We Do in the Shadows
Two Kiwi comic geniuses mash up Christopher Guest and the vampire genre to create a cinematic sitcom about the bourgeois undead.
Actor/Screenwriter Randy Russell Talks Marc Lawrence’s The Rewrite
A light-hearted love story featuring characters in their fifties -- could this be a post-rom-com? Or even a revisionist rom-com?
Zach Clark (White Reindeer) Talks Spike Lee’s Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
The iconoclastic director's "newest, hottest joint" was crowdfunded on Kickstarter but sourced from a '70s cult classic. Will the backers be happy?
Leah Shore (Old Man) Talks Mike Mitchell and Paul Tibbitt’s The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
The NYC-based animator and director paints a vivid picture of the new big screen outing for a TV toon favorite.
Film Composer Daniel Hart (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints) Talks Jody Lee Lipes’ Ballet 422
By showing rather than telling, this documentary about a brilliant emerging choreographer reveals the genesis of, and passion behind, a new ballet.
Clay Liford (Earthling) Talks Andy and Lana Wachowski’s Jupiter Ascending
The Wachowskis' new space opera delivers "Chihuahua Face," absurd character names, apathetic supporting villains, and a retro '90s plot and ideology.
Scott Cummings (Buffalo Juggalos) Talks Aleksei German’s Hard to Be a God
Almost three hours in length and close to 15 years in the making, a Russian medieval sci-fi epic finally hits the big screen.
Jennifer Prediger (Apartment Troubles) Talks Marjane Satrapi’s The Voices
On a cross-country flight, an actress and writer-director ponders a darkly funny new movie and the dueling voices she herself hears in her head...











