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Melissa B. Miller Costanzo

I Missed My Kid’s Birthday. Am I Officially a Director Now?

As her new movie, The List, comes out, Melissa B. Miller Costanzo ponders the price of making it to the big time.

Movies With My Mom: Hustlers

Hustlers may well have been a critical hit and a smash at the box office, but Mel and her mother are a little harder to please ...

Movies with My Mom Dad: Booksmart

Could anything go wrong by switching up the tried-and-tested format of this column and swapping one parent for another? In a word, yes.

Movies With My Mom: Long Shot

You know that thing where you suggest a film to your mother because you're convinced she'll like it, but then ... well, it doesn't really pan out?

Movies With My Mom: The Beach Bum

Mel and her mother see Harmony Korine's wild new movie, and together conceive a brilliant new business idea: McConaughey’s Banana Hammocks.

Movies With My Mom: Can You Ever Forgive Me?

In their second attempt at finding a movie they both like, Melissa and her mother go see another awards season biopic that's not Green Book.

Movies With My Mom: Bohemian Rhapsody

In this new column, Miller Costanzo lets her mother pick the movie they are going to watch, despite their very different tastes ...

What I Learned Working On If Beale Street Could Talk

The writer-director of the forthcoming All These Small Moments shares wisdom from being part of the art department on Barry Jenkins' latest.