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The Secret Soundtrack to My Debut Feature

Film
By Max Talisman | May 16, 2025
By Max Talisman | May 16, 2025

The Secret Soundtrack to My Debut Feature

Writer-director-actor Max Talisman shares a definitive mixtape of the love songs that shaped his film Things Like This, which opens today.

Changing the Narrative of How Asians are Represented on Screen

Film
By Joy Hopwood | December 22, 2021
By Joy Hopwood | December 22, 2021

Changing the Narrative of How Asians are Represented on Screen

Asian-Australian writer-director Joy Hopwood on her journey from seeing Joy Luck Club as a teen to making her new film Rhapsody of Love.

How I Got Hook-ed on Movies

Film
By Jonah Feingold | September 10, 2021
By Jonah Feingold | September 10, 2021

How I Got Hook-ed on Movies

Dating & New York’s Jonah Feingold on how dyslexia and Spielberg’s misunderstood masterpiece made him the filmmaker he is today.

I’m on a Train with a Hangover, But By God, I Will Fulfill My Obligation to Write This Talkhouse Piece About My New Movie, Long Shot!

Film
By Jonathan Levine | May 3, 2019
By Jonathan Levine | May 3, 2019

I’m on a Train with a Hangover, But By God, I Will Fulfill My Obligation to Write This Talkhouse Piece About My New Movie, Long Shot!

Director Jonathan Levine on the movies/other things that inspired (or didn’t) his latest slam-dunk cinematic experience, in theaters now.

Negin Farsad (The Muslims are Coming!) Talks Leslye Headland’s Sleeping With Other People

Film
By Negin Farsad | September 17, 2015
By Negin Farsad | September 17, 2015

Negin Farsad (The Muslims are Coming!) Talks Leslye Headland’s Sleeping With Other People

Can this New York City-set post-hipster romantic comedy succeed in giving us that gooey high we want?

Victor Levin (5 to 7) Talks the Death of the Romantic Comedy: Was It Murder or Suicide?

Film
By Victor Levin | March 28, 2015
By Victor Levin | March 28, 2015

Victor Levin (5 to 7) Talks the Death of the Romantic Comedy: Was It Murder or Suicide?

The veteran writer/producer turned director asks why one of our most beloved movie genres is currently in such a perilous state.

Actor/Screenwriter Randy Russell Talks Marc Lawrence’s The Rewrite

Film
By Randy Russell | February 12, 2015
By Randy Russell | February 12, 2015

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?

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