“Whenever people are reverse-engineering a film [for an audience], the audience can fucking feel it,” director Jonathan Levine says, as we walk into the hotel…
Fox Searchlight Michael Keaton is an American treasure. We all love Michael Keaton. We may not all love White Noise or Desperate Measure, but no…
A $40,000 feature, which was rejected from Sundance, launched David Gordon Green’s career. Green wrote and directed his first picture, George Washington, at the age…
Crimson Peak is one costly horror movie. The Blumhouse model ‐ small risk, high reward ‐ has taken over the genre. We don’t see $20–30…
Universal Pictures We don’t see many movies like Crimson Peak nowadays. Not only because it’s not a sequel or a found-footage horror movie, but because…
Direct from Boyle’s panel promoting ‘Trance’ at the 2013 SXSW Film Festival, we compiled advice from the Oscar-winning director.
Screen Gems The Invitation is fantastic. There’s a reason why we haven’t shut up about the film since its South by Southwest premiere, because director…
RLJ Entertainment Patrick Wilson has starred in musicals, dramas, romantic comedies, action movies, and a comic book adaptation. Now, with Bone Tomahawk, the versatile actor…
Drafthouse Films The Keeping Room is a rare Western in that its main cast is women. Set toward the end of the civil war, the…