Why ‘One Piece’ Is the Show We Need Right Now, According to Director
The Big Picture The director, Marc Jobst, emphasizes the importance of the optimistic theme of following your dreams in the live-action adaptation of One Piece. Jobst aims to bring dimension to the characters and honor the emotional impact the series…
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One Piece Director Emma Sullivan Opens Up About Creating an Epic
The pressure was on for director Emma Sullivan, who was behind the camera for episodes three and four of One Piece, the new Netflix live action series based on Japan’s highest-selling manga series by Eiichiro Oda. “It was daunting. Huge.…
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Vacation Friends 2 Director Clay Tarver Talks Broadening the Playing Field
Vacation Friends found some great traction when it was released back in 2021. The plot found an uptight couple becoming unlikely friends with a frenzied duo while vacationing in Mexico. Things head south when they get back home. It wouldn't…
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‘The Creator’ and Its War Between Humans and Artificial Intelligence
The Big Picture The Creator is a sci-fi action thriller set in a future where humans and AI are at war, centering around ex-special forces agent Joshua who is on a mission to kill the Creator of advanced AI. Director…
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Antoine Fuqua Discusses the Epic Conclusion of The Equalizer 3
Denzel Washington takes a final bow as heroic vigilante Robert McCall in The Equalizer 3. Severely wounded after a mysterious mission in Sicily, an unconscious McCall is found by a kind policeman (Eugenio Mastrandrea). He's taken to the idyllic seaside…
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City Primeval’ Showrunners Break Down the Explosive Finale
The Big Picture Justified: City Primeval takes place 15 years after the original series, with Raylan Givens dealing with his teenage daughter and a violent sociopath. The showrunners discuss how they decided on the ending of the season finale, which…
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Perpetrator Writer-Director on Her Dark Coming-of-Age Feature
What did you anticipate doing when you turned 18? For millennials like myself, the prospect of buying tobacco and other legal contraband was already on the horizon, even if such practices didn't exactly interest me. In the U.S., you're typically…
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Scott Michael Foster on Netflix’s Interactive Rom-Com Choose Love
Note: This interview was conducted prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike.If you're a fan of Netflix's interactive content like Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, a new interactive movie is coming this month, and if romantic comedies are more your style, Choose Love should…
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“If We’re All Gonna Die…Then Why Wouldn’t You Take a Risk as an Artist?” Onur Tukel (Back To One, Episode 265)
Onur Tukel is a boldly independent writer-director-actor who, for more than a decade, has been making cutting edge comedies in New York City that sometimes land in the horror category, sometimes social satire, are often absurd, mostly hilarious and always…
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Piaffe Filmmaker and Artist Ann Oren on Her Experimental New Feature
Movies about movies are reliably engaging, especially for all those cinephiles and real-life filmmakers out there. They offer an insightful look into certain Hollywood professionals' line of work and how they go about contributing to the end result in their…
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Sung Kang Wants to Play THIS Iconic Slasher
The Big Picture Sung Kang may be widely known for his work in the Fast and Furious franchise, but he's also got a deep passion for horror. Kang channeled his love of classic creature movies like An American Werewolf in…
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Golda Director Guy Nattiv Discusses Helen Mirren and Current Israeli Politics
On October 6, 1973, Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel during the holiest days of Judaism. The Yom Kippur War was an existential threat to Israel's survival. Golda recounts Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir's defense of her…
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