Jessie Mei Li Talks ‘Shadow and Bone’ Season 2 Finale and Season 3
[Editor’s note: The following contains major spoilers for Season 2 of Shadow and Bone.]In Season 2 of the Netflix series Shadow and Bone, which is based on the best-selling Grishaverse novels from Leigh Bardugo, Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li) knows…
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Inside Director Vasilis Katsoupis on His Artful Willem Dafoe Thriller
Inside is an enigmatic little film that toes the line between art film and survivalist thriller. Willem Dafoe is incredible as an art thief named Nemo, essentially the only character in the film, who gets trapped in a swanky penthouse…
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32 Days with Willem Defoe on a Virtual Volume Set: Vasilis Katsoupis on Inside
Willem Dafoe in Inside A thief breaks into a Manhattan penthouse filled with priceless art. Trapped by a high-tech security system, unable to communicate with the outside world, he must figure out a way to survive. At the same time,…
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Inside Director Vasilis Katsoupis on Creating Robinson Crusoe in a Highrise
Have you ever wondered what the concept of Robinson Crusoe would look like in a modern Manhattan apartment? Well, wonder no more! The Willem Dafoe-led psychological horror Inside tackles that very premise when an art thief (Dafoe) gets trapped inside…
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David Stassen & Alice Mathias on Sketch Comedy
If you’d said to any Mel Brooks fan even three years ago that we’d finally be getting a long-awaited sequel to History of the World, Part I, the epic parody film that took audiences through all of human history, they’d…
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Extrapolations Star Tahar Rahim Says Series Creator Scott Z. Burns Is Intelligent and Concerned
“When I first read episode six, which is one of my main episodes in Extrapolations, I felt like this part was gold,” beamed Tahar Rahim (The Serpent) of starring in Apple TV+’s bold, timely, and sublime new limited environmental drama…
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Bruce Campbell Talks ‘Evil Dead Rise,’ Bruce-O-Rama, & ‘Highly Functional’
Few Hollywood celebrities can claim to have done as much for horror as Bruce Campbell. In the role of Ash Williams, Campbell helped filmmaker Sam Raimi to turn The Evil Dead into one of the most beloved franchises ever, spawning…
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Phoenix Film Festival 2023: An Interview with Jason Carney
Flickreel speaks with our old friend Jason Carney about the Phoenix Film Festival. This year’s slate includes movies about Michael J. Fox, Judy Blume, and (at long last) Nicolas Cage as a vampire! Q: The Phoenix Film Festival is kicking…
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Exclusive: Writer/Director Lagueria Davis Talks SXSW 2023 Premiere of Black Barbie: A Documentary
For filmmaker Lagueria Davis, the 12-year journey with Black Barbie: A Documentary started — virtually accidentally, but, in hindsight, somewhat serendipitously — with her aunt, Beulah Mitchell. A Texas-native, Davis stayed with her aunt (who lived in California) when she…
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Freddie Prinze Jr. on ‘That Was Pretty Scary’ & His Horror Influences
Freddie Prinze Jr. loves horror movies. Whether it’s the classic slashers that everyone knows or an obscure Korean horror film few people have ever heard of, he can go long on all of it. He’s certainly no stranger to the…
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Strange New Worlds Celia Rose Gooding & Melissa Navia on Season 2
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds warped onto Paramount+ last year and took us back to the Enterprise before it was captained by Kirk. The fifth Star Trek series currently in production, Strange New Worlds follows Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount)…
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‘Tetris’ Movie Director Jon S. Baird Discusses the Unbelievable True Story
When you think of Tetris, one of the most significant achievements in video game history, the 8-bit classic probably doesn’t evoke thoughts of the Soviet Union and the KGB. In filmmaker Jon S. Baird’s (Filfth) Tetris, starring Taron Egerton, everything…
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