‘Poker Face’ Showrunners Break Down Season 1’s Wild Finale
[Editor’s note: The following contains major spoilers for Season 1 of Poker Face.]Written by show creator Rian Johnson and directed by Janicza Bravo, the Season 1 finale of the Peacock original series Poker Face, called “The Hook,” brings it all…
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Five Questions for SXSW’s New Film & TV Festival Director Claudette Godfrey
Claudette Godfrey and Mark Hamill at the 2018 premiere of The Director and The Jedi at SXSW. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for SXSW) At this year’s edition of the SXSW Film & TV Festival, two significant milestones will be…
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Tim Roth and Jordan Oosterhoff on the Tragic Poetry of Punch
Punch, the New Zealand movie from filmmaker and academic Welby Ings, is a unique project. A boxing film that is ultimately against violence, Punch uses the testosterone and traditional masculinity of boxing to comment upon the bullying and prejudice that…
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Zazie Beetz, Josh Gad & Jay Ellis Talk History of the World, Part 2
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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Daniel Stisen Is Ripped and Raring to Go in The Siege
Blood and bruises, anyone? It’s a battle of will and grit in The Siege. Saban Film’s new action thriller is a relentless tour de force, mightily held up by its bulky leading man, Daniel Stisen (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Justice…
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“I Would’ve Shot the Telephone Directory of New York If Todd Had Asked Me To”: DP Florian Hoffmeister on TÁR
Cate Blanchett in TÁR According to cinematographer Florian Hoffmeister, writer/director Todd Field often expressed his desired aesthetic for TÁR in a series of repeated Field-isms: Let’s just witness. Don’t gild the lily. Don’t make it look like a movie with a…
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‘Champions’ Director Bobby Farrelly Discusses His Feel-Good Comedy
If comedy is your bag, chances are you’re a fan of Peter and Bobby Farrelly, better known as the Farrelly Brothers. The directing duo dominated the ‘90s and early 2000s with their “raucous” comedies, from the iconic Dumb and Dumber…
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Andy Serkis, Neil Cross, and Jamie Payne on the New Luther Movie
Luther was a critically acclaimed British series from the BBC which only became more beloved each season. Much of this is thanks to Idris Elba as the titular character, a brooding and brutal detective who becomes intertwined with the sexy…
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“Painting with Colors That Have Some Muddy Water in Them”: Costume Designer Quita Alfred on Women Talking
Women Talking Sarah Polley’s Women Talking tells a harrowing story of women in an isolated Mennonite colony attempting to find justice in the wake of vicious abuse by the men of their community. Adapted from Miriam Toews’ 2018 novel, which…
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Camila Morrone & Suki Waterhouse on ‘Daisy Jones & The Six’ and Band Bonds
[Editor’s note: The following contains some spoilers for Daisy Jones & The Six.]Based on the best-selling novel of the same name from Taylor Jenkins Reid, the Amazon Studios/Hello Sunshine series Daisy Jones & The Six tells the story of the…
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Jingyi Shao on ‘Chang Can Dunk’ and Telling a Story for His Younger Self
There’s nothing quite like a feel-good sports film. Their stories can inspire even the most unathletic of us, teaching us that our dreams are possible and that we can reach them if we just try hard enough. With a terrific…
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Noah Jupe Discusses His Lead Role in The Magician’s Elephant
The Magician’s Elephant is just one of the many great book-to-film adaptations from Netflix. Some other acclaimed examples include Oscar-favorite Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio and Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical. And now, The Undoing star Noah Jupe has joined in…
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