Comic-Con 2018: Jason Liles on Playing the Beasts of Rampage and Godzilla: King of...
by Nell Minow July 23, 2018 | Print Page Tweet Only an actor with a lot of skill and screen charisma can hold his own opposite Dwayne Johnson, but Jason Liles was able to...
Forever Contemporary: Julie Taymor on the Rerelease of “Across the Universe”
by Matt Fagerholm July 23, 2018 | Print Page Tweet “This is a movie that fires its songs like flowers at the way we live now,” wrote Roger Ebert in his euphoric four-star review of...
You Have to Be Smart to Survive: Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal on Blindspotting
by Matt Fagerholm July 16, 2018 | Print Page Tweet I first saw Carlos López Estrada’s Sundance hit, “Blindspotting,” during the week ABC cancelled its highest-rated show, “Roseanne,” after racist statements were posted on Twitter...
The World's Biggest Elsie Fisher Fan: Bo Burnham on Eighth Grade
by Allison Shoemaker July 11, 2018 | Print Page Tweet Kayla puts videos on YouTube. In them, she stutters, and smiles, and makes her clumsy way through good, if well worn, advice, shared with the...
A Long Journey: Charlie Plummer on Lean on Pete
by Brian Tallerico July 10, 2018 | Print Page Tweet It’s been four months since I first saw it at SXSW, but one of the performances that has stuck with me this year is that...
Translating into Poetry: Boots Riley on Sorry to Bother You
by Nick Allen July 9, 2018 | Print Page Tweet A cultural hit ever since its first showing at last January’s Sundance Film Festival, Boots Riley’s enigmatic “Sorry to Bother You” is now a...
A Big Impact: Peyton Reed on Ant-Man and the Wasp
by Peter Sobczynski July 4, 2018 | Print Page Tweet “Ant-Man and the Wasp” may lack the humongous scale of “Avengers: Infinity War” or the self-conscious snakiness of “Deadpool 2” but it does contain...
KVIFF 2018: Denis O’Hare, Stephen Moyer and Anna Paquin on The Parting Glass
by Matt Fagerholm July 3, 2018 | Print Page Tweet During one of the funnier sequences in Stephen Moyer’s feature directorial debut, “The Parting Glass,” a bemused yet grief-stricken man, Danny (Denis O’Hare), regards...
KVIFF 2018: Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie on Leave No Trace
by Matt Fagerholm July 1, 2018 | Print Page Tweet When Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie was preparing to tackle a daunting role in Robert Sarkies’ 2014 drama, “Consent: The Louise Nicholas Story,” her parents decided...
A Dope Gift To Have: Lil Rel Howery on Uncle Drew and Get Out
by Matt Fagerholm June 27, 2018 | Print Page Tweet Few final sequences in recent cinematic memory have pleased audiences quite as deeply as the ending of Jordan Peele’s “Get Out.” It is a moment...
