Alex Arabian

Alex Arabian is a Bay Area entertainment journalist. His work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, 48 Hills, Slash Film, Slant Magazine, The Playlist, Film Inquiry, and Pop Matters. Check out his portfolio on makingacinephile.com.

Interview: From ‘Succession’ to ‘Inventing Anna,’ Arian Moayed is changing the stereotypes of Middle Eastern and Western Asian roles for actors [VIDEO]

With the success of Succession and his television series The Accidental Wolf, Tony-nominated actor Arian Moayed has rapidly become a… Read More

February 9, 2022

Interview: Janicza Bravo on the no-frills freedom of adapting ‘Zola,’ processing trauma, and immortalizing A’Ziah King

Actor. Writer. Producer. Editor. Janicza Bravo may be a jill-of-all-trades, but she works most prolifically as a director, and remains… Read More

December 24, 2021

Interview: Javier Bardem reflects on ‘Being the Ricardos,’ the film’s fast shoot and his own Communist roots

Descending from a long line of prominent film industry voices, acting flows through Javier Bardem's blood. Once a determined street… Read More

December 20, 2021

Interview: Danny Glover meditates on the themes of his new film ‘The Drummer,’ leftist politics and American history

San Francisco native Danny Glover was raised by union workers front and center of the West Coast Counterculture movement, so… Read More

November 8, 2021

‘The Velvet Underground’ review: Music doc from Todd Haynes brilliantly reintroduces important counterculture voices to a new generation [Grade: A] (Mill Valley Film Festival)

Much like the eponymous band it explores, The Velvet Underground defies documentary narrative conventions by focusing on its themes, first… Read More

October 15, 2021

Interview: Todd Haynes on the experimental artistry of ‘The Velvet Underground’ and the timelessness of radical counterculture

Filmmaker Todd Haynes has always admired glam rock and the experimental, proto-punk scene of the 1960s and 1970s. The rebellious,… Read More

October 14, 2021

Why The Shimmer in ‘Annihilation’ is an allegory for the U.S.’s foreign policy [Retrospective]

Alex Garland’s sophomore directorial feature, Annihilation, explores the ideas of corruption, destruction, and rebirth. Throughout the film, The Shimmer, also… Read More

October 4, 2021

Martin Scorsese’s timeless ‘Boxcar Bertha’ and the Marxist undertones of his often overlooked early classic [Retrospective]

1972’s Boxcar Bertha is an often overlooked, critically debated entry into Martin Scorsese’s filmography, mostly because it is a departure… Read More

October 1, 2021

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