Interview: ‘Swallow’ director Carlo Mirabella-Davis
Writer-director Carlo Mirabella-Davis has made one of 2020’s most interesting films thus far with Swallow, a story of a pregnant housewife with pica disorder, the... Read More
Interviews
Interview: Going where no woman has gone before – ‘Star Trek: Picard’ director Hanelle Culpepper
There is no better time to catch up with all the great content that is available on the streaming services. One of the more exciting... Read More
Interview: John Leguizamo on ‘Critical Thinking’ and Making Latinx Stories
John Leguizamo has been a storyteller since the late 1980s, with close to 150 acting credits in the last 30 years. He’s an Emmy-winning actor... Read More
Interview: Ed Burns, Writer/Producer of HBO’s ‘The Plot Against America’
Ed Burns, a former Baltimore detective and public school teacher, has together with David Simon written and produced some of TVs greatest shows, including HBO’s The Wire. The Philip Roth novel... Read More
Interview: Oscar winner Alicia Vikander on ‘The Glorias’ and finding her voice
After more than a decade in the industry, and post-Oscar win, Alicia Vikander speaks to new AwardsWatch correspondent Christina Birro of Pop Culture Confidential about... Read More
Interview: ‘Ford v Ferrari’ production designer François Audouy
Production designer François Audouy has a way with monsters. His previous production designs include Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, The Wolverine, Dracula Untold, and Logan and... Read More
Interview: From tactics to scale, Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes talks ‘1917’
NOTE: This interview discusses in detail several story elements of the upcoming Universal Pictures release, 1917, written and directed by Sam Mendes. An accomplished theatrical and motion picture director and... Read More
Interview: ‘Klaus’ director Sergio Pablos on his unique take of a classic Christmas story
Frozen II isn’t the only animated movie taking aim at families this Christmas season. Klaus, from Netflix, tells Santa Claus’s origin story and features voice... Read More
Interview: Jérémy Clapin, director of award-winning animated film ‘I Lost My Body’
The slightly surrealistic, slightly fantastic and slightly romantic French animated film I Lost My Body is making a lot of noise, especially with critics, who... Read More
Interview: Film editor Lee Smith on making ‘1917’ look seamless
Oscar-winning film editor Lee Smith is no stranger to challenges. Known for his collaborations with Christopher Nolan, Smith has worked on seven of the director’s... Read More
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Interview: ‘A Poet’ filmmaker Simón Mesa Soto on How His Literary Madcap Comedy Came to Be 
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