Interview: Joe Walker, Oscar-nominated film editor of ‘Widows’
Joe Walker is a two-time Oscar-nominated film editor who is responsible for cutting some of the best action and sci-fi films of this decade. Before... Read More
Film Festivals
Interview: Garrard Conley, author of ‘Boy Erased’
Garrard Conley is the author of the memoir Boy Erased, about his experience in a gay conversion camp, now a major motion picture set for... Read More
‘Green Book’ wins top Mill Valley Film Festival Audience Award; ‘The Hate U Give,’ ‘Boy Erased’ grab US Cinema honors
Fresh off its People’s Choice Award win at the Toronto International Film Festival last month, Peter Farrelly’s Green Book is now the Overall Favorite of... Read More
Interview: Barry Jenkins and KiKi Layne on ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ at the Mill Valley Film Festival
I caught up with Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) and his If Beale Street Could Talk star KiKi Layne at the closing night of the... Read More
AFI Fest adds world premiere of Sandra Bullock-Sarah Paulson s ‘Bird Box’ to Gala lineup
Netflix is making sure they’re dominating the festival season ahead of awards season and that now includes the world premiere of Susanne Bier’s dystopian thriller... Read More
AFI Fest Sets Nicole Kidman Tribute with ‘Destroyer’ Gala
The 2018 AFI Fest will host An Evening With Nicole Kidman. The event will include a conversation with the Academy Award-winning actress (The Hours) in a... Read More
Interview: Maggie Gyllenhaal on ‘The Kindergarten Teacher,’ complex women and taking what she wants
Maggie Gyllenhaal is no stranger to playing complex women on the verge of a personal awakening or exerting strength and confidence in a male-dominated world.... Read More
Alexander Valley Film Festival: The Little Festival That Could
Fall brings us three things every year like clockwork; Daylight Savings Time, pumpkin spice lattes and film festivals. It seems that new festivals pop up... Read More
8th Napa Valley Film Fest Lineup: ‘Green Book,’ ‘Vox Lux;’ Tributes to Laurence Fishburne, Geena Davis
Rising Star honorees include Taissa Farmiga, Billy Magnussen, Camila Mendes, Rosa Salazar, Tye Sheridan and Alexandra Shipp Festival to Close with Robin Williams: Come Inside My... Read More
‘Mary Queen of Scots,’ starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie, to close AFI Fest
Hot off the news that On the Basis of Sex would open AFI Fest as its world premiere, another Focus Features film that’s been absent... Read More
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