After ‘The Hunger Games,’ Josh Hutcherson Got the Second Act He Always Wanted With ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s
“It’s kind of a funny thing,” Josh Hutcherson says, after I ask him how his day of press has been going so far. The actor, who is promoting the second installment in the Five Nights at Freddy’s film franchise, has…
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Music as Nourishment: Max Richter on Scoring “Hamnet”
Paul Mescal in Hamnet With Songs My Brother Taught Me (2015) and The Rider (2017), Chloé Zhao constructed tender epics out of prolonged time spent at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Much like her Oscar-winning Nomadland (2020), these…
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‘IT: Welcome to Derry’ Stars on Their Scariest On-Set Encounters: “I Crapped My Pants”
[Editor's note: The following contains spoilers for IT: Welcome to Derry.] Summary Co-Stars Blake Cameron James and Arian S. Cartaya were terrified by Bill Skarsgård in character as Pennywise. Will’s relationship with his military father is rocky, with haunting moments…
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âDiving Into the Mess and Chaos of Cinema Doesnât Have to Exist Apart from Care and Ethicsâ: Gabrielle Brady on The Wolves Always Come at Night
The Wolves Always Come Out at Night Gabrielle Brady’s The Wolves Always Come at Night follows Davaa and Zaya, a rural Mongolian couple with four young daughters whose dream to continue the traditional herding way of life they’d always known…
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Intercepted’s Noah Beck Dishes on Drayton and Dallas’ Romance and Why There Should Be a ‘Sidelined 3’
[Editor's note: The following contains major spoilers for Sidelined 2: Intercepted.] Summary 'Sidelined 2: Intercepted' deepens Drayton and Dallas' romance while injury, self-doubt and distance test whether they can make it last. Noah Beck was happy to get the opportunity…
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From Mail-Order to Online: Tom Davenport on Founding Folkstreams, the Pioneering Online Streaming Site
Tom Davenport filming Born for Hard Luck When I first discovered the works of Jean Rouch, Robert Gardner, and Timothy Asch—academic anthropologists who opted to make films rather than books about their research subjects—my appreciation of their work was hampered…
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I Gave Up a Lot of Stuff
[Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for Train Dreams] Summary Collider's Steve Weintraub talks with William H. Macy and Kerry Condon for Netflix's Train Dreams. Macy and Condon share when they first knew this movie would be special and Macy…
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Inner Landscapes: Tenzin Phuntsog on “Next Life”
An image of the Dalai Lama gives diasporic texture to an otherwise anonymous suburban American house; the camera tracks to the next room, where a father, mother, and son sit like statues. A Tibetan doctor arrives, and father Pala (Tsewang…
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The Star of Exciting New Drama ‘Manas’ Didn’t Know She Was the Lead Character Until Seeing the Movie
Summary Perri Nemiroff chats with Manas director Marianna Brennand after a Collider screening of the movie. During their Q&A, Brennand looks back on the ten years of research she did for the film, and also explains why she opted to…
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“It was Extremely Brutal”: Max Keegan on “The Shepherd and the Bear”
Yves Raspaud in The Shepherd and the Bear High in the Pyrenees, a centuries-old way of life approaches its twilight amid a controversial rewilding scheme. France’s government has for decades airlifted brown bears from Slovenia to repopulate those hunted out…
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“I Would Absolutely Be Scared”
[Editor's note: The following contains major spoilers for Talamasca: The Secret Order.] Summary In the AMC series 'Talamasca: The Secret Order,' Guy Anatole finds himself entangled with the Talamasca, uncovering family secrets and questioning everything he thought he knew. The…
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Steel Blue World: DP Dan Laustsen on “Frankenstein”
Guillermo del Toro and Jacob Elordi on the set of Frankenstein (Photo by Ken Woroner) Though Guillermo del Toro’s 1997 American studio debut Mimic was a notoriously unpleasant experience, the silver lining of that giant cockroach creature feature was the…
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