‘One Battle After Another’s Ambitious Edit by Andy Jurgensen Sends Paul Thomas Anderson’s Film to the Oscars
Every great filmmaker will be the first to admit that it's rarely a solo endeavor and that the strength of the story is served by the collaborators they are fortunate enough to have along for the ride. And in the…
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âWhat Does a Thing Provide You With?â: Amanda Kramer on the Props and Interiors in By Design
By Design “I have never seen the problem with fetishizing objects and fetishizing people as though they were objects,” director Amanda Kramer tells me in a conversation ahead of the release of her latest film, By Design. “It doesn’t mean…
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HGTV’s D’Arcy Carden and Sherry Cola Reveal the Most Unexpected Vacation Spot on New American Travel Show
Summary D'Arcy Carden & Sherry Cola tour outrageous, rentable stays across America on HGTV's Wild Vacation Rentals. HGTV's Wild Vacation Rentals features American destinations including caves, missile silos, castles, candy lands, and even a potato. The Nobody Wants This stars…
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âIâm a Reactorâ: Stellan SkarsgÃ¥rd, Back To One, Episode 382
Stellan Skarsgård is a celebrated Swedish actor whose career spans more than five decades across European and Hollywood cinema. He first gained attention in Scandinavia before becoming an international screen presence in films such as Breaking the Waves and Good Will Hunting. He…
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Jessica Chastain Reveals Her Favorite Films by Nolan, Spielberg, Scorsese, and Kubrick
Summary Collider's Steve Weintraub speaks with Jessica Chastain for Dreams. In this interview, Chastain discusses power, privilege, and intimacy for her latest role in Michel Franco's new erotic thriller. She also shares her favorite films from filmmakers like Christopher Nolan…
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The Sommelierâs Amulet: Nick Corirossi and Armen Weitzman on The Napa Boys
The Napa Boys “The Napa Boys—you’ve always known them, and they’re back.” It’s the kind of premise you could imagine only a very tired person nodding along with, but the way The Napa Boys—the new comedy from comedians Nick Corirossi…
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‘School Spirits’ Just Changed Everything for Maddie and Her Mom But Peyton List Warns “You’re Going to Be So Heartbroken”
[Editor's note: The following contains spoilers for School Spirits, Season 3, Episode 7, “Midsomester."]They’re really putting Peyton List’s Maddie Nears through it in School Spirits. In Season 1, she had to solve the mystery of her own death, and then…
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âI Wanted the Film to Have the Vignetted Existence of a Fableâ: Sarmad Sultan Khoosat on his Genre-bending Berlinale Premiere Lali
Lali A bullet grazes the shin of matriarch Sohni Ammi (Farazeh Syed) at her beloved son’s wedding. It was a celebratory bullet; shooting guns into the air replaces fireworks in this part of provincial Pakistan. Even though Sohni Ammi just…
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‘The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins’ Most Unexpected Twist Yet Rewrites the Sitcom
Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for ‘The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins’ Episode 2 Summary In an interview with Collider, Tracy Morgan and Erika Alexander unpack Episode 2’s major pivot, including the fallout from Reggie’s so-called “food poisoning”…
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The Passion of Amir Naderi
Credit: Amir Naderi Amir Naderi is on the move. I connected with the Iranian filmmaker over WhatsApp on a chilly February morning, or at least morning where I am. He’s calling me from Rome, which is the second stop on…
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‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Showrunner Ira Parker Says George R.R. Martin Has “Only Been a Benefit” While Filming Season 2
[Editor's note: The following contains major spoilers for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.]In the season finale of the HBO series A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, set in Westeros a century before the events of Game of Thrones, hedge…
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âThe Underbelly of Lagosâ: Olive Nwosu on Lady
Lady Lady, the titular lead of Olive Nwosu’s neo-noir feature debut about a taxi driver’s gradual solidarity with a group of Lagosian sex workers, possesses a piercing gaze. She’s not scanning you as much as she is preemptively fending you…
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