Discovery Season 5 Cast Says Goodbye and Share Favorite Memories
They have boldly gone where no Star Trek has gone before. Literally. We’re talking 930 years in the future. But Star Trek: Discovery (affectionately known as Disco) will be remembered for more than that innovative Season 2 plot twist. Showrunner…
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“Sometimes the Cinema is Here To Make You Watch Something You Don’t Want to Watch”: Director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire on Asphalt City
Asphalt City With his features Johnny Mad Dog and A Prayer Before Dawn — the former a breakneck, road-to-ruin chronicle of child soldiers in war-torn Liberia and the latter a visceral portrait of a British expat, imprisoned in Thailand on a…
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Liam Neeson on Joining Old Friends for His New Movie and ‘Naked Gun’ Nerves
The Big Picture Filmed and set in North Ireland, "In the Land of Saints and Sinners" is a character-driven thriller with violent showdowns and contemplative moments. The film stars Liam Neeson as a retiring contract killer facing a deadly collision…
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Director Alice Rohrwacher Explains Her Creative Process in La Chimera
La Chimera tells the entrancing story of Arthur (Josh O'Connor), a wounded British archaeologist who loots Etruscan graves with the tombaroli (or tomb robbers) in a desperate search to find his lost love, Beniamina (Yile Vianello), in '80s Tuscany. The…
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Fluid(s) Filmmaking: Lance Oppenheim and Daniel Garber on Spermworld
Spermworld (courtesy of FX) Like Lance Oppenheim‘s first feature, 2020’s Some Kind of Heaven, his follow-up Spermworld follows three nonfiction protagonists through a niche American context. Heaven focused on three residents of The Villages, a retirement community in Florida that’s the…
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Olivia Colman Discusses Her Favorite Profanity in Wicked Little Letters
Summary Olivia Colman shares her love for profanity in the uproariously funny and cheeky comedy Wicked Little Letters. The film dives into a scandalous tale set in 1920s England, filled with expletives, shocking declarations, and a central mystery. Director Thea…
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How Karan Soni & Roshan Sethi Went from Raya to Making Movies
The Big Picture Collider’s Perri Nemiroff sits down with the team behind A Nice Indian Boy at SXSW 2024. Karan Soni, Sunita Mani, Zarna Garg, and director Roshan Sethi discuss their experience bringing the story of “a gay Indian man…
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Shooting in ILM’s New StageCraft Volume Virtual Production Facility: DP Pierre Gill on Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Walter Scobell in Percy Jackson and the Olympians In the first season of Disney+’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians, the titular teenaged demigod and his compatriots travel across the country, with stops from St. Louis to Las Vegas, on a…
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Discovery Season 5 Explained by Sonequa Martin-Green
Sonequa Martin-Green is all kinds of emotional. The Star Trek: Discovery star is jazzed about discussing the action-packed fifth and final season of the hit Paramount+ sci-fi series. But she’s also sentimental about this Trek's end game. “It was certainly…
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Dan Stevens Explains “Kong Necking” in ‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire’
The Big Picture Learn how the human stars of Godzilla x Kong shape their performances around co-stars that aren't physically there. Director Adam Wingard's understanding of the film's epic, psychedelic, and weird nature gives actors confidence to have fun. The…
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Femme Cast and Directors Peel Discuss Their Neo-Noir Thriller
Summary Femme is a queer thriller that explores the complexities of revenge, masculinity, and anxiety in LGBTQ+ spaces. The film, a directorial debut from Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping, delves into the blurred lines between victim and predator.…
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“I Operate From a Trans Lens, or Frame, as Though It Is the Only Choice Available”: Jules Rosskam on Desire Lines
Desire Lines For me, watching Jules Rosskam’s Desire Lines, which won this year’s Sundance Special Jury Award in the NEXT competition, was a cinematic breath of fresh air. The experimental feature combines no holds barred interviews with transmen (of all…
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