David Stassen & Alice Mathias on Sketch Comedy
If you’d said to any Mel Brooks fan even three years ago that we’d finally be getting a long-awaited sequel to History of the World, Part I, the epic parody film that took audiences through all of human history, they’d…
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Extrapolations Star Tahar Rahim Says Series Creator Scott Z. Burns Is Intelligent and Concerned
“When I first read episode six, which is one of my main episodes in Extrapolations, I felt like this part was gold,” beamed Tahar Rahim (The Serpent) of starring in Apple TV+’s bold, timely, and sublime new limited environmental drama…
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Bruce Campbell Talks ‘Evil Dead Rise,’ Bruce-O-Rama, & ‘Highly Functional’
Few Hollywood celebrities can claim to have done as much for horror as Bruce Campbell. In the role of Ash Williams, Campbell helped filmmaker Sam Raimi to turn The Evil Dead into one of the most beloved franchises ever, spawning…
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Phoenix Film Festival 2023: An Interview with Jason Carney
Flickreel speaks with our old friend Jason Carney about the Phoenix Film Festival. This year’s slate includes movies about Michael J. Fox, Judy Blume, and (at long last) Nicolas Cage as a vampire! Q: The Phoenix Film Festival is kicking…
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Exclusive: Writer/Director Lagueria Davis Talks SXSW 2023 Premiere of Black Barbie: A Documentary
For filmmaker Lagueria Davis, the 12-year journey with Black Barbie: A Documentary started — virtually accidentally, but, in hindsight, somewhat serendipitously — with her aunt, Beulah Mitchell. A Texas-native, Davis stayed with her aunt (who lived in California) when she…
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Freddie Prinze Jr. on ‘That Was Pretty Scary’ & His Horror Influences
Freddie Prinze Jr. loves horror movies. Whether it’s the classic slashers that everyone knows or an obscure Korean horror film few people have ever heard of, he can go long on all of it. He’s certainly no stranger to the…
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Strange New Worlds Celia Rose Gooding & Melissa Navia on Season 2
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds warped onto Paramount+ last year and took us back to the Enterprise before it was captained by Kirk. The fifth Star Trek series currently in production, Strange New Worlds follows Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount)…
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‘Tetris’ Movie Director Jon S. Baird Discusses the Unbelievable True Story
When you think of Tetris, one of the most significant achievements in video game history, the 8-bit classic probably doesn’t evoke thoughts of the Soviet Union and the KGB. In filmmaker Jon S. Baird’s (Filfth) Tetris, starring Taron Egerton, everything…
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Damian Lewis & Guy Pearce on Playing Secret Agents
Imagine finding out your best friend of nearly thirty years had completely betrayed you and everyone else they loved, for the entirety of your friendship. That’s the concept behind MGM+’s newest thriller series, A Spy Among Friends, except the tensions…
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The Magic Flute Director and Star on Their New Mozart-Laced Fantasy
From executive producer Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, 2012) comes a unique new film that's laced with music by a little-known composer named Mozart. The Magic Flute follows a teen on two journeys: one into a prestigious boarding school to fulfill…
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‘Scream 6’ Directors on Which Character Names Are Real and Which Are Fake
[Editor's note: The following contains spoilers for Scream VI.] In Scream, Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich) and Stu Macher (Matthew Lillard) were two Woodsboro High School students who thought they had concocted a winning plan to kill their classmates, frame Sidney’s…
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‘The Last of Us’ EP Craig Mazin on Season 1 Changes and Season 2 Plans
[Editor's note: The following contains spoilers for Season 1 of The Last of Us.]From writers/executive producers Craig Mazin (Chernobyl) and Neil Druckmann (who also wrote the video game of the same name), the HBO series The Last of Us explores…
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