Director Matt Ruskin on Taking Inspiration From ‘Zodiac’
In the early 1960s, a killer terrorized the city of Boston, taking the lives of 13 women. Nearly a decade before the term “serial killer” was coined, two investigative reporters, Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole, wrote a piece on the…
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Willem Dafoe Talks Filming ‘Inside’ and Preparing for ‘Nosferatu’
Willem Dafoe is one of the greatest actors of our time, and he's well known for taking roles that are both outside the box and outside of the comfort zone of a lot of actors. His next role, Nemo in…
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“Sometimes You Just Get Incredible Access”: Liza Mandelup on Caterpillar
Caterpillar. David desperately wishes to change the color of his eyes. Thanks to an experimental procedure peddled by an Indian company called BrightOcular, his fantasy of physical transformation might actually manifest. Documentary filmmaker Liza Mandelup (who made our 25 New…
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The Magician’s Elephant Director, Producer, and Novelist Discuss Their New Netflix Film
"Animation is cinema. Animation is not a genre," said filmmaker Guillermo del Toro during his Oscar acceptance speech for Pinocchio. And now, coming to Netflix on March 17 is a new animated offering. The Magician's Elephant is based on Newbery…
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Jessie Mei Li Talks ‘Shadow and Bone’ Season 2 Finale and Season 3
[Editor’s note: The following contains major spoilers for Season 2 of Shadow and Bone.]In Season 2 of the Netflix series Shadow and Bone, which is based on the best-selling Grishaverse novels from Leigh Bardugo, Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li) knows…
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Inside Director Vasilis Katsoupis on His Artful Willem Dafoe Thriller
Inside is an enigmatic little film that toes the line between art film and survivalist thriller. Willem Dafoe is incredible as an art thief named Nemo, essentially the only character in the film, who gets trapped in a swanky penthouse…
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32 Days with Willem Defoe on a Virtual Volume Set: Vasilis Katsoupis on Inside
Willem Dafoe in Inside A thief breaks into a Manhattan penthouse filled with priceless art. Trapped by a high-tech security system, unable to communicate with the outside world, he must figure out a way to survive. At the same time,…
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Inside Director Vasilis Katsoupis on Creating Robinson Crusoe in a Highrise
Have you ever wondered what the concept of Robinson Crusoe would look like in a modern Manhattan apartment? Well, wonder no more! The Willem Dafoe-led psychological horror Inside tackles that very premise when an art thief (Dafoe) gets trapped inside…
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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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