Máiréad Tyers on Extraordinary, Hulu’s Inventive New Comedy
At first glance, Hulu’s new series Extraordinary may look like half of Friends but with a perky pet, and just as fun. Jen, Carrie, and Kash are 20-something London flatmates with a mysterious stray cat named Jizzlord. But there’s more…
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Andrea Riseborough Addresses Overspending on Oscar Campaigns
Home Movie News ‘To Leslie’ Star Andrea Riseborough Addresses the Problem of Overspending on Oscar Campaigns "I was promoting four films this year, two of which had huge platforms behind them and a lot of muscle. This is not one…
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That ’90s Show Creator Gregg Mettler on Nostalgia, Casting, and the Show’s Future
It says a lot about the machinations of culture that there was so much anticipation for That '90s Show, considering that the previous That '70s Show spin-off, That '80s Show, was a single-season flop. That's because the 2020s are a…
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“I Like to Channel Musicality Into the Act of Editing”: Editor Adam Dicterow on Mutt
Mutt, courtesy of Sundance Institute. Feña (Lío Mehiel) is a 20-something trans guy living in Brooklyn in Mutt, the feature debut from writer-director Vuk Lungulov-Klotz. His life is instantly thrown into tumult when a series of people reenter his life…
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Actress Travina Springer Talks Sundance Premiere of To Live and Die and Live
Those who have been to Sundance Film Festival can attest to how excitingly chaotic the event can be, especially for those who are there to work. Between the weather-related challenges of it being held atop the mountainous Park City, Utah…
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Anne Hathaway & More on a Story That’s “Not Everyone’s Cup of Tea”
The film adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh’s award-winning debut novel is here and it features a stacked team of creators both in front of and behind the lens. Thomasin McKenzie leads Eileen as the title character, a young woman living in…
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“I Like To Edit Ideas, Not Sequences”: Editor Geraldine Mangenot on Other People’s Children
Virginie Efira and Callie Ferreira Goncalves in Other People's Children In Other People’s Children, the latest from director Rebecca Zlowtowski, a woman in her 40s named Rachel (Virginie Efira) grapples with the idea of being a mother—as well as the…
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Jason Woliner Bids Farewell to Paul T. Goldman
This article contains spoilers for the Peacock series Paul T. Goldman.We love fiction, and yet it so often erases what's seemingly real; it's a double-edged sword that way, fighting against the doldrums we despise, but cutting into our capacity to…
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Shortcomings’ Randall Park & Justin Min on Telling a New Asian American Story
Adapted from the graphic novel of the same name, Shortcomings marks Ant-Man and Always Be My Maybe actor Randall Park’s feature directorial debut at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Directed off a script penned by the original story’s author, Adrian…
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The Team Behind Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out Discuss Their Sundance Premiere
The 2023 Sundance Film Festival was just days away when director Jake Van Wagoner, actors Emma Tremblay and Jacob Buster, and I sat down over Zoom to discuss their film Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left…
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“Remember To Let Go of the Plan Now and Again”: Editor Andrew Bowser on Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls
Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls Courtesy of Sundance Institute. Andrew Bowser is the writer, director, star and editor of Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls, a film based on a comedy character of his own…
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Polite Society’s Cast & Director on Scaling Buildings & Learning Kung Fu
At this year’s Sundance, one of the standout films was writer-director Nida Manzoor’s feature directorial debut, Polite Society. Blending up genres, Polite Society is an action-packed comedy about two British Pakistani sisters, Ria and Lena Khan, and Ria’s indignant will…
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