‘Dead Boy Detectives’ Showrunners on the Shocks and Romance of the Season
[Editor's note: The following contains major spoilers for Dead Boy Detectives.] The Big Picture The Netflix series 'Dead Boy Detectives' is a spooky supernatural mystery series set in 'The Sandman' universe. The showrunners aimed for a psychedelic yet comforting story,…
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Famke Janssen & Brett Gelman Discuss Their Boy Kills World Villains
Boy Kills World stars Bill Skarsgård as a deaf and mute fighter seeking bloody vengeance for the murder of his family. His targets are the ruthless van der Koy siblings. They rule a post-apocalyptic city with an iron fist. Famke…
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“All Documentary Filmmakers Should Receive or Seek Out Some Kind of Training in Vicarious Trauma”: Alix Blair on Her Hot Docs-Debuting Helen and the Bear
Helen and the Bear Fourth generation Californian Paul McCloskey — aka “Pete” and “Bear” — is a former US Congressman who represented San Mateo County from 1967 (when he trounced Shirley Temple in the Republican primary) to 1983; a decorated…
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‘Dead Boy Detectives’ George Rexstrew & Jayden Revri on THAT Love Reveal
[Editor's note: The following contains major spoilers for Dead Boy Detectives.] The Big Picture In the Netflix series 'Dead Boy Detectives,' Edwin and Charles, who are deceased best friends, solve supernatural mysteries to guide lost souls to the afterlife. The…
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Hugh Grant Discusses Unfrosted and Crying in Public Reading Bridget Jones 4
Hugh Grant in a Pop-Tart movie? Wait. Let’s back it up six months. Hugh Grant as an Oompa Loompa in Wonka? The very fabric of the comedy universe has greatly shifted, folks. Enter: Unfrosted. Grant stars as fallen stage actor…
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‘Tattooist of Auschwitz’s Jonah Hauer-King on Telling a Love Story Amid Horror
The Big Picture The Tattooist of Auschwitz showcases a love story set amid the horrors of the Holocaust. The series explores the true story of Lale Sokolov, a Jewish prisoner tasked with tattooing other Jewish prisoners. Jonah Hauer-King shares his…
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Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi on Following His Instincts
In 2021, an epic three-hour Japanese film captured the hearts of viewers around the world: Drive My Car. The winner of the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival that year, Drive My Car went on to get nods…
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A Film To Read: Matiás Piñeiro, Tomas Paula Marques and Gabi Saidón on You Burn Me
You Burn Me New York-based Argentinian director Matiás Piñeiro’s work is without a doubt, a celebration of intertextuality. After continuously exploring the female roles in Shakespeare’s comedies from 2011’s Rosalinda up until 2020’s Isabella, he was drawn to a text…
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‘Discovery’s Elias Toufexis Could Be ‘Star Trek’s Next Jeffrey Combs
The Big Picture Star Trek: Discovery Season 5, Episode 5, "Mirrors," delves into Moll and L'ak's backstory, revealing their love and the price on their heads. Stars Eve Harlow and Elias Toufexis discuss fleshing out their romance, joining the sci-fi…
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For King & Country’s Joel Smallbone on Playing His Real Dad in Unsung Hero
If the fans of Grammy-winners Rebecca St. James and for KING & COUNTRY ever find themselves wondering where it all started for these beloved musical artists, Lionsgate has a new feature film hitting the masses April 26 that breaks it…
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“We Wanted To Show a Teacher with All His Weaknesses, Who Doesn’t Know Everything, Who Sometimes Makes Big Mistakes…”: Laurent Cantet on The Class
#image_title French director Laurent Cantet, whose films include Human Resources, Heading South, The Workshop and his Palme d’Or-winning The Class, died today at the age of 63. With this sad news we are reposting Brandon Harris’s interview with Cantet about The…
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Deborah Ayorinde & Joshua J. Williams Discuss Them: The Scare
Deborah Ayorinde and Joshua J. Williams star together as mother and son in the second season of Prime Video's Them, known this time as Them: The Scare. For Ayorinde, it marks her second appearance in the anthology series; now, she…
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