From their screenplay for Alexander Payne’s The Descendants to their joint directorial debut, 2013’s The Way Way Back, Nat Faxon and […]
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From their screenplay for Alexander Payne’s The Descendants to their joint directorial debut, 2013’s The Way Way Back, Nat Faxon and […]
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The Time: The mid-’90sThe Place: Downtown New York CityThe Setting: A nondescript warehouse/film studioThe Scene: “Ellen and Damian Kiss” When it […]
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In spite of its pedigree as writer/director David Robert Mitchell’s follow-up to surprise horror hit It Follows – and the fact […]
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Gaspar Noé is the living embodiment of the adage that nothing exceeds like excess, a filmmaker whose works are designed to […]
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It’s a common enough sight in Christmas films: holiday shoppers admiring animatronic window displays and taking advantage of the sales at […]
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Winnipeg, Canada, has produced more than its share of strange and singular filmmakers. Guy Maddin is likely the most well-known, but […]
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We knew on Jan. 1, 2000, that the hysteria surrounding Y2K had been overblown. But before that, the fears that the […]
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Ever since the proliferation of the mobile phone, horror filmmakers have to go out of their way to explain why their […]
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Long before he corralled some of the screen’s most skilled improvisers to make such classic mockumentaries as Waiting for Guffman, Best […]
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We’re the scarecrow people, have we got lots in common with you. And if you don’t start living, well, you’re all […]
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There’s scarcely a review of Midsommar that doesn’t include a mention of The Wicker Man — and with good reason. (Ours […]
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In the 2016 documentary David Lynch: The Art Life, one of the stories Lynch recounts from his childhood is the time […]
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