I’ve known filmmaker Joe Lynch for many years, but I think this marks the first time I’ve actually interviewed him (outside of a joint interview for the online sitcom Holliston, […]
From Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro, The Young Karl Marx, Lumumba), Silver Dollar Road follows the story of the Reels family as told by the […]
For the first time since the two-year-plus pandemic, the Chicago International Film Festival feels like its back to full strength, in terms of both its lineup and its potential as […]
The Australian-born, twin-brother filmmakers Danny and Michael Philippou have spent the better part of the last decade making memorable and successful horror short films for YouTube under the collective banner […]
Well, a month has gone by, so it’s time for a new Nicolas Cage movie. Sometimes they’re good, sometimes they’re bad, sometimes they’re crazy. But usually they’re bad. The latest, […]
Long before Wendi McLendon-Covey was given the choice supporting role in 2011’s Bridesmaids, she was best known for playing Deputy Clementine Johnson on Reno 911!, after nearly 10 years as […]
Born and raised on the south side of Chicago, The Blackening star/co-writer (with Girls Trip writer Tracy Oliver) Dewayne Perkins graduated from Curie High School and was t he first […]
Fist-time writer/director Celine Song was only just beginning to make her name as a playwright when the pandemic shut down the New York run of her celebrated play Endlings just […]
Sometime during 2006, I was asked to moderate a couple Q&A screenings of the documentary Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights – Hollywood to the Heartland, a […]
Director Ric Roman Waugh had nearly 50 projects under his belt as a stuntman and stunt coordinator before turning to directing (much like his brother, director Scott Waugh). After a […]
Armed with an English degree from UC Irvine, Kelly Fremon Craig began her Hollywood career as a writer, penning the not-so-well-received 2009 Alexis Bledel-led comedy Post Grad. But it was […]
After quite a few years of directing episodic television (including a multi-episode run on HBO’s Deadwood), director Davis Guggenheim turned nearly full time toward directing and producing documentaries, beginning with […]