Film, Film & TV, Interview

Interview: In Late Night With the Devil, David Dastmalchain Steps Into a Leading Role, Bringing His Chicago Acting Chops With Him

David Dastmalchian is a journeyman actor whose visibility and popularity have been on the rise since his role as Thomas Schiff in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight (which made his […]

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Review: In the Rousing, Sweeping Dune: Part Two, a World Becomes Real and a Young Man Confronts His Fate With Ferocity

As is often the case with origin stories, there’s a great deal of world building and character establishment that has to play out before we can even get to the […]

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Interview: Filmmaker Ric Roman Waugh on Making Kandahar with Gerard Butler, War Movies as Character Studies and a Greenland Sequel

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 […]

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Review: Denis Villeneuve’s Sumptuous Dune Brings an Epic to Life, Both Larger Than Life and an Intellectual Achievement

Dune

What little I know about the universe of Dune is limited to one read-through of the first Frank Herbert novel long ago and a couple viewings of David Lynch’s 1984 […]

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Film Review: Arrival, A Beautifully Human Story

I’m not sure if Paramount deliberately set the release date for Arrival for the Friday after Election Day, but in so many ways, it makes sense. What happens in the […]

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