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Exclusive Interview: Filmmakers David Charbonier and Justin Powell on the Empowering Horror Thriller The Boy Behind the Door

The most frightening genre movies are not only framed in physical horror, but are also driven by themes of survival that empower both children and adults to love themselves, despite their perceived shortcomings. The two adolescent protagonists of the new horror thriller, The Boy Behind the Door, rely on their personal and combined strengths to…

Exclusive Video Interview: Joshua Leonard & Jess Weixler on their Hilarious Expectant Parents Comedy ‘Fully Realized Humans’

Everyone says you never truly understand what it’s like to be a parent until you are one, but that doesn’t stop people from giving copious amounts to advice to those who are about to become parents, even and especially if they didn’t ask for it. In Fully Realized Humans, one couple, Elliot (Joshua Leonard) and…

Exclusive Video Interviews: Emily Mortimer & Emily Beecham on the Character-Driven Period Romance ‘The Pursuit of Love’

The Pursuit of Love is a three-part limited series based on the 1945 novel of the same name by Nancy Mitford that tells the story of two cousins, Linda (Lily James) and Fanny (Emily Beecham), who navigate life and love differently in the middle of the 20th century. The enthralling and visually appealing series also…

Exclusive Video Interview: Benedict Wong on ‘Nine Days’ and A Table of Asian Excellence in ‘Shang-Chi’

Nine Days, a Sony Pictures Classics release that finally makes its theatrical debut this Friday, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival a year and a half ago. This story of souls interviewing for the chance to live is mesmerizing and exceptionally-done. In a talented cast that includes Winston Duke, Zazie Beetz, Tony Hale, and Bill…

Ailey : An Exclusive Interview with Director Jamila Wignot on a Pioneer Dancer Alvin Ailey

Alvin Ailey was a trailblazing pioneer who found salvation through dance. AILEY traces the full contours of this brilliant and enigmatic man whose search for the truth in movement resulted in enduring choreography that centers on the Black American experience with grace, strength, and unparalleled beauty. Told through Ailey’s own words and featuring evocative archival…

Snake Eyes Comic-Con Panel

Snake Eyes Comic-Con Panel Q: Welcome to the official kick off to Comic-Con@Home 2021, with Snake Eyes! I’m Mari Takahashi and I am so excited to be your host today. Even though we’re not in person this year, it doesn’t mean you can’t meet up at a local movie theater tonight in select markets and…

An Exclusive Video Interview: Christina Ricci Talks Life After Death on Her Latest Outing, ‘Here After’

Actress Christina Ricci has been acting for three decades and has played a variety of roles over the course of her career. Some may recognize her from The Addams Family or Casper, parts she took on when she was a child, while others have observed her more recent work playing real-life people like Lizzie Borden…

An Exclusive Interview with Pioneer Scuba Diver Valerie Taylor Who Helped to Make the First Blockbuster Film, “Jaws”

A true pioneer in both underwater filmmaking and shark research, Valerie Taylor is a living legend and an icon in the underwater world whose life’s work has become the basis for much of what we know about sharks today. Through remarkable underwater archival footage, along with interviews with Valerie herself, “Playing with Sharks,” from twice…

Questlove Talked About the Journey of Making the Sundance Winning film, ‘Summer of Soul’

In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary, part music film, part historical record created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural…

Tribeca Film Festival My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To Interview – Jonathan Cuartas and Owen Campbell on Making a Family-Driven Vampire Film

Crafting an emotionally relatable and gripping genre movie that thrives on its unique blend of somber thematic tones and imagery, as opposed to only its terrifying visuals, isn’t always an easy task. But up-and-coming scribe-helmer, Jonathan Cuartas has done just that with his new horror thriller, My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To….

Tribeca Film Festival ‘Ultrasound’ Video Interview – Breeda Wool, Chelsea Lopez, and Rob Schroeder Discuss Their Head Trip of a Movie

The Midnight section of the Tribeca Film Festival programs “the best in horror, sci-fi, and cult cinema for the late-night crowd.” That’s certainly a good descriptor for Ultrasound, which finds a man in way over his head after his car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. He doesn’t even begin to understand what’s happening,…