Ira Sachs on Art and Risk in Peter Hujar’s Day

Ira Sachs on Art and Risk in Peter Hujar’s Day
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For Sachs, Peter Hujar’s Day is not simply a portrait of an artist. It is a meditation on the communities that teach artists how to see. … read more

Olga Kurylenko’s New Horror Film Stands Out From Any Other

Olga Kurylenko’s New Horror Film Stands Out From Any Other
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For Kurylenko, Other is not merely a horror film — it’s an emotional excavation, a story of repression and recovery told through the language of dread. … read more

Oh Baby! How Brooke Trantor Explores the Female Experience

Oh Baby! How Brooke Trantor Explores the Female Experience
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In a world where women are often under- or even misrepresented in cinema, director Brooke Trantor and her short film Oh Baby! are defying expectations. … read more

Chris McKay on the Biting Humor of Renfield

Chris McKay on the Biting Humor of Renfield
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The relationship between horror and comedy is on display in every frame of director Chris McKay’s Renfield, a new take on the Dracula legend which finds humor in upping the emotional stakes of the story by introducing using modern sensibilities and ideas about self care. Nicholas Hoult stars as R.M. Renfield, the loyal servant of

Noah’s Arc Continues in Leverage: Redemption Season Two 

Noah’s Arc Continues in Leverage: Redemption Season Two 
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Leverage: Redemption tackles serious themes relevant to the world we live in, and does it in a way that allows the audience to have some fun along the way. … read more

Making Great TV is A Walk in the Park for Josh Gad and Emmy-Raver Lampman

Making Great TV is A Walk in the Park for...
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The third season of Josh Gad’s Central Park on AppleTV+ brings plenty of laughs and show-stopping musical numbers while also tackling serious subjects. … read more

The Many Loves of Eleanor Coppola

The Many Loves of Eleanor Coppola
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Eleanor Coppola explores love, the connections that we make and the bonds we share in her new anthology film, Love is Love is Love. … read more

David Cross, Bigfoot and The Journey of “The Dark Divide”

David Cross, Bigfoot and The Journey of “The Dark Divide”
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Anyone who paid attention in their high school English class likely has some familiarity with “The Hero’s Journey.” It’s the template for most storytelling, wherein a hero goes on an adventure, is victorious (or sometimes fails) and comes home changed by it. But for Robert Michael Pyle, a real-life hero’s journey took place in 1995