January 19, 2024
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"True Detective: Night Country" Writer/Director Issa López Delivers a Chilling New Season

...a snowstorm searching for a suspect. The only light is the beam illuminating from the flashlight on her forehead. “You cannot see anything but a little bit of her eyes under the...

July 12, 2024
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“Beckham” Editor Michael Harte on Bending A Massive Archive Into a Must-See Doc

...than elides over, and ultimately, the documentary is as compelling a commentary on the alarming downsides of global stardom as it is a biography of Beckham’s career and personal life. Tom Cruise,...

September 10, 2024
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Eye on the Emmys: "True Detective: Night Country" Writer/Director Issa López Delivers a Chilling New Season

...but a little bit of her eyes under the headlight and wherever it falls,” she adds. “Navarro throws an orange away, and then it comes back from the dark. It was so...

September 30, 2024
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"Wolfs" Stunt Coordinator George Cottle on Designing Superlative Stunts For George Clooney & Brad Pitt

...theatrical run by Sony Pictures, the action/comedy stars Pitt and Clooney as two professional fixers who are inadvertently both hired to clean up the same murder scene. Then complications arise. The victim...

August 28, 2015
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We Are Your Friends & the History of DJs in Film

...believed, contemporary, money-minded millennials would rather make it big throwing the party, rather than get rich in order to get into it. Coming up with the next big EDM hit is the...

November 18, 2015
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From Winter's Bone to Hunger Games: Jennifer Lawrence's Rise to Fame

...to Los Angeles at the age of 14 and has been acting ever since.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YXJuW9MNGc Never one to approach anything the conventional way, even at an incredibly young age, Lawrence knew she...

November 19, 2015
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The Districts, the Capitol & Peeta Mellark: The Hunger Games Primer You Need

...up into thirteen districts, united under a totalitarian regime known The Capitol. Each year, to prevent uprisings and promote cooperation, The Capitol holds the Hunger Games, a deadly competition where two members...

December 4, 2015
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From Justin Kurzel's Macbeth to Orson Welles & Joss Whedon: Directors Love the Bard

...the darkness of human greed. Roman Polanski’s Macbeth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X28RA83o2Nw Made in the shadow of Sharon Tate’s murder three years before, Polanski’s follow-up to his vicious Rosemary’s Baby was an equally pulpy adaptation...

December 2, 2015
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Composing Christmas: Talking the Score of Christmas Eve With Christian Davis

...all the themes come together in this continuing piece of music as the power comes back on and they go their separate ways. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-6khNXP_9U And at what stage did you see the...

December 18, 2015
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A Christmas Gift: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler in Sisters

...Poehler-Fey memory lane.  Won’t you join us? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRnhEjP3R-c As Bad Awards Show Guests https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoamRZqZpVU If you’re on the fence about the assertive, hassling turn the comedians take in Sisters, just think of...