“We were trying to make something that felt like a throwback”: directors Dan Berk and Robert Olsen on impervious action comedy ‘Novocaine’
A throwback to the genre’s heyday.
Interviews Archives: 03/2025
Dewayne Perkins on ‘The Studio’, creating his own opportunities, and the lack of roles for Black queer men in Hollywood
‘The Blackening’ star takes us behind the Hollywood curtain.
Ariane Labed on her feature debut ‘September Says’: “It’s a matter of trying to find my own voice”
It’s Labed’s first film as a director.
Director Emma Rice on adapting Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘North by Northwest’ for the stage: “I love the impossibility of it”
She even managed to untangle the plot.
“Britain’s collective nervous breakdown”: Rupert Russell on ‘The Last Sacrifice’, folk horror, and the real-life murder that inspired ‘The Wicker Man’
This isn’t the story of one murder – it’s the story of a nation in crisis.
“I love an ambiguous ending because it makes you pick a side”: Jeffrey Reiner, Shea Whigham, and Carrie Coon on crime story ‘Lake George’
The filmmaker and his two stars dig deep.
‘The Brutalist’ composer Daniel Blumberg on improvisation, falling out of love with music, and Ingmar Bergman
An attention-grabbing triumph.