Horror movies are full of reminders to stay out of the woods. And even if the ancient curses and masked psychos don’t get you, there are plenty of more mundane terrors waiting out there in the wilderness. Body At Brighton Rock, the taut new survival thriller from up-and-coming genre director Roxanne Benjamin (…

From the time he defected from the Soviet Union in 1961 until his health began to visibly decline in the 1980s, Rudolf Nureyev was arguably the most famous ballet dancer in the world—certainly the most famous danseur noble in classical ballet. He was unrefined, intense, a wild child of the dance world. Even in the…

Laura Steinel’s directorial debut Family follows a career-focused woman (Taylor Schilling) who develops a bond with her tween niece when she reveals her secret desire to run away and be a Juggalo. In honor of the film’s release, we sat down with Steinel and the cast—Allison Tolman, Eric Edelstein, and Bryn Vale—to…

Marvel movies often operate an epic scale: Either the world is ending, or the films are filled with larger-than-life characters, or both. And for the most part, this strategy has paid off. After all, what would the Guardians Of The Galaxy look like going up against a small-time space crook? But 11 years of…

Note: This review contains minor plot revelations for Avengers: Endgame. It also contains major spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War.

No credits appear until the end of JT LeRoy, but it’s not hard for viewers familiar with this real-life literary saga to guess, long before official word arrives, that its screenplay was cowritten by Savannah Knoop. For one thing, Knoop, who embodied the nonexistent author LeRoy in public, is played by Kristen…

Sound re-recording is a post-production job that often goes under-appreciated by moviegoing audiences. The process involves taking sounds that were recorded separately, or in different locations, blending them together, and then re-recording those sounds into a Printmaster to heighten the auditory experience for the…

When Kevin Feige started at Marvel 19 years ago, it was as a whip-smart junior producer making his mark on the set of X-Men by impressing his coworkers with the depth of his comics knowledge. Now he’s the head of Marvel Studios, where he’s taken viewers through the first three phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe…

The obvious scene to highlight from last summer’s Avengers: Infinity War is, of course, its haunting and unforgettable ending—the moment when all hope is lost, evaporating like ash in the wind. But hasn’t that downer denouement been talked to death? What’s left to say, really, about the snap heard ’round the universe?…

Claire Denis’ latest, High Life, follows the last survivors of a doomed mission to deep space as they try to unravel the mystery of what happened to the rest of the ship’s crew, while hurtling toward a black hole. We recently spoke with Denis and star Robert Pattinson about the film, working with babies, and whether…

This month, Universal Studios Hollywood opened a new attraction at The Wizarding World Of Harry Potter, “The Dark Arts At Hogwarts Castle”—a light projection show that uses state-of-the-art special effects, immersive sound design, and an atmospheric score by John Williams to unleash all manners of dark creatures on…

From the minute Black Panther officially assumed its place on the MCU release slate, it was destined to usher Marvel into somewhat uncharted territory. Sitting at the helm of the studio’s first film with a majority black cast, director Ryan Coogler already faced an immeasurable pressure to present something totally…

In a few days, Marvel Studios will finally pay off the agonizing cliffhanger of last summer’s Avengers: Infinity War with the culmination of 11 years of comic-to-screen storytelling. How will the hotly anticipated Endgame measure up to the 21 movies that have come before it, going all the way back to Iron Man in 2008?…

Anna Todd’s best-selling novel After hit theaters this past weekend. In honor of its release, we sat down with star Khadijha Red Thunder to talk about the film.

The Thor branch of the Avengers franchise was rejuvenated by Thunder God movie number three, Thor: Ragnarok. Director and Flight Of The Conchords alum Taika Waititi brought some sorely needed dry humor that would have certainly benefited the previous films in the series, Thor and Thor: The Dark World. But for all of …

Anna Todd’s best-selling novel After hit theaters this past weekend. In honor of its release, we sat down with director Jenny Gage to talk about the film.

Is there anything more intrinsically Peter Parker than being trapped in the back seat of a supervillain’s car—but only because he’s actually his ride? Spider-Man: Homecoming spends large swaths of its running time watching Tom Holland’s Peter juggle his day-to-day life against his wider franchise obligations (sorry,…

“That’s because he’s a drug dealer.” With those plainspoken words, writer-director Nia DaCosta tells us everything we need to know about Ollie (Tessa Thompson), a young woman who’s just been awakened in the middle of the night by an acquaintance banging on her back door who wants to know if she’s still in the…

Netflix’s new film Someone Great follows Jenny (Gina Rodriguez), who, after being dumped by her long-term boyfriend, recruits her two best friends (DeWanda Wise and Brittany Snow) for one last outrageous adventure in New York City before she moves to San Francisco. We recently sat down with the three stars to talk…

Chiptune composer Richard Vreeland, a.k.a. Disasterpeace, got his start making music for dozens of indie video games, like Fez and Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake. He’s recently made the jump to composing for film, making the music for David Robert Mitchell last two films—It Follows and Under The Silver Lake. We…