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The 53 Best Movies Under 90 Minutes Sometimes you just want a good story, capably told with no time to waste.
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The 37 Best Movies Over 3 Hours Long Got some extra time? Lose yourself in these cinematic spectacles.
monsterverse
June 3, 2019
How Godzilla: King of the Monsters Brought Back Mothra The Big Five returned to theaters this summer. Sadly, Mechagodzilla is nowhere to be found.
Let’s Talk About the Ending of Widows From one perspective, Widows doesn’t look like a heist film: it seems like more of a prison break, the story of four women breaking free of men.
How to Make a Movie on Your Smartphone Matthew Cherry, director of 9 Rides , and Ricky Fosheim, director of Uneasy Lies the Mind , explain how they made feature-length films on a phone.
Why You Should Watch Vox Lux Director Brady Corbet’s Overlooked First Movie Childhood of a Leader is a fully realized work on its own, and hopefully, the release of Vox Lux will help draw some much-deserved attention.
emmy insider
Aug. 24, 2018
What Barry Taught Bill Hader About Filmmaking “When you see the first rough cut of any episode, you want to go blow your brains out.”
Does Leave No Trace Give Us Our First Look at the Real Ben Foster? Foster isn’t anonymous or overlooked, necessarily. But Leave No Trace feels like a major moment for him.
Want to Try Pete Holmes’s You Made It Weird Podcast? Start Here “Listening to You Made It Weird is kind of like listening to an interview podcast hosted by a dog, and I mean that in the absolute nicest, best way.”
Can Father John Misty Act? His performance in Hotel Artemis, while brief, still signals the beginning of what could be a viable second career.
Let’s Talk About the Ending of First Reformed The ending of Paul Schrader’s remarkable new film is a puzzle worthy of the great struggle that comes before it.
How Arctic Monkeys Tapped Into the Nostalgia of Space Front man Alex Turner paints a compelling portrait of a man so out of time that he ends up on the moon.
Paul Schrader Thought His Career Was Over. Then He Made His Best Film in Years. After iffy collaborations with porn stars and Nicolas Cage, the writer-director is back with the buzzy First Reformed .
On Beyondless, Iceage Keep Evolving No one expected the Danish punk band to go this far
It’s Time to Retire Kanye West’s Music From Movie Trailers Kanye’s music is so intertwined with who he is, that it’s distracting to hear it like this.
Michael K. Williams on His New HBO Documentary, Raised in the System “I’ve been visiting friends and family in prisons since I was 17 years old, so I have something to say.”
‘Flower’ Star Zoey Deutch on Playing ‘the Kind of Role Men Usually Get to Play’ “I have played one-dimensional female characters in male-driven comedies. You’re left floundering trying to create something from nothing.”
The Tick ’s Griffin Newman on the ‘Very Sh*tty Reality’ of Hollywood“When this gets overlooked, it gives people the license to think they can get away with the next thing.”
Why Duncan Jones’s Mute Represents a Crossroads for Netflix Both Jones and the streaming service could use a home-run film right now.
Why Star Wars: The Last Jedi Isn’t Actually a Box-Office Disappointment What The Last Jedi ’s box-office performance might really be in need of is a little context.
transformations
Dec. 26, 2017
The Michael Showalter Guide to Reinventing Yourself As a Fancy-Pants Filmmaker He seems to have had the best coming-out year that (almost) nobody noticed. Here’s how his breakthrough happened.
star wars countdown
Dec. 12, 2017
Looking Back at New York ’s Critical 1977 Review of Star Wars “Star Wars will do very nicely for those lucky enough to be children or unlucky enough never to have grown up.”
Harmony Korine Is Fall TV’s Most Surprising Breakout Actor His performance on The Girlfriend Experience isn’t just good acting. It’s technically good acting.
What David Fincher’s Fascination With Serial Killers Says About His Filmmaking Few filmmakers have shown such a consistent interest in serial killers and what makes them tick.
the killing of a sacred deer
Oct. 27, 2017
Why Creep 2 Isn’t Actually a Horror Movie Director Patrick Brice thinks it might be … a rom-com?
What the 19 Movies to Ever Receive an ‘F’ CinemaScore Have in Common Mother! joins a small, motley group of auteurist misses and obvious clunkers.
Why Jay Baruchel’s Goon Franchise Feels So Uniquely Canadian Unlike the vast majority of American sports cinema, they aren’t focused on the essential catharsis of triumph.
Lake Bell on Performance Weddings and Why Marriage Is Worth the Effort “The wooing and the ‘I look my thinnest and I look my best and my youngest’ — that’s not marriage!”
Which Game of Thrones Stars Will Become Movie Stars? Looking at the likelihood of cinematic stardom for Kit Harington, Emilia Clarke, et al.
While Shooting Good Time, Robert Pattinson Accidentally Spent Fake Money The production’s convincing counterfeit money caused its star to inadvertently commit a federal crime.
MoviePass Is Attempting to Disrupt Hollywood — Will it Succeed? MoviePass is counting on the idea that exhibitors, faced with fleeing audiences and a seemingly flawed business model, are panicking.
How Atomic Blonde ’s Brutal 7-Minute Staircase Fight Was Shot Director David Leitch walks us through what it took to pull off the complex set piece.
Glass Castle’ s Director on Why Woody Harrelson Cried When He Met Jeannette Walls“She’s so open, it makes you want to open yourself up and be like, ‘I’m also a hurting person!’”
Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt on Comrade Detective and How They Met “We don’t get to see each other as often as we used to, so it’s fun to just hang out and talk about the ’80s in Romania.”
Behind the Movies: How the Dystopian World of Ghost in the Shell Came to Life Visual-effects supervisor Guillaume Rocheron on how he brought the visual spectacle of manga and anime to live action.
san diego comic con 2017
July 21, 2017
Twin Peaks Cast Recalls David Lynch’s Reaction to Jim Belushi Improvising LinesWhile at San Diego Comic-Con 2017, the cast warns that David Lynch will send you to the principal’s office. Also, he is the principal.
san diego comic con 2017
July 21, 2017
Alfie Allen Brought the World’s Cutest Puppy Onstage at Comic-Con This year’s Game of Thrones panel featured a very special, very adorable guest.
Dunkirk Is Getting Great Reviews. But Can It Be a Hit?What are the prospects for a $150 million war film based on a battle few Americans have heard of?
san diego comic-con 2017
July 20, 2017
Noah Hawley Is Developing a Doctor Doom Movie at Fox The world of the Fantastic Four is not totally dead!
running time
July 19, 2017
Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler Lit a Man on Fire, Then Felt Weird About It “You can’t know how you’ll feel when a man is on fire until you see it.”
20 Movies Where the Bad Guys Win Sometimes, the heroes take the L.
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