I felt like an asshole watching Amy . The new documentary about doomed singer Amy Winehouse left me feeling disheartened, and sad, and co...

David Mamet’s films are a drug. I watch one and the synapses in my brain start firing, demanding only one thing: more, more, more. Genuin...

Roger Ebert said it best, Kathryn Bigelow is a master of stories about men and women who choose to be in physical danger. Choose is the ...

So the thing is, I love Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike . The movie is a lot smarter than it has ever been given credit for, and in the w...

The original Magic Mike was a phenomenon. Made independently with $7 million dollars of director Steven Soderbergh and star Channing Tat...

Ann Dowd is having a moment. In the past two years alone she’s been featured in critically revered indies as well as some of the most pop...

Warning: Critical plot details are revealed in this post. My first experience with Begin Again was under some of the worst viewing c...

Editing is where the magic happens. It’s where you shape, explore, experiment – it’s literally where you find and make your film. But it’...

Vilmos Zsigmond has been one of film’s most influential cinematographers for decades. In more than 60 years as a working director of phot...

One of my favorite things about writing these In Character posts is that I occasionally discover a new reason why I love an actor I alrea...

I know the popular thing to do right now is shit all over the new Entourage movie, but I was always a fan of the original HBO show. Exce...

Sometimes it feels like a song finds you. Like it was made specifically for you and it reached out when you needed it most. Hearing Andre...

This is the one. The post I’ve been leading to. When I started my “the Directors” column in 2009, I knew that covering the great Alfred H...

The girl is missing. Three-year-old Brittney Little was last seen in a furniture store as her young mother, Maveen (Sarah Sokolovic), and...

Last week, I was invited to participate in a podcast discussion about Harmony Korine’s masterful film, Spring Breakers . The Vern , Jay C...