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Christian Sesma is an ’80s kid, which explains why he’s eager to mention Aliens, Die Hard, and Indiana Jones as influential movies in his career. Sesma wants to create mainstream entertainment, and his latest directed film, Section 8, falls in line with those interests. In Section 8, Ryan Kwanten plays Jake Atherton, an ex-special forces soldier struggling […]
The second trailer for Amazon’s Homecoming. Its 10-episode first season debuted this weekend. Homecoming, Amazon Prime’s new political techno-mystery series starring Julia Roberts, has a tough task: how do you translate an effective podcast into effective television? The story here started off as a successful fiction series from Gimlet Media, a podcasting entity started by […]
How did the movie industry get to this point? Why have mid-budget, adult-driven films all but vanished from the multiplexes while superhero movies and franchises reign supreme? Ben Fritz answers these questions, and more, in his addictive new book The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies. Our The Big Picture review delves into […]
Indie horror master Larry Fessenden made a name for himself directing a series of truly independent horror films, and now he’s set to return to filmmaking with the Frankenstein-inspired film Depraved. It will be Fessenden’s first feature film since 2013’s Beneath. More on the new Larry Fessenden movie below. Larry Fessenden may not be a household name to […]
Steven Soderbergh is a big fan of making dramatic statements on the state of cinema. “I just don’t think movies matter as much any more,” the Ocean’s Eleven director said in 2013 when he announced his retirement from feature filmmaking. After that, the director did retreat into television, creating prestigious acclaimed series like The Knick and The Girlfriend Experience. But […]
In a great new interview with Syfy, Joe Dante, who helmed Gremlins, The Howling, Innerspace and more, sat down to talk about his long, eclectic career, and passed along some invaluable advice he received from B-movie mastermind Roger Corman. Read the important Roger Corman filmmaking advice passed on to Joe Dante below. Director and producer Roger Corman may […]
Slick-tongued lawyers and black-robed justices are one thing. A tearful Texas abortion provider explaining why she had to turn away a 13-year-old rape victim is quite another. Trapped, a 2016 documentary film about state regulations that target abortion clinics, was meant to tug on the heartstrings. But it was also designed to galvanize activists to […]
When filmmaker Salomé Lamas calls her creations “hybrid,” she isn’t talking Toyotas. Whether she’s shooting desperate fortune-seekers heading into La Rinconada, the world’s highest-altitude mine, in Eldorado XXI (2016), a documentary that feels at once primitive and postapocalyptic, or hovering between reality and fictionalized memory in No Man’s Land (2013), a profile of a bloodthirsty […]
The filmmaker has a new project out, but it’s far from the only thing on his mind right now. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a03389cdf2ed96d0e9f51f6/master/pass/StevenSoderberghHP1.jpg Feed: All Latest
Friday marks the release of Darren Aronofsky’s Mother!, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem as a couple whose relationship is tested when Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer’s characters show up to their home. Our own Jason Bailey called it “formally impressive and deeply disturbing.” While we wait to see the movie, we’re revising some of Aronofsky’s […]
