‘Wonder Woman’ Boasts A+ Iconography and B+ Filmmaking

The scene comes about halfway into Patty Jenkins’s Wonder Woman, and it’s about as carefully prepared and elegantly executed a reveal as you’ll find this side of The Third Man. Our heroine, here only referred to by her given name of Diana, is being spirited through the foxholes of Eastern Front (the story is mostly […]

Watch Adam Driver, Channing Tatum and Riley Keough as Heist-Plotting Siblings in Steven Soderberg’s Return to Filmmaking

Steven Soderberg was “retired” from filmmaking for four years, but his retirement saw him directing every episode of two seasons of the sadly cancelled The Knick, shooting and editing the sequel to his Magic Mike, and producing Ocean’s Eight, the all-women Ocean’s movie spinoff — and that retirement is now just completely over: the director has made a new heist movie, which […]

‘Logan Lucky’ Trailer: Steven Soderbergh’s Return to Filmmaking Looks Wonderful

Steven Soderbergh‘s “anti-glam Ocean’s 11” looks, to put it simply, like a blast. Based on the first footage from Logan Lucky, which arrived over the weekend, Daniel Craig‘s performance alone as Joe Bang may be worth the price of admission. We haven’t seen Craig quite like this before, and the same can be said for the […]

20 Very Lars von Trier Quotes About Life, Filmmaking, and Pissing People Off

Happy birthday to Danish director and provocateur Lars von Trier. The controversial filmmaker is currently working on his serial killer dramaThe House That Jack Built, starring Matt Dillon, Uma Thurman, Riley Keough, Bruno Ganz, and more. It feels like a long way until 2018, the film’s projected release date, but until then we have these […]

Interview: ‘Get Out’ Director Jordan Peele on His Filmmaking Debut & the Power of Story

With his directorial debut, Get Out, Jordan Peele exhibits remarkable range as a writer and director. His film, which comes from Blumhouse Productions, works on multiple levels. Whether he’s nailing a laugh or a scare, shooting an intimate scene between a couple by a lake, or just delivering the unexpected, Peele hardly feels like a rookie in […]