We Made a ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ Movie
Summary Collider's Perri Nemiroff talks with Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill for Black Phone 2 at Fantastic Fest 2025. The sequel enters a dream world when the Grabber makes a call from hell, with family secrets fueling the mystery.…
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âWe Knew This Chemistry Is Something That We Could Count Onâ: Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki on NYFF Animated Feature, Bouchra
Bouchra In Bouchra, 3D animated anthropomorphic animals may populate the world, but the intricacies of their lives are unmistakably human. This approach is par for the course for the film’s co-directors, the Brooklyn-based visual artists Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki,…
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‘Play Dirty’s Shane Black Reveals How This Robert Redford Thriller Still Influences His Movies Today
Summary Collider's Steve Weintraub sat with director Shane Black, producer Jules Daly, and executive producer Susan Downey to chat about Play Dirty. The movie, based on a character by author Donald E. Westlake, stars Mark Wahlberg, LaKeith Stanfield, and Rosa…
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Lee Anne Schmitt on âEvidenceâ
Evidence Documentary essayist Lee Anne Schmitt’s latest feature Evidence is, artistically speaking, both a concerted continuation and marked departure. On the one hand, it furthers her career-long penchant for braiding political rhetoric, environmental portraits and American mythology; on the other,…
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‘V/H/S/Halloween’ Directors Take Us Behind the Scenes for the Latest in Shudder’s Risky Anthology Franchise
Summary Collider's Perri Nemiroff sits down with the directors behind Shudder's V/H/S/Halloween at Fantastic Fest 2025. Kick off October with a brand-new installment of the V/H/S franchise, with segments dedicated to honoring the spookiest time of the year! The directors…
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Interview: Sound Designer Graham Reznick on Rabbit Trap
Jade Croot in Rabbit Trap What does the sublime sound like? For Graham Reznick, serving as the sound designer for Bryn Chaney’s psychological thriller Rabbit Trap (available on digital Sept. 30, from Magnolia Pictures) was a sustained exercise in experimenting…
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Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne Weren’t Supposed to Return for ‘Platonic’ Season 2, According to Creators
Summary Platonic creators Nicholas Stoller and Francesca Delbanco break down Season 2 and how difficult it was to crack the story. Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne weren't originally signed on to do a series that would have multiple seasons. Giving…
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âIf We’re Not Still Excited by Cinemaâs Untapped Potential, Then We’re in Troubleâ: Mark Jenkin on “Rose of Nevada”
In 2012, Mark Jenkin wrote his self-proclaimed manifesto “Silent Landscape Dancing Grain 13,” a series of vows of chastity à la Dogme 95; among other strictures, the Cornish director promised to shoot his films in black-and-white, keep them under 80…
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‘Brilliant Minds’ Zachary Quinto on How Complicated Things Will Get for Oliver and Josh: “Their Working Relationship Changes”
[Editor's note: The following contains spoilers for Season 2 of Brilliant Minds.] Summary Season 2 of the NBC series 'Brilliant Minds' slowly reveals why Dr. Oliver Wolf has become a Hudson Oaks patient, teasing a possible mental break. The medical…
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NYFF Title Howard Brooknerâs âRobert Wilson and the Civil WarsâFilmmaker Magazine
Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars While many (likely most) maverick artists have at least one unrealized moonshot project, few have a record of the high stakes drama of development behind the scenes of that lost dream. And even fewer…
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I Was on My Tom Cruise Sh*t
Summary Collider's Steve Weintraub chats with Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti for One Battle After Another. From Paul Thomas Anderson, Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Bob, a father and ex-revolutionary who will stop at nothing to save his kidnapped…
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“Shooting on Film Felt RightâJoyâs an Analog Lady”: Nathan Silver on His NYFF Documentary Short, “Carol & Joy”
Carol and Joy In 1971, Jean Eustache set a camera in front of his grandmother Odette and invited her to speak. The film that emerged, Numéro Zéro, is a vivid document of one woman’s life told without embellishment. The frame…
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