That’s Not a Ride You Want To Interrupt
Editor's note: The below interview contains spoilers for Alien: Earth Episode 5. In the wake of last week's revelation that Wendy (Sydney Chandler) can seemingly talk to xenomorphs, you might be under the impression that Noah Hawley's FX series Alien:…
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Charlie Kaufman and Eva HD on âHow to Shoot a Ghost.â
Her face obscured in shadow, a woman, the poet, Eva HD, takes a photograph. Cut to words on the screen, a quote from another poet, Toni Morrison: “At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need…
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“It Was Straight Out of a Fairytale”
[Editor's note: The following contains major spoilers for Episode 5 of Outlander: Blood of My Blood.] Summary In the Starz series 'Outlander: Blood of My Blood,' Ellen MacKenzie has been promised to another, but chooses to be with Brian Fraser.…
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From Twin Peaks to Monument Valley: Duwayne Dunham on Legend of the Happy Worker
Legend of the Happy Worker It’s well known that George Lucas approached David Lynch to direct Return of the Jedi (1983), and that Lynch (thankfully) demurred, instead pursuing Blue Velvet (1985). Less well-known is the fact that the two films…
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After Alexandra Shipp’s “Violent” Love Story, She Held Back on Summoning Demons for Her Shudder Movie
Summary Collider's Perri Nemiroff talks with Alexandra Shipp for Violent Ends at San Diego Comic-Con 2025. In the movie, Shipp stars opposite Billy Magnussen as a young couple looking to escape a dangerous crime family. In this interview, Shipp talks…
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Interview: DP Callan Green on Nobody 2
Bob Odenkirk (right) in Nobody 2 In Nobody, a government assassin turned middle-aged family man (Bob Odenkirk) breaks out of his humdrum suburban existence by instigating an escalating feud with the Russian mob. In the film’s sequel, out in theaters,…
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Austin Butler and Zoë Kravitz Explain How Their New Crime Thriller Pulls Off Something Very Rare in Hollywood
Summary Collider's Steve Weintraub talks with stars Austin Butler and Zoë Kravitz about their upcoming film Caught Stealing. The stars praise the film for having a tone of "momentum." In this interview, Butler and Kravitz discuss the message of the…
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Interview: DP Larkin Seiple on Weapons
Weapons When cinematographer Larkin Seiple finished the Apple+ feature Wolfs, he was set on taking a well-deserved break. It was going to take a special project to coax him back behind the camera before he’d decompressed, especially for a project…
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“I’m Doing Everything I Never Dreamed About”
Summary Questlove has been focused on a music career since the age of five, but has since gone on to become a multi-hyphenate and is currently nominated for an Emmy for his work directing '50 Years of SNL Music.' Questlove…
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Interview: Julian Radlmaier on Phantoms of July
Paula Schindler in Phantoms of July The films of Julian Radlmaier have all been infused with a specific kind of longing for a better future in the sense of Marxist utopias. From his early films—A Spectre is Haunting Europe (2013)…
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“The More Extreme the Better”
[Editor's note: The following contains major spoilers for The Institute.] Summary In the MGM+ original series 'The Institute,' kids with unusual abilities are abducted and tortured to force out their powers. Ms. Sigsby, the head of operations, is guileless, morally…
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“The Nova Convention… a Free Artistic Experiment”: Aaron Brookner and Rodrigo Areias on Nova â78
Nova '78 Aaron Brookner and Rodrigo Areias’s Nova ’78 centers around the Nova Convention, a late ’70s avant-garde extravaganza that took place at NYC’s now defunct Entermedia Theater (Second Avenue and 12th Street) in honor of William S. Burroughs’s return…
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