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An Interview with Dylan Ratzlaff
Dylan Ratzlaff is an actor known for A Million Little Things, The Next Step, and the upcoming film An Amish Sin. I spoke with Dylan about...
oliverjlwebb
Oct 20, 20225 min read
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An Interview with Cara Horgan
Cara Horgan is an actor known for her work on acclaimed films such as The Death of Stalin, Disobedience, and The Boy in the Striped...
oliverjlwebb
Oct 14, 20224 min read
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An Interview with Bernardo Badillo
Bernardo Badillo is an actor known for his work on Sully, Queen of the South, and Emily the Criminal. I spoke with Bernardo about landing...
oliverjlwebb
Sep 22, 20223 min read
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An Interview with Ed Begley Jr.
Ed Begley Jr. is a seven-time Emmy nominated actor. He has appeared in numerous acclaimed series such as St. Elsewhere, Curb Your...
oliverjlwebb
Sep 13, 20228 min read
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An Interview with screenwriter Olivia Hetreed
Olivia Hetreed is a screenwriter and editor known for Girl with a Pearl Earring, Wuthering Heights, Birds Like Us and Mrs Harris Goes to...
oliverjlwebb
Aug 11, 202211 min read
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An Interview with Adria Tennor
Adria Tennor is an actor, writer and director known for Mad Men, The Artist, Mad Dogs, and One Moment. Alongside Kristen Tracy she is...
oliverjlwebb
Jul 29, 20228 min read
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Film of the Week: Beau Travail
As Claire Denis’ two new films await release, we look back at Beau Travail, her blistering post-colonialist deconstruction of masculininity.
Alex Harper
Jul 15, 20224 min read
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An Interview with E. Max Frye
E. Max Frye is an Academy Award nominated screenwriter and director known for Something Wild, The Alienist, Where the Money Is, and...
oliverjlwebb
Jul 14, 202210 min read
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An Interview with Bill Kelly
Bill Kelly is an actor known for his work on Bloodline, The Banker and Hillbilly Elegy. I spoke with Bill about landing his first role,...
oliverjlwebb
Jun 14, 20223 min read
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Film of the Week: Men
Director Alex Garland and star Jessie Buckley call out the #NotAllRoryKinnears argument in this divisive, gnarly, feminist folk horror.
Alex Harper
Jun 3, 20224 min read
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Film of the Week: We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, and it’s a surprising trip in Jane Schoenbrun’s horror-drama on gender dysphoria and online subculture.
Alex Harper
May 13, 20223 min read
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Film of the Week: Happening
The “quiet one” of French independent cinema’s 2021 surge, Audrey Diwan’s Happening is harrowing, important, and deserving of more fanfare.
Alex Harper
Apr 30, 20223 min read
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An Interview with Dedee Pfeiffer
Dedee Pfeiffer is an actor known for her work on Vamp, Cybill, Falling Down, and Frankie and Johnny. She currently stars as Denise on Big...
oliverjlwebb
Apr 28, 20228 min read
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An Interview with Cynda Williams
Cynda Williams is an actor known for her work on One False Move, Mo’ Better Blues, Tales of The City, and Introducing Dorothy Dandridge....
oliverjlwebb
Apr 13, 20227 min read
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An Interview with editor Carole Kravetz Aykanian
Carole is an editor known for her work on acclaimed films and series such as The Morning Show, Ghost World and The Affair. She has...
oliverjlwebb
Mar 31, 20226 min read
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90s rock And Black Eyeshadow: The Genius of Pattinson's Batman
By Danielle Momoh I have always been unable to take the concept of Batman seriously. It was not the fact that Batman’s superpowers are...
oliverjlwebb
Mar 29, 20224 min read
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Film of the Week: Petrov’s Flu
In light of world events, we look at Kirill Serebrennikov’s anti-Kremlin Russian parable—where a flu epidemic wrecks havoc on Yekaterinburg.
Alex Harper
Mar 6, 20223 min read
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Actor Jamie Robson on The British Weird Wave
You're accredited with helping spearhead a film movement that’s been labelled 'The British Weird Wave.' Could you tell me more about it...
oliverjlwebb
Mar 1, 20223 min read
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Suspiria (1977): A fever you don't want to sweat out
By Danielle Momoh Two girls tread water in a pool, one whispering strange revelations to the other. We view them from overhead, the...
oliverjlwebb
Feb 27, 20223 min read
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An Interview with Neraida Bega
Neraida Bega is an actor and mocap actor known for her work on WandaVision, American Bred, APEX Legends, and the upcoming film Dog. I...
oliverjlwebb
Feb 11, 20225 min read
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