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Emily Hagins (Grow Up, Tony Phillips) Talks Paul Weitz’s Grandma

By Emily Hagins | August 25, 2015

Emily Hagins (Grow Up, Tony Phillips) Talks Paul Weitz’s Grandma

Watching this new Sundance drama prompts a discussion of the issues around men making films about and aimed at women, and vice versa.

Actress and Songwriter Eszter Balint (Stranger Than Paradise) Talks Hubert Sauper’s We Come as Friends

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By Eszter Balint | August 24, 2015

Actress and Songwriter Eszter Balint (Stranger Than Paradise) Talks Hubert Sauper’s We Come as Friends

A downtown NYC-based actress-singer-songwriter type is bowled over by this very human portrait of contemporary postcolonial Africa.

Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks F. Gary Gray’s Straight Outta Compton

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By Terence Nance | August 21, 2015

Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks F. Gary Gray’s Straight Outta Compton

A rap response to the box-office hit biopic about N.W.A.’s cultural ascent.

Stephen Winter (Jason and Shirley) Talks Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s Ten Thousand Saints

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By Stephen Winter | August 20, 2015

Stephen Winter (Jason and Shirley) Talks Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s Ten Thousand Saints

On the pleasures and pitfalls of contemporary indie nostalgia in this 1980s set coming-of-age drama.

Zach Clark (White Reindeer) Talks Xavier Dolan’s Tom at the Farm

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By Zach Clark | August 19, 2015

Zach Clark (White Reindeer) Talks Xavier Dolan’s Tom at the Farm

A Dolan hater does a 180 on the French-Canadian wunderkind after seeing his audacious psychosexual thriller.

Michael Mohan (Save the Date) Talks Noah Baumbach’s Mistress America

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By Michael Mohan | August 17, 2015

Michael Mohan (Save the Date) Talks Noah Baumbach’s Mistress America

The director and Greta Gerwig team up again for their most entertaining and impressive collaboration yet.

John Magary (The Mend) Talks Joel Edgerton’s The Gift

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By John Magary | August 14, 2015

John Magary (The Mend) Talks Joel Edgerton’s The Gift

Among the virtues of this impressive debut feature is a resonant study of what it means to be an asshole.

Jim Strouse (People, Places, Things) Talks Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four

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By Jim Strouse | August 12, 2015

Jim Strouse (People, Places, Things) Talks Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four

What do an indie director and his eight- and 11-year-old kids think of the latest (and famously troubled) Marvel movie?

Novelist and Screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis (The Canyons) Talks James Ponsoldt’s The End of the Tour

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By Bret Easton Ellis | August 11, 2015

Novelist and Screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis (The Canyons) Talks James Ponsoldt’s The End of the Tour

The literary icon offers his personal take on (and problems with) this new movie about the late David Foster Wallace.

Mark Neveldine (The Vatican Tapes) Talks Kim Seong-hun’s A Hard Day

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By Mark Neveldine | August 10, 2015

Mark Neveldine (The Vatican Tapes) Talks Kim Seong-hun’s A Hard Day

In the car on the way to a Slipknot show, half of Neveldine/Taylor writes about this darkly humorous Korean thriller.