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Rodney Ascher (Room 237) Talks Roberts Gannaway’s Planes: Fire & Rescue

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By Rodney Ascher | July 21, 2014

Rodney Ascher (Room 237) Talks Roberts Gannaway’s Planes: Fire & Rescue

“Why do the planes not need people to fly them?” asked my four-year-old son as we watched Planes: Fire & Rescue...

Calvin Lee Reeder (The Rambler) Talks James DeMonaco’s The Purge: Anarchy

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By Calvin Lee Reeder | July 18, 2014

Calvin Lee Reeder (The Rambler) Talks James DeMonaco’s The Purge: Anarchy

Maybe I don’t respect cinema enough, maybe I have a primitive mind or maybe I’m just a bad guy; but I love movie violence.

Aaron Katz (Land Ho!) Talks Maclain Way and Chapman Way’s The Battered Bastards of Baseball

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By Aaron Katz | July 15, 2014

Aaron Katz (Land Ho!) Talks Maclain Way and Chapman Way’s The Battered Bastards of Baseball

I wish The Battered Bastards of Baseball were half as rowdy as its subject matter. The film examines the Class A Portland Mavericks...

Nancy Savoca (Dogfight) Talks Aarón Fernández’s The Empty Hours

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By Nancy Savoca | July 14, 2014

Nancy Savoca (Dogfight) Talks Aarón Fernández’s The Empty Hours

In the Mexican independent production The Empty Hours, 17-year-old Sebastián and twentysomething Miranda spend...

Screenwriter Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith (Legally Blonde) Talks Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens’ Land Ho!

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By Kirsten Smith | July 11, 2014

Screenwriter Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith (Legally Blonde) Talks Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens’ Land Ho!

I may not be the target demographic for Land Ho!, but my parents are. I was lucky enough to watch the film with my folks...

Anna Martemucci (Hollidaysburg) Talks Noah Hawley’s Fargo

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By Anna Martemucci | July 10, 2014

Anna Martemucci (Hollidaysburg) Talks Noah Hawley’s Fargo

When I was six years old and living in Fargo, North Dakota, my dad’s colleague Donna, (a beautiful Vietnamese woman...

Nancy Savoca (Dogfight) Talks Steve James’ Life Itself

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By Nancy Savoca | July 9, 2014

Nancy Savoca (Dogfight) Talks Steve James’ Life Itself

The psychologist James Hillman writes about our attraction to biographies in his book The Soul’s Code...

Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up Philip) Talks Scott Derrickson’s Deliver Us From Evil

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By Alex Ross Perry | July 8, 2014

Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up Philip) Talks Scott Derrickson’s Deliver Us From Evil

“From the director of Sinister.” Sold. Scott Derrickson’s Sinister was not only one of my favorite films...

Joe Swanberg (Happy Christmas) Talks Ben Falcone’s Tammy

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By Joe Swanberg | July 7, 2014

Joe Swanberg (Happy Christmas) Talks Ben Falcone’s Tammy

I walked to my neighborhood theater to see Tammy last night, excited to finally catch one of Melissa McCarthy’s movies.

Ian Harnarine (Doubles with Slight Pepper) Talks Ann Druyan and Steven Soter’s Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

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By Ian Harnarine | July 4, 2014

Ian Harnarine (Doubles with Slight Pepper) Talks Ann Druyan and Steven Soter’s Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

The best television show this year was not True Detective or Mad Men or Girls or something on any cable channel...