Producer Stephanie Allain takes chances. As a young story analyst reading scripts for Columbia Pictures, she took the opportunity to use her position to advocate for
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With the perfect timing of a deadpan comic and the keen observational skills of a zoologist, Athina Rachel Tsangari highlights just how bizarre the most banal of hum
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Did I want to shoot comedies?? asks Brandon Trost, director of photography on two of this summer's funniest films, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping and Neighbo
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All of my footage I memorized because I lived it and shot it, so it was my journal in a way, says Will Allen, director of his strange but true documentary of a small
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No Wall Street movie has ever had a bad box office, Sarah Megan Thomas, the producer and star of indie thriller Equity, says. If we do a good job, it means we make
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It's an elitist notion that you can see the next big films only by leaving Los Angeles for Toronto, France or New York. While other fests are frantically loadin
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During a recent phone conversation with Jeff Kirschner, Canadian movie blogger, podcaster and co-author of the new book Death by Umbrella: The 100 Weirdest Horror Mo
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In 2013, a 22-year-old Palestinian named Mohammed Assaf won the second edition of the Middle Eastern singing competition Arab Idol, a spinoff of the same popular Bri
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The guiding principle of Lewis Carroll's classics Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass is that logic does not exist. You tumble down rabbit holes and in
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There's reason for skepticism when you hear that a new documentary plays like a thriller. That suggests that the filmmakers have favored suspense over documentin
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This should go without saying, but these days it doesn't: Ido Haar's globe-straddling crowd-pleaser of a doc,Presenting Princess Shaw, showcases real footage
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Postpartum OCD is a real-life condition worthy of horror films. New moms fight off intrusive thoughts about someone killing or stealing their baby ? or killing their
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