Trailblazing filmmaker Sally Potter began experimenting with moving images after her uncle gave her a 8mm camera when she was 14 years old. This passion continued with the experimental films she made after joining the London Film-Makers’ Co-op in the late ’60s... More »
Horror remakes are a tough proposition, especially if the story has already been re-told once. And even more so, when said new remake idea is a series expansion. But showrunner Andrew Hinderaker’s soulful and compelling “Let the Right One In” beats the odds, a... More »
Adapted from her Goya Award and Forqué Award-winning short film of the same, Carlota Pereda’s “Piggy” is an unflinching look at coming-of-age in the era of cyberbullying, wrapped inside a chilling slasher package. Featuring a star-making lead performance from ... More »
Adapted from her Goya Award and Forqué Award-winning short film of the same, Carlota Pereda’s “Piggy” is an unflinching look at coming-of-age in the era of cyberbullying, wrapped inside a chilling slasher package. Featuring a star-making lead performance from ... More »
Deadline‘s Matthew Carey recently published an article about RogerEbert.com publisher Chaz Ebert, who received the FACETS Legend Award at last month’s Screen Gems Benefit (you can read the full article here). Carey spoke with Ebert about how her “early efforts... More »
At FACETS’ 2022 Screen Gems Benefit where RogerEbert.com publisher Chaz Ebert was awarded the Legend Prize, Karen Carderelli, the venue’s Executive Director, announced that the 47-year-old cinema organization will be administering the newly launched Chicago Al... More »
I can vividly remember sitting in a premiere at the 2018 Oxford Film Festival of a new true crime documentary called “Forever ‘B’.” The energy in that room was insane as the story unfolding on the screen kept topping itself with new revelations. Kidnapping is ... More »
Somewhere out there in the farthest reaches of space, perhaps even on another planet at this point, is a lost glove. It slipped away from an astronaut during a routine journey to the moon and back and now (presumably) roams the galaxies. There’s footage of thi... More »
2022 wasn’t really Fantastic Fest’s return to an in-person event, but it felt like it. The festival’s 2021 edition was a scaled down affair, with limited seating capacity and no in-person parties. The festival was also spread out across several Alamo Drafthous... More »
The New York Film Festival always seems to arrive at the perfect time, just as summer’s heat and humidity fade and fall’s enlivening crispness settles in. Having covered the festival for decades, I’m always gladdened to approach Lincoln Center anticipating not... More »
Previously tackled by Neil Jordan nearly 30 years ago, Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire now receives an episodic treatment from AMC this week (premiering right after more of “The Walking Dead”). Adapted here by Rolin Jones and with the first two episodes... More »
Whenever I rank the 13 feature films of Stanley Kubrick, “A Clockwork Orange” is always a major headache for me. Along with “Dr. Strangelove” (1964) and “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968), it shows Kubrick at the peak of his great filmmaker career, but it is also ... More »