There is something deeply unsettling about A Country Dog, writer-director Ryan Nielsen's haunting 22-minute short film making its world premiere at the 40th edition of AFI...
A beautiful house stands among towering pines, with patches of snow scattered across the forest floor. A couple emerges laughing. The man calls out gallantly, “my lady”; sh...
My review of You Can See Everything begins at the very end of the film. The credits began rolling and the theater was dead quiet. Then, after a few minutes, multiple people exc...
Most people complain that AI feels fake, soulless, and increasingly impossible to escape. People say they want authenticity. Claim they want to see real people, real experience...
Apparently, my daughter has become my unofficial cultural correspondent. When I told her that I was interviewing Mallory Gray from Skydeo about Grand Theft Auto VI, she sent me...
I began my conversation with DéVon Christopher Johnson by asking him what he thought the most important word in the world was.
His first instinct was love. Then he reconsid...
Long before Jay Allen became a filmmaker and executive producer, he was E.T. At least, that’s what the kids at school called him. Allen, who grew up in Charlotte, North Carol...
A24 has pulled off one of the year’s best-kept movie secrets. Nathan Fielder and filmmaker Lance Oppenheim quietly spent three years making You Can See Everything, an unconve...
Certain mysteries have plagued humanity for generations. Why do men need three monitors to play a video game? Why will a guy who considers 15 minutes in a department store an i...
The morning after our interview, Ken Pisani emailed me. “Thanks again, Amy, for the great interview!” he wrote. “You asked questions about things I had not thought of in ...
For a director whose career depends on planning every conceivable detail, Andrew Lane is surprisingly comfortable admitting he doesn't know what's going to happen.
In fact, ...
For decades, political campaigns operated on a simple premise: reach as many voters as possible. Television, radio, direct mail, and newspaper advertising were designed to cast...
The first thing I noticed during my Zoom interview with Hamilton House filmmaker Jordan Rowe wasn’t him.
It was the posters hanging on the walls.
The Beatles. Dazed and...
When Skydeo Creative Director Mallory Gray and I sat down to discuss Love Island’s impact on advertising, I wasn’t expecting the interview to begin in my refrigerator.
A...
The cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is being framed by many as a simple consequence of changing media habits. Americans no longer gather around network telev...
Every year, the Met Gala produces the same reaction. The images circulate, the spectacle builds, and then the backlash arrives just as predictably. The language is strikingly c...
The sound arrives first, the restless pulse of “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’,” building under the image like something gathering force. Then the details come in fragment...
At just ten years old, King Moore is already operating at a level most performers never reach. A rising star on America’s Got Talent, the youngest recipient of Best New Artis...
There is something strange about comparing the latest Wuthering Heights adaptation by director Emerald Fennell to Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window. One is windswept moors, erotic...
Awards' Season tends to spotlight directors, actors, and speeches delivered beneath hot lights. But Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, now an Oscar-nominated triumph, is not ...
