The following interview was originally published at HollywoodChicago.com on August 21st, 2012. Few performers are lucky enough to make their big-screen debut in a hit movie, let alone two. In […]
The following interviews with filmmaker Benh Zeitlin and actors Quvenzhané Wallis and Dwight Henry were originally published at HollywoodChicago.com in July 2012. Their film, “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” went […]
2019 may have been an enormously profitable year for Disney, but it also was the studio’s worst purely in terms of creativity. The more money they make through the franchises […]
Few people in the film industry are as responsible for me choking back tears as Mexican production designer Eugenio Caballero. He won the Oscar in 2007 for Guillermo del Toro’s […]
The following interview with actor/filmmaker Sophia Takal was originally published on September 5th, 2012, at HollywoodChicago.com. Takal’s third directorial feature, “Black Christmas,” arrives in theaters on Friday. In a mere […]
“Come on, Roy, let’s get out of here,” said his mother. The taxi was still waiting with the motor running and they got in. The driver put it into gear […]
While waiting for the Lyft that would take me to my cousin’s home in Brentwood, following my trip to pick up the tux I would wear in the press room […]
It’s only fitting that Independence Day has been followed each year by the anniversary of Indie Outlook, my site dedicated to films and artists who are among the finest in […]
“Mother’s interrupted the course of our journey. She’s programmed to do that should certain conditions arise.”—Dallas (Tom Skerritt) 40 years ago today, Ridley Scott’s horror classic, “Alien,” went into wide […]
Few films in recent memory have made me melt quite as often as “Mercy’s Girl,” Emily Lape’s debut feature as a writer, director, producer and editor. It was shot four […]
