There are new kids on the block in horror movie world. They are relatively young, savvy and willing to scare the bejesus out of you with methodically paced shockers that use atmosphere and subtle scares, as opposed to the splatterfests…
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From out of the trenches of Bat Mitzvah videos, the depths of the Internet, and even the grimy street corners of North Philadelphia came Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim. College friends since they met at Philly’s Temple University in the…
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Although he is only 32 years old, writer-director Ti West has five horror films under his belt and more in the planning stages. And while he is too old, perhaps, to be called a “wunderkind,” the amount of projects he…
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Simon Curtis has some impressive British TV directing and producing credentials behind him: The award-winning BBC miniseries Cranford, a 1999 adaptation of David Copperfield with Maggie Smith, Ian McKellen and Daniel Radcliffe, adaptations of Uncle Vanya, Twelfth Night and Edward…
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The rumbling on this Tuesday in late August came out of nowhere, shaking the hotel like a wooden paint stirrer in a blender. Writer-director Sean Durkin, attending a press day for to promote his film Martha Marcy May Marlene, darted…
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At the memorable end of 1969’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Yankee bank robbers Butch (Paul Newman) and Sundance (Robert Redford) face off against scores of sharp-shooting lawmen and soldiers in Bolivia. After Butch informs Sundance that the bandit…
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Nicolas Winding Refn is tired. He’s been up since 5 AM, working on a TV commercial via Skype from his Philadelphia hotel room. No rest for the weary, even if the weary is a serious multitasker. “I wish I could…
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Many people know about Serge Gainsbourg from his scandalous recording he did with girlfriend Jane Birkin in 1969 called “Je t’aime…moi non plus,” in which the then-couple sang and writhed on vinyl and got banned in many countries for their…
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Apocalypse…POW! You know that any movie that starts with a quote from Lord Humongous, the monstrous goalie mask-wearing bad guy from The Road Warrior, isn’t going to be a quaint rom-com. Bellflower isn’t. The film has been buzzed about in the…
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For 20 years, documentarian Kenneth Bowser had wanted to make a film about seminal protest singer-songwriter Phil Ochs. But he was continually greeted with apathy on many fronts. “I knew it was a great story,” says Bowser during a phone…
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Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig has been directing films and TV shows for 25 years. But after work on such acclaimed efforts as Italian for Beginners and Wilbur (Wants to Kill Himself), she moved into the limelight with 2009’s An Education,…
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Poor Paw Paw. Paw Paw, a cat, is at the vet’s office with an injured paw. Paw Paw now has to wait 30 days to be moved into the apartment of his new human owners. Sophie and Jason are the…
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