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Interview: Ryan Coogler of Fruitvale Station
At 22 years old, Oscar Grant was shot and killed at the Fruitvale BART Station by an Oakland police officer on New Year’s Day 2009. The incident was captured on video and the unsettling footage subsequently went viral, making...
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Interview: Melonie Diaz of Fruitvale Station
We spoke to star Melonie Diaz (Be Kind Rewind, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints), who plays Sophina Mesa, Oscar’s real-life girlfriend, in a tiny roundtable interview the day after the film’s premiere in Oakland. She talked with us...
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The Lords of Salem
Rob Zombie’s latest expedition into the horror genre, The Lords of Salem, is something to behold. Long gone is his use of brutal violence, his zany, wild and unpredictable characters who spout off colorful dialogue that most would struggle...
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Return
It’s a concept we’re all familiar with: a soldier comes home from war and finds it difficult to readjust to normal life. So what is it that makes Return something we’ve never seen on screens before? In her debut...
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Interview: Michael B. Jordan and Octavia Spencer of Fruitvale Station
We spoke to Michael B. Jordan (The Wire, Friday Night Lights), who plays Oscar in the film, and Octavia Spencer (The Help) who plays Oscar’s mother, Wanda Grant, in a tiny roundtable interview the day after the film’s premiere...
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Interview: Ahna O’Reilly of Fruitvale Station
We spoke to Ahna O’Reilly (The Help) who plays Katie, a girl who meets Oscar by chance, shares a pleasant interaction with him, and later becomes a witness to the horrific shooting in a tiny roundtable interview the day...
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Interview: Halley Feiffer and Ryan Spahn of He’s Way More Famous than You
Michael Urie directs Halley Feiffer who plays Halley Feiffer being directed by Michael Urie in He’s Way More Famous than You, a movie about making a movie. Six years after her costarring role in “Noah Baumbach’s cinematic masterpiece” The...
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Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (LA Film Fest)
David Lowery’s unclear and unconvincing script extinguishes what could have been a fiery noir burning with lust and violence. His story contains many great crime genre staples—a love struck criminal, a beautiful country girl, a menacing father figure, lusty...
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The History of Future Folk
It’s not often I encounter new film genres. There’s nothing new under the sun, right? But a comedic sci-fi folk music family film is definitely a first, and that’s precisely what The History of Future Folk is. Light in...
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Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay
When it comes to learning any kind of skilled craft, the fastest route to mastery is learning from the masters themselves. “The way you want to learn is by someone you respect showing you something” proclaims Ricky Jay, the...
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Aftershock
The new horror-thriller Aftershock is not be directed by Eli Roth (Nicolas Lopez is the director), but make no mistake, this is an Eli Roth picture. Roth is credited as writer, producer and star of this Chilean set film...
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Interview: Javier Camara, Blanca Suarez, Miguel Angel Silvestre of I’m So Excited
In I’m So Excited, Pedro Almodóvar’s first comedy in years, a wildly eccentric (crazy) group of passengers on a flight from Spain to Mexico are stranded in the air, as one of the plane’s landing gears is broken. Three...
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A Band Called Death
“’Pure rock ‘n’ roll is what they don’t play on the radio.’ That’s what David always said.” More than a rock-doc, though it sure does rock, Mark Christopher Covino and Jeff Howlett’s A Band Called Death is a story...
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I’m So Excited
Returning to his absurdist comedy roots after taking years off, Pedro Almodóvar keeps it (mostly) playful with his unfiltered, druggy, cocktail-crazy sex party in the sky, I’m So Excited. 90 percent of the film is set on an airplane...
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