When considering her nearly 50-year career, it feels trite but accurate to say Lily Tomlin has done it all. Since first emerging in the New York comedy scene of the late ’60s and becoming a star on the revolutionary Rowan & Martin’s… Continue Reading
Let me begin by apologizing for the many ways this interview will fail to fully capture the experience of sitting down with Parker Posey. If ever there was an actor whose distinctive physical essence cannot be conveyed in print, it’s her. Reading… Continue Reading
There are several reasons why director Sean Baker’s Sundance smash Tangerine has become one of the buzziest movies of the summer. For one, there’s the fact that it was filmed entirely with the iPhone 5S (thankfully not in portrait mode) yet looks like a million bucks,… Continue Reading
When speaking to Michiel Huisman, it can be easy to talk to him like he’s an overnight sensation. After all, it does feel seemingly overnight that he became one of the most ubiquitous men on TV: his magnetic, soulful presence and dreamy… Continue Reading
In the years that have followed her breakout role as a drug-addicted German ex-model in Lisa Cholodenko’s High Art (1998) and her star-making, Oscar-nominated turn as a cancer-afflicted mother in Pieces of April (2003), Patricia Clarkson—now 54—has gradually become a genre unto herself.… Continue Reading
An unforgettable indie thriller by the title of Coherence has emerged fairly out of the blue as one of the summer movie season’s word-of-mouth hits. The feature-length filmmaking debut of James Ward Byrkit, Coherence‘s buzzy success is due in part to it being the kind… Continue Reading
To know Jenny Slate is to love Jenny Slate. Maybe you first encountered her during her brief stint on Saturday Night Live, on which she realized the first-day-on-the-job nightmare of accidentally saying “fuck” on live TV during her premiere episode while Megan… Continue Reading
Only the most grizzled horror movie buffs will be unshaken by the relentlessly pummeling brutality of You’re Next, the home-invasion sensation finally taking its theatrical bow this week after a nearly two-year festival tour dating back to the 2011 Toronto… Continue Reading
Since first bursting onto the film scene with the Criterion-minted critical darling George Washington (2000) and establishing Zooey Deschanel as an indie ingenue in All the Real Girls (2003), the prolific and experimental auteur David Gordon Green has kept fans… Continue Reading
The concept behind director Morgan Neville’s shamelessly enjoyable documentary 20 Feet From Stardom, which opens in San Francisco today, is precisely the kind of idea that makes you slap yourself on the forehead for not thinking of it first: instead… Continue Reading
