Interviews

“Men,” Alex Garland’s latest film as a writer and director, is full of audacious stylistic gambits. But one of the riskiest—and the most rewarding—comes courtesy of Rory Kinnear. This isn’t the first time the English actor has played multiple roles in a single production: It’s a trick he also pulled off on the Showtime horror … Read more

The new Australian crime drama, “Troppo,” now streaming on Amazon FreeVee (formerly IMDb TV) is based on the bestselling book Crimson Lake, written by Australian crime writer Candice Fox. The name change to “Troppo” refers to the Aussie slang “gone troppo” for someone who goes mad in the heat.  It’s an appropriate title as the story … Read more

(From L-R): Margaret Cho, Tomas Matos, Bowen Yang, Joel Kim Booster, and Matt Rogers in the film FIRE ISLAND. Photo by Jeong Park. Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2022 20th Century Studios All Rights Reserved Nick, you introduced the film last night by telling us we might not be too fond of your character. What are … Read more

SW: Carrying these huge drums on their heads.  AU: He was like those are my friends. SW: These are my friends and they crossed the border as well.  AU: They had crossed the border with their huge drums, and were trying to find their place and to share their art in Kigali. Then we met … Read more

Inspired by the life of WWI-era British poet Siegfried Sassoon, the latest film from writer/director Terence Davies is a swooning exploration of redemption, regret, privilege, and love set in a time before homosexuality was legalized in the United Kingdom. Like many of Davies’ films, “Benediction” examines the lingering trauma of war and how once it … Read more

The script for “Crimes of the Future” was born sometime between between “eXistenZ” and “Crash,” correct?  I wrote it in 1998. So just before “eXistenZ” came out. If that’s when it came out. It came out in April 1999, and you came out against “The Matrix” which released in March, I hate to remind you. … Read more

Which film is the most underrated? All the ones we never got to see. I’m especially thinking of “Higgins & Beech,” the Korean War love story she wrote with Alice Arlen (with whom she also wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for “Silkwood”) almost made it to the screen so many times only to be put back … Read more

The new FX limited series “Pistol,” available on Hulu, takes a six-part journey into the anarchic history of the legendary Sex Pistols, the British band that catapulted the punk movement with their brash, noisy, rebelliousness and shook the conservative English establishment in the ’70s. The series was created and written by Australian Craig Pearce, and … Read more

Larry, your character and Bryan Cranston’s have been friends for decades, and we see the comfortable rhythms of that relationship in their first scene together. How do you create that chemistry of a long-term friendship? LW: Well, it’s great because I already knew Bryan Cranston. When I was doing “The Bernie Mac Show” and he … Read more

Was that actually in New Jersey or Atlanta? It was in Pittsburgh.  Ah, like “Adventureland.” There you go. It’s all connected.  Your first film “Shithouse” you made before COVID, but it didn’t get to play festivals, although it won the Grand Jury Prize.  Yeah, SXSW was the very first festival that got canceled. Then with … Read more