“Everything, everything, everything pays off when you’re specific about all the elements,” Di Pace says.

“I'm most proud of the character work. About being able to tell a breakneck action story that, to me, has deeper character relationships,.."

According to director Rebecca J. Matthews, "Magic happens if you can just creatively open yourself up to things and not stick too much to your original ideas. That's when all the really cool stuff hap...

"I actually think no matter the era that you're living in, so much of our world is chaotic and confusing, and so to have a movie that reflects that chaos and confusion in a very specific way, I think ...

Working with cinematographer and executive producer Chris Morsby, a compact cast, limited locations, and an equally lean crew, Gallant approached BACKPAY with an editor's understanding of what could b...

I'm very quick to say I was standing on the shoulders of a gigantic, amazing true story, and my job was just to serve it, get out of its way."  But translating that true story into a cinematic experie...

For Josh Pais, acting is not about repeating what has worked before.  It's about remaining curious enough, courageous enough, and open enough to discover something new. "I'm just always striving to ge...

An exquisite and deeply affecting feature directorial debut from Juan Pablo Di Pace, co-written, co-directed, and co-edited with Andrés Pepe Estrada.

Ultimately, CLEAN HANDS is both affecting and frustrating. Its compassion for those struggling with addiction is genuine, its depiction of Brooke's suffering often devastating, and its commitment to t...

ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES: ORGANIC INTELLIGENCE knows exactly what it is, exactly what its audience wants, and exactly how much fun can be squeezed out of homicidal produce. It's Mondo Fabulocity!...

Rebecca J. Matthews has found a wonderfully wicked way to breathe new life—and perhaps a little undead life—into Wuthering Heights with WUTHERING HEIGHTS: THE HOUSE OF THE DAMNED.  And damned if it is...

This is one of the best, if not the best film of Renny Harlin's career... He checks every box an action fan could want —explosions, gunfire, rockets, helicopters, vehicular mayhem, Gatling guns, hand-to-hand combat and knives—but never allows the spectacle to become the whole movie.

“I'm most proud of the character work. About being able to tell a breakneck action story that, to me, has deeper character relationships,.."

Written and directed by Boll and starring Armie Hammer and Costas Mandylor, CITIZEN VIGILANTE is a brutal, bloody, provocative contemporary Western, trading horses and dusty frontier towns for the str...

“I felt I have to basically do a way more radical movie,". . .“That’s why I did the movie—to shock the people. Also, to show, like, if you push everybody too far, then you will have kind of a vigilant...

What makes much of FLOATING CAROUSEL work is that Napier and Powers don't strain for jokes. The humor generally comes from behavior... [But] Napier and Powers have created an ensemble filled with amus...

“It’s been nine years,” Perkash says of their partnership. “This is the first one we developed from scratch, from the beginning, from zero to realization.” For For Van Acker, that makes ORION “our bab...

ORION is a riveting, intelligent, meticulously crafted psychological sci-fi thriller constructed with more detail and less information, which creates the visual, aural, and thematic language of the fi...

Communities worldwide are dedicating Friday to honoring Dolly Parton. The day falls on Sept. 25, a wink at her hit song “9 to 5.”

Love makes fools of us all. And in director Claire Scanlon's utterly charming THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS, that's precisely where the fun begins.

“The mantra in these movies has always been that we play it for real time, and after 90 minutes Scott [Adkins] can barely breathe because he’s been through so much. And just the culmination of him doi...

ONE LAST SHOT begins with a man who looks as though his body has nothing left to give, yet honor, duty and sheer adrenaline somehow push him to 150 percent one last time. Jake Harris doesn’t need anot...

When Bressack finally releases the tightening spring of fear and tension, I HAVE PROOF becomes almost breathless.

Structured in three distinct sections, RESENTMENT continually shifts the dramatic balance among its central trio while remaining rooted almost entirely within Trish's Brooklyn bar. Each chapter rearra...

Never underestimate a little girl and her stuffed bunny in a paranormal horror movie.

With I HAVE PROOF, JAMES CULLEN BRESSACK, “really wanted to make something where we're following a character that believes something so much that he will stop at nothing to try and prove what he belie...

As producer JONATHAN SOTHCOTT explains, “I come from the Roger Corman School of Filmmaking, which is, if you find an asset, you find a way of incorporating it into the movie.”

Scott Waugh has delivered one of the most emotionally satisfying films of his career without sacrificing one ounce of the muscular action filmmaking at which he excels.

“I was very relieved to find that the first power, the original power ascribed to vampires in Irish and European legends, was mind control,” says van Belle. And mind control, he realized, is influence...

Michael W. Gray didn’t set out to make AMERICAN SUMMER because he wanted to recreate a simpler time. He set out to make the kind of movie his father wished still existed.

A wonderfully refreshing espionage thriller that remembers the most important weapon in a spy’s arsenal is his brain. Lean, character-driven, and refreshingly free of gadgetry and bombast, KNIGHTFALL ...

GATOR FACE is a scrappy, unapologetically bloody creature-feature/slasher hybrid that mixes a murderous cult, Southern folklore, real alligators, practical gore and a reptilian masked killer into an i...

RUNNER reveals something more about Scott Waugh —something Waugh himself now recognizes when he says, “I think I found my stride.”

Celebrating 25 Years of Film, the San Diego International Film Festival announces its full Festival lineup, featuring (90) Gala, Narrative, International Documentary, Spotlight and Short Selections. F...

Scott Waugh has delivered one of the most emotionally satisfying films of his career without sacrificing one ounce of the muscular action filmmaking at which he excels.

With THE RUNNER, Kevin Macdonald takes a familiar thriller construct and pushes it into something visceral, intelligent, and cinematically exhilarating and gripping

“Suspense is a delicate balance between giving information and withholding information,” says Pinero.  And for nine minutes and 58 seconds, he walks that knife edge beautifully with THE PROWLER.

THE MAGIC FARAWAY TREE is a frothy, light, pure delight backed by some seriously impressive filmmaking craft.

Sick, twisted, hilariously funny, unexpectedly thoughtful, and gleefully drenched in blood, BUDDY is one of those increasingly rare genre concoctions that feels genuinely fresh.

With BUDDY, CASPER KELLY "[doesn't] want it to be just a good time. I want people to have a good time. But if you want to dig deeper, I want there to be things in the ground for you to find if you do ...

According to BRANDO BENETTON, "Instead of feeling exhausted after making this movie...it only made all of us so more excited to be like, okay, what’s next!"

It’s a fun show this week on BEHIND THE LENS thanks to director ALICIA MacDONALD talking about her new film, FINDING EMILY, and writer/director CASPER KELLY discussing his new film BUDDY. Both films h...

What NewRuleFX creates isn't simply a collection of props—it's the invisible craftsmanship that allows filmmakers to tell stories safely and convincingly. Johnson refers to the company's work broadly ...

ABOVE & BELOW delivers exactly what audiences want from a modern aquatic thriller—strong performances and characters you become invested in, excellent technical craftsmanship, genuinely nerve-racking ...

"You have to go where you're scared to do anything interesting. To move anywhere with your life, you have to venture out of your comfort zone now and then. This was very much out of mine."

For cinematographer JAMES KNIEST, making THE DEVIL'S MOUTH was "fascinating, challenging, and I think very fruitful."

One word for this trailer for THE RUNNER - WOW!  A few more would be Intense, Heart-Pounding, Nail-Biting.  You don't want to miss this trailer OR the film!

An endlessly fascinating, wildly entertaining, often hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, and ultimately moving portrait of acclaimed creature creator and special effects master Steve Johnson.

A compelling portrait of interconnected survival and of the extraordinary people who refuse to surrender one of the planet's last irreplaceable wildernesses.

Curiosity is contagious. As Shields himself put it: "Everybody on this movie learned everything."