It’s a common saying that you would follow someone you love off a cliff, but Jean and Carl Boenish—the subjects of Sunshine Superman, a documentary premiering May 22—take that cliché to a very literal place. Often called the “godparents of BASE jumping,” the Boenishes met in the late ... More

We like to believe that we know the actors we watch in film and television personally, often altogether forgetting that they are paid professionals who are as complex (and flawed) as the rest of us. That feeling is amplified in the case of mega-stars like Paul Newman, whose blue-eyed charm ... More

Bessie Smith made her name in the 1920s by singing the blues and living them just as loudly. In a new HBO biopic, Queen Latifah—both star and executive producer—tackles Smith’s trailblazing career and tumultuous personal life with a confident performance she says has been more than two decades in the ... More

Amy Berg has always been known as a documentarian thanks to her work helming films like Deliver Us From Evil and West of Memphis. In May, her first feature film, Every Secret Thing, will be released, making it clear that her formidable skill extends to stories of the fictional variety as well. In Every Secret Thing, ... More

If you’ve ever dreamt about hosting your own talk show, director Shira Piven’s newest film, Welcome to Me, is for you. In it, Kristen Wiig plays Alice, a woman with borderline personality disorder who wins the lottery and decides to blow it all on her own Oprah-style daytime television ... More

In the new comedy Hot Pursuit, Reese Witherspoon plays a cop desperate to get one thing right, and Sofia Vergara stars opposite her as a mob informant’s wife intent on staying alive. Here, director Anne Fletcher explains what makes the two stars work so well together and how her ... More

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s latest movie role is a far stretch from his typical larger-than-life action hero gig. In Maggie, a post-apocalyptic drama helmed by first-time director Henry Hobson, Schwarzenegger plays a small-town farmer and doting dad eager to protect his daughter Maggie (Abigail Breslin) from succumbing to a highly contagious zombie virus ... More

“Everybody thought this was the worst idea for a movie, because you don’t want to watch somebody else on drugs… and to a large extent I thought maybe they were right. But I just kind of wanted to try it.” Gregory Kohn—the director of Northeast and now Come Down Molly, which premiered last week at ... More

The Tribeca Film Festival boasts some impressive partnerships—from sponsors to education initiatives and more—but perhaps the most talked-about team at the year’s festival is that of actors Chris Zylka and Riley Keough, the duo starring in Dixieland.  In director Hank Bedford’s debut feature, Zylka stars as Kermit, an ex-con who’s just ... More

When it came to making Unfriended, the super-scary social media thriller hitting theaters this week, things were different from the very beginning. “The audition process was part of the start of me realizing how unique this project was going to be,” says the film’s star (and former Miss Teen USA) Shelley Hennig. ... More