Happy Death Day, Blumhouse Productions’s heady horror flick about a young female college student reliving the day of her murder, hits theaters today, and while the film’s Friday 13th release may exploit obvious horror tropes, its high-concept hook is all-new. Mixing Groundhog Day-on-acid-style existential dread with a litany of more ... More

When attempting to sum up the career of Steven Spielberg – icon, Hollywood daddy, god-like creative – hyperbole is only fitting. But when veteran documentarian Susan Lacy set out to encapsulate Spielberg’s unparalleled legacy in her sweeping two-and-half hour documentary Spielberg, premiering at the New York Film Festival today and ... More

Emerging directors have a tendency to stick to topics that hit close to home but with her debut feature, October’s Novitiate, director/screenwriter Maggie Betts had no hesitation about going way out of her realm. Unlike the quirky romances and accounts of 20s-angst that make for so many indie-film forays, Betts’s ... More

You notice the voice before anything. Preceding her as she makes her way down the hall, the alluringly husky tone is striking, and causes you to sit up a bit straighter, while also being comfortingly familiar. When the woman herself arrives and sits down next to you, managing an impossibly ... More

In 2010’s Black Swan, the ballerina costumes, created by Rodarte’s Kate and Laura Mulleavy, were more than just couture eye candy. They were dramatic visual signifiers of Natalie Portman’s ratcheting paranoia, which peaks when she emerges onstage as the Black Swan in a jet-black tutu, white face and blood-red eyes. In ... More

Get used to the name Callum Turner, the 27-year-old British actor at the heart of the new film The Only Living Boy in New York; The film’s director, Mark Webb, has had a hand in the careers of some of Hollywood’s most iconic manic pixie dream boys. After breaking out ... More

Described by Rolling Stone as having “the adrenaline punch of a thriller and the deep-seated sorrow that comes with watching history repeat itself,” Detroit is one of the most impactful pieces of cinema to command the screens this summer. Starring John Boyega, Will Poulter and Algee Smith, the film ... More

If 2015 was the year that put Kiersey Clemons on the map, it’s 2017 that will make her a bona fide star. Fresh off of Sundance hit Dope, a film that landed her name on the tongues of casting agents everywhere, the 23-year-old signed on to enough blockbuster and prestige ... More

Everyone’s favorite Disney star has to “grow up.” Eventually, it simply didn’t make sense for Zac Efron to stride down a High School Musical hallway sporting scruff or for Demi Lovato’s maturing vibrato to take the stage in Camp Rock! Not every actor can push the boundaries of time (re: ... More

The average person might assume that landing a role in a Sofia Coppola film at age 16 would make you a shoo-in for the lead in your school play. But Emma Howard, one of the five teenage actors in the tiny cast of The Beguiled, is gently explaining to me ... More