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In Jay Roach’s telling of Fox News boss Roger Ailes’ downfall by the women he harassed at the network, there’s a great pace in Bombshell, which organically makes this drama feel like a thriller. When Bombshell editor Jon Poll first read the screenplay, he did so in the mindset of Roach’s style, specifically, the…

After being greatly overlooked at the Golden Globes, some awards season prognosticators believe that Greta Gerwig’s Little Women is in store for a resurgence next Monday when Oscar nominations are announced. Shelling out over $80M at the worldwide box office, audiences have certainly responded to Gerwig’s wonderful…

Some movies are willed into existence, some organically happen by chance, and some are severely birthed and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Terry Gilliam has been through it all, especially in the two-decade-plus production of his cherished The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. His first go-round with the project starred Johnny…

Dear God, how does one even begin to rebuild a 536 year old structure like the Sistine Chapel? For Two Popes filmmaker Fernando Meirelles and his production designer Mark Tildesley, they certainly couldn’t fully paint one, because the film production would’ve wrapped before the set’s completion. But there was a clever…

The John Lennon sage axiom “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans” aptly applies to Josh and Benjamin Safdie in their ten-year long march developing jewelry crime thriller Uncut Gems.  But as they started and stopped, other projects kept sprouting up and progressing, such as their previous…

British composer Daniel Pemberton has a serious ear for jazz with his Latin-inspired score for Warner Bros./Village Roadshow’s all femme caper Ocean’s 8 and the flute-’60s infused score of Guy Ritchie’s The Man From U.N.C.L.E as colorful and vibrant as that spy pic itself. Pemberton, who has been Ridley Scott’s go-to…

Spoiler Alert: This podcast contains major spoilers about the A24 film Midsommar. Too often awards season prognosticators will count the rebel filmmakers out in a given year, easily declaring “Oh, the Academy will never go for this.” Such a silly thought when you consider the amount of mavericks that AMPAS has lauded…

Robert Eggers made a black & white movie — literally. Meaning, we’re not talking digital. He shot in 35MM Double-X black and white, a negative that hasn’t changed since the 1950s for his two-hander New England ghost story starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe. In the color era, no matter what the year, it’s…

It always helps to know someone when you’re breaking into showbiz, and a familial connection to Pink Floyd led British-born Edward Shearmur to work with the late two-time Oscar nominated composer Michael Kamen, known for such scores as Brazil and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Handling a variety of tasks for more than…

President Harry S. Truman once said, “Men make history, and not the other way around.” Well, on Derek Water's long-running Drunk History, it’s the inebriated who make history — or at least try to remember it. Through 74 episodes over the last 6 years, Waters has created one of the benchmark series for Comedy Central…

One of the biggest cliffhangers in episodic TV right now is what’s next for multi-hyphenate Phoebe Waller-Bridge in the wake of her awesome two-season 11-Primetime Emmy nominated BBC/Amazon series Fleabag? It’s a question that’s driving network executives quite mad. Ya see, there isn’t a third season of…

We've always known that when it comes to impressions, Bill Hader can do anyone. But for those who don’t know, what he wonderfully flaunts in season 2 of HBO's Barry is his riveting finesse for directing action scenes across two episodes, "ronny/lily" and the finale "berkman>block", literally reminiscent of James…