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Martin McDonagh, a three-time Oscar nominee this year for writing, directing and producing The Banshees of Inisherin, is also heading to the BAFTA awards this weekend as well as being up for the DGA Award. It is a busy time for the filmmaker behind In Bruges…

What can you say about a guy who has the Produced By credit on three of the four highest-grossing worldwide box office movies of all time? Well you might say his name was James Cameron … or you would also be correct if you said Jon Landau. Landau has…

With Oscar balloting now in full force, it might be only appropriate to share my conversation with a man who has already won five of them and once again is in the hunt with his first film in seven years, Bardo, which has been shortlisted for Best Internationa…

If I had a word to describe Baz Luhrmann, it just might be inexhaustible. The director, whose latest film Elvis has turned into a global smash hit and is now generating major Oscar buzz, never seems to stop. He has been promoting the movie since its Cannes…

For a guy whose main entry into moviemaking was a series of skiing documentaries, Ruben Östlund has done very well for himself. In a period of just eight years, he has taken the Cannes Film Festival, and subsequently the international film world, by storm…

You have to admit that David Magee is certainly versatile. In 2022 alone, the in-demand screenwriter has seen the release of the Netflix YA movie The School of Good and Evil, the sizzlingly hot adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s classic Lady Chatterley’s Lover…

From 1998’s Pi to a string of provocative, acclaimed and controversial (sometimes) movies, Darren Aronofsky has proven one of the best and most original filmmakers of his generation. Movies like Requiem For a Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler, Black Swan, Noa…

With a diverse filmography that so far includes such notable films as Love & Basketball, The Secret Life of Bees, Beyond the Lights, and The Old Guard, director Gina Prince-Bythewood has made her most critically acclaimed and audience-pleasing film yet with…

Luca Guadagnino seems like he can do it all. His current film, Bones and All, is in theaters now and started the season by winning the Best Director award at the Venice Film Festival. Concurrently he has his documentary, Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams…

Ryan White is, to say the least, a versatile documentary filmmaker with such diverse credits as Serena, Good ‘Ol Freda, Ask Dr. Ruth, Assassins, and The Case Against 8 among an impressive list of movies and subjects he has tackled in his career, but none would seem to pose the challenge of turning the…

In a career where he is proving there isn’t a single movie genre he doesn’t have the ability to take to new levels, writer/director/producer Rian Johnson is riding a career high now with what is turning out to be not only a lucrative but also creatively acclaimed franchise with the Knives Out movies. The…

After venturing into the Amazon with Lost City Of Z, and then outer space with Ad Astra, writer/director James Gray has gone back to the New York roots that colored so many of his earlier films, and now has made his most personal with Armageddon Time, his…