Interviews

In Searchlight Pictures’ black comedy thriller The Menu, elite guests arrive on an exclusive coastal island restaurant to enjoy a lavish meal, only to find that there’s more on the night’s menu than food. Guests at an advance screening of...

Listen to the audio version of this interview on The Boxoffice Podcast The pretension and excess of the fine-dining scene, with its high-priced tasting menus (and tiny portions), is so obviously a target for satire, it’s surprising that contemporary filmmakers...

In theaters November 4 from XYZ Films, in advance of a VOD roll-out on the 22nd, Something in the Dirt is the fifth feature from the filmmaking duo of Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson, who have made a name for...

In theaters this weekend, The Woman King tells the story of the Agojie, a group of all-female warriors that protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 18th and 19th centuries. Inspired by true events, the Dahomey significantly valued women,...

In theaters this weekend, director/producer Jessica M. Thompson’s The Invitation brings capital-G Gothic storytelling to theaters with the story of a struggling, orphaned woman (Nathalie Emmanuel) who discovers an entire branch of her family she was never aware of. They’re...

2022 marks 10 years of collaboration between Cinéshow and Variety of Texas, which since 1935 (under the name Variety Club of Dallas) has brought together Texas’s vibrant cinema industry in support of at-need children and their families. It is fitting,...

Over the last few years, movie theater operators have worked perhaps more closely than ever with the team at NATO, struggling through a morass of Covid-related regulations while trying to secure government assistance and keep movie theaters (responsibly) open. One...

Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur is no stranger to the dangers of the natural world. In 2012’s The Deep and 2018’s Adrift, characters fight for their lives against the open expanse of the sea; in 2015’s Everest, it’s the titular mountain...

A big-screen spectacle optimized for the theatrical experience, Sony’s Bullet Train arrives in theaters this August with a point to prove at the box office. Bullet Train is the rare studio tentpole that bets on capturing a moviegoing audience without...

BAFTA-nominated writer-director Clio Barnard’s 2010 debut feature, The Arbor, an experimental documentary about the life of playwright Andrea Dunbar, won her significant acclaim, including the Best New Documentary Filmmaker honor at the Tribeca Film Festival and the British Newcomer and...

Boasting 157 weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers list for fiction—and counting, as of press time—Delia Owens’s novel Where the Crawdads Sing has become a bona fide phenomenon since its release in mid-2018. Selected by Reese Witherspoon as...

April Wright has spent a good chunk of her career chronicling the history of the film industry, with feature documentaries on movie palaces and drive-ins covering the exhibition side. The writer/director/producer turns her lens (and her drones) on the 21st...