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When it came to S.J. Clarkson’s approach to Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Woman origin story Madame Web, “It all started with clairvoyance,” says the filmmaker. Clarkson, who makes her feature directorial debut with the movie, has already dipped her toe in the Marvel universe as an episodic director in such…

In Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, the late Robbie Robertson’s final original score, laced with Native American percussion and fierce electric guitar, captures the chilling tension that was building up in 1920s Oklahoma’s Osage Nation community. The intense musical work, which…

On this morning’s Crew Call, we talk with The Color Purple producers Oprah Winfrey and Scott Sanders on blazing a path for their Broadway musical to the big screen. Winfrey, who starred in Steven Spielberg’s 1985 feature take of the Alice Walker novel, gives props to best friend Gayle King for the…

She’s about to turn 21 next month, but when it comes to matters of the human heart, singer songwriter actress Olivia Rodrigo is wise beyond her years. When it comes to spinning poetry from fractured relationships and trampled hearts, Rodrigo is arguably in the same league as the mega Princess of…

Amazon Prime MGM’s Emerald Fennell gothic romance Saltburn has become a new obsession for Prime Video subscribers, for following its Dec. 22 drop, the movie has easily become one of the streamer’s top 10 worldwide film debuts. Similar to how the Barry Keoghan-Rosamund Pike-Jacob Elordi-Richard E…

As we head into Oscar balloting on Thursday, let’s not forget about Chloe Domont’s Fair Play which reawakened the erotic thriller, and specifically spoke to the Me-Too era. The MRC and T-Street production went into Sundance last year under the radar and became the fest’s first big deal with Netflix…

“Ya know, I did go full method,” reveals Jack Black to us on Crew Call in regards to how he prepped for the role of Mega villain Bowser in Illumination/Nintendo/Universal’s Super Mario Bros Movie. “I gained seven pounds, only eating Bowser-type food, which ironically is similar to my type of food…

Warning: This podcast contains spoilers about the ending of Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes “In 2015, we thought she was done.” That’s what filmmaker Francis Lawrence thought about the finale of the $3 billion-plus grossing The Hunger Games franchise with Mockingja…

Within the course of a week some six years ago, aspiring genre filmmaker Michael Chaves’ life changed forever. ‘The Nun II’ New Line Cinema Bloody Disgusting had posted his haunted house horror short The Maiden…

In a cinema that has plenty of offerings when it comes to guys with guns, what gives Sony and Escape Artists’ Equalizer series with Denzel Washington that extra zhuzh? Action sets, but with a character bent, unlike those in Fast & Furious…

Taffy Brodesser-Akner knows something about love. And men and women, and why they fall in and out of love. It’s no wonder why her debut novel, Fleishman Is in Trouble became an immediate New York Times Bestseller, as well as a notch on the National Book Award longlist, resonating with many…

Why did it take decades for a biopic to be made about Israel’s first and only female prime minister, Golda Meir? Filmmaker Guy Nattiv, who boarded the “open assignment” project well before his live-action short Oscar win for Skin in 2019, tells us why, in addition to Golda‘s recent shepherding as a…