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“Natalie Erika James Discusses the Horror of Inescapable Truths in ‘Relic'”
I think Peter Steele said it best when he sang “Everything Dies.” Continue reading
“Nisha Ganatra Discusses Leaving Space for More People in the Room”
Rooms tend to be pretty big, after all, so making space for other people doesn’t seem all that hard, does it? Continue reading
“Tayarisha Poe Wants You to Give Teenagers Some Space”
For the record, “Selah and the Spades” would be a totally awesome name for a rock ‘n roll band. Continue reading
“Kelly Reichardt Is Doing What She Can To Get Through The Moment”
My second piece about “First Cow.” You could call it: “Second ‘First Cow’ Piece.” Continue reading
“Kitty Green Discusses Complicity and Loneliness in ‘The Assistant'”
The director of one of the best movies of the year was kind enough to talk to me about making a “timely” movie that’s actually timeless. Continue reading
“Robert Eggers Is Ready to Do Worse Than The Lighthouse”
Note: “Worse” as in “worse for the people who make movies with him,” because “The Lighthouse” owns very, very hard. Continue reading
Issa López Brings Back the Darkness of Fairy Tales in “Tigers Are Not Afraid”
There’s about a 99% chance that tigers wrote the title for this film, but I’m not going to be the one to call them on it. Continue reading
“Lulu Wang Bids Farewell”
Lying about your grandma’s mortality seems like a bad idea, except when the bad idea ends up forming the basis of a really good movie. Continue reading
“Penny Lane Explores the Questioning Behind the Question Mark in Hail Satan?”
Not the Kiernan Shipka version of “hail Satan!”, but a kinder, gentler, more politically conscious version. Continue reading
“Sharing a Beer with Esther Tetreault a.k.a. Mrs. Trillium”
Continuing my side career as a major Trillium Brewing Company booster: My interview with Esther Tetreault, one of the most joyful interviews I’ve conducted all year (aided in no small part by drinks*), about Trillium’s past, present, and future, including a discussion of “beer therapy” and a back and forth on the company’s apparent evolution … Continue reading
“Bruce Campbell Sends ‘Evil Dead’ Off With a Bloody, Bingeworthy Bang”
…oh, come the heck on, of course I set up a talk with Bruce Campbell about the end of Ash vs Evil Dead, who the hell do you think you’re talking to here. This is my second chat with Bruce, following my first, which orbited the show’s second season, while this one is all about the third, … Continue reading
“How the Director of The Spy Who Dumped Me Made a Graphic, Funny, Feminist Action Film”
Upfront, I didn’t have high expectations for The Spy Who Dumped Me; I don’t have faith in studio comedies, and I especially don’t have faith in studio action comedies, because they tend to treat the action with indifference and just joke through fight scenes where characters reasonably should be taking matters seriously. But Susanna Fogel isn’t fucking … Continue reading
“Sobering And Funny, ‘Blindspotting’ Wants To Return Feeling To Our Collective Consciousness”
Revisiting my audio recording of the interview I conducted with Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal at this year’s Independent Film Festival Boston, I finally figured out what I would have really liked to have said about the film at the time but didn’t: Racism’s really hard to talk about, even couched in a piece of art like Blindspotting. It’s … Continue reading
“Lillie Mae: Music In Her Blood”
Boston Calling isn’t over yet! I mean: It is. But I still have coverage to share, so it sort of isn’t? Anyway, I wrote a profile of the very great, super talented Lillie Mae Rische for Paste Magazine after chatting with her about how life’s treated her since releasing Forever and Then Some in 2017, her … Continue reading
“The Guy Who Plays Chewbacca Reveals What It’s Like To Live As A Wookie”
Rawwrrarrrgg, grrghghgggg, ggwwwghh, aaararrrgwwwh, wwwwwwwgggghhhrrrw. Translated from Shyriiwook, that roughly comes out to, “For Thrillist, I had a conversation with Joonas Suotamo, the delightfully Finnish actor who plays Chewbacca in Solo: A Star Wars Story and Star Wars: The Last Jedi about how gosh darn hot it gets in that Wookie suit.” I hope that helps! (And please … Continue reading
“How Broken Lizard Came Up With The Infamous ‘Super Troopers’ Meow Gag”
I’m a fan of Super Troopers and I’m not ashamed of it, though damn if reviews of Super Troopers 2 aren’t going out of their way to suggest that people who like these movies are somehow unevolved or troubled. (Essentially: Fuck those reviews. Review the movie, not the people who like it, I mean shit, I grew … Continue reading
“Armando Iannucci on ‘Death of Stalin,’ Jeffrey Tambor and Satire in the Age of Trump”
So, this is pretty huge (at least for me): Last week I spoke to Armando Iannucci, the comic genius behind Veep and In the Loop (among other things, like The Day Today, The Thick of It, and so on) about his new film, The Death of Stalin, which is about exactly what you think it is about. I’m a Iannucci fan … Continue reading
“Vicky Krieps Talks About What We Don’t Really Talk About”
I’m going to try to break this down for you quickly: I interviewed Vicky Krieps. Specifically, I interviewed Vicky Krieps about her new film, The Young Karl Marx, but because there are so many similarities between her role in The Young Karl Marx and Phantom Thread, I wound up interviewing her about both. (We also briefly talked about … Continue reading
Interview: Janicza Bravo & Brett Gelman, Lemon
Sick of hearing me talk about Lemon? Tough noogies: Here’s more of me talking about Lemon, this time in conversation with Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman. Bravo directed the thing; Gelman starred in the thing; they both wrote the thing together. It’s a good thing! (The movie, I mean. The interview is a good thing, too, though, … Continue reading
A Constant Visual Feast 