Best of 2025: “Wicked” and “Wicked: For Good” Screenwriter Dana Fox on Her Magical Musical Theater Homecoming
It’s that time of year again—when we slow down, look back (overeat), and celebrate our favorite conversations from another surprising, often wonderful, and occasionally wild year in cinema and TV.
Screenwriter Dana Fox made a pact with director Jon M. Chu. After working with Chu on her Apple TV+ series, Home Before Dark, she told him she would sign up for a project with him, no matter what,
Best of 2025: MPA Creator Award Recipient Jon M. Chu on Authentic Storytelling and the Power of Cultural Specificity
It’s that time of year again—when we slow down, look back (overeat), and celebrate our favorite conversations from another surprising, often wonderful, and occasionally wild year in cinema and TV.
With Wicked: For Good set to complete the story that began with 2024’s blockbuster, director Jon M. Chu, the Motion Picture Association’s Creator Award recipient for 2025, continues our conversation about his evolution as a filmmaker and the power of culturally specific storytelling to reach universal audiences.
Best of 2025: How DP Autumn Durald Arkapaw Captured Black Music’s Timeless Continuum in “Sinners”
It’s that time of year again—when we slow down, look back (overeat), and celebrate our favorite conversations from another surprising, often wonderful, and occasionally wild year in cinema and TV.
In part one of our interview with Sinners cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw, the groundbreaking DP discussed how she leveled up to frame Coogler’s soulful supernatural epic by learning to use the largest film format available. Coogler’s ambitions for his vampire thriller,
Best of 2025: “Sinners” Writer/Director Ryan Coogler on Channeling Louisiana’s Creative Rhythm Into His Period Monsterpiece
It’s that time of year again—when we slow down, look back (overeat), and celebrate our favorite conversations from another surprising, often wonderful, and occasionally wild year in cinema and TV.
Sinners, written, produced, and directed by Ryan Coogler, is hands down one of the year’s biggest cinematic successes. Coogler’s passion project found the filmmaker at the peak of his powers, and fans already primed to see anything from the still young visionary were ready to go once Sinners bowed.
Best of 2025: “One Battle After Another” Production Designer Florencia Martin on Building PTA’s Three-Hour Action Thriller from the Ground Up
It’s that time of year again—when we slow down, look back (overeat), and celebrate our favorite conversations from another surprising, often wonderful, and occasionally wild year in cinema and TV.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s action thriller One Battle After Another is loosely inspired by a section of Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel “Vineland,” but this three-hour epic is rooted in the present, a contemporary vision of a heightened clash between far-left and far-right,
Best of 2025: Inside the Breakneck Cut of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” With Editor Andy Jurgensen
It’s that time of year again—when we slow down, look back (overeat), and celebrate our favorite conversations from another surprising, often wonderful, and occasionally wild year in cinema and TV.
The best-reviewed movie of the season is also the most relentless. Paul Thomas Anderson‘s Oscar front-runner One Battle After Another races through its two-hour fifty-minute run time propelled by adrenalized performances from Leonardo DiCaprio,
Oscar Winner Jenny Beavan on “The Choral,” Ralph Fiennes, and Her Mother’s Wartime Love Story
Screenwriter Alan Bennett has given us The Madness of King George and The History Boys, and his latest film, The Choral, stays true to the writer’s oeuvre of zeitgeist-shifting English epic. Set in 1916 in Ramsden, a fictional Yorkshire mill town, the film follows the travails of the local Choral Society, which is determined to boost wartime morale by inviting young men to join their ranks and engaging a new choir master,
“Avengers: Doomsday” Trailer Confirms Chris Evans Returning to the MCU as Steve Rogers
Well, well, well…just when you thought 2025 couldn’t possibly have any more tricks up its sleeve, the Russo Brothers have revealed, a few days before Christmas, that Chris Evans is returning to the MCU in Avengers: Doomsday. The new teaser is all Evans as Steve Rogers, arriving at a bucolic home on a motorcycle, the camera making sure you note his wedding band, and then following him into the house to a baby.
“Murderbot” Star Alexander Skarsgård Reveals How He Brought the Awkward Android to Life
Even though Alexander Skarsgård (Emmy winner for his nuanced and chilling performance in the HBO series Big Little Lies) is better known for his intense, dramatic roles—Robert Eggers’ 2022 Viking epic The Northman comes to mind—he has always been drawn to comedy. “My first job in Sweden and in Hollywood were both comedies,” the Swedish actor recalled, referring to his American debut in 2001’s wacky satirical comedy,
“Wake Up Dead Man” Composer Nathan Johnson: From Beauty to Darkness in Benoit Blanc’s Latest Mystery
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery composer Nathan Johnson has scored all three of Rian Johnson‘s Knives Out films. Working alongside Johnson (his cousin), Nathan has created a unique sound for each film, culminating in a fantastical, orchestral finale for Benoit Blanc’s closing monologue. So how’d Johnson do? His work on Wake Up Dead Man has recently been shortlisted for an Oscar.
How James Cameron’s “Avatar: Fire and Ash” Uses Practical Filmmaking You’ve Never Seen Before
It has been three years since Avatar: The Way of Water became the third-highest-grossing movie, with $2.3 billion worldwide. The much-anticipated third installment in James Cameron’s cinematic spectacle, Avatar: Fire and Ash, launched this past Friday, once again immersing audiences in the lush forests and pristine oceans of the exomoon Pandora. The epic sci-fi from 20th Century Studios picks up after Jake (Sam Worthington), Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña),
“Superman: Man of Tomorrow” Villain Revealed: James Gunn Casts Lars Eidinger to Play Brainiac
James Gunn shared some huge news on social media this past Saturday, revealing that he’d found the man to play Brainiac, the villain in his upcoming Superman sequel, Superman: Man of Tomorrow.
In our worldwide search for Brainiac in Man of Tomorrow, Lars Eidinger rose to the top. Welcome to the DCU, Lars. pic.twitter.com/atkWZpG1CT
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) December 20, 2025
Lars Eidinger has secured the coveted role,
Shawn Levy Celebrates “Star Wars: Starfighter” Wrapping Filming With New Image
It’s official—Star Wars: Starfighter has finished filming. We are that much closer to the first new Star Wars film since Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, J.J. Abrams’ trilogy capper, which revealed that Rey (Daisy Ridley) is a direct descendant of Emperor Palpatine.
Director Shawn Levy shared the news on Instagram with a fresh look at himself—we’ve previously gotten a glimpse of Gosling and co-star Flynn Gray somewhere on the Mediterranean—running through an Inception-style corridor (he’s practically running on the wall).
Melting Ice: How “Heated Rivalry” Became the Year’s Hottest Sports Romance
Based on Rachel Reid’s bestselling book series, "Heated Rivalry" has become one of the hottest sports dramas of the year.
Steven Spielberg’s First Original Sci-Fi in Years: “Disclosure Day” Teaser Reveals Emily Blunt’s Chilling Alien Encounter
“If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you?”
This is the question posed in the opening seconds of the first glimpse at Steven Spielberg’s upcoming Disclosure Day, his first original sci-fi thriller in years, which he directed from a script he co-wrote with Jurassic Park scribe David Koepp. From the unsettling opening question, we’re taken into a television studio in Kansas City,
Production Designer Kevin Thompson on Capturing NYC’s Iconic Comedy Scene in Bradley Cooper’s “Is This Thing On?”
Production designer Kevin Thompson knows New York and its environs like the back of his hand (one of those old, paper MTA maps), and few things give him more joy than showcasing his knowledge of and love for the city on the big screen. His work on director Bradley Cooper‘s Is This Thing On? is a perfect example.
Having already immortalized the Big Apple in Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance),
“Wake Up Dead Man” Cinematographer Steve Yedlin on Framing Rian Johnson’s Darkest “Knives Out” Yet
When I walked into the theater to see Wake Up Dead Man, the third installment in Rian Johnson’s Knives Out series, I wasn’t thinking about the fact that I’d soon be talking to Steve Yedlin, the cinematographer behind the film’s meticulous, moody visual world. I was just excited by the thought of revisiting a universe that has become something like comfort food to me. I’ve watched Knives Out and Glass Onion more times than I care to admit publicly,
Filming “F1: The Movie”: Stunt Coordinator Gary Powell on Brad Pitt’s Wild Ride From Abu Dhabi to Spa
In the first part of our conversation with stunt coordinator and second unit director Gary Powell, he talked about director Joseph Kosinski’s ambitious vision for Apple’s highest-grossing theatrical release to date, F1: The Movie, starring Brad Pitt (Sonny Hayes) and Damson Idris (Joshua Pearce). The film received unprecedented access to the Formula One organization and was filmed during the 2023 and 2024 seasons at several Grand Prix events,
Hollywood Mourns Rob & Michele Reiner: Lives Defined by Storytelling and Social Justice
Rob Reiner, American film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and political activist, passed away on Sunday, December 14th. Reiner and his wife, producer Michele Reiner, were found dead in their home in Brentwood, California. The news has shocked and appalled their loved ones, friends, admirers, and film fans all over the world. As of this writing, their son, Nick, is currently in police custody. It’s a horrific tragedy.
Following this devastating news, colleagues, friends,
“F1” Stunt Coordinator & 2nd Unit Director Gary Powell on Training Brad Pitt to Drive 190 MPH on Real Grand Prix Tracks
Amassing over $630 million in global box office since its June release, director Joseph Kosinski and Brad Pitt’s racing drama F1: The Movie is Warner Bros’ second-highest-grossing film in 2025, and partly responsible for the legacy studio’s newly minted status as the first to cross the $4 billion mark this year. Following 2022’s box office juggernaut, Top Gun: Maverick, Kosinski reteamed with Maverick screenwriter Ehren Kruger and cinematographer Claudio Miranda for another adrenaline-pumping,
