
My Hero the Hitman Redeems the Man Who Attacked Nancy Kerrigan
What happened to Shane Stant, the hulking 22-year-old who attacked Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan in 1994? A moving new documentary, My Hero the Hitman, details his later life as a protector to his younger sister — and his...
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Nadine Crocker Made Continue Hoping to Help People ‘Live One More Day’
Nadine Crocker made her film Continue in the hopes that people considering suicide will instead live long enough to overcome their pain. She knows that day will come, because she’s lived to see it herself. Today she’s the...
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Want to Win an Academy Nicholl Fellowship? Listen to the 2021 Winners
The 2021 Academy Nicholl Fellows have one thing in common: Their scripts are filled with emotion. The five winners of the Nicholl Fellowships, perhaps the most prestigious screenwriting competition of all, come from very...
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"Marry Me" Director Kat Coiro on Honoring — and Breaking Up — With Rom-Coms
Kat Coiro, director of the charming new Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson rom-com Marry Me, proudly embraces some of the traditions of the genre: a wild meet-cute, opposites attracting, a cheering section of quirky friends,...
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Ethan Eng Made Therapy Dogs In High School
Ethan Eng enlisted his classmates in the Class of 2019 to make his debut film, Therapy Dogs. They told school officials they were making a yearbook video. They weren’t. When you hear that a 20-year-old is making his Slamdance...
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Isabel Castro (MIJA)
Mija director Isabel Castro is a journalist and documentarian who rolls her eyes at all the tropes of immigration stories: the hopelessness, the grim statistics, the victim narratives. So she made sure Mija looks and feels very...
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Dasha Nekrasova (The Scary of Sixty-First)
The Scary of Sixty-First, the debut film from Dasha Nekrasova, has a riskiness lacking from most recent American films, starting with its subject manner: It’s an Eyes Wide Shut-style winter nightmare about two young women who...
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The Fall and Rise of Super Mario Bros.
That Time Dennis Hopper ‘Exploded’ on the Set of the Original 1993 Super Mario Bros. MovieBy Margeaux Sippell During the making of the original 1993 Super Mario Bros. live-action movie, there were almost too...
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House of Gucci Writer Says Key Was Irony & 'Not Take the Characters Serious
House of Gucci went through several writers before the project found one who could do justice to the surreally messy story of the feuding Guccis. Married producers Ridley Scott and Giannina Facio finally found the right writer for...
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Spencer Dir. Pablo Larraín Says Princess Diana Story is ‘About Motherhood'
When Pablo Larraín saw Princess Diana on TV as a child, he saw her in large part through the eyes of his mother. Now, he’s a parent himself — and sees his film Spencer, about a few crucial days in Diana’s life, as “a...
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