This Month’s Good Reads (May 2026)
Life is busy – you’re celebrating a hugely significant agreement between two industry titans. No, not Baldoni/Lively, a tentative SAG-AFTRA/AMPTP deal! Still, it can
Filmmaker Interview: ADDISON HEIMANN, writer/director/producer of TOUCH ME
For playwright-turned-filmmaker ADDISON HEIMANN, major inspiration has come from anime, comics, scary movies, and queer cinema. In his 2022 directorial debut, Hypochondriac, he explored
Filmmaker Interview: RYAN PROWS, co-writer/director of NIGHT PATROL
NIGHT PATROL offers a fresh take on a Los Angeles urban crime story, where a rogue gang of LAPD officers targets the residents of
Filmmaker Interview: BEN LEONBERG and KARI FISCHER of GOOD BOY
With apologies to Cujo, historically, cats have ruled in the horror genre. Movie cats leap out of the shadows for a jump scare, prowl
This Month’s Good Reads (March 2025)
Life is busy. You’re Saving Daylight while being wary of March’s Ides (do other months have Ides?). It can be tough to stay up-to-date
This Month’s Good Reads (February 2025)
Life is busy. You’re celebrating Bowls (Super and Puppy), Awards (Spirit and SAG), and even Days (Valentine’s and Presidents’). It can be tough to
This Month’s Good Reads (May 2024)
Life is busy — you’re getting ready for summer, watching the sky turn purple, and keeping up with the latest rap beef and/or presidential
Filmmaker Interview: BOMANI J. STORY, writer/director/producer of THE ANGRY BLACK GIRL AND HER MONSTER
BOMANI J. STORY started his creative output at a young age, writing short stories as a child and finding early inspiration in an 1818
This Month’s Good Reads (December 2022)
Life is busy – you’re winding down from an entire 12 months’ worth of 2022. It can be tough to stay up-to-date on all
This Month’s Good Reads (October 2022)
Life is busy – scarily… spookily… oooookily busy. It can be tough to stay up-to-date on all the latest film industry news, profiles, analysis,
This Month’s Good Reads (October 2021)
Life is busy – you’re trick-or-treating, bobbing for apples, realizing how unsanitary it is to bob for apples in this current climate. It can
Indie Insider: HALLOWEEN (1978)
Updated 10/15/21; originally published 10/31/14 Happy Halloween! Or rather, Happy HALLOWEEN. Director John Carpenter‘s 1978 low-budget indie about a masked, babysitter-stalking killer was at