More from Brian Davids
‘Star Wars: The Acolyte’ Star Manny Jacinto Says His Off-Screen Performance Tested Him As Much As His “Three-Tiered” Role
[This story contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Acolyte.] Manny Jacinto’s scene-stealing role as the Stranger on Star Wars: The Acolyte is a revelation for plenty of viewers, but for several weeks now, fans of Michael Schur’s The Good Place have been proudly reiterating, “That’s the guy we’ve been telling you about.” If you’re someone […]
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‘Twisters’ Star Brandon Perea on the Daunting Task of Following Philip Seymour Hoffman and Why ‘The OA’ Isn’t Over to Him Yet
Two years ago, Brandon Perea delivered a breakout big-screen performance in Jordan Peele’s Nope, and now he’s back in Universal’s latest July event film, Twisters. Directed by Lee Isaac Chung, Perea plays Boone, who’s nearly unrecognizable from his Nope character, Angel Torres. He is the right hand to Glen Powell’s Tyler Owens, as their team […]
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‘Twisters’ Director Lee Isaac Chung Talks Steven Spielberg’s Big Assist and How ‘Star Wars’ Helped Him Land the Job
In early 2019, Twisters director Lee Isaac Chung had come to terms with the fact his filmmaking career might be over. He’d already recognized the writing on the wall a year earlier and decided to pen a semi-autobiographical script known as Minari, but everything would soon change in February 2019. That’s when Plan B agreed […]
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‘Longlegs’ Star Alicia Witt Breaks Down Her Haunting Character and What You Didn’t See
[This story contains spoilers for Longlegs.] Nobody has had a career quite like Alicia Witt. From avenging House Atreides at age eight in David Lynch’s Dune to her standout role as Ruth Harker in Osgood “Oz” Perkins’ Longlegs, Witt has been a prolific performer across film and television for four decades, all while balancing an […]
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‘Fly Me to the Moon’ Director Greg Berlanti on NASA’s Openness to Conspiracy and Saying Goodbye to the Arrowverse
Fly Me to the Moon director Greg Berlanti doesn’t think of himself as a director first and foremost. He’s a storyteller with a keen sense of how he can best serve a project, be it as a producer, writer or director. In the case of Fly Me to the Moon, the New York native had […]
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How ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ Writer Rose Gilroy Stopped at Nothing to Write for Scarlett Johansson
It’s easy to assume that a screenwriter with the last name Gilroy had an effortless foray into show business, but that was anything but the case for Fly Me to the Moon’s Rose Gilroy. As the daughter of Dan Gilroy and Rene Russo, as well as niece to Tony and John Gilroy, Rose attempted to […]
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‘Longlegs’ Director Osgood Perkins Explains Why He Doesn’t Watch Contemporary Horror
Longlegs’ Osgood “Oz” Perkins is remarkably even-keeled for a filmmaker who’s enjoying the finest reviews of his career. His Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage-led horror-thriller has been the talk of the town for months now, as Neon’s marketing department has put together one of the more inspired promotional campaigns in recent memory. They’ve made Perkins’ […]
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Maika Monroe Talks Fighting for ‘Longlegs,’ Why She Nearly Gave Up Acting and ‘It Follows 2’
Calling Longlegs star Maika Monroe a “scream queen” is a bit of an understatement at this point. Perhaps the term “scream empress” is more appropriate for an actor who already solidified her genre cred ten years ago with the one-two punch of cult classics, The Guest and It Follows. In the decade since, she’s added […]
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‘Mother, Couch’ Director Niclas Larsson Recalls the Day Ewan McGregor Cried for 12 Straight Minutes
Mother, Couch filmmaker Niclas Larsson isn’t afraid to take big swings both personally and professionally. As a teenager in Sweden, Larsson embarked on a five-hour train ride to a Stockholm hotel just so he could have a chance to meet one of his all-time favorite filmmakers, Gus Van Sant. After waiting around all night at […]
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‘MaXXXine’ Filmmaker Ti West on Capping Off His Unexpected Trilogy and Receiving Calls About Superman
Ti West went into 2020’s pandemic with a script for a slasher called X, and he came out on the other side with two-thirds of a trilogy, the best reviews of his career and newfound supporters such as one Martin Scorsese. Since the mid-2000s, West has made a name for himself through low-budget genre fare, […]
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‘Beverly Hills Cop’ Director Mark Molloy Kept Saying No to Jerry Bruckheimer Until ‘Axel F’ Came Along
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F’s Mark Molloy is now the latest in a long line of filmmakers who Jerry Bruckheimer has recruited from the world of advertising. Having written or directed at least four commercials for Apple, the humble Australian filmmaker won’t allow himself to say that he followed in the same footsteps as fellow […]
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‘Twister’ Director Jan de Bont Remembers “Shapeshifters” Bill Paxton and Philip Seymour Hoffman
Fresh off the 30th anniversary of his all-time great actioner Speed, filmmaker Jan de Bont is now turning his attention to his highly successful sophomore effort, Twister. On July 9, the Bill Paxton- and Helen Hunt-led disaster film will be made available on 4K Ultra HD for the very first time, whetting the audience’s appetite […]
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