Often overlooked or seemingly misunderstood by most audiences, editing can make or break a film. Aside from its category in the Oscar ceremony, American Cinem...
Just a short time ago, director Neill Blomkamp was better known for the film he didn't direct (Halo), rather than his work thus far. But with his break-out ...
By the time you're reading this, there's a strong chance I'll already want to adjust my year-end list, but I'm confident of at least four truly exception...
"Music and cinema fit together naturally. Because there's a kind of intrinsic musicality to the way moving images work when they're put together. It's been said that cinema and music are very close as art forms, and I think that's true," Martin Scorsese once said....
"It was all part of Ava’s strategy, to get you in so that you see that and you never forget that was a violent, brutal moment and people paid a dear price for us to be here today. But not turn it into a conversation around the film. Make it about an experience. Make it repulsive but in the best way --- in the most subtle, nuanced way."...
With it being nearly two years since his last feature, Sam Raimi will be returning, but this time not to the big screen. We recently got word he'll be helpi...
Emerging as one of the finest American filmmakers working today, Richard Linklater's last two features have been among our most-anticipated films of the yea...
While she's been seen in Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn, and more, Salma Hayek recently got the opportunity to lead her own action vehicle. Coming from dire...
There are certain figures in history that are so endlessly studied, referenced, and revered that their name alone conjures the narrative of an entire movement o...
Jordan Raup is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Film Stage and a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic. Track his obsessive film-watching on Letterboxd.
