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AMERICAN FICTION is one of the most critically-acclaimed films of the year, receiving five Critics Choice Award nominations, including best picture and best adapted screenplay for writer/director Cord Jefferson. Based on the novel Erasure by Percival Everett, the film centers around Monk (Jeffrey Wright), a frustrated novelist who is shocked when he finally finds success… Continue reading Interview: Writer/Director Cord Jefferson for American Fiction
It is no secret that Netflix's brilliant film MAESTRO is my favorite of the year. I have seen it three times now and each time I watch I discover something new. The film focuses on American composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein (Bradley Cooper) and his relationship with his music; but more than that it centers around his… Continue reading Interview: Carey Mulligan & Creatives Behind Maestro
MAY DECEMBER is one of my favorite films of the year. Todd Haynes is one of the best directors working today and was the perfect choice to bring Samy Burch's intelligent, tonally balanced script to the big screen. Adding award-caliber, can't miss performances from Julianne Moore, Natalie Portman, and Charles Melton is the cherry on… Continue reading Interview: May December – Julianne Moore, Natalie Portman, Charles Melton, Todd Haynes, and Samy Burch!
RUSTIN, directed by George C. Wolfe, is one of the most important and illuminating movies of the year, shining a spotlight on a little-known leader of the Civil Rights Movement, Bayard Rustin. An openly gay man, Rustin was the key architect of the 1963 March on Washington; yet because of who he loved, his legacy… Continue reading Movie Review/Interview: Rustin (Colman Domingo and George C. Wolfe)
NYAD, Netflix's latest crowdpleaser, is so much more than a biopic on record-breaking swimmer Diana Nyad (played by Annette Bening). It is a character study that is not afraid to show Nyad's prickly and problematic personality as she relentlessly attempts to achieve her dream of swimming from Cuba to Florida, despite being in her 60s.… Continue reading Interview: Nyad Screenwriter Julia Cox
Director Mahalia Belo's THE END WE START FROM was one of my favorite movies screened at TIFF this year. Based on the novel by Megan Hunter, the film is an apocalyptic drama focused on new mother (Jodie Comer), her partner (Joel Fry), and their baby trying to escape London to get to his parents’ home in the… Continue reading Interview: Director Mahalia Belo for The End We Start From
Netflix's hit show OUTER BANKS was renewed for season four last week and it's no surprise why. With a legion of loyal fans and a killer season three, I was so excited to hear that we will get more Pogue content... and hopefully a majority of that will be of the :ahem: shipping variety. Season… Continue reading TV Interview: Madelyn Cline and Madison Bailey for Outer Banks!
I first saw THE SON at the London Film Festival a few months ago and haven't been able to shake several scenes from the movie ever since. Written and directed by Florian Zeller, who won a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for his incredible film THE FATHER, the film is based off of Zeller's play. It… Continue reading Interview: Florian Zeller for THE SON
Netflix's new spy series THE RECRUIT is an entertaining, thrilling take on the spy genre. Instead of focusing on a case officer, the series follows Owen (Noah Centineo) a newly hired CIA lawyer that immediately gets in over his head. Fresh out of law school, he is tasked to handle the agency's "graymail," or the… Continue reading Interview: Laura Haddock for The Recruit
Guillermo del Toro said it best when he said, "Animation is a medium, not a genre." This statement perfectly explains how audiences should view films with animation, as another art form and medium for telling a story; animated stories should not be minimized by being considered a kid's genre. I see no better representation of… Continue reading Movie Review/Interview: Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio