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The Film: Filmmaker Nick Rowland has spent the last 14 years making a pretty good name for himself with shorts, TV shows, and films, with "Slap" and "Calm with Horses" even earning him a pair of prestigious BAFTA nominations for Best British Short Film and Outstanding British Film of the Year, respectively. However, you'd be forgiven if you hadn't heard of his latest endeavor, "She Rides Shotgun," which fell well under the radar for many after it was given an extremely limite

The Film: Ever since its release in 1970, Judy Blume's beloved coming-of-age novel "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret." has received widespread acclaim, with The New York Times naming it Outstanding Book of the Year and Time including it on their list of All-Time 100 Novels written in English since 1923. With such popularity & honors, you would think that an adaptation of some sort would have followed relatively quickly, but strangely enough, Blume opted to reject all offe

The Film: It really is quite amazing that it took this long for there to finally be a biopic about one of the most legendary music icons who ever lived. Sure, there had been a few TV documentaries about Michael Jackson over the years, but somehow we had never gotten a big budget, theatrical film about the King of Pop until now. It's hard to imagine the intense pressure of trying to get something like that right, knowing full-well that millions of fans around the world are cla

The Film: Writer Bryan Fuller has made quite an impressive career for himself working on such beloved & critically-acclaimed shows as "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," "Star Trek: Voyager," Pushing Daisies," "Heroes," and "Hannibal," with some of these projects earning him prestigious nominations from the Television Academy & The Writers Guild of America. Now, after nearly 30 years of working in television, he has decided to make the leap to movies with "Dust Bunny," a film he no

The Film: When it comes to documentaries, there are none that I enjoy more than those that involve the creation of art, whether it's the method of recreating a painting in the astounding "Tim's Vermeer," the preparation of a film that never came to be in the fascinating "Jodorowsky's Dune," or the chaos of making a film that has everything go wrong in my favorite documentary of all time, "Lost in La Mancha." This brings us to one of the most famous docs of this kind, Fax Bahr

The Film: Back in 2000, a little film called "But I'm a Cheerleader" was released from director Jamie Babbit, who wanted to tell a story...

The Film: It's hard to believe that a film starring superstars Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. could come and go while barely making a...

The Film: Director F. Gary Gray has had a rather fascinating career, delivering a number of popular films like "Friday," "Set It Off,"...

The Film: Once again, we return to the fascinating sub-genre of single location films, where filmmakers attempt to tell a compelling tale...