By Sara Bright In April, S. Craig Zahler stepped onto a Toronto soundstage to begin shooting The Bookie and the Bruiser, a period mafia thriller…
By Tessa Nolan When the 68th BFI London Film Festival closed on 20 October 2024, the numbers told a story that even the most optimistic…
By Sara Bright There is a photograph Debra Winger keeps from the Sahara. She stands at the edge of the dunes in Tuareg robes, facing…
By Tessa Nolan When Mattel unveiled its “Women in Film” Barbie range in January 2024 – just three months after the Writers Guild of America…
By Tessa Nolan On 11 September 1979, a fifteen-year-old Lisbon boy boarded a flight bound for Moscow, carrying a scholarship, a head full of socialist…
By Sara Bright In the spring of 1999, a 26-year-old Ben Affleck sat in a recording booth and dismantled the very film he had just…
By Sara Bright When Barbara Broccoli described Amazon’s executives as “fucking idiots” in a Wall Street Journal interview, she was not merely venting frustration. She…
By Sara Bright When Jeff Bezos posed a deceptively simple question to his social media followers – Who’d you pick as the next Bond? –…
By Alexander Stone There is a particular kind of Hollywood stardom that does not announce itself. It accumulates – role by role, year by year,…
By Alexander Stone The story of Alan Ritchson’s career reads like a script that no studio would greenlight – a military brat from North Dakota…