Interviews
Interviews with stars, directors and VOD professionals.
Interview: Robert Glenister and Celia de Wolff talk making ITV’s Isolation Stories under lockdown
May 10, 2020 | Ian WintertonAs the coronavirus lockdown was instigated across the UK, writer-producer Jeff Pope – head of ITV factual drama – decided to create an immediate response to the new normal. The result was four short films under the umbrella title Isolation … Read More
Interview: Corneliu Porumboiu talks The Whistlers
May 8, 2020 | Josh Slater-WilliamsFollowing his breakthrough feature, 2006’s 12:08 East of Bucharest, Romanian writer-director Corneliu Porumboiu has become known for veering between similarly satirical comedies, meta-textual documentaries (The Second Game, Infinite Football) and ostensibly more traditional dramas (Police, Adjective). His most recent film, … Read More
Interview: Kleber Mendonça Filho talks Bacurau, genre cinema and streaming
March 14, 2020 | Matthew TurnerThis weekend sees Bacurau released in UK cinemas and online by MUBI. The neo-Western thriller takes us to the titular settlement in Brazil’s remote backcountry, which is shaken by the death of its elderly matriarch. But something strange is happening … Read More
Q&A: Daisy May Cooper and Charlie Cooper talk This Country Season 3
February 17, 2020 | David Farnor“I think we’re all pretty much like the characters,” says Charlie Cooper of This Country. BBC Three’s hit mockumentary sitcom, which returns for its third and final season tonight (read our review here), has always succeeded because of the way … Read More
Star Trek: Picard: Boldly going to new, old frontiers
January 24, 2020 | David Farnor“I came here to find safety, but one is never safe from the past.” Those are the words of Jean-Luc Picard, 18 years after we last saw him in action as the captain of the USS Starship Enterprise in the … Read More
Interview: Neil Gaiman and Douglas Mackinnon talk Good Omens and Terry Pratchett
January 15, 2020 | David FarnorGood Omens airs on BBC Two at 9pm on Wednesdays. This interview was originally published in May 2019 to accompany its premiere on Amazon Prime Video.
Based on the 1990 book of the same name by Terry Pratchett and Neil … Read More
Interview: Director Benedict Andrews talks Seberg, Kristen Stewart and Amazon Studios
January 11, 2020 | David FarnorThis weekend sees the release of a conspiracy thriller, a biopic and a civil rights drama all wrapped into one film: Seberg, a portrait of Jean Seberg at the height of her career in the late 1960s. Following the French … Read More
Interview: Dolemite Is My Name writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski
December 14, 2019 | Matthew TurnerWith awards season now underway, one of Netflix’s major contenders – alongside The Irishman and Marriage Story – is Dolemite Is My Name (read our review here). The comedy biopic stars Eddie Murphy as floundering comedian Rudy Ray Moore, who … Read More
Interview: I Lost My Body director Jérémy Clapin, writer Guillaume Laurant and producer Marc Du Pontavice
November 23, 2019 | Matthew TurnerThis weekend sees the release of one of the year’s most unusual films: the story of a severed hand setting out to reconnect with its body.
I Lost My Body, which Netflix snapped up following its best film win … Read More
Interview: Scott Z. Burns talks The Report
November 10, 2019 | Katherine McLaughlinScott Z. Burns’ The Report stars Adam Driver as former United States Senate investigator Daniel J. Jones, who, after many years of hard graft and personal sacrifice, brought the CIA’s shocking torture practices following the 9/11 attacks to light.
The … Read More