Amy Nicholson

To program a 3-D festival, you have to be one part cineaste, two parts Sherlock Holmes. In its 1950s heyday, Hollywood shot exactly 50 3-D films, a few by the greatest auteurs of the era — Alfred Hitchcock, Douglas Sirk — and the rest by schlock pioneers. Of those, the......

Morgan Spurlock loves money. His documentaries are fascinated by cheap cheeseburgers, product placement, and freakonomics, and his latest commodity is Brit boy band One Direction, five lads shoved together by Simon Cowell on X-Factor. They can't dance and they can't even convince us that they're fans of their own music,......

Brian De Palma had a good reason for remaking the erotic French thriller Love Crime: He could do it better. "I think it's very dangerous to remake a classic," De Palma says. "Leave it alone." But the 2010 corporate cat-fight flick about female frenemies had a framework he loved —......

On Sept. 17, 2011, 1,000 protesters set up tents in Manhattan's financial district and dubbed themselves Occupy Wall Street. Four days later, Lionsgate purchased You're Next — a home-invasion slasher that slices up a family of useless 1 percenters — and should have released it immediately. Instead, the studio sat......

When David Gordon Green introduced Paul Rudd to Emile Hirsch, the two actors didn't click. It was an awkward seafood dinner. "Emile just started talking about something — girls, maybe — and I was doing a piss-poor job of trying to follow along," Rudd recalls. "And when Emile got up......