April Wolfe

Seed&Spark, founded by Emily Best, has taken crowdfunding to an entirely more sophisticated level for filmmakers. What started out as a way to select only the best, most innovative projects to promote to a motivated network of small-time crowdfunding "investors" has now become everything from a video-on-demand distribution portal to......

Film school is fucking expensive. And even if they get to film school, women still run the risk of having to deal with an old guard that probably thinks Title IX is a long-lost Orson Welles experiment they'll pretend to know about at parties. Luckily, filmmaker Jen McGowan (Kelly &......

Film Independent's on a roll (or reel?), bringing film to the people. As a facet of its partnership with LACMA, Film Independent at LACMA's Live Read series, directed by Jason Reitman, brings A-list actors to the stage to read aloud classic scripts such as Network, True Romance, Dr. Strangelove and......

I want to take a moment to apologize to Anne Hathaway. Ms. Hathaway, as you’ve grown from precocious princess (The Princess Diaries) and embattled intern (The Devil Wears Prada) to destitute prostitute (Les Misérables) and back again to Disney royalty (Alice Through the Looking Glass), I’ve sometimes judged you unfairly,......

There’s little in the way of setup or explanation for what the “bad batch” is or how the members of such a motley, unfortunate tribe of humans were banished to a desert wasteland in Ana Lily Amirpour’s post-apocalyptic action dramedy. Instead, Amirpour just lets the camera linger on a sign......

You know those kids who didn’t give a shit about fashion or football but piled onto beanbags in the basement every Friday to watch the freakiest low-budget camp horror comedies and psychedelic vintage animations on bootleg VHS procured via mail order from some dude they met at a rock show......

We’ve come a long way since American Psycho. And also not. When co-writer/director Mary Harron premiered her Bret Easton Ellis adaptation in 2000, the kneejerk assumption for audiences who’d only seen the trailer was that surely a man had made the ultra-bloody black comedy. The film was dismissed before it......

Writer/director Osgood Perkins has been peeking at my Shirley Jackson book collection, and he's already read through my favorites: The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle. His sophomore feature, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, is a magical amalgam of......