Stories By Dylan Kai Dempsey
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Interviews
Interview: Boots Riley – Sorry to Bother You
July 5, 2018Writer/Director Boots Riley is no stranger to pushing boundaries. A longtime political activist-rapper, he has already...
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Interviews
Interview: Jennifer Fox – The Tale
May 25, 2018Previously known for documentaries Beirut: The Last Home Movie (1987) and My Reincarnation (2011), producer and...
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Reviews
The Man Who Stole Banksy | 2018 Tribeca Film Festival Review
May 14, 2018Anti-American Graffiti: A Cultural Critique Built on Street Art Marco Prosperio’s ambitious debut feature The Man...
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Interviews
Interview: Paul Lieberstein – Song Of Back And Neck
May 3, 2018Paul Lieberstein — perhaps better known as Toby Flenderson from NBC’s The Office—made his feature film...
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Reviews
Beirut | Review
April 11, 2018Going Hamm in Beirut: Sharply Written, Compelling, Old school Hostage Drama Set in guess-where, Beirut is a snappy...
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Interviews
Interview: Tony Gilroy & Jon Hamm – Brad Anderson’s Beirut | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
April 11, 2018Foreign diplomacy thriller Beirut might have been an unusual, counter-programming choice made by Sundance programmers, but it...
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Film Festivals
Video: Shorts Program 1 | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
March 26, 2018Sundance’s Shorts Program 1 is often one of the festival’s very first screenings each year. In...
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Reviews
Eighth Grade | Review
March 14, 2018Grade A Time Capsule: Bo Burnham’s Offers Torturous Last Week of Middle School. Eighth Grade is...
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Annual Top Films Lists
Dylan Kai Dempsey’s Top 10 Films of 2017
March 4, 2018Some, including the American literary scholar James English, argue that artists shouldn’t care about awards like...
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Interviews
Interview: Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
February 21, 2018Way back in 2006, Robert Pickering “Bo” Burnham won our hearts with viral home videos during...
