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Bad Education | Review

A Touch of Class: Finley Explores Famed Embezzlement Scandal Director Cory Finley revisits one of the education system’s most notorious scandals in Bad Education, an...

Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #17. Cory Finley’s Bad Education

Bad Education Moving from a brilliant dark comedy (Thoroughbreds) off campus mind-games to shark infested waters of the high school experience, for Cory Finley's sophomore...

2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Reed Morano’s I Think We’re Alone Now

Now that Reed Morano won the Emmy for best director in a drama series for The Handmaid's Tale (read her remarkable process in winning...

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Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.

Interview: Eivind Landsvik – Low Expectations | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Exploring themes of mental health, emotional recovery, companionship, and...

Interview: Sandra Wollner – Everytime | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

One of the discoveries of this year's Cannes Film...