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Vox Lux | Review

A Star is Worn: Corbet Confirms his Talent with Daring Sophomore Effort 2015’s The Childhood of a Leader (review) was a surprising debut in many ways,...

Interview: Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade | 2018 Sundance Film Festival

Way back in 2006, Robert Pickering “Bo” Burnham won our hearts with viral home videos during YouTube’s first legs. Since then, the 27-year-old hyphenate...

Video: Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade – 2018 Sundance Film Festival

Is Eighth Grade an affectionate critique of adolescence? A study on our relationship with technology? A self-love letter aimed at insecure adults? All of...

Interview: Elsie Fisher – Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade | 2018 Sundance Film Festival

Previously unknown aside from her voice acting in the Despicable Me series, Elsie Fisher is a star-in-the-making thanks to her performance in Bo Burnham’s...

Interview: Josh Hamilton – Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade | 2018 Sundance Film Festival

We caught up with film (recent Park City trips include Experimenter, Take Me to the River, Manchester by the Sea) and TV staple Josh...

Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #99. Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade

Eighth Grade Fore more than a decade, this spanking brand new entity on the American independent film sphere has been cutting his teeth as a comedian...

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Ken Russell’s The Devils – 2010 Fantasia International Film Festival

Iconic director Ken Russell was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award from Fantasia for his 50-plus years in the business, a career that has spawned many genre classics including Altered States, Gothic, and The Lair of the White Worm. But it was the little-seen and hard to find The Devils from 1971 that proved to be Russell's most controversial work, and Fantasia managed to snag a copy to be screened on Russell's big night. In the video, Russell discusses the true story behind the film and receives his award with the grace befitting one of the great filmmakers of all time.