I scream! You scream! We all scream for even more announced SXSW premieres! That's right, the film festival that knows how much it spoils us (see, they admit it right here) are adding screenings of Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell and Jonathan Demme's Neil Young Trunk Show to their already crowded line-u...

Before I launch into this review, did anyone else find it more than a little odd that noted thespian Katie Holmes was chosen to give out the best actor in a motion picture award at last night's Screen Actor's Guild Awards? Just a random thought ... I have to say Jonathan Demme's "Rachel Getting Marr...

As much as we loved seeing the inauguration of Barack Obama yesterday, our long national nightmare doesn't officially end until tomorrow morning. After what feels like eight years, the Academy Award nominations will finally (finally!) be announced, putting an end to the endless season of speculation...

Before Jonathan Demme became a world-renowned filmmaker, he was a film critic working for a small newspaper. The glorious schlock producer Roger Corman was shrewd enough to give the likes of Francis Ford Coppola, the late and profoundly misunderstood Paul Bartel, Martin Scorsese, the woefully underr...

It's worth noting that several of the films getting singled out for kudos consideration this season are from directors who have played hard ball with the studios but have figured out that in many ways, indie is better. They include Jonathan Demme, who went from the mediocre The Manchurian Candidate ...

Toronto has added some strong films to its line-up: Of the Cannes entries, I recommend especially the masterful Korean spaghetti western The Good, The Bad and the Weird, which IFC just picked up. It's the most innovative and exciting action cinema I've seen since George Miller's The Road Warrior. At...

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IndieWIRE news reports that the Woodstock Film Festival and the IFC Center are partnering to present three screenings as part of the Stranger Than Fiction series. The mini-fest is filmmaker/programmer Thom Powers' weekly screenings of hard-to-find documentaries and subsequent Q&As with their fil...

How much do I love Meryl Streep? Let me count the ways. She puts these other so-called "actresses" to shame. Ho can act! Yeah, I'm queer but that has nothing to do with it! Drag queens don't do Meryl because they can't! She's too perfect! And she's a chameleon! A chameleon of emotions and persona! M...