Sonya Alexander

The Woman in the Yard is a psychological horror film that is strengthened by Danielle Deadwyler anchoring the film with her layered performance.

The original Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) animated movie is a timeless classic. It used cel animation and groundbreaking Technicolor and received an Oscar nomination for Best Music (Scoring).

Peter Craig has co-written such recent hits as Top Gun: Maverick, The Batman, and Gladiator II, but he takes on directing and showrunning duties with Apple TV+ Dope Thief. He calls directing “the ultimate realization of writing.”

Writer/Producer Line Langebek Knudsen (I’ll Come Running) understands that the visual isn't just important in a narrative, but sound is as well.

This year’s 97th Oscars had a plethora of first-time nominees in many categories. It’s difficult to believe that women with illustrious careers like Demi Moore and Fernanda Torres have never received any Oscar love.

Documentaries can point to societal ills or looming political upheaval. Depending on how well they're made, they can move the socio-political needle on an issue and create change.

Trudie Styler discusses finding the soul of Naples while filming 'Posso entrare? An Ode to Naples' and exploring the historical and socio-economic wounds of this ancient metropolis and how it heals itself and survives through its people’s resilience, ideals, and creativity.

Which non-English language film was the first to nab the top prize for Best Picture?

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences rarely acknowledges horror. Only a handful of horror films have been nominated for Best Picture. The Exorcist (1973) and Jaws (1975) are a couple of films in this exclusive club.

Scott Derrickson, director of Apple TV+’s new The Gorge, is best-known for directing horror films he co-writes, including The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Sinister, and The Black Phone. When he takes on a project he didn’t write, like The Gorge, there’s one main thing he looks for in a script. “I’m looking to be surprised,” he tells MovieMaker.

Osgood Perkins’s The Monkey is a bloody good time at the movies. Rippling with an undercurrent of black humor, the real horror isn’t just the hexing monkey, but the rancid relationship between twin brothers Hal and Bill, played by Christian Convery when they’re kids and Theo James when they’re adults.

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Love Hurts director Jonathan “JoJo” Eusebio came to filmmaking from the world of martial arts: In the ’90s, he attended the Los Angeles-area Inosanto Academy of Martial Arts, where he met fellow practitioners David Leitch and Chad Stahelski.

The fifteen-part series The First Word in Horror is a must for horror fans and aspiring writers. New York Times best-selling and award-winning horror writers discuss how they started writing horror and they also read excerpts from their work. Some passages are not for the squeamish. These are nightmare-fuel bedtime stories.

Neil Burger’s Inheritance is an old-fashioned thriller with plenty of solid chase scenes and plot twists. Phoebe Dynevor (Bridgerton, Fair Play) as Maya, the average citizen-turned-spy-on-the-run is convincing as a woman out of touch with her feelings who gets in touch with them in the most corporeal way.