Andy Crump

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andre holland high flying bird

Feb 21, 2019

André Holland Talks Netflix's 'High Flying Bird' and the Racial Politics of Sports

"Simpatico." That's the word André Holland, star of the new Netflix sports drama High Flying Bird, chooses when describing his connection with its two authors, director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Tarell Alvin McCraney: Like-minded artists in lockstep with one another.

The Director of 'Bisbee '17' on Making the Year's Most Daring, Revelatory Documentary

Oct 15, 2018

The Director of 'Bisbee '17' on Making the Year's Most Daring, Revelatory Documentary

How you react to Robert Greene's new film, Bisbee '17, probably depends on how you handle ghosts.

ash vs evil dead

Aug 22, 2018

Bruce Campbell Sends 'Evil Dead' Off With a Bloody, Bingeworthy Bang

After three seasons of guts, glory, and more sick Deadite kills than you can count on a chainsaw's teeth, Ash vs. Evil Dead has met an untimely demise, cancelled in response to a decline in ratings.

Aug 17, 2018

Director Crystal Moselle's Inspiration for 'Skate Kitchen' Was the Real, Shredding Teen Girl Crew

In Crystal Moselle's 2015 debut, the acclaimed documentary The Wolfpack, she spotlighted the Angulo siblings, seven teens living in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, forbidden by their father from leaving their apartment.

sorry to bother you

Jul 12, 2018

How to Make Sense of the Big Twist in 'Sorry to Bother You'

Oh, to be a Lakeith Stanfield character, hapless and well-meaning, but cursed with a knack for stumbling into the dens of nefarious white dudes.

solo chewbacca actor interview

May 25, 2018

The Guy Who Plays Chewbacca Reveals What It's Like to Live as a Wookiee

This story contains minor spoilers for Solo: A Star Wars Story.

dear white people season 2

May 4, 2018

The Creator of 'Dear White People' on Season 2 and Why TV Shouldn't Try to Fix Racism

This story contains mild spoilers for Season 2 of Dear White People.

Tessa Thompson and Jeffrey Wright

Apr 23, 2018

The Mesh Network Subconsciously Connecting 'Westworld's Hosts, Explained

Tracking down one rogue android host across the sprawling American frontier is like finding a needle in a haystack, as Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson) puts it, with one important difference: The haystack is an ultra-realistic Old West theme park stuffed to the gunwales with tons of other needles that want to kill you.

super troopers meow gag

Apr 17, 2018

How Broken Lizard Came Up With the Infamous 'Super Troopers' Meow Gag

Nine times out of 10, mentioning Super Troopers to people at parties gets you the same response: "Meow!" But to hear it from Kevin Heffernan, who played the brazenly idiotic, mustachioed Rod Farva in the 2001 comedy and returns in this year's long-awaited sequel, Super Troopers 2, the now-classic meow gag wound up an early obstacle in securing financing to shoot the movie.

wrinkle in time

Mar 12, 2018

The Unlikely Connection Between 'IT' and 'A Wrinkle in Time'

Imagine a brightly garbed harlequin who preys on children using persuasive trickery.

Feb 9, 2018

Clint Eastwood's '15:17 to Paris' Stars Real Military Heroes... Who Go to Waste

It’s not every day that people trained for crisis situations happen to be at the scenes of crises the moment they occur.

Dec 4, 2017

What Happened to Tommy Wiseau After 'The Room' Became a Legendary Bomb

In Hollywood's vast menagerie of eccentrics, weirdos, and committed nonconformists, Tommy Wiseau is somewhere between a unicorn and a sasquatch.