Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman’s The Alabama Solution documentary tackles such immense, wide-spread, longstanding corruption that it would be very easy for the film to become a heavy, numbers-based piece of journalism. Editor Page Marsella’s outsider approach, however, guaranteed that The Alabama Solution became the essential, damning piece of work that it is.

Documentary filmmaking at its best chronicles an issue that’s misunderstood, unknown, or urgent. Director Sam Feder’s Heightened Scrutiny is the rare instance where a film deserves all of those adjectives, and more.

With their newest short, Trapped, the two are on a path to potentially be two-time Oscar-nominated filmmakers. David and Sam Cutler-Kreutz, though, are still just kid brothers who share a love for film.

Keeper is the latest horror from the mind of Osgood Perkins. Composer Edo Van Breemen has seen into that mind and translated it to the sonic landscapes of The Monkey and Keeper.

Connecticut 1992. A simpler time, but no matter when or where in the world you are, the transition from teenage years to adulthood will always be earth-shattering.

When searching for someone to write the score for his new film, Rebuilding, Max Walker-Silverman settled on Jake Xerxes Fussell and James Elkington, two songwriters in their own right, but new to the world of film composition.

Elizabeth Lo’s Mistress Dispeller had its world premiere at the 2024 Venice International Film Festival and, a year later, the film is making the theatrical rounds. One could say, though, that the story of the documentary started about ten years ago, when the profession of “mistress dispeller” began to crop up in China.

The film’s initial release didn’t create much fanfare, but Hocus Pocus has since developed into a beloved cult classic. Hocus Pocus was the first feature film role for Tobias Jelinek, who plays one of the film’s bullies.

Before Oli Julian was tapped to compose the score for the Netflix adaptation of The Twits, he was a kid growing up on Roald Dahl books, messing around in his childhood bedroom with recording equipment.

Austin King knows genre filmmaking. He’s a Features Programmer and Head of Submissions for Fantastic Fest, the preeminent showcase of genre filmmaking. Now, he’s making his short film debut with One Night Cherub.

Before Patrick Lawrence became a film editor, he was a musician. While the two might not seem like they have anything in common, both rely on a sense of rhythm to be successful.

In the case of Kyle Misak’s 2025 Fantastic Fest-premiering film, Bad Haircut, the problem isn’t with the haircut itself, but with the barber who wields the scissors.

Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires is a deeply personal project, and this legacy component of the project is something composer Ego Plum is still trying to wrap his head around.

The participants in Sean Cisterna’s documentary will be the first to tell you they don’t want anything to do with horror movies, but that didn’t stop them from being part of making one.

Five years ago, Lucía Aleñar Iglesias’ short film, Forastera, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. You may remember that five years ago, things looked a little different because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Burnin' Percebes is a writing/directing duo composed of Fernando Martínez and Juan González. The Fantastic Golem Affairs marks their fourth collaboration together, but at this point the two don’t see it as two people working together.

Dan Deacon is a jack-of-all-musical-trades. Over the summer he performed the national anthem at Camden Yards, he toured across the country with his solo work, and now he’s coming to HBO on Sunday nights with the score the for Mark Ruffalo-led crime drama, Task.

We’ve all had those days when the world feels like it’s out to get us. When everything that can will and does go horribly wrong. Ironically, bad days can also be a source for creative inspiration. That was the case with writer/director Rani DeMuth’s And Now I Lay Me Down.

Writer, director, and star Matthew Campanella talks about the film’s inspiration, the family affair of filmmaking, and the merits, or lack thereof, of jarred pasta sauce.

Dacre Montgomery sat down with Film Obsessive News Editor Tina Kakadelis to discuss finally playing an Australian role, challenging audiences with difficult films, and what his creative voice sounds like.