‘Mercy:’ Editing Creates Visual Language for the Amazon Thriller
Editors Lam T. Nguyen and Austin Keeling’s work on the Amazon Prime film Mercy was more involved than most editing ...
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David Phillips’ Best in Film 2025
The year 2025 has been a well-lauded turn around the sun for film, and reasonably so. This last calendar year ...
‘A House of Dynamite’ Casting Director Susanne Scheel on Casting Kathryn Bigelow’s Nuclear Drama Like a Documentary
Kathryn Bigelow’s unnerving nuclear disaster film A House of Dynamite is a true ensemble. There are primary characters, but no ...
Oscars 2026: Are A House of Dynamite’s Oscar Chances Blown?
When the first female director to win a Best Director Oscar (for 2008’s The Hurt Locker) makes her first feature-length ...
Venice Film Festival 2025: Terrifying, Dynamic ‘A House of Dynamite’ Proves Kathryn Bigelow Is Back In Superb ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Form
There have been many films made about the possibility of nuclear war, but none have ever felt quite as urgent ...
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