Lisa Laman is a life-long movie fan, writer, and Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic located both on the autism spectrum and in Texas. Given that her first word was "Disney", Lisa Laman was "doomed" from ...

Director Josh Cooley brings his love for Transformers to life with intricate animation and a fresh take on the origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron. Cooley's background in storytelling and ...

Daniel Kehlmann’s latest novel, “The Director,” an engrossing meditation on the exigencies of art and the dangers of artistic complicity, lands in the United States at a good time. Which is to say, a ...

The director’s cut is one of the stranger and more complicated divots in the landscape of film. As anyone in Hollywood will tell you, getting to direct your own movie is already very nearly a miracle, ...

Winning the Academy Award for best picture requires succeeding through a combination of factors. Winning the Academy Award for best director, though, is the Academy’s way of pointing directly at ...

Theater director Knud Adams has staged world premieres of back-to-back Pulitzer Prize-winning plays, and now both productions are heading to Los Angeles. “English” opens Thursday at the Wallis ...

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