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Indie film darling Greta Gerwig already has two movies out this year. She starred in Damsels in Distress and I actually got to meet her for that film when I was interviewing Whit Stillman....

Indie film darling Greta Gerwig already has two movies out this year, one of them being Damsels in Distress, in which she starred. I actually got to meet her for that film when I was interviewing Whit Stillman. While they were paired, Sillman commented on her character in the Arthur remake, as an example of how studio movies give characters silly traits.

In Lola Versus...
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Robert Rodriguez was always an independent self starter. He made his first movie, El Mariachi, for $7000 and kept doing things his own way. He started his own studio facility, Troublemaker Studios, where hes shot Sin City, Machete,...

Robert Rodriguez was always an independent self starter. He made his first movie, El Mariachi, for $7000 and kept doing things his own way. He started his own studio facility, Troublemaker Studios, where hes shot Sin City, Machete, Predators and more. Now he has his own company.

Quick Draw Productions is a step above the production facility Rodriguez already has in Austin,...
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Michael Robbins made a splash in the poetry world when his poem Alien vs. Predator was published in The New Yorker in 2009. The poem, which called Rilke a jerk and included the line That elk is such a dick, was atypical for a magazine like The New Yorker. Robbins, who received...

Michael Robbins made a splash in the poetry world when his poem Alien vs. Predator was published in The New Yorker in 2009. The poem, which called Rilke a jerk and included the line That elk is such a dick, was atypical for the magazine. Robbins, who received a Ph.D. in English, would go onto write poems like Dig Dug, which was inspired by the...
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Nadine Labaki is my kind of woman. Sometimes I have to go around the world to find a soulful intelligence to whom I can relate. A Lebanese filmmaker, Labaki has lived life and experienced war and tragedy, so the perspective in her art is perceptive and philosophical....

Nadine Labaki is my kind of woman. Sometimes I have to go around the world to find a soulful intelligence to whom I can relate. A Lebanese filmmaker, Labaki has lived life and experienced war and tragedy, so the perspective in her art is perceptive and philosophical. Certainly not superficial. You would think coming from a conflicted region, Labakis films would be serious and perhaps...
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Ted Naifeh first gained recognition as the artist and co-creator of the comic series Gloomcookie, but it was the release of his own creation, Courtney Crumrin that really made his reputation. Since the initial miniseries Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things was released a decade by...

Ted Naifeh first gained recognition as the artist and co-creator of the comic series Gloomcookie, but it was the release of his own creation, Courtney Crumrin that really made his reputation. Since the initial miniseries Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things was released a decade ago by Oni Press, Naifeh has returned to the character a few times in between other projects.

He illustrated Death...
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Caitlin R. Kiernan made a splash in 1998 when her novel Silk was released. Since then, Kiernan, who was trained as a vertebrate paleontologist, has written a number of novels including Murder of Angels and The Red Tree in addition to becoming a prolific short writer with more than half...