Larry Fried

Now in select theaters and expanding nationwide Friday, ‘Arco’ is a heartwarming sci-fi adventure for our uncertain times.

Director Libby Ewing, screenwriter and star Samantha Smart and cinematographer Luca Del Puppo speak to GVN about their work on ‘Charliebird.’

The “Cyrano” director is back for a starkly ferocious new project, a miniseries charting the political career of Italy’s fascist dictator.

(Welcome to “Notes on a Score,” GVN’s interview series highlighting the composers and musicians behind some of the year’s most acclaimed films and television series.) When a film composer reaches the echelon in which they can create a “Greatest Hits”…

The following interview contains light spoilers for Vulcanizadora. In a Tribeca Festival filled with stories of friendships and fatherhood, none were quite as radical as Joel Potrykus’ Vulcanizadora. Plot details on the film have largely been kept…

Earth has seen better days. If the staggering wealth inequality, concurrent dictatorships, and growing number of genocides weren’t enough to ruin the party, perhaps the fact that it may grow inhospitable within our lifetimes will yuck your yum. The…

(Welcome to “Notes on a Score,” GVN’s interview series highlighting the composers and musicians behind some of the year’s most acclaimed films and television shows.) In 1974, musician and inventor Don Tavel began developing a revolutionary…

According to E.L. Katz, the demented horror-thriller filmmaker behind films like Cheap Thrills and Small Crimes, “words really don’t mean anything. It’s what you see.” This is what he told me when we spoke about his latest film, Azrael, a film whose…

The following interview contains light spoilers for Things Will Be Different. Every festival worth their salt has some form of a Midnight Madness section, a series of late night screenings dedicated to intense, at times disgusting high-concept genre…

It isn’t uncommon for a film to feature the same actor portraying a character across different time periods. However, it’s less common for one actor to portray two different characters across time, let alone people from the same family tree. This is…

In 2021, real-life couple Roshan Sethi and Karan Soni collaborated on 7 Days, a film that tackled the anxieties of the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of two Indian millennials trying to find love. Now, the director and actor respectively are back…

You’ve likely seen plenty of crime films, but have you ever seen one starring a seamstress? This is but one of many unique concepts that make up the artistic melting pot of Sew Torn, Freddy Macdonald’s debut feature and an undersung gem of 2024’s…

In 1996, olympic gymnast Dominique Moceanu took home a gold medal at 14 years old. She was the youngest member of the American women’s team, the first and still only team to take home the coveted top prize. This thrilling moment of success was…

SXSW has a long tradition of programming Texas stories into their Film & TV Festival, but fewer films were fit for a more powerful world premiere than An Army of Women. One of this year’s Documentary Feature Competition selections, the film follows…

Few films at the 2024 SXSW Film & TV Festival lead with a stronger hook than Dead Mail. In the film’s opening moments, an unassuming suburban house has its door burst open by a black man (Sterling Macer, Jr.) crawling for dear life. His hands are…

It is a little over a week before SXSW 2024, and directors David Hartstein and Sam Wainwright Douglas are still in the editing room. Their new film, Faders Up: The John Aielli Experience, is set to premiere at the Paramount Theatre to 1,300 people,…

Halo has respawned. Following a successful debut on Paramount+ (despite mixed response from fans), the video game-turned-blockbuster series is back for a noticeably darker and more atmospheric second season. Also returning is Canadian actor and star…

That Shelf sat down with Son of a Critch stars Malcolm McDowell and Mark Critch (also creator and writer) to discuss returning for the show’s third season, McDowell’s admiration for Newfoundland, and how Critch helped pay tribute to fellow Canadian…

While filming All of Us Strangers in his childhood home outside of London, Andrew Haigh began to see ghosts. “I hadn’t been in that house since I was seven or eight, so it was like going into a haunted house,” he recalled. “It was really, really…

You have probably seen a live-action movie from the minds of Jared and Jerusha Hess. Their knack for capturing offbeat characters have given us many modern cult classics, from Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre to more under-the-radar fare like…