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Quinn Armstrong's Survival Skills parodies '80s VHS police training videos to explore the police's relationship to domestic violence. Somehow, it completely …
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Farnoosh Samadi on her provocative new film, 180° Rule, which confronts the horrific consequences of robbing women of their agency. Read more coverage of the …
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Merawi Gerima's directorial debut Residue, which ARRAY Now released on Netflix last Friday, is an impassioned ode to a rapidly gentrifying Washington …
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Writer-director Eva Riley on Perfect 10's tumultuous journey from script to screen, and how she realised she wasn't making a sports or a crime movie but a story …
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Shannon Murphy on how she put Babyteeth together, from casting to blocking, and why Milla’s cancer treatment is largely left off-screen. Read our review of …
Sanja Zivkovic on the tricky business of depicting mental illness on screen, how she directed her two talented lead actresses, and crafting the aesthetics of …
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