Dec 06, 2013
By Chris Tinkham
Laura Colella
Writer/director Laura Colella felt like she was hitting her head against the wall after her planned third feature film, Liquor Land, failed to get made. Just as it was nearing the production stage, Liquor Land‘s producers dissolved their company. Frustrated with the stagnation, Colella tried to think of a no-budget project that was hands-on and made the most of the resources that she had. She proposed an idea to her Rhode Island housemates and neighbors, they jumped on board, and her award-winning film, Breakfast With Curtis, was born. More
Nov 29, 2013
By Austin Trunick
Web Exclusive
Kathleen Hanna hopped on the phone with Under the Radar to talk about The Punk Singer, her legacy, and future projects. More
Nov 26, 2013
By Austin Trunick
Web Exclusive
Director Spike Lee’s latest, Oldboy, is a departure for the veteran filmmaker. This time around, he’s tackling a Hollywood remake of a South Korean cult classic. Park Chan-wook’s violent 2003 original was based on a Japanese manga series, and tells the tale of a former businessman who seeks revenge on the people who kept him imprisoned in a single hotel room for over a decade. More
Oct 09, 2013
By Chris Tinkham
Brie Larson
“I’ve always been creatively inclined, and I’ve wanted to work since I was a kid,” actress Brie Larson says, recalling how she drew approximately 300 pages of scenes based on The Lion King—essentially her own storyboards—when she was six years old. “I just like to work. I like to keep carving away at different artistic processes.” More
Sep 27, 2013
By Chris Tinkham
Jacob Kornbluth
In conceptualizing a documentary about today’s widening income inequality among U.S. citizens, filmmaker Jacob Kornbluth, who was born in the early 1970s, reflected on his own upbringing and how his mother raised a family of four, on her own, with less than $15,000 a year—in some years, much less than that. Kornbluth, knowing that the topic of his film, Inequality for All, was abstract and that viewers would be hit with a barrage of facts and figures, understood that its narrative needed personalizing, so he brought in a central character: political economist and professor Robert Reich, who served as Secretary of Labor during Bill Clinton’s first presidential term. More
