I’ll See You in My Dreams represents changes for Brett Haley as a filmmaker. He’s done a feature film before, but this gave him a chance to do a few things like working with a film crew for the first time. When the up and coming director came to Boston, I got to speak to him about that and many …

A cartoonist, novelist and screenwriter, Alex Garland, who’s most commonly known for writing films such as The Beach, 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Never Let Me Go, and Dredd, has now made his directorial debut with Ex Machina, a sci-fi cautionary tale that challenges viewers with a variety of existential questions in regards to artificial intelligence. Can consciousness exist without gender? …

Simon Curtis made quite an introduction to the world of film with My Week with Marilyn being his directorial debut. I don’t think he or anyone involved saw how well that movie was going to do. When he came in town to promote Woman in Gold, I obviously had to ask him about that as well as get to hear …

I’ve met more than a few people who just started up there careers as directors. For me, it’s always interesting to see exactly how it feels after finishing their first film. That’s one of the things that I got to ask Dan Fogelman on his trip to Boston to promote Danny Collins, a film that stars Al Pacino in a …