Alex Moreland chats with filmmaker Daniel Fitzsimmons about his new movie Native, his love of thoughtful science fiction, and more… How did production on Native first start? How far back do you want me to go? The very beginning! The very beginning, that’s great. To give you a brief run through chronologically of where we […]
Exclusive Interview – Composer Anne Nikitin on American Animals, finding her voice, and more
Alex Moreland chats with composer Anne Nikitin about her latest score on American Animals, her creative process, and more… How did you first get involved with American Animals? I worked with Bart before, on a film called The Imposter, about six years ago now, it’s a film that went to Sundance. It was a documentary […]
Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 15 Review – ‘Will You Take My Hand?’
Alex Moreland reviews Star Trek: Discovery’s season finale… There are no second chances. It’s a simple, understated episode – more of a quiet epilogue than the climactic finale we might have expected. Certainly, it subverts expectations; there’s no explicit mutiny, no restaging of Burnham’s revolt. Indeed, time and time again Discovery opts for more subdued […]
Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 14 Review – ‘The Battle Without, and the Battle Within’
Alex Moreland reviews the fourteenth episode of Star Trek: Discovery… “I think the only way we can stop ourselves from becoming like them is to understand the darkness within us and fight it.” It’s worth a word on the title, I think. What it refers to, largely, is obvious. The first part, “The Battle Without”, […]
Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 13 Review – ‘What’s Past is Prologue’
Alex Moreland reviews the thirteenth episode of Star Trek: Discovery season one… “Your lack of vision continues to disappoint me.” In the AV Club’s review of this week’s Star Trek: Discovery, there’s some discussion about what exactly the show is actually about. Certainly, the show doesn’t quite have the same clear premise as its predecessors; […]
Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 12 Review – ‘Vaulting Ambition’
Alex Moreland reviews the twelfth episode of Star Trek: Discovery… Haven’t you ever been afraid of a ghost? There is an obvious part of this episode that demands a degree of discussion – the twist at the ending. I’m going to hold off on that for a moment, though; if nothing else, there’s a danger that […]
Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 11 Review – ‘The Wolf Inside’
Alex Moreland reviews the eleventh episode of Star Trek: Discovery… Can you hide your heart? Can you bury your decency? Can you continue to pretend to be one of them? Even as, little by little, it kills the person you really are. It’s something that I touched on briefly in my review of last week’s […]
Exclusive Interview – Composer Ariel Marx on evoking emotion through music, her score for The Tale and more
Alex Moreland talks to composer Ariel Marx about her score for upcoming movies The Tale and Hair Wolf, her creative influences, and more… So, first of all – how did you initially get involved with The Tale? So, when I was getting my Masters degree a few years back, I participated in the Columbia ASCAP […]
Star Trek: Discovery Series 1 Episode 10 Review – ‘Despite Yourself’
Alex Moreland reviews the midseason premiere of Star Trek: Discovery… Decency is weakness and will get us killed and the lives of everyone on this ship and the Federation are at stake. So you do what you must, whatever you must, to anyone. And so, after a short break, we’re back again. To recap: after […]
Exclusive Interview – An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power directors Bonni Cohen & Jon Shenk on the energy revolution, documentary making and more
Alex Moreland talks to the directors of An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk… So, it’s been a decade since the first movie came out. Why was now the right time for a sequel? Jon: Well, Al Gore and Participant Media, who made the first film, had been talking about […]