There are interviews where you feel like you are checking boxes, and then there are conversations that remind you why you love talking to artists in the first place. Speaking with Felicia Day about Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox was firmly the latter. What began as a discussion about an indie sci-fi comedy quickly expanded into a reflection on creativity, subversion, fandom, and a future that includes both a The Guild film and renewed love for Mystery Science Theater.

There’s a particular kind of unease that settles in while watching Dooba Dooba, the creeping sense that you’re witnessing something private, intrusive, and deeply wrong. That discomfort isn’t accidental. It is the result of deliberate, fearless choices by writer and director Ehrland Hollingsworth and lead actor Amna Vegha, two collaborators who clearly understand the power of restraint, implication, and risk.

Virginia Madsen has always understood that the most powerful moments on screen do not come from volume or spectacle, but from listening. That instinct anchors her performance in Sheepdog, a film that resists easy answers and instead sits patiently with pain, grief, and the long road toward healing. Speaking with Madsen about the film was a genuine pleasure.

There is a particular kind of thrill that comes from watching an actor you have followed for years finally step into a project that feels completely inevitable. For David Dastmalchian, Dust Bunny feels like that moment. It is the convergence of his emotional precision, his deep love of genre storytelling, and a filmmaker unafraid to turn a fairy tale into something unsettling and profound.

Speaking with Aleyse Shannon feels a bit like watching a great performer switch instinctively between instruments. She listens with intention, answers with care, and carries a presence that’s both grounded and quietly electric. After talking with her, I walked away even more excited about Decibel, the new sci-fi thriller from director Zac Locke, and now more curious than ever about revisiting Black Christmas during the upcoming holiday season.

There is a special energy that comes from talking with filmmakers who truly understand horror, people who do not just love the genre but respect its craft, its history, and its emotional weight. Sitting down with Jay Drakulic, Mallory Drumm, and Alex Lee Williams, the trio behind Dream Eater, felt exactly like that. They were thoughtful, open, generous with insight, and always ready to laugh. It made discussing a film this unsettling strangely comforting.

For decades, Nolan North has been one of the most celebrated and versatile performers in entertainment. His voice has shaped characters across more than 350 titles in games and animation, including Raphael in TMNT and Nathan Drake in the Uncharted series, which made him a household name. Yet in A Chuck E. Cheese Christmas, North steps into an entirely different kind of role as Jasper Jowls, and the result is something warm, funny and genuinely heartfelt.

Between 1967 and 1972, more than 130 American airplanes were hijacked. For a brief, surreal stretch of history, the skies were as lawless as the old frontier — a place where a man with a note, a gun, and a half-baked plan could change the course of his life. When filmmakers Eli Kooris and Joshua Shaffer first stumbled across Martin’s tale — via Danny Wicentowski’s The Final Flight of Martin McNally — they were stunned not just by the wildness of it, but by the fact that Martin was still alive to talk.