Willem Dafoe

'Zack Snyder's Justice League' Sees a Director Have His Messy Revenge on Movie Execs

Directed by Zack Snyder

PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2021

There's no denying that the 2017 theatrical release of Justice League was a disaster. For those out of the loop, here's the basic story beh...

'Siberia' Is So Desolate That Even Willem Dafoe Can't Save It

Directed by Abel Ferrara

PUBLISHED Oct 14, 2020

Abel Ferrara's built a reputation as a confrontational, upsetting director, so much so that a simple, prosaic scene shocks in and of itself...

Finally, Some Proof That 'Step Brothers' and 'The Lighthouse' Are the Same Movie

PUBLISHED Jul 14, 2020

When A24 dropped its twisted seaman thriller The Lighthouse last year, its story might have felt familiar. As a keen-eyed video editor has...

Robert Eggers Hopes You Aren't Getting as Drunk as 'The Lighthouse' Characters in Quarantine

PUBLISHED May 19, 2020

Last year's unexpectedly quarantine-appropriate seafaring film, Robert Eggers's The Lighthouse, has become especially relevant in recent mo...

Paul Schrader Blasts "Pussified Producer" for Halting Film Shoot After Actor Diagnosed with Coronavirus

PUBLISHED Mar 16, 2020

Paul Schrader does not mince words, both in his films and in real life. The director was hard at work on The Card Counter, his follow-up to...

'Motherless Brooklyn' Finds Political Potency in 1950s Film Noir

Directed by Edward Norton

PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2019

On the surface, Motherless Brooklyn is loving tribute to 1950s film noir. There's a hardscrabble detective with debilitating Tourette's, an...

'The Lighthouse' Director Robert Eggers on Isolation, Dafoe and Pattison, and Staying Serious

PUBLISHED Oct 21, 2019

Robert Eggers is part of a new class of horror directors drawing from history to find chills and scares that resonate with the modern world...

'The Lighthouse' Is a Gripping, Smartly Stylized Descent into Madness

Directed by Robert Eggers

PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2019

Robert Eggers bounded onto the horror scene with his 2016 directorial debut, The Witch, and furthers his fascination with the depravity of...