Bright Wall/Dark Room spoke with James Bird about families – real, fictional, natural and otherwise. Read More
“Lady Lazarus” (Season 5, Episode 8) Bright Wall/Dark Room: So, Alissa, how did you first come to Mad Men? Were you there at the beginning, or did you jump in later? Alissa Wilkinson: Well, I started watching the first season right after the fifth season started airing—which was after that 17-month long... Read More
BW/DR: So, it looks like you took over as the official Mad Men recap writer at Vulture in March 2012, right at the start of Season 5, after Mad Men had been off the air for nearly two years. How did that come about? Was it a show you were passionate about prior to... Read More
Sheila O"Malley and Chad Perman in conversation about Sidney Lumet's Running on Empty Read More
"It’s basically a coming of age story, but it appeals to me enormously because Kenny manages to both embrace the wonderfulness and beauty of adolescence and the shaping of an adult—how glorious it is, and what a great triumph it is for all of us that anybody survives their childhood or their adolescence." Read More
"I think it’s a movie to really be proud of, no matter how difficult it was to make. I’m glad that Kenny survived it, really, and that everyone will gradually come to watch Margaret eventually. I think it’s something that will last." Read More
"I find Joan's behavior embarrassingly human but endearing. As a middle-aged woman who is now a mother of a teenage girl myself, I think it's a strikingly accurate character-relationship dynamic." Read More
"Kenny has such a deep understanding of his characters, and also a deep understanding of human behavior. The way his characters relate to each other just strikes me as completely real and relatable, in a way I find profound in its simplicity." Read More
"I remember from a sort of a child-like point of view in a way—I’ve never felt like I’ve completely mastered what it’s like to be a grown up." Read More
"I’ve gotten better at letting it go, but something like that scene sort of stays with you for a bit. It’s hard to shake that off after the work is done. It definitely involved a really long hot shower and maybe a bath and a martini or something." Read More
Lauren Wilford goes long with director Guillermo del Toro on art, life, death, morality and movies. Read More
“All images are questions. if you look at everything, a painting, an image, you can question… The way you look at it, what it brings to your mind, if it reminds you of something. My god." Read More