* My discussion with writer/director Rian Johnson (Brick, The Brothers Bloom) continues. Check out the first installment to get up to speed. PP: You mentioned being inspired by Prague: how so? RJ: I went there on vacation with my dad several years before I wrote the script, and it seemed like the perfect place for [...]

* Writer/director Rian Johnson burst onto the American independent film scene with 2005’s Brick, for which he won a special jury prize at Sundance. The neo-noir murder mystery is unlike anything else, a truly singular film featuring hardboiled detective story dialogue set in modern day suburban California. In response to a review of his excellent [...]