The first-time director, a writer and producer on ‘The Bear’ and ‘Beef,’ traces the oily path from sycophant to puppet master ...

French Canadian actor Théodore Pellerin is the star of Alex Russell’s feature filmmaking debut “Lurker,” about a young retail worker in Los Angeles who finds himself increasingly enmeshed in an ...

And yes it’s hard not to think of Saltburn, given Madekwe was in that movie which just happened to be about a menacing nobody ...

Riding momentum from its five Academy Award nominations for “The Substance,” boutique movie distributor Mubi has picked up ...

Sundance: Early buzz is high on the "Beef" and "The Bear" writer and supervising producer's feature debut, set in the parasocial world of L.A. hangers-on.

Théodore Pellerin and Archie Madekwe (also one of the film’s producers), perhaps recognizable from their roles in “Franklin” ...

Thirty years ago, a premise like this one might have been the fuel for a conventional Hollywood thriller. But Alex Russell, the writer-director of "Lurker," works with a jittery cell-phone-camera aest ...