Matt Berninger (R) is the lead singer for Brooklyn-based band The National; his younger brother Tom Berninger (L) was a would-be-filmmaker residing in his parent's house when Matt asked him to work as a roadie and shoot documentary footage on a ocean-cros

Anne Thompson may be best known for her fast-paced and fresh take on the film industry via her Indiewire column, Thompson on Hollywood - but she's also the author of the superb new book, 'The $11-Billion Year: From Sundance to the Oscars, a Look at the Ch

Chad Hartigan's This is Martin Bonner won the John Cassavetes Award at the Indie Spirit Awards; it's a truly impressive American film about life and second acts, as Martin Bonner (Paul Einhoorn) rebuilds his life in a new town with a new job helping priso

This week on The Lunch, regular host James Rocchi is joined by Todd Sklar (R) and Alex Rennie (L), the co-writers of the new film Awful Nice, which Mr. Sklar directed and Mr. Rennie stars in. Full of undeserved overconfidence and flailing feuds, Awful N

This week on The Lunch, regular host James Rocchi is joined by both Alonso Duralde -- Film Critic for The Wrap -- and Dave White -- of Movies.com -- to talk about the new-school Robocop remake and the singular strangeness of the original after Canter's de

This week on The Lunch Podcast, regular host James Rocchi is joined by stand-up comedian and author DC Pierson (DERRICK comedy, Crap Kingdom, The Boy Who Never Slept and Didn't Have To) for a lengthy discussion of Martin Scorsese's Wolf of Wall Street tha

This week on The Lunch Podcast, regular host James Rocchi is joined by Justin Simien, the writer-director of the Sundance 2014 breakout hit Dear White People, a campus comedy about race, class and representation in an America -- and the rare satire that c

Wililam Goss (of Film.com, Empire Magazine's U.S. iPad Edition and TheDissolve.com) joined The Lunch Podcast this week either late Saturday night or early Sunday morning to talk about the rest of the best of the fest, from Listen Up Philip to Cooties, Lov

This week, The Lunch comes to you from Park City, Utah, where Esquire.com/Village Voice/Film Comment contributor David Fear (@davidlfear on twitter) joins regular host James Rocchi to discuss some of the standout films of the first half of the Festival --

A year ago, Shane Carruth was debuting his mind-bending, heartbreaking Upstream Color at Sundance; in this episode of The Lunch, host James Rocchi and Carruth talk about filmmaking, self-doubt, subtlety vs. over-explanation, time-travel, mind-worms and s