"Do you ever get paranoid you're not being paranoid enough? No. I'm always the perfect level of paranoid." Academy Award-winning filmmaker Martin McDonagh hasn't made a ton of films. Whenever he's not directing a feature film, he's on the theatre stage directing a play of his. But when Martin does switch back to directing for the silver screen, the Academy Awards tend to take notice. Whether it's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri or The Banshees of Inisherin, the guy'

There is a particular kind of grief that nobody warns you about, which is losing the person who made you feel like you belonged somewhere, and then having to figure out where you belong without them. Mouse understands this with such quiet, unshowy precision that it snuck up on me and left me a little wrecked in the best possible way. Minnie is a curly-haired, acne-scarred teenager in North Little Rock, Arkansas, in 2002, practically invisible to everyone at school except Call

The humble creature feature: a movie where some kind of mindless beast, be it natural or mythical, hunts down a bevy of human prey as it marches a path of mayhem through a setting that might otherwise be safe. It's a tale as old as time. Obviously the most legendary such film is Jaws, the 1970's Horror/Drama stand-out that somehow found the sweet spot of combining brilliant, relatable, dynamic characters with true frights and solid action. But it's far from the only such flic