One of the best things I’ve watched this year is director Derek Cianfrance’s (The Place Beyond the Pines, Blue Valentine) limited series adaptation of Wally Lamb’s novel I Know This Much Is True for HBO. The series stars Mark Ruffalo in dual roles as identical twin brothers, one of whom suffers from mental illness. Over the course of the six-episodes that span different stages of their lives, Cianfrance pulls back the curtain on how mental illness affects everyone – not just the person afflicted with the disease. Featuring two brilliant performances by Ruffalo (one of which had …

From writer/director Derek Cianfrance and based on the award-winning novel of the same name by Wally Lamb, the six-part HBO limited series I Know This Much Is True follows identical twin brothers Dominick and Thomas Birdsey (played in two stand-out performances by Mark Ruffalo) on their very different life paths. It’s a family saga of sacrifice and forgiveness that begins in their present in the early 1990s and digs into different stages in their lives, as it highlights how mental illness affects everyone, including the one directly suffering with it. During the virtual press day …

With director Todd Haynes’ Dark Waters opening in limited release this weekend, I recently spoke with Mark Ruffalo about the fantastic and important film. As you’ve seen in the trailers, the film is based on the true story of a corporate defense attorney (Ruffalo) who discovered that a company he was working with was poisoning the residents of a small town in West Virginia for about forty years. As he attempts to figure out what happened and get justice for the people exposed to cancer causing chemicals, he risks everything to expose the truth. Dark Waters also stars Anne …