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Five Steps For Casting A Sorcerer's (Apprentice) Spell
It may seem like every day that Nicolas Cage releases a new movie, but it's far less frequent that critics and reporters get to talk to him about them. His latest is The Sorcerer's Apprentice, in...
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Watch Steve Carell and Paul Rudd Spoof the LeBron James TV Special
Former Cavaliers player, and Cleveland hometown hero, LeBron James announced his move to the Miami Heat in South Florida last week via an hour-long ESPN special, The Decision. While some blasted the...
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Simon Pegg and Nick Frost Talk 'Paul'
It should come as no surprise to you that Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are two of the nicest and funniest guys you will ever meet. But they are also two of the quietest, at least on set. Like most...
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Interview: 'Inception' Star Tom Hardy
As often as Hollywood seems to champion rising stars or future A-listers, few of those careers survive more than one or two flop, and many stall before they have the chance to break through....
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Nine Ways That 'Inception' Will Wake Up The Summer Movie Season
At this point, it's probably safe to say that any person excited to Inception has either absorbed every single article on the internet about it, or shut off all routes to the outside world in order...
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An Interview with 'Inception' Cinematographer Wally Pfister
By Todd Gilchrist, reprinted from 6/24/10 As much of a genius as Christopher Nolan may be, it's fair to say that he wouldn't have the success he currently enjoys without the invaluable contributions...
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Greg Mottola Talks Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and 'Paul'
When you visit a set, it's difficult knowing you're a bit of an interruption. No one actually treats you as such, of course, but you have to wonder what it would be like if someone came to your place...
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Interview: Angelina Jolie on 'Salt'
The tagline for Angelina Jolie's newest action/thriller Salt is simply, "Who is Salt?" But from sitting down to talk with this superstar, it's clear that no matter who CIA agent Evelyn Salt really is,...
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Spies Like Us: 'Salt' Stars and More
Although Salt star Angelina Jolie is the one getting the most photographers' shutters clicking, the movie has a whole team of talented people behind it. It's impossible to overlook her costars Liev...
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Interview: Kevin Macdonald of 'Life in a Day'
Oscar-winning documentarian Kevin Macdonald has his work cut out for him with his latest project. Life in a Day is an experiment that blends the immediacy of home filmmaking given a global platform on...
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Interview: 'Ramona and Beezus' Director Elizabeth Allen
The Ramona Quimby series have been childhood favorites since the first book, Beezus and Ramona, came out in 1955. Although plenty of those children grew up to be adults who wanted to make these books...
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Interview: The Very Genre-Friendly Charisma Carpenter
On the small screen, she was the quintessential all-American cheerleader, both in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Veronica Mars. It was a role for she'd had plenty of real-life experience as a San Diego...
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Interview: Lin Shaye of '2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams'
I'm guessing that if you're reading this interview, you already know who the great Lin Shaye is, but in case you've recently experienced a small dose of head trauma, Shaye is the character actress...
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Interview: Zack Snyder and Deborah Snyder
Watching a filmmaker grow up is an exciting thing. It's not a matter of managing missteps or chronicling their commercial appeal, its seeing how they absorb both their failures and successes and apply...
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Five Things A Green 'Lantern' Fan Should Know
Saturday morning at Warner Brothers' Green Lantern Comic-Con panel, Martin Campbell, Ryan Reynolds, Mark Strong and Peter Sarsgaard answered fan questions and screened a few minutes of footage from...
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Interview: 'Valhalla Rising' Writer-Director Nicolas Winding Refn
Ask a dozen entertainment journalists what's the best way to get a good interview and they will give you a dozen different answers. But the single most important thing for me to remember is make sure...
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Interview: 'The Other Guys' Co-Star Eva Mendes
Maybe it's a breach of journalistic ethics to accept a hug from Eva Mendes, but I don't care. I did it. When an actress of her formidable beauty offers you the chance for a post-interview embrace, you...
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Interview: 'The Other Guys' Writer-Director Adam McKay
Given that he's been the co-writer and director for now four of Will Ferrell's funniest movies, and worked with the comedian since his earliest days at Saturday Night Live, Adam McKay probably knows...
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Interview: 'Tron' Creator Steven Lisberger
I'd like to say that my obsession with Tron started with test footage for Tron: Legacy that debuted at Comic-Con three years ago. (For some reason, that seems vaguely reasonable for an otherwise...
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Interview: 7-Time Oscar Winner Will Ferrell
There are a lot of comedians who seem to harbor deep, dark secrets beneath their effervescent exterior. There are others who either enjoy or feel the need to be "on" all of the time when they're...
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HS Movie Club: Pontypool
Pontypool is a movie everyone should see. Or at least every self-respecting horror fan. Amidst the Final Destinations, Saws and glut of unoriginal tripe that pervades the theaters, Pontypool serves as...
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Interview: 'The Disappearance of Alice Creed' Star Gemma Arterton
Actress Gemma Arterton has thus far had a very weird year at the movies. It's a year that has most accentuated the disparity between the image she'd like to project to her audience and the one she...
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Interesting Interviews: Jackie Gleason
They didn't call Jackie Gleason "The Great One" for nothing. A star of stage, screen and television, the portly performer was best known for appearing as Ralph Kramden for 39 episodes of The...
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Interview: Roger Corman
Roger Corman has spent over five decades making movies -- and during that span, he's earned the title The King of the B's. During the course of his career, Corman has done the seemingly impossible:...
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Interview: 'Scott Pilgrim vs. the World' Co-Star Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Thanks to the abundance of stories about feckless twentysomething guys and the women they fetishize, the manic pixie dream girl is almost a prerequisite archetype for any romantic comedy made these...
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Interview: Graham Reznick of The House of the Devil, I Can See You, and The...
There are a lot of roles in the film industry that don't get nearly enough praise. Sure, there's a big reason that directors and stars get the spotlight, but there are legions of contributors without...
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Interview: 'Scott Pilgrim vs. the World' Director Edgar Wright
In retrospect, it seems appropriate that I spoke to Edgar Wright for this interview via telephone as he rushed from one place to another, dropped the call at one point, and was generally pressed for...
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'Scott Pilgrim' Co-Star Kieran Culkin: "You Either Get It Or You Don't"
Breakthroughs are tricky business for actors, because they can define an actor as easily as they can establish them. But Kieran Culkin has been around for years, doing terrific work in lots of...
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Jerry O'Connell Answers Our 'Sliders' Questions (and Talks 'Piranha 3D')
Over the span of two decades and change, Jerry O'Connell has gone from kid thesp (Stand By Me) to successful TV and film veteran ("Sliders," "Crossing Jordan," Jerry Maguire, and, uh, Kangaroo Jack)...
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Interview: 'Piranha 3D' Director Alexandre Aja
It isn't everyday that "disgusting," "gratuitous," and "over the top" are used as cinematic superlatives, but they qualify as the top three reasons to see Piranha 3D. Alexandre Aja, the fellow largely...
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Eli Roth and Daniel Stamm Explain Why 'The Last Exorcism' Is Not the Horror...
Expectations are a fickle thing. If a film exceeds someone's low expectations, it can be a halo effect. If it fails to meet one's expectations, they can muddy the entire film. I bring this up not to...
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Interview: 'Mesrine' Star Vincent Cassel
I remember the hype surrounding La Haine at the time of its release in the mid-1990s, and I also remember thinking that much of the adulation offered for Mathieu Kassovitz' feature directorial debut...
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Interview: Michelle Rodriguez on 'Machete'
Michelle Rodriguez has literally fought her way to stardom, starting with Karyn Kusama's boxing drama Girlfight. Rodriguez came away with an Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance and the...
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'Going The Distance' Co-Star Charlie Day On Being Relatable and Not Sleeping...
Anyone who has seen It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia even once knows Charlie Day. His character on the show, also named Charlie, is an unforgettable combination of vulnerability, rage and abject...
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Toronto Fest Programmer Colin Geddes on Midnight Movies ... and Madness
There's an old saying that all film journalists are just frustrated filmmakers who couldn't break into the business. And while I certainly think directing a film would be an awesome experience, to be...
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Tim League Talks Drafthouse Films, Building Theaters in NY and LA
Early this morning the best movie theater in the world, the Alamo Drafthouse, announced that it would be creating its own film distribution company, aptly titled Drafthouse Films, and that Chris...
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'Heartbreaker' Star Romain Duris on Crying and Dirty Dancing with Vanessa...
With Heartbreaker, French star Romain Duris continues to capitalize on his image as a young and very talented pop star. He first came to US audiences' attention in melodramas like Cedric Klapisch's...
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Iconic Poster Artist Drew Struzan Talks About His Career Past, Present and...
Drew Struzan laughs a lot. That shouldn't be surprising considering his very unique style of movie poster art has always exhibited a profound and heartwarming sense of humor, but I'm not sure I was...
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David Fincher on 'The Social Network': "I Wanted to Make a 21st Century John...
With The Social Network, director David Fincher has produced what is arguably the most commercially accessible film of his career, and that's definitely not a bad thing. It's a movie about the...
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Davis Guggenheim on 'Waiting for "Superman"' and Getting People to Care About...
Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim may be best known for the 2006 documentary that won him an Academy Award, 'An Inconvenient Truth', although a lot of people seem to associate that film solely with Al Gore....
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