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...
View ArticleInterview: 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...
View ArticleInterview: '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...
View ArticleInterview: 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...
View ArticleInterview: 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...
View ArticleInterview: 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...
View ArticleFive 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...
View ArticleInterview: '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...
View ArticleInterview: '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...
View ArticleInterview: '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...
View ArticleInterview: '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...
View ArticleInterview: 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...
View ArticleHS 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...
View ArticleInterview: '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...
View ArticleInteresting 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...
View ArticleInterview: 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:...
View ArticleInterview: '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...
View ArticleInterview: 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...
View ArticleInterview: '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...
View Article'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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