Category Archives: Interviews
With all of David Chase’s monstrous success from creating, producing, and writing the disturbingly popular show The Sopranos, I expected to meet someone larger than life. With his first feature film, Not Fade Away, which he also wrote, produced, and directed being released across the nation...
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Sacha Gervasi (pronounced Jur-VAH-zee), the director of the documentary Anvil: The Story of Anvil, made his feature film directing debut this year with the film Hitchcock. He’s also made a name for himself as a successful screenwriter, penning such entries as the Steven Spielberg-helmed film Th...
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Josh Peck Back in 2008, actor Josh Peck established himself as a talent to take notice of with his star turn alongside Sir Ben Kingsley in The Wackness, in which he played a troubled young man who sells pot from an ice cream pushcart. This year, he’s back in the action film Red Dawn – a r...
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"I said to Tarantino, I want to do what you do." That is what the acclaimed music producer and leader of the Wu-Tang Clan turned director RZA said when asked how his new project movie The Man with the Iron Fists came to be. RZA (aka, Robert Diggs) studied Tarantino for two years on set to lea...
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The next time you're out of town let the locals know you're from Detroit. You'll get sympathetic remarks from people who think it's such a “shame” what's happening in the city. I'd argue most people aren't well educated about the conditions that have led to the city's decline, however. Det...
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Along with a few other members of the press, I had the great pleasure of interviewing the stars of the new comedy American Reunion, Jason Biggs and Eddie Kaye Thomas on March 22, 2012. While the pair was in town to promote the newest entry in the American Pie series, the conversation was more lik...
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On March 22, 2012, I, along with other members of the press, had the opportunity to interview the writers/directors of the upcoming movie American Reunion, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Scholssberg. The two are best known for their work with the Harold and Kumar series. This was both a lively conversati...
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Award-winning filmmaker Carl Colby’s latest documentary, The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby, is a personal quest to understand who his father really was. I interviewed Carl via telephone on Wednesday, December 7, 2011. He was gracious with his time and spok...
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Director Craig Brewer and star Kenny Wormald on the set of "Footloose." Photo by K.C. Bailey – © 2011 Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved. Nearly every day on the set of the new film Footloose, director Craig Brewer would warn star Kenny Wormald: "You know if this doesn't work it's jus...
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Selena Gomez. Photo Credit: Wallace Michael Chrouch. Selena Gomez has been acting since she was just seven years old when she made her debut on Barney & Friends. After starring in enough TV shows and films for Disney she earned the “Disney Kid” moniker. Then, a recurring role on Hanna...
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Director Thomas McCarthy on the set of "Win Win." © 2011 - Fox Searchlight. It’s a movie that’s “hard not to enjoy on some level.” That’s how director Thomas McCarthy describes his latest film, Win Win. After seeing it, it’s hard to disagree with that statement. This writer is in...
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