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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: BEAU BRIDGES ON THE DESCENDANTS
Veteran actor Beau Bridges has plenty to smile about these days as we chat in a Beverly Hills hotel room. He is appearing alongside A-lister George Clooney in Alexander Payne’s The Descendants, which opened on Friday in New York and Los Angeles. “It’s nice to be here talking about something you’re genuinely proud of,” Bridges [...]
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: MATTHEW LILLARD ON THE DESCENDANTS
It would be fair to say that Matthew Lillard has come a long way since bursting onto the Hollywood scene in the likes of Scream and the family hit Scooby Doo. The now 40-year old Michigan native plays a character integral to the journey of George Clooney’s Matt King in The Descendants. Based on the [...]
Sundance Film Festival Report
SUNDANCE CLOSES AS ‘DIVERSE FILMS WIN MAJOR PRIZES PARK CITY, UTAH. After another frenetic and diverse Sundance, the 2009 Sundance Film Festival closed with its annual award night. The 2009 Sundance Film Festival Juries consisted of: U.S. Dramatic Competition:, Virginia Madsen, Scott McGehee, Maud Nadler, Mike White and Boaz Yakin; U.S. Documentary Competition: Patrick Creadon, [...]
LIEV SCHREIBER DEFIANTLY TAKES ON TOUGH ROLE
Live Schreiber is an actor who rarely plays the same character more than once. Whether he’s on stage or screen, the quietly spoken intelligent actor immerses himself in each character he plays, from the Jewish partisan brother in Defiance, to the antagonist in next year’s Wolverine. He spoke candidly about both films as well as [...]
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO JULIA ORMOND?
A decade and a half ago, Julia Ormond had the world at her feet. She was Hollywood’s ‘it’ girl, with films opposite the biggest stars, including Brad Pitt, Harrison Ford and Richard Gere. As quickly as she succeeded, she disappeared, but now she’s back in another Brad Pitt film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. [...]
SCHRADER PUTS NEW TWIST INTO HOLOCAUST
Paul Schrader is one of Hollywood’s most interesting filmmakers, beginning as a writer on the likes of Taxi Driver. Although his name is often linked to that of the ‘movie brat’ generation (Spielberg, Scorsese, Coppola, Lucas, De Palma, etc.) Paul Schrader’s background couldn’t have been more different. Schrader’s strict Calvinist parents refused to allow him [...]
Everyone’s Mad About ‘Mad Man’ Hamm
Two years ago Jon Hamm was another struggling actor finding his way through the treacherous waters of Hollywood. Then along comes a little known TV series aired on a small cable network about a bunch of often philandering, chain-smoking ad executives in the ’60s called Mad Men, and life for John Hamm changed as he [...]
Sally Hawkins Has a Reason to Be Happy-Go-Lucky
In a hotel room in Toronto, a slightly injured but perpetually smiling Sally Hawkins is genuinely surprised by the Oscar buzz surrounding her portrayal of Londoner Poppy who sees optimism all around hert in Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky. “It seems so outrageous,” Hawkins says laughingly when the subject of a possible Oscar nomination is brought up. [...]
Rumer Has It – Willis Offspring Heading for Stardom
In her first major film role, the bubbly comedy The House Bunny, Rumer Willis–daughter of Bruce and ex-wife Demi Moore–plays something of an outsider in a sorority that caters for the outsider until an ex-Playboy bunny shows up and teaches them how to evolve. For Willis, there was always a sense of inevitability that she [...]
Anna Plays House Bunny
Anna Faris jokingly says that she prepared to play a Playboy bunny by having “slept with Hef, but I’ll dispel that rumor right now.” The bubbly actress has been on Hollywood’s comic periphery now for almost a decade, since breaking out in the Scary Movie series. These days, the confident actress felt it about time [...]
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