Stewart Raffill has made many films in different genres. He’s made action films (High Risk), sci-fi what-ifs (The Philadelphia Experiment), erotic thrillers (Survival Island) , monster movies (Croc) and more than his share of family films (including The Adventures of…
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Cyrus: An Interview With John C. Reilly
Even when he’s dressed smartly with a sleek black shirt and dark sports jacket, his snazzy straw hat lying on the table nearby, John C. Reilly can’t help but elicit one adjective he just can’t shake: craggy. Perhaps it’s his…
Read more →Winter’s Bone: Interview With Writer Director Debra Granik
Debra Granik comes a long way from the Ozark Mountains of Missouri, where her new film Winter’s Bone is set. The writer-director currently resides in Manhattan, but has also lived in Boston, Washington, D.C. and Maryland. The life of the…
Read more →Communion An Interview with Writer Director Philippe Mora
To many, writer-director Philippe Mora’s name is often linked such exploitation films as the horror opuses The Howling 2: Your Sister is a Werewolf and The Howling III: The Marsupials. The link became even more prominent with Not Quite Hollywood!,…
Read more →George A. Romero & Survival Of The Dead
George A. Romero is back on the zombie track with George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead. The New York City -born, Pittsburgh-raised and now Toronto-based director has brought us gore and lots more in his shockers about the living…
Read more →Peter Hanson & Tales From The Script
Peter Hanson never thought he’d see his documentary Tales from the Script on the big screen. The entertaining survey of the world of screenwriters and screenwriting was created as a companion piece to his book of the same name, and,…
Read more →City Island (2009) An Interview With Andy Garcia
As an actor, Andy Garcia is best-known for either his cool, what-the-hell demeanor in films like The Untouchables and Black Rain or his brooding intensity in movies such as The Godfather, Part III, Internal Affairs and the Ocean’s films. In…
Read more →Jonathan Mostow & Surrogates
Since he hit the mainstream with good reviews for 1997’s Kurt Russell road thriller Breakdown, Jonathan Mostow has gotten the rep of being that rare director who can fluidly mix action and intelligence. His follow-up to Breakdown was 2000’s U-571,…
Read more →Marc Fienberg & Play the Game (2009)
What is an 83-year-old entertainment icon doing in bed with a well-known TV mother after being slipped a mickey with a sex pill in it? Inquiring minds want to know. And they’ll get their answer if they go to see…
Read more →Aviva Kempner & Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg (2009)
She wrote, produced and starred in her own television situation comedy. She won the first Emmy for Best Actress in a comedy series. She was one of early TV’s pioneers, a feminist before feminism became fashionable or was even a…
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