One of the emerging trends in both written and cinematic storytelling these days is the ‘mashup’…i.e. take one classic work of literature, throw in some contemporary horror, perhaps add a dash of puerile humor…mix in blender, and voila, you have an original property. Sort of. If you consider either “Pride [...]
Interviews
Interview: ‘Sanctuary’ Stars Hold the Keys to Season 3.5
Sanctuary returns to SPACE Channel in Canada and Syfy in the United States with its Season 3.5 premiere this Friday. As the cast and crew made preparations to start filming the show’s fourth season, CinemaSpy was able to grab a few minutes with stars Amanda Tapping and Robin Dunne. We discussed their experiences shooti [...]
Interview: Behind the Badge with Southland’s Michael Cudlitz
“Most of us go to work every day with a pretty good idea of what’s going to happen. As Detective Bryant will be reminded of today…cops never do.” It’s perhaps one of the most veracious lines ever to introduce an episode of television, and featured at the start of Southland’s fourth episode this season, entitle [...]
Exclusive: Georgie Henley for
Having celebrated a birthday on every one of the three installments of the Narnia series made to date, Georgie Henley says farewell to the franchise—but not before kicking some serious ass as the only girl on board the Dawn Treader, the ship that sets sail in the southern seas of Narnia to unlock the mystery behind a [...]
‘Casino Jack’ Star Barry Pepper Gets Political
In person, Barry Pepper is a soft-spoken man with an intense stare and a firm grasp on the state of politics in America. In the new film, Casino Jack, about the rise and fall of Superlobbyists Jack Abramoff and Mike Scanlon, Pepper plays Scanlon, a Capitol Hill smooth talker who worries more about his chi and feng-shui [...]
Interview: Kevin Spacey Talks ‘Casino Jack’, Jack Abramoff
Two time Academy Awad-winning actor Kevin Spacey has earned the respect of his peers and fans around the world with his complex portrayals of a multitude of morally questionable men. His latest role as Superlobbyist Jack Abramoff in the new film, Casino Jack, is no exception—Abramoff is a complicated man with strong [...]
Exclusive: Will Poulter for ‘The Voyage of the Dawn Treader’
Will Poulter’s first words are an apology for his tardiness. His phone call ran a little later than scheduled because traffic in London had been snarled by rioting students protesting against the rising cost of university tuition in Britain. He later also apologizes for grabbing a bite of a sandwich during the interv [...]
Interview: Jake Gyllenhaal Talks ‘Love and Other Drugs’
He’s become a much-loved archetype in cinematic history. The young, cocky new-kid-on-the–block who enters a profession with high hopes and ambitions only to later have a crisis of conscience or sudden epiphany about the foibles of the business world. Think Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire, Keanu Reeves in The Devil’s [...]
Exclusive: Sngmoo Lee Discusses ‘The Warrior
In 2003 Hollywood mega star Tom Cruise lived by the sword in The Last Samurai, the epic tale of an 1870s American cavalryman, haunted by the massacre of a Sioux tribe, who is transported to Japan where he gets some hard lessons in the samurai fighting style and comes to admire the Zen-derived code of a bucolic village. [...]
Naomi Watts & Director Doug Liman Discuss ‘Fair Game’
“This is a story that celebrates the CIA and people like Valerie Plame who risked their lives everyday in the shadows on our behalf,” director Doug Liman explains. Plame was a veteran CIA agent whose cover as an operative was blown by the Bush administration in the wake of revelations by her husband, retired ambass [...]
