I’ve had the chance to interview Roel Reine a few times now for The Man With the Iron Fists 2 and The Condemned 2. Each time I knew he’d directed a Dutch movie called Admiral, about the historical naval battles in Holland. Michiel de Ruyter led the Dutch naval fleet against the English, French and […]
The Israeli film Sand Storm won the Sundance Film Festival Jury Prize for the World Cinema Competition. Good thing I got to interview the film’s director, Elite Zexer, and star Lamis Ammar, In Park City after the premiere of their film. At a Bedouin wedding, a woman (Ruba Blal) must host her husband (Hitham Omari)’s […]
The X-Men movies had actor Daniel Cudmore play Colossus. Cudmore is a big, imposing figure, but when you see Colossus in the Deadpool movie, it’s a whole new Colossus. Now larger than human, this Colossus was created as a visual effect using performance capture. Greg LaSalle was the performance capture artist who performed the actions […]
Ethan Hawke has a new movie out in theaters this weekend. Regression stars Hawke as a detective investigating a suspected Satanic cult ritual, using regression therapy to find clues in the memories of its victims. Alejandro Amenebar wrote and directed Regression. I got to speak with Hawke by phone this week to discuss the new […]
I have been waiting for Ip Man 3 for a long time. Ip Man is a great character for Donnie Yen to play because he is gracious and modest, yet the world’s greatest fighter when pushed. Ip Man told the story of how he survived Japanes occupation in World War II, while Ip Man 2 […]
I have been waiting to interview Jillian Bell since I saw her in 22 Jump Street. Her foil to Jonah Hill was my favorite part of a movie I loved everything about (especially the sequilitis and franchise ending!) I went back and caught up on Workaholics I finally got my chance since she developed and […]
Bruce Dern is one of The Hateful Eight. He plays General Sandy Smithers, a Confederate general who’s still bitter his side lost The Civil War. So when Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson) shows up, they have some beef even before the hateful situation transpires. Warren ends up at Minnie’s Haberdashery after hitching a ride with […]
During a press conference for Point Break, in which he plays Bodhi, Edgar Ramirez shared a deep philosophy about what both Point Break movies mean. “The promise of accumulation and being successful financially and accumulating material goods is the promise that Reaganism left us,” Ramirez said. “25 years later, it got broken. Our movie pretty […]
Point Break promises even more extreme action than the movie it is based on, by including extreme sports that didn’t exist yet in 1991. As a cinematographer, Ericson Core has shot extreme movies before like The Fast and the Furious and Payback. As a director, Point Break is only Core’s second movie after Invincible. I […]
Scott Adkins’ new movie is called Close Range and if you’ve seen Adkins fight, you know bad guys wouldn’t want to get within striking distance of him. Adkins plays Colton MacReady, a retired special forces agent who rescues his niece from kidnappers, only to find the cartel who took her teaming up with corrupt sheriffs […]