ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL LEAVING THE DEAD ZONE BY JAY S. JACOBS Back in the 1980s, Anthony Michael Hall was everyone’s nerdy younger brother. He first caught our eye as young son Rusty Griswold in the classic comedy National Lampoon’s Vacation. That movie was written by a relatively unknown screenwriter named John Hughes. Hall quickly became Hughes’ … Continue reading
Josh Radnor, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris and Alyson Hannigan – How I Met Your Mother Goes Home by Jay S. Jacobs McGee’s Pub, a famous old watering hole in New York, is not the type of place that you expect to have a glamorous Hollywood screening party. However, on June 3, 2008, McGee’s was … Continue reading
AMATEUR PORN STAR KILLER 2 (2008) Starring Kai Lanette and Shane Ryan. Screenplay by Kai Lanette and Shane Ryan. Directed by Shane Ryan. Distributed by Alter Ego Cinema. 80 minutes. Not Rated. When I received the press release about this film – bragging about how the original Amateur Porn Star Killer movie had been made for a … Continue reading
Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman Are No Longer Strangers by Brad Balfour Sometimes there are interview opportunities and then there are interview opportunities. Consider the circumstances that came up with covering this sort-of horror/suspense film, The Strangers. A great trailer suggests a film that ratchets up the personal anxiety through the assault of three strangers … Continue reading
Ben Barnes Is Transformed in Narnia’s Prince Caspian by Brad Balfour After meeting 26-year-old actor English actor Ben Barnes, with his easy manner and disaffected attitude towards his good looks, it comes as no surprise that he was tapped to star as the lead of a film like The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. Maybe he … Continue reading
John Leguizamo, Katherine Waterston and David Ross Adventures in Babysitting by Jay S. Jacobs The hot-button topic film The Babysitters was a low-budgeted labor of love. Written and directed by David Ross, it starts as a star-crossed infatuation story that spirals wildly out of control. A teen babysitter who has a crush on one of her clients … Continue reading
Leslie Jordan Pink Carpet Story by Ronald Sklar Emmy-award-winning actor Leslie Jordan is perhaps best known as Karen’s arch nemesis, Beverley Leslie, on Will and Grace. However, his association with that groundbreaking series only fortified his own true Hollywood story. He had been “in” as an out actor since he got off the bus in Hollywood … Continue reading
Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet Aren’t Joking Around in Funny Games by Brad Balfour Ten years ago, German director Michael Haneke created a harrowing, near-psychotic film, Funny Games, about two young men – Paul and Peter – who force a couple and their son in their vacation cabin to play sadistic “games” with fatal results. A critique … Continue reading
Jim Sturgess Bets on 21 to Transform His Acting Career by Brad Balfour Based on Ben Mezrich’s non-fiction book Bringing Down the House – about MIT master math student Jeff Ma and his blackjack team – 21 details the story of Ben Campbell and his card-counting crew that ravages Las Vegas casinos for little over a year (making oodles … Continue reading
Steven Strait An Actor Travels to Civilization in 10,000 BC by Brad Balfour No one ever expected a special-effects laden epic conceived and crafted by producer/director Roland Emmerich to be concerned about gaps in logic or story structure. So it goes with the German-born impressario’s latest faux-legend, the prehistoric 10,000 BC. From his civilization-destroying tentpole pictures … Continue reading
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