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
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
BABY MAMA (2008) Starring Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Sigourney Weaver, Greg Kinnear, Romany Malco, Dax Shepard, Maura Tierney, Steve Martin, Holland Taylor, Dennis Albanese, Curt Carlson, Will Forte, Tom McCarthy and Fred Armisen. Screenplay by Michael McCullers. Directed by Michael McCullers. Distributed by Universal Pictures. 96 minutes. Rated PG-13. I guess it was just a … Continue reading
Rebecca Schull On the Naked Stage by Ronald Sklar It never fails to shock us when a beloved TV character takes a sharp left turn and makes daring choices. Rebecca Schull, for instance. Her name may not be instantly recognizable, but she has that face that makes you feel like you’ve seen it a million … Continue reading
Maureen McCormick Brady Country by Ronald Sklar Each and every one of us has early memories of Maureen McCormick, but one of her earliest memories was entering the Miss San Fernando Valley beauty contest at age seven. She remembers the delighted look on her parents’ faces as she took center stage in her bathing suit and sang … Continue reading
Francia Raisa Chasing the Dream by Jay S. Jacobs Only a few years into a career which has quickly gone from simmering to muy caliente, Francia Raisa is blowing open doors that normally don’t spread for Latin actresses. The young daughter of a Mexican mother and a Honduran father, she was introduced to life in the … Continue reading
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Team Up to Make a Baby Mama by Brad Balfour Tina Fey and Amy Poehler — Saturday Night Live veterans and sketch comedy masters — are poised to challenge producer/writer/director Judd Apatow’s hegemony on R-rated comedy. They are the stars of Baby Mama, the opening night film for the 2008 Annual Tribeca Film Festival … Continue reading
Charlize Theron and AnnaSophia Robb Sleepwalking Through Real Life by Jay S. Jacobs Though she has lived a rather glamorous life – born in South Africa, travelling regularly to Europe and the US, becoming a top actress in films like The Cider House Rules, The Italian Job and In the Valley of Elah – lately, … Continue reading
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