Our Mia and Camille Jessie spent the day on the red carpet with the stars and producer of Netflix’s comedy Father of the Year. Check out what Allen Covert, Matt Shively and Bill Kottcamp had to say about making the movie! Continue reading
Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal Shining a Light on Our Blindspots by Jay S. Jacobs For Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal, it all goes back to Oakland. That was where they grew up, where they first met as kids and became life-long friends. Now, all these years later, long after both of them have moved … Continue reading
Lana Condor and Noah Centineo Video Interview! We sat down at VidCon 2018 with Lana Condor (X-Men: Apocalypse) and Noah Centineo (The Fosters) about their upcoming Netflix film “To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before.” This Netflix film based on the YA novel by Jenny Han is due out in August and stars a talented … Continue reading
Vera Farmiga, Lewis MacDougall, Peter Fonda and Shana Feste Breaking Down Boundaries by Jay S. Jacobs It’s not often that a movie’s press junket is stolen by a dog, but that is what happened last week at the Crosby Street Hotel in New York. The movie is Boundaries, a sweet and charming road trip comedy, … Continue reading
Poison It Don’t Get Better Than This By Jay S. Jacobs Ready to feel old? It’s been 30 years since Poison released their second album, Open Up and Say… Ahh!, which featured the hit singles “Nothin’ But a Good Time,” “Every Rose Has Its Thorn,” “Fallen Angel” and a cover of Loggins and Messina’s “Your … Continue reading
The Irish Repertory Theatre Thrives on a String of Hits as it Approaches Another Gala Year by Brad Balfour When Ciaran O’Reilly and Charlotte Moore founded the Irish Repertory Theatre, they opened in September 1988 with Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars. From that point on, it became a nexus for great play craft … Continue reading
Thomas Ian Nicholas Life in the Convention Lane by Jay S. Jacobs Catching up with Thomas Ian Nicholas on the floor of the Philadelphia Wizard World, he hasn’t changed all that much from the kid who starred in the 90s classic films Rookie of the Year and American Pie. Whether playing the fantasy role of … Continue reading
Tami Stronach The Childlike Empress Has Grown Up But is Still Neverending by Bonnie Paul I was 11 years old when The Neverending Story premiered in theaters in 1984. I remember, vividly, that as soon as I returned from the theater, our family pulled out paper and started writing and illustrating our own neverending stories. … Continue reading
Blake Cooper Taking the Measure of a Man by Jay S. Jacobs There is a certain irony about the fact that the new movie Measure of a Man stars Blake Cooper as a boy coming of age, because we’ve been watching Cooper grow up before our eyes for a few years now. We first met … Continue reading
Hayley Orrantia The Goldbergs Actress Likes Her Music Like She Likes Her Tea by Jay S. Jacobs On television, Hayley Orrantia is known as Erica Goldberg, the brainy and tough only daughter of a Jewish family in the Philadelphia suburban town of Jenkintown back in the 1980s. In real life, Orrantia is brainy and tough, … Continue reading
