Director Scott Hicks is uncompromising in his approach to filmmaking. During pre-production for his first feature he insisted that Geoffrey Rush, at the time a struggling Australian theatre actor, was the only one who could play the role of pianist…
‘Andy Kaufman asked me on his deathbed to do two things,’ says Bob Zmuda. ‘One was to write a book about him, the other was to produce a movie about him. He was scared of being remembered as Latka on…
From his meteoric arrival on the Hollywood scene as a Jamaican boytoy in How Stella Got Her Groove Back to his acclaimed supporting role in GO earlier this year, Taye Diggs has taken Hollywood by storm. Not too bad for…
I feel as if my life up to the current point should be divided into three parts. The first part consists of having not seen or heard of Eyes Wide Shut. During this period, I may have seen a few…
To Blee or not to Blee? That is the question that preoccupies my conscience. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the outcry over bad jokes, the distastes, and the lack of quality of a thousand critiques of parody…
No, I do not already have a review for you. Yes, I know how it ends although I won’t reveal my sources for this. This isn’t a story about a profane, obscene porn flick that involves people who like to…
Insert preface here about what a great year for film 1998 was, restored hopes in Hollywood (with a whopping four major studio pictures on my top ten list), resolutions about seeing movies in a more timely fashion and being less…
Shane Meadows, first-time feature director of the new independent film TwentyFourSeven, grew up in the Midlands, England. At the age of twenty-five, he had already produced thirty-three short films before he tackled TwentyFourSeven. I spoke with Meadows about how he…
As some of you have probably noticed, my days of prolific writing about the movies waned this year. With 275 movies in eligibility for the Oscars this year, I managed to see less than 40 of them, and that includes…
7:05 am The alarm on my clock radio is sounded, and I’m already out of bed, excited. Today is my Big Day, the day when I get to interview Craig Shoemaker at the KLBJ radio station. Today is also a…
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