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Pierce Brosnan on LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED
Pierce Brosnan and Trine Dyrholm connect in ways neither expected in LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED. Sometimes the wedding videographers are pointing their cameras in the wrong direction. Susanne Bier’s LOVE IS...
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The Cast of YOUR PRETTY FACE IS GOING TO HELL: The CFQ Interview
Matt Servitto is the Prince of Darkness and Spreadsheets in YOUR PRETTY FACE IS GOING TO HELL. Shooting a workplace comedy set in Hell may be challenging, tedious work, but at least you get to...
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SIGHTSEERS’ Ben Wheatley: The CFQ Interview
Ben Wheatley takes a comedic trip to the dark side. Welcome to the banality of evil, Ben Wheatley-style: In his horror comedy SIGHTSEERS, a couple (Alice Lowe and Steve Oram, who also scripted) decides...
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MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000′S Frank Conniff: The CFQ Interview
Frank Conniff gets the Shepard Fairey treatment. As MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000′S TV’s Frank, comedian and writer Frank Conniff became possibly the most cuddly mad scientist in history. From his debut...
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Cinefantastique Spotlight: EPIC
Amanda Seyfried (right) gets natural with Aziz Ansari in EPIC. IRON MAN 3: Done it. STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS: Done it. FAST AND FURIOUS 6: Not really genre (’though we wish). THE HANGOVER PART III: Uh,...
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The CFQ Interview: THE TOXIC AVENGER’s Lloyd Kaufman
For close to forty years, the New York-based studio Troma has been a perverse, gory thumb in the eye of all that’s staid and safe in mainstream Hollywood. It’s co-founder Lloyd Kaufman has built a...
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The CFQ Interview: BLADE RUNNER’s Joanna Cassidy
Joanna Cassidy’s acting career has been long and diverse, encompassing a bit part in BULLITT, trading barbs with Dabney Coleman on BUFFALO BILL, and presently playing the overbearing mother of Dana...
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The CFQ Interview: BLADE RUNNER’s William Sanderson
William Sanderson (right) and Chris Bauer face the brave new, bloodsucking future in TRUE BLOOD. Who among us didn’t watch lonely, trusting J.F. Sebastian take renegade replicant Pris into his digs at...
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The CFQ Interview: 100 BLOODY ACRES’ Cameron & Colin Cairnes
Angus Sampson (left) and Damon Herriman discover a new formula for success in 100 BLOODY ACRES. Australian brothers Cameron Cairnes and Colin Cairnes are making their feature film debut with 100 BLOODY...
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Writer Katie Dippold on THE HEAT
Sandra Bullock (left) and Melissa McCarthy are on the opposite sides of the same side of the law in THE HEAT. So in the midst of the interstellar conflicts, zombie plagues, and giant robots, how about...
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The CFQ Interview: ROBOT CHICKEN’s Kevin Shinick
The Justice League... and Trojan horse... assemble for ROBOT CHICKEN: DC COMICS SPECIAL It’s an old cliche, but worth repeating: Comedy is serious business, even when we’re talking about the nut shots...
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The Cinefantastique Spotlight: DESPICABLE ME 2
Beee-Dooo, Beee-Dooo, Beee-Dooo: Gru (Steve Carell) has to contend with the anarchic forces that are the minions in DESPICABLE ME 2. Here’s what DESPICABLE ME 2 does not do: It does not inflict small...
View ArticleDan Persons’ Appearance During HuffPost Live Coverage of CRYSTAL FAIRY
HuffPost Live had star Michael Cera and director Sebastian Silva on, talking about their film, CRYSTAL FAIRY, and invited me to post a video question for Silva. You can see how it went in the video...
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The Cinefantastique Spotlight: THE CONJURING
Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson confront the unknown of THE CONJURING (2013) This weekend continued 2013’s trend of diversity in fantastic film debuts: You had your choice of an atmospheric,...
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Temple of Bad: SANTA CLAUS: THE MOVIE
David Huddleston has lumps of cinematic coal for everybody in SANTA CLAUS: THE MOVIE. Are you hungering for a wonderful, whimsical tale filled with magic and adventure? A story that captures the spirit...
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The Cinefantastique Spotlight: KICK-ASS 2
Left to right: Chloe Grace Moretz, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse face off (mask off?) in KICK-ASS 2. It’s official: We have definitively hit our late-summer low-point with the...
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Joe Swanberg on DRINKING BUDDIES
Olivia Wilde and Jake Johnsor are either falling in love or just falling asleep in DRINKING BUDDIES. Director Joe Swanberg is back, once again using a semi-improvised approach to capture the chaos in...
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John Badham on Directing
John Badham (right) and Johnny Depp on the set of NICK OF TIME. Name a genre, and John Badham can tell you tales about it. He mixed the musical with incisive social observation in SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER...
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ROBOT CHICKEN’s Matthew Senreich, John Harvatine IV & Eric Towner: The CFQ...
And you thought stop-motion figures taking swift kicks to the crotch defined the work of Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, the people behind Adult Swim’s ROBOT CHICKEN and TITAN MAXIMUM. Not quite, Chuck-o — the...
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Temple of Bad: CAN’T STOP THE MUSIC
Fashion Crimes and Musical Misdemeanors: Steve Guttenberg (right), Valerie Perrine (center) and Felipe Rose derail the disco revolution in CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC. What if they declared a cultural...
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