Favorite Movies: E.T., The Apartment, Boogie Nights, Shoot the Piano Player, The Apostle, read more Persona, Phantom of the Paradise, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, The Exorcist, Pulp Fiction, The Sweet Smell of Success, Chungking Express, Dawn of the Dead 78', Nashville, Singing in the Rain, Blume in Love, The Conversation, Dazed & Confused, The Ninth Configuration, The Last Picture Show, Ordinary People, Once Upon a Time in the West, Short Cuts, Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade, Naked, Lightning Over Water, Network, Shampoo, Clue, The Silent Partner, They All Laughed, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Melvin and Howard, Mean Streets, Elephant

Likes: The New Beverly Cinema in LA, harmonicas, porches, Amoeba Records, 35mm, read more 70mm, Paul Thomas Anderson, Richard Gere in Breathless, Peter Sellers, Max Ophuls, Samuel Fuller, skiffle, Kentucky grass, Mark Kermode, Harry Dean Stanton, Wild & Woolly Video in Louisville

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C’mon Hollywood: Have faith in Prometheus!

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Interview: John Carter star Willem Dafoe!

There are great performances and then there are great performances while wearing 3ft. stilts and reciting a fictional language. The later can only refer to a handful of thespians and among them Willem Dafoe is my favorite. He’s been continually...
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Interview: John Carter Director Andrew Stanton!

Here he is… the director of my two favorite Pixar films, WALL-E and FINDING NEMO, Andrew is now the second PIXAR director to transfer into live-action with JOHN CARTER while maintaining his voice in the process. It’s become commonplace to...
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Interview: John Carter star Taylor Kitsch!

Like most people, I’ve been a fan of Taylor since the first season of FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS and have been waiting for him to get a chance to carry his own film for years. With blockbusters like BATTLESHIP and JOHN...
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Interview: John Carter Star Lynn Collins!

Lynn Collins is a chameleon of an actress. In JOHN CARTER she carries an accent in addition to sporting contacts, dark hair and a very tanned skin tone as Dejah Thoris, princess of Helium. It’s surprising, especially after revisiting her...

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Set Visit: In Time, Part 2!

READ PART 1 OF OUR SET VISIT HERE We are in between set ups and Justin Timberlake approaches the table with his sleeves rolled up and a bottle of water, following him is Amanda Seyfried, still wearing her (very) high...
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A BTS look at the SFX of Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Last week FOX invited us to a kind-of-seminar deconstructing the WETA effects of RISE OF THE PLAENT OF THE APES at CalTech where they screened footage, compared a few scenes to show the technological process behind the photo-real apes and...
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