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This is Jeff Bayer, and I don't update this site very often. If you'd like to listen to my current movie podcast you can find it at MovieBS.com.
This is Jeff Bayer, and I don't update this site very often. If you'd like to listen to my current movie podcast you can find it at MovieBS.com.
All in Interviews
It's my first on air interviews. I've done a ton of sit down, 20-minute interviews with Will Smith, the cast of Superbad and more. But the TV interview is a different beast. So if you notice the deer-in-headlights look, or the insane amount of times I say, "um," I truly apologize. But that's not what you've come here to see, is it?
I sat down with Eric Bana, Bruce Greenwood, John Cho and Anton Yelchin to talk Star Trek. Here's some extra items not in the TV interview ... Bana is 6'3", I'm 6'5" ... I didn't make him prove it. Though he's the runt of the litter, with a brother who's 6'8". Greenwood loves Portland, mainly because he lived here when he did a show called "Nowhere Man." Cho says he
Editors Note: Nick Allen interviewed Rachel Weisz back in November 2008, because The Brother's Bloom was originally set to release in December 2008. Rachel Weisz is not a weird person. In the flesh, sitting only a high-five away from me in a room at Chicago's James Hotel, undeniable beauty seems to be the only eccentricity she shares with Penelope, her character in the new film The Brothers Bloom. She doesn't seem to exemplify the defining quirky characteristics of her shut-in, socially awkward character from the film, written and directed by Rian Johnson. If anything, sitting down with two other writers and the Oscar-winning actress, it was difficult for me not to embody Penelope-like awkwardness myself.
Regardless, the actress from the first two Mummy movies and husband Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain was happy
I recently sat down with the cast of Miss March, and we covered everything from Sketch Comedy dos-and-don’ts to why Ben Stiller may be the greatest working director in Hollywood today. Zach Cregger, Trevor Moore, and Craig Robinson believe in the importance of comic timing, the future of our children, and the power of Tina Fey. The Sax Hotel provided the setting for our conversation which never lacked the sort of edge these three talented young men bring to the table in their upcoming film. If you’re interested in why Craig Robinson [The Office] would possibly want to send me down a trap door, please read on. Enjoy.
Interview:
So, you guys started off doing improv and sketch comedy together in New York, right?
ZC: Right.
TM: Right, but not Improv.
Right, and that lead
Kyle Newman knows his Star Wars-speak. The self-proclaimed “fan boy” threw himself into his work to bring us a film about how “the force” may be the necessary tool to make sense of one's life. Fan Boys is the tale of four individuals whose youth may be fading in the rear view, but they collectively refuse to give up on the phenomenon that got them through their Skywalker-crazed adolescence. Whether you’re a staunch appreciator of all things-Shatner, or secretly call your right-hand Leia, Newman can relate to your thirst for knowledge of all things galactic. It’s perhaps his directorial ability to mesh the supernatural with the nature of life that gives his film the heart you wouldn’t expect from a movie about Han Solo-worshipping twenty somethings, whose lives converge for
I caught up with Jaime Paglia in the only place possible in Los Angeles … from his car. The husband and father of two spoke with me about his other love, "Eureka." The Sci-Fi hit has become a centerpiece for the SCI FI channel. While Paglia navigated the unmoving streets of L.A. we spoke about the show, the strike and I even quizzed him a little to see if he is the all-knowing, all-powerful mind of everything "Eureka."
For those that aren’t fans of “Eureka” yet, what’s the show about and how do they get caught up?
It’s small town, big secret. To me it’s a blend of “Northern Exposure” with a little bit of “X-Files” or “Twin Peaks” tossed in. A small town sheriff is in charge of a town that looks
Taraji P. Henson conquered fear a long time ago. Good thing, too.
Years ago, when she was fresh out of high school, the 38-year-old Washington, D.C. native almost let her fear stand in the way her dreams of leaving her mark on the acting world. It took failure in a career she hated to make her reach for success in the one she wanted.
Today, Henson has it all figured out. In a lavish suite high in Chicago’s new Trump Tower, she’s deep in her promotional schedule for the newest and most-high profile film of her career—The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which also stars a chronologically challenged Brad Pitt—but she’s taking it like a pro. Her look is polished and sophisticated, her posture upright and feminine, and her answers delivered with the
Darren Aronofsky reminds me of Egon from The Ghostbusters. This is not a slight. He’s an engaging man whose lack of pretension is as much of a relief as it is an underrated character trait—especially for a critically acclaimed director of his stature. Throughout our roundtable interview the Brooklyn native poked fun at us for never seeing Angel Heart [Mickey Rourke’s supposed 1980s masterpiece], apologized for a nagging sneeze-attack, and sized up our knowledge of the Hip Hop culture his hometown is famous for.
For a guy who has just made what’s certain to be an Oscar-contending Indie-juggernaut, Aronofsky didn’t seem like an elitist having made Requiem for a Dream, π, or The Fountain. In reality, he seemed to have much in common with the character Harold Ramis craftily displayed on