In advance of his appearance this Saturday morning at the Toronto Animation Arts Festival International, we talked a great deal with famed animator and Ren and Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi about everything to working with Ralph Bakshi, his time with Mighty Mouse and The Jetsons, and some of his greatest struggles trying to get his vision across in the network system.
We spoke with Skot Deeming about DPAD 2, a series of game culture events that blend live musical performances with arcade sensibilities and a few actual arcade cabinets to encourage game enthusiasts to embrace new forms of play and interactivity.
We talked to Channing Tatum and True Blood 's Joe Manganiello about their roles as male strippers in the upcoming Steven Soderbergh comedy/drama Magic Mike .
We talk to the extremely candid Canadian makeup design artist Gordon Smith in advance of his appearance at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto this Wednesday about his groundbreaking work on Near Dark and the X-Men films, as well as his early career and his working with Oliver Stone several times.
We sit down for an in-depth talk with all night grindhouse movie maven Dion Conflict to talk about his sixth annual SHOCK AND AWE event (happening Saturday at The Revue in Toronto) with a history of the series, a film by film breakdown of this year's selections, and why the fans of these films are more important that ever.
We talk to director Mark Andrews and producer Katherine Sarafian about their work together on Disney/Pixar's Brave , all of the research they did, and why the hardest and most important things in animated films are appealing characters and a great story.
We talked to the director of the Canadian produced road movie Foreverland , Max McGuire, about his own personal battles with Cystic Fibrosis and living out his own life through his on screen counterparts.
We talked to director Randall Cole and producer Vincenzo Natali about their Canadian made found footage genre thriller 388 Arletta Avenue and the freakish ways that real life ended up imitating art.
Stella Ella Ola make the kind of music that embodies good times, friends, and sunshine. Picture rollerblading down a boardwalk, flippin' burgers, hanging out in someone's basement eating popsicles while reflecting on yearbook memories. It's a simple joy that they've captured. We talk with pals Jake and Nixon Boyd, Anne Douris and Vince Rice about the band, their planned BBQ musical,, and their favourite Muppets.
Don't let the name fool you, Indie Game: The Movie isn’t just something for gamers or geeks. The Kickstarter funded film follows several indie game designers as they struggle to complete their respective games - and it's a surprisingly familiar process. We sat down with filmmakers Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky to discuss how they came to make a movie about game development, their Sundance success, and about some of the criticism that has been leveled at the film.
We talked to current New Girl television sensation Jake Johnson about his role in the indie time travel/internet meme comedy Safety Not Guaranteed , how to create a sympathetic jerk, and why he thinks the film is a perfect summer movie.
We talk to one of our favourite people to interview, Mr. Kevin Durand about his role in David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis , his preparation for such an intense acting challenge, and why Robert Pattinson's height helped his sense of job security.
Dork Shelf catches up with famed director David Cronenberg, and actors Robert Pattinson and Paul Giamatti to talk about their work on the hotly anticipated Don DeLillo adaptation Cosmopolis
Beyond The Black Rainbow is a deeply bizarre science fiction/horror film set in an alternate 1983 in a style of how that future was pictured in the 70s. First time director Panos Cosmatos recreates the aesthetic of late 1970s sci-fi with such mind-boggling attention to detail that it would be easy for an unsuspecting viewer to assume they stumbled onto a lost film from that era. We got a chance to chat with Cosmatos about the conception and production of his remarkable debut, as well as growing up in a house with the guy who made Rambo .
We talked with co-creator of The Blair Witch Project , Eduardo Sanchez, about his latest film, the exorcism chiller Lovely Molly , as well as about the film that made him famous and the differences between making low budget productions then and now.
