We talk to film writer Adam Nayman (The Grid, Cinema Scope) about the latest installement of his public series of cinematic classes, In Nayman's Terms (kicking off this coming Monday at Toronto's Miles Nadal JCC), which focuses on the work of America's most well known tandem auteurs: Joel and Ethan Coen.
Ever wonder who actually buzzed the tower and flipped off that enemy mig for Tom Cruise in Top Gun? It was this man: Naval Captain and current NASA pilot Scott Altman. We talked to Altman about working with Tom Cruise and Tony Scott in honour of the film's 25th anniversary Blu-Ray release.
We catch up with hot young producer Jason Blum - the man who helped bring the world Paranormal Activity, Insidious, Sinister, and this week drops Dark Skies.
We talk to the trio of comic actors best known for playing The Trailer Park Boys about their most ambitious project to date The Drunk and on Drugs Happy Funtime Hour (now on DVD), the challenges faced with creating such a trippy show, crafting something entertaining for the messed up and sober in equal amount, and fighting with the network of the number of curses they could use.
Bruce Willis. Talking about A Good Day to Die Hard.
We talk to A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III writer and director and current Academy Award nominee Roman Coppola about creating his latest trippy, mind bending comedy, working with Liam Hayes on the film's groovy soundtrack, subliminal messages in advertising, working with Charlie Sheen and Bill Murray, and why he likes coming back to the same kinds of characters.
We talk to the director and co-writer (and Kitchner, Ontario natives) Cal Brunker and Bob Barlen from the animated adventure Escape from Planet Earth about their nearly life long collaborative process, working with Breandan Fraser and Rob Corddry, using 3-D effectively, and how to give life to a wacky waving arm flailing inflatable tube man.
Dork Shelf talks to Patrick Read Johnson about his long in the works autobiographical film 5-25-77 and it's long road to the big screen despite being a small film about how he got started as a filmmaker growing up in small town Illinois. Johnson opens up about growing disillusioned with the studio system (working with John Hughes on Baby's Day Out, turning down the chance to do Home Alone, and the troubled post production on Angus), the good along the way, and bringing his work-in-progress film to the TIFF Next Wave Festival this weekend.
Dork Shelf sits down with media critic and analyst Jeff Cohen about the upcoming documentary Shadows of Liberty, his work at CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News as an outsider that was critical of the corporate media (the latter of all being the most oddly freeing), his current work on exposing corporate media bias, and how to better create a full spectrum for a political dialogue.
We talk to Lunarcy! director Simon Ennis about his love of the non-fiction to the intricacies of claiming space real estate, and the jerkiness of moon landing conspiracy theorists prior to the release of his documentary about people obsessed with everyone's second favourite glowing ball in the night sky.
We talk to Canadian filmmaking veteran and Prom Night in Mississippi director Paul Saltzman about his latest documentary, The Last White Knight where he interviews a KKK member who assaulted him in the 1960s five times over the course of five years with unexpected results.
We catch up with Warm Bodies leading zombie Nicholas Hoult to talk about making the walking dead sympathetic, working with director Jonathan Levine, creating chemistry with a co-stars when you can’t speak in a scene, and what it’s like to get the actual walking part of being a zombie just right.
We sit down with actor and writer Marlon Wayans to talk about his latest parody film A Haunted House, crowd reactions to his films, critical reactions, when a genre is ripe for parody, and his work outside of the shadow of his most frequent collaborators.
We talk to York University alum Igor Drljaca about his debut feature Krivina (opening at The Royal in Toronto this Friday), the film's largely Bosnian setting, making the jump from shorts to features, what it was like to mount his most ambitious project to date, and potentially making the move to work on larger canvases
We talk to counsellor Dale Curd and relationship expert Andrea Syrtash about their co-hostin duties on OWN's Life Story Project and about talking to everyday people and asking them to tell their stories, which topics are hardest for people to talk about, and how the show has influenced their day jobs.
