Interview: Dave Franco on The Rental, His Genre Influences, and Future Projects
[Published at Slant Magazine] After a series of bit roles in television and film throughout the aughts, Dave Franco won...
Multi-Hyphenate Don Lake on Suiting Up for Netflix’s ‘Space Force’
[Published at Living Life Fearless] An alumnus of The Second City in the 1980s in Toronto and Los Angeles (one...
The Brains Behind Zelma Stone: A Journey Into Dreamland
[Published at Living Life Fearless] “Take your broken heart, make it into art.” Said the late, great Carrie Fisher. Chloe...
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‘Extra Ordinary’ Star Will Forte on His Favorite ‘SNL’ Sketches, His Terrible Irish Accent, and the Status of the ‘MacGruber’ TV Series [Interview]
[Published at Slash Film] Comedy icon Will Forte received his first few breaks in Hollywood as a writer more than 20 years...
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Willem Dafoe on ‘My Hindu Friend’ and Working With Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson and Lars Von Trier [Interview]
[Published at Slash Film] When the term character actor is used in film discourse, Willem Dafoe is one of the most common...
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Documentary Filmmaker Lauren Greenfield Shares the Books and Movies You Should Read and Watch Alongside Her Work [Interview]
[Published at Slash Film] Lauren Greenfield has been a professional photographer since the Reagan era, documenting the American Dream’s devolution into...
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‘Bombshell’ Director Jay Roach on Striving For Authenticity and Whether He’ll Ever Return to ‘Austin Powers’ [Interview]
[Published at Slash Film] Traversing slapstick comedy, political satire, and political docudrama sharpshooting seamlessly, director Jay Roach’s unorthodox career trajectory serves...
Interview: Rian Johnson on Knives Out and Bringing the Whodunnit to the Present
[Published at Slant Magazine] Whether paying homage to the golden age of noir in a high school setting (Brick), exploring...
HBO’s ‘Watchmen’: Holding a Mirror to Our Society Through Masks & Appropriation
* Slight Spoilers Ahead * [Published at Living Life Fearless] The masks in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s “Watchmen” have...
On the Cover of the San Francisco Chronicle with Martin Scorsese
At an event earlier this month, during the San Francisco premiere of “The Irishman,” presented by SFFilm, I had the...