– by ALLISON HIGGINBOTHAM – At 17, many of us were fighting off senoritis, trying to take the easiest classes possible, and figuring out what colleges would accept us. Seventeen-year-old Chris Tavares, however, balances acting, football and school. He has already acted alongside comedic ...
Archive for the ‘Interviews’ Category
August 16th, 2010 - 8:12 am § in Exclusives, Interviews
An Exclusive Interview with Actor Chris Tavares
August 6th, 2010 - 9:04 am § in Features, Interviews
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist, Rebel
In this interview, magazine publisher Hugh Hefner talks about his life and his role as an activist....
July 30th, 2010 - 10:37 pm § in Exclusives, Interviews
An Exclusive Interview with Producer-Director Bess O’Brien
– by BEV QUESTAD – Bess O’Brien has been a leader in collaborative, authentic movie making, telling true-life stories personal struggles and challenges through film. This July she and her cast were awarded the 2010 SuAnne Big Crow Human and Civil Rights Award from the National Educatio...
July 2nd, 2010 - 5:00 pm § in Exclusives, Interviews
An Exclusive Interview with Actor Anthony Ingruber
– by ALLISON HIGGINBOTHAM – Disney has a way of creating stardom for its proteges. Justin Timberlake was in the Mickey Mouse Club, Miley Cyrus stars in “Hannah Montana” and Zac Efron got his big break in “High School Musical.” Perhaps Anthony Ingruber starring in Disney’s upcom...
June 13th, 2010 - 11:41 pm § in Exclusives, Interviews
An Exclusive Interview with Alexandre Philippe and Robert Muratore
– by KYLA DREWETTE – Director Alexandre Philippe and producer Robert Muratore are both self-proclaimed “Star Wars” fanboys, and like countless other “Star Wars” fans, they’ve created their own fan-made film to prove it. No, they’re not showing off their lights...
June 6th, 2010 - 10:10 pm § in Exclusives, Interviews
An Exclusive Interview with Actress-Producer Tracey Birdsall-Smith
– by SEAN GERSKI – Tracey Birdsall-Smith has been performing since she was a “very little girl.” Growing up in Burbank, Calif., she was a dancer and a singer. She jokes that she took to the stage and to the camera “like a bug takes to the light.” “My mother ...
May 18th, 2010 - 6:50 pm § in Exclusives, Interviews
An Exclusive Interview with Producer Garen Topalian
– by SEAN GERSKI – It’s Just Movies recently had the chance to interview Garen Topalian, executive producer of “The Beatnicks,” an independent film starring Norman Reedus, Mark Boone Junior and Elodie Bouchez, and co-starring Eric Roberts, Patrick Bauchau and Jon Gries....
May 2nd, 2010 - 2:58 pm § in Exclusives, Interviews
An Exclusive Interview with Director Dan Sachar
– by KYLA DREWETTE – A film student at Sapir Academic College in Israel, Dan Sachar created “When It Will Be Silent” (which we reviewed here) as a sophomore project. Despite its small beginnings, the post-apocalyptic short has quickly garnered a lot of attention online and at...
April 28th, 2010 - 9:38 pm § in Exclusives, Interviews
An Exclusive Interview with Actress Meital Dohan
– by ALEXA MILAN – Once you’ve found “the one,” can you really be with that person for the rest of your life? That’s a question director Dana Adam Shapiro explores in “Monogamy,” his first narrative film (he previously directed the Oscar-nominated documentary “Murderball”...
April 24th, 2010 - 7:30 pm § in Exclusives, Interviews
An Exclusive Interview with Actor Brian Mahoney
– by TIERNEY BUTLER – For those of you who don’t know, I am a huge “Boondock Saints” fan and I’m even a new member of the Boondock Bettie Brigade. So when I was asked if I was interested in doing an interview — my very first for It’s Just Movies, mind...
An Exclusive Interview with Norman Reedus
– by SEAN GERSKI – Back in 1999, when “Boondock Saints” came and went (after appearing in a handful of theaters), the odds of ever seeing a sequel to the movie were incalculably low. And, as time went by, the odds grew even longer. But “Boondock Saints” is not...
March 27th, 2010 - 12:00 pm § in Exclusives, Interviews
An Exclusive Interview with Director Mattson Tomlin
– by ALEXA MILAN – Need further proof of the power of social media? Look no further than Mattson Tomlin, a sophomore at SUNY Purchase’s film conservatory. He has a vision of turning the poem “Solomon Grundy” into a film, and he’s using the Internet to make it happen. He made a sh...
March 25th, 2010 - 12:38 pm § in Features, Interviews
An Interview with The Good Listeners
– by JOEL CRARY – “Every day has its song and that song shall have its day.” If Clark Stiles and Nathan Khyber of The Good Listeners live by an oath, it’s the one that kicks off “Don’t Quit Your Daydream,” the recent documentary about the making of their third album. (Click h...
An Exclusive Interview with Director Tom Bertling
– by ALLISON HIGGINBOTHAM – Oregon director Tom Bertling is a perfectionist when it comes to filmmaking. His 70-minute film “Lexie Cannes” — about a deaf transgendered person who is being stalked — spent years in post-production before it was finished. He not only...
