— 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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Interviews’ Category
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.[...]
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[...]
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”[...]
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[...]
Exclusive Interview: 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[...]
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[...]
Exclusive Interview: 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[...]
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[...]
Three Interviews from ‘Shutter Island’
— by MARIUSZ ZUBROWSKI — Is there a name more synonymous with brilliant film-making than that of Martin Scorsese? Throughout his expansive career, he’s directed several classics such as “Goodfellas” and “Raging Bull.” Most of these films contain common[...]
An Exclusive Interview with Director Lucas Martell
— by SEAN GERSKI — One of the greatest benefits of the Internet has been the ability everyone has to show what they can do. People who may not have had opportunities to showcase their talents in fields such as writing, film making, singing or other such creative endeavors have had a[...]
An Exclusive Interview with Arianne Martin
— by ROBERT DeFEIS — Arianne Martin is a woman who does everything in the film industry from acting to writing to directing to much more. Arianne, who grew up in Austin, Texas, was into film at the early age of 14 — writing and directing her first short film, “Pumpkin Pie.”[...]
An Exclusive Interview with Clifton Collins Jr.
— by SEAN GERSKI — If you have watched a movie in the past year, there is a great chance Clifton Collins Jr. was in it. In 2009 alone, he appeared in “Sunshine Cleaning,” “The Perfect Game,” “Crank: High Voltage,” “Star Trek,”[...]