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Standoff’s Thomas Jane

Feb 12, 2016 Thomas Jane

Thomas Jane tells us about feeling like a humble musician on the set of Standoff, in between dodging bullets and engaging in heated dialogue with Laurence Fishburne.

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Interview With Asif Kapadai, Director of 2015 Amy Winehouse Documentary “Amy”

Jan 22, 2016 Web Exclusive

The 43-year-old documentarian Asif Kapadia, lauded for his work on the film Senna about the titular Brazilian motor-racing champion, tooke an exhaustive approach with Amy, his newest delving into the life of the late iconic singer-songwriter, devoting an entire wall of the studio to photos and Post-it notes that outlined the Grammy winning singer’s rise to fame and tragic descent into addiction and overdose.

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Sarah Gadon, Star of “A Royal Night Out”

Dec 05, 2015 Web Exclusive

Toronto-based actress Sarah Gadon brings both the wide-eyed wonderment of a teenage girl and the regal stateliness of a royal to her performance as a 19-year-old Princess Elizabeth in the romantic comedy A Royal Night Out.

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Trumbo’s Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Jay Roach & Elle Fanning

Nov 06, 2015 Web Exclusive

Trumbo stars Bryan Cranston as Dalton Trumbo, the blacklisted screenwriter of many classic films including Spartacus and Roman Holiday. The film exposes the dark period of the late 1940’s and 1950s when a group of self-identified “concerned patriots” enacted an industry-wide ban on anyone suspected of being a Communist from working in the film industry.

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The Inhabitants’ Shawn and Michael Rasmussen

Oct 30, 2015 Web Exclusive

Most of today’s overly violent horror flicks lack the nuance and suspense-ridden scares that Michael and Shawn Rasmussen aspire to make on the cheap. The filmmaking siblings, who first broke through in 2011 after penning the screenplay for John Carpenter’s The Ward, eschew the studio system and its formulas in favor of more low-key, intimately unnerving fare like their new haunted-witch flick, The Inhabitants.

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Back to the Future Screenwriter Bob Gale

Oct 21, 2015 Web Exclusive

When Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis met as film students at USC, a wildly successful writer-director team was formed. The two began working in TV out of school, eventually moving into film with movies such as Used Cars, 1941, and I Wanna Hold Your Hand before penning their biggest hit with 1985’s time travel classic, Back to the Future.

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Back to the Future’s Lea Thompson (Lorraine McFly)

Oct 21, 2015 Web Exclusive

Although she starred in more than her fair share of ‘80s classics—including Red Dawn and Some Kind of Wonderful—Lea Thompson is probably best known for her part as Marty McFly’s mother, Lorraine, in Back to the Future.

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Back to the Future’s Claudia Wells (Jennifer Parker)

Oct 21, 2015 Web Exclusive

Claudia Wells couldn’t have landed a better film to make her big screen debut. As a young television actress, she was cast as Jennifer Parker, the girlfriend Marty McFly leaves behind in 1985 when he’s accidentally sent back in time in Back to the Future.

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Bobcat Goldthwait and Barry Crimmins on “Call Me Lucky”

Aug 28, 2015 Bobcat Goldthwait

The standups open up about the tragedy and comedy in their new documentary, Call Me Lucky.

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