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Actor Laz Alonso on Reuniting with Guy Ritchie for ‘Fountain of Youth’ (Video Interview)

Actor Laz Alonso has been in the acting biz for 25 years, bouncing between movies and television, most recently playing the role of Mother’s Milk on the popular Prime Video series, The Boys, based on the comics by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. During his break from that show, Alonso reteamed with Guy Ritchie, who…

‘Bad Shabbos’ Stars Jon Bass, David Paymer on Making the Indie Ensemble Comedy (Video Interviews)

There haven’t been many comedies about Jewish traditions, something that filmmaker Daniel Robbins hopes to change with Bad Shabbos, his award-winning ensemble comedy with one of the most eclectic casts of Hollywood veterans, newcomers, and even a rap star. The premise for the movie involves Jon Bass’ David bringing his Goyim (i.e. non-Jewish) fiancée Meg…

“Murderbot” : Exclusive Video Interview with Writers/Director/Showrunners Chris & Paul Weitz

©Courtesy of Apple TV + Check out more of our Youtube Channel.  Adriano Ercolani : Italian Film Critic and TV Author living in New York since 2011. Critics Choice Association member. Graduated in History of Cinema in Rome, he works as a freelance correspondent for some of the most important Italian outlets like Hollywood Reporter…

Hung Up on a Dream: The Zombies Documentary with Colin Blunstone and Robert Schwartzman

Check out more of our YouTube Channel  Matthew Schuchman : In the early 90s, while at the video store with his friends who wanted to rent Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead, Matthew asked the clerk if they had any copies of Naked Lunch available. A film buff from an early age, he would turn…

‘Final Destination Bloodlines’ Producer Craig Perry on the Legacy of Tony Todd and the Horror Franchise (Video Interview)

Producer Craig Perry has been involved with the Final Destination franchise from the very beginning, and after 14 years away, Final Destination Bloodlines brings the 25-year-old franchise back to theaters with some new twists on the tried-and-true formula.  This installment, the sixth movie in the series, begins in the ’60s where a catastrophe at the…

Hurry Up Tomorrow : Exclusive Interview with Director Trey Edward Shults

©Courtesy of Lionsgate Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange.” After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on  TV Tokyo’s program called “Morning Satellite” at the New York branch…

‘Final Destination Bloodlines’ Directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein on Pushing the Level of Gore and More (Video Interview)

When Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein were announced to direct the sixth installment in the long-running Final Destination horror franchise, it might not have seemed an obvious fit for anyone who saw their 2018 movie, Freaks, a superhero movie made on a shoestring budget.  Final Destination Bloodlines takes a different approach to the previous…

“Unit 234” : Exclusive Interview with Director Andy Tennant

Check out more of our contents on YouTube Channel.  Karen Benardello : As a life-long fan of films and television shows, and an endless passion for writing, Karen Benardello decided to combine the two for a career. She graduated from New York’s LIU Post with a B.F.A in Journalism, Print and Electronic in 2008. Karen…

‘Fight or Flight’ Stars Josh Hartnett and Katee Sackhoff on James Madigan’s Crazy Action Flick (Video Interviews)

Josh Hartnett has been having quite a bump in his career over the past five years, completely undaunted by the COVID outbreak and various industry strikes. We first began Hartnett’s return to movies in a major way when he showed up in Guy Ritchie’s 2021 Wrath Of Man, and in that film’s follow-up, Operation Fortune:…

Words of War: Q&A with Director James Strong, Actors Maxine Peake, Jason Isaacs, & Producer Mark Maxey

©Courtesy of Rolling Pictures Fighting against any obstacle in order to report the news without fear of death or reprisal is an admirable sign of the world’s most courageous journalists. The late Russian war reporter, Anna Politkovskaya, is a prime example of such an innovative writer. Her story is chronicled in the new biographical movie,…

The Unholy Trinity Trailer : Starring Samuel L. Jackson and Pierce Brosnan

©Courtesy of Saban Films and Roadside Attractions Saban Films and Roadside Attractions have released a new trailer for “The Unholy Trinity” which is starring Samuel L. Jackson and Pierce Brsonan. Samuel L. Jackson has returned to the Western arena a decade after starring in Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight.” This time, Jackson is teamed up…