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The Dropout : An Exclusive Interview with Director/Executive Producer Michael Showalter

Synopsis : Money. Romance. Tragedy. Deception. Hulu’s limited series “The Dropout,” the story of Elizabeth Holmes (Amanda Seyfried) and Theranos is an unbelievable tale of ambition and fame gone terribly wrong. How did the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire lose it all in the blink of an eye? “The Dropout” stars Amanda Seyfried as Elizabeth Holmes…

Exclusive Video Interview: Elizabeth Marvel on Playing Elizabeth Holmes’ Mother in ‘The Dropout’

Hulu’s new limited series The Dropout dramatizes an incredible real-life scandal, one that saw young entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes (Amanda Seyfried) pitch a revolutionary new technology that could run hundreds of tests from just one drop of blood. The problem was that it didn’t work, which didn’t stop Elizabeth and her partner Sunny Balwani (Naveen Andrews)…

Coda : Q&A with Actress Marlee Matlin and Actor Tory Kotsur

Synopsis : Seventeen-year-old Ruby (Emilia Jones) is the sole hearing member of a deaf family — a CODA, child of deaf adults. Her life revolves around acting as interpreter for her parents (Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur) and working on the family’s struggling fishing boat every day before school with her father and older brother (Daniel…

Exclusive Video Interview: VFX Supervisor Sean Walker on Creating Dragons, Weapons, and More in ‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’

One of last year’s most involving and exciting superhero movies was Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. It earned an Oscar nomination for its visual effects, which include the titular ten rings, dragons, and a number of epic battle scenes. Sean Walker, VFX Supervisor for Weta FX, is no stranger to the…

The Desperate Hour : An Exclusive Interview with Director Phillip Noyce

Synopsis : Unfolding in real time, THE DESPERATE HOUR is a “riveting and pulse pounding” thriller from award-winning director Phillip Noyce. Recently widowed mother Amy Carr (Academy Award®-nominee Naomi Watts) is doing her best to restore normalcy to the lives of her young daughter and teenage son in their small town. As she’s on a…

‘This Is Us’ Stars Reflect On Their Six Seasons As The Pearson Family

The sixth and final season of the beloved drama, This Is Us, resumes Tuesday on NBC after a break for the network’s broadcast of the Olympic Games in Beijing.  Cast members Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore, Sterling K. Brown and Justin Hartley, along with series creator Dan Fogelman, recently participated in a Zoom press day to…

Exclusive Video Interview: Elsie Fisher on Making ‘Family Squares,’ a Movie about Living and Mourning in the Pandemic

Elsie Fisher is only eighteen years old, and she’s already had a remarkably impressive career. She made her acting debut at age six with a guest spot on the TV series Medium, and voiced Agnes in Despicable Me and Despicable Me 2. Her most notable role to date was in Bo Burnham’s endearing hit Eighth…

Exclusive Video Interview: Sharlto Copley and Director Tony Stone on Getting into the Mind of the Unabomber in ‘Ted K’

Ted Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, terrorized the United States for a period of nearly twenty years, sending homemade bombs through to the mail to seemingly random targets. He was apprehended by the FBI in 1996 at his Montana cabin following the largest manhunt in the agency’s history. online pharmacy synthroid over the counter…

Oscar-Shortlisted Film Tala’vision : Q&A with Director Murad Abu Eisheh, Director of Photography Philip Henze, Producer Phillip Raube, Actress Aesha Balasem 

Synopsis : Trapped in a war ridden reality, 8 year old Tala finds solace and freedom in a forbidden television. However, the secret TV becomes a matter of life and death. Q&A with Director Murad Abu Eisheh, Director of Photography Philip Henze, Producer Phillip Raube, Actress Aesha Balasem  Q: “Tala’vision” is one of the live…

Exclusive Video Interview: Director Abner Benaim and Star Ilse Salas on Panama’s Oscar-Shortlisted ‘Plaza Catedral’

This marks the first time that Panama has made the Oscar shortlist for Best International Feature, competing with fourteen other films for five slots. Plaza Catedral, the second narrative film from director Abner Benaim, is a powerful story of a grief-stricken woman, Alicia (Ilse Salas), who meets a 13-year-old boy named Chief (Fernando Xavier De…

Exclusive Sundance Film Festival Video Interview: W. Kamau Bell on the Importance of ‘We Need to Talk About Cosby’

It’s not easy to reckon with the idea that someone who was so inspirational and important in the advancement of culture and progress within any space has done horrible things. But doing so can be crucial, since if the main lesson a person has taught others is to do good, recognizing the failures of that…