Tori Spelling Takes On “Kiss The Bride”

By Bonnie Siegler
There’s a lot more to Tori Spelling than meets the eye – and that’s saying something since the versatile actress is expecting her second child with husband Dean McDermott soon. Dressed in a chic black sleeveless silk Alice + Olivia shift, black designer stiletto heels and simple platinum wedding band, Tori is […]

Interview: Jim Sturgess, 21

21 Star Jim Sturgess Goes for Broke in Sin City Tale of Innocence Lost, Lessons Learned
It’s rare that a young actor can enthrall us as Jim Sturgess did in Julie Taymor’s visionary Beatles extravaganza Across the Universe. As Jude, the Liverpool lad caught up in American anti-war protests circa late 60s Greenwich Village, Sturgess […]

Interview: David Schwimmer, Run, Fat Boy, Run

Finding the Human in the Comedy: Director David Schwimmer Balances Funny and Bittersweet in Run, Fat Boy, Run

David Schwimmer ushers in a second act of his career in his directorial debut Run, Fat Boy, Run, the London-set tale of a hapless security guard (Simon Pegg) trying to woo back the affections of the true […]

Interview: Kimberly Peirce, Stop-Loss

Stop-Loss Director Kimberly Peirce Tells America’s Story at the Crossroads of Honor and Personal Responsibility
It takes a particular kind of compassion as a filmmaker to engage us as writer/director Kimberly Peirce does with her fiercely independent characters striking out on society’s fringes.
In 1999’s Boys Don’t Cry, the true story of a hate crime […]

CHARLIZE THERON DOES A LITTLE “SLEEPWALKING”

By Bonnie Siegler
Even with a slight sore throat, Charlize Theron, looks every inch an A-list movie star. With all the confidence an Academy Award can give you, the former Oscar winner (2004’s “Monster”), enters The Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills looking beautiful and statuesque, her designer stilettos only accentuating her 5’ 91/2” […]

NAOMI WATTS JOINS IN ON “FUNNY GAMES”

By Bonnie Siegler
Naomi Watts hit commercial success when she portrayed a big ape’s obsession in the remake of “King Kong” in 2005. But the British native who was raised in Australia since the age of four, began her career in the Land Down Under in TV where she first appeared in commercials, then television […]

Interview: Chris Cooper and Ira Sachs, Married Life

Of Men, Matrimony and Murder: Chris Cooper and Ira Sachs on Married Life
The trouble with Harry Allen isn’t his stale Married Life to a longtime supportive wife, or his illicit fling with a vulnerable younger beauty, which plants seeds of murder in his otherwise mild-mannered mind.
As played by Oscar-winning Chris Cooper as a […]

Interview: Sean Faris, Never Back Down

Fighting the Good Fight, Sean Faris Comes of Age in Never Back Down
Good luck finding a more confident young actor than Sean Faris, the energetic new star of Never Back Down, a martial arts infused coming-of-age tale using an angry young man set-up to deconstruct, then rebuild the mind and heart of a teenager growing up […]

Independent Spirit Awards 2008

Though this year’s Oscars are getting a lot of buzz for nominations involving movies "no one’s seem", there are even more independent movies out there that some film buffs beliefve were worth and award or two. Good thing for them we’ve got the Independent Spirit Awards. Here’s a list of the winners this year. The awards ceremony was […]

Diane Lane Is “Untraceable”

By Bonnie Siegler
Diane Lane was a successful child actor who made her stage debut at age six in an off Broadway production of Euripides’ “Medea”. From there she went on to appear in a series of theater productions until 1979 when she moved from Broadway to the big screen as a young American girl […]