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Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022
Alan Tudyk Brings "Discipline of Clowning" To "Resident Alien"
Alan Tudyk owes his teachers more than a few measly apples. In school, he received sound career guidance from those who recognized his nascent talent. The result: The world lost an aspiring hotel manager and gained a versatile supporting actor, now reborn as a leading man in "Resident Alien." Tudyk...
Friday, Aug. 5, 2022
Olivia Newman Shares Her Connection To Story For "Where the Crawdads Sing"
The latest entry in the feature filmography of director Olivia Newman is part coming-of-age tale, part murder mystery, part love story, part homage to nature’s beauty, part tribute to the human spirit, resiliency and the will to survive. This mix of genres is rooted in Delia Owens’ best-selling...
Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022
Melissa Barrera Extends Reach With Big and Small Screen Roles
Since her breakthrough role as Vanessa in the film adaptation of "In The Heights," Melissa Barrera has been working non-stop on the big and small screen. Only this year, she appeared in "Scream 5" and is filming a sequel, and stars in the upcoming Benjamin Millepied's reimagining of the opera "...
Tuesday, Jul. 19, 2022
Writer-Director Jordan Peele Reflects On Dreams and Nightmares of "Nope"
There's little in contemporary movies quite like the arrival of a new Jordan Peele film. They tend to descend ominously and mysteriously, a little like an unknown object from above that casts an expanding, darkening shadow the closer it comes. "Nope," the writer-director's third film, is nearly...
Thursday, Jul. 14, 2022
Jeremy Allen White Shares "Shameless" Lesson, Its Impact On His Starring Role In "The Bear"
The new FX series "The Bear," streaming on Hulu, did not qualify for an Emmy Award nomination this year but if its immediate success and popularity are an indicator, it could be a major contender next year. FX announced its season two pick-up on Thursday. Jeremy Allen White ("Shameless") stars as...
Thursday, Jun. 30, 2022
"Star Trek" Captains Sonequa Martin-Green, Kate Mulgrew Compare Notes
After light years in space, actors Sonequa Martin-Green and Kate Mulgrew are meeting up on Earth to compare "Star Trek" stories. Martin-Green, as Michael Burnham, is at the helm of "Star Trek: Discovery" which is headed for a fifth season. While Mulgrew was the first woman to lead a series on '90s...
Monday, Jun. 13, 2022
Brand Stand: Yelp CEO Says Advocacy For A Woman's Right To Choose Is A Risk Worth Taking
Many major companies have chosen to stay quiet on the abortion debate, but Yelp and its CEO Jeremy Stoppelman have chosen a different path. The San Francisco-based online reviews site is among the handful of companies covering travel costs for employees and their dependents who must travel out of...
Friday, Jun. 10, 2022
Director Colin Trevorrow Discusses The Mauling Metaphors Of "Jurassic World"
Questions about the dangers of human tampering with nature have been in the DNA of the "Jurassic Park" films from the start, but they've been given a workout in the "Jurassic World" trilogy. Under the stewardship of filmmaker Colin Trevorrow, who directed "Jurassic World" and the new "Jurassic...
Friday, Jun. 10, 2022
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Extends Storytelling Reach With "Ms. Marvel"
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, a two-time Best Short Subject Documentary Oscar winner, makes her directorial debut in narrative live-action fiction with two episodes of Ms. Marvel , a much anticipated series from Marvel Studios which launched this week on Disney+. A journalist, filmmaker and humanitarian,...
Wednesday, Jun. 1, 2022
Mark Rylance's Pandemic Tally: 6 Films
With London's stages closed for much of the pandemic, Mark Rylance — one of the theater's most soulful actors and a leading interpreter of Shakespeare — made six films. They span a wide gamut. A tech billionaire in Adam McKay's apocalypse satire "Don't Look Up." Satan in Terrence Malick's upcoming...