Interviews with big names and up-and-coming talent from the movie, television, music, and comedy worlds.
Interview: Samantha Weinstein, Sarah Gadon, & Alex Campbell of Siblings
Posted by: Mark McLeod • April 20, 2005 @ 12:00am
One of the smartest and strongest Canadian features to come from the 2004 Vancouver International Film Festival was director David Weaver's Siblings, a dark comedy about a group of kids and how they deal with the sudden and tragic death of their parents, which they inadvertently caused.
For his Academy Award-winning short film Ryan, Chris Landreth has been faced with more screenings, public appearances, and interviews than ever before.
Interview: Rob Stefaniuk, director/star of Phil the Alien
Posted by: Mark McLeod • March 11, 2005 @ 12:00am
I've said it before and I'm sure it won't be long until I say it again -- the months of January and Feburary are a depressing time to be involved with the film business. With the exception of one or two limited release holdovers that finally expand to Canadian cinemas, there is hardly anything worth seeing in the first two months of the year.
Interview: Don McKellar, writer, director, and co-star of Childstar
Posted by: Showbiz Monkeys • January 28, 2005 @ 7:46am
During a recent interview with Don McKellar, I had the privilege of talking to the multi-talented Canadian about his inspiration for Childstar, the acting process, and what it is like being fluid between acting, directing, and writing.
Interview: Wilby Wonderful director Daniel MacIvor
Posted by: Mark McLeod • October 10, 2004 @ 12:00am
As the film festival entered its second week and I entered about day five or six of minimal sleeping, I'd seen far too many movies, and the location at which I live began to seem a distant memory, I took a step back.
Interview: Carly Pope of Intern Academy
Posted by: Mark McLeod • September 10, 2004 @ 12:00am
Those of you who regularly read my coverage on film will know that first and foremost I think of myself as a film critic and secondly as a film journalist. Although I've been approached to do various interviews and have had the opportunity to sit down and talk with a number of actors, actresses, writers, and directors, it's not often that I feel inspired enough to do just that.
Director Kerry Conran's Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a look back at how people of the 1940s and 1950s saw the future through comic books, pulp novels, and serials of the era.
Interview: On the Corner director Nathaniel Geary and star JR Bourne
Posted by: Mark McLeod • June 19, 2004 @ 12:00am
2003 was a banner year for my career as a writer. The month was October and I had been in the middle of my first full fledged Film Festival experience, having only gone to the odd show a year earlier. There would be days when I'd see two or three films back to back with very little downtime and then spend the night covering a Hollywood feature.
Interview: Musician Ben Lee talks about his new movie, as well as his day job
Posted by: Mark McLeod • January 6, 2004 @ 10:42pm
It's funny how things work out sometimes. In October of 2002, I crossed paths with singer/songwriter Ben Lee at a sound check party for a Vanessa Carlton concert that I won tickets to from a local radio station.
Interview: Musician Rob Zombie, director of the new horror film House of 1000 Corpses
Posted by: Mark McLeod • April 1, 2003 @ 2:17am
Rob Zombie is without a doubt one of the biggest names in rock music. His band White Zombie dominated the rock charts in the early 1990s with their hits like "More Human Than Human" and "Thunderkiss 65", winning all sorts of MTV Award hardware.
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