Interviews with big names and up-and-coming talent from the movie, television, music, and comedy worlds.
TIFF Interviews: Canadian Directors Deborah Chow, Katrin Bowen, and Ingrid Veninger
Posted by: Elizabeth Hughes Belzil • September 26, 2010 @ 7:58pm
During the final days of this year's Toronto International Film Festival, I had the opportunity to speak to three Canadian women, all at the festival promoting their feature directorial debuts: Deborah Chow (winner of the Skyy Vodka Award for Best First Feature by a Canadian Director), Katrin Bowen, and Ingrid Veninger.
Interview: Victor Webster, star of Heart of a Dragon, the new film inspired by Rick Hansen's journey
Posted by: Mark McLeod • September 13, 2010 @ 8:44pm
Canadian actor Victor Webster has been quite busy in the dozen years or so he's been in the business.
Interview: Leverage's Christian Kane shows off his musical side in tonight's episode of the TNT hit
Posted by: Mark McLeod • July 18, 2010 @ 2:38pm
After recurring roles on Angel and Close to Home, Christian Kane now finds himself as one of the stars of the TNT hit Leverage, playing Eliot Spencer, the highly-skilled muscle of the con team lead by Timothy Hutton's Nathan Ford.
DJ Qualls first caught our attention a decade ago, in the ridiculous Todd Phillips comedy, Road Trip, and has been a staple in film and television since then.
Interview: Matt Walsh of Spike TV's Players and the Upright Citizen's Brigade
Posted by: Paul Little • June 29, 2010 @ 6:44pm
Matt Walsh has been a staple of the comedy scene for over a decade, appearing in countless television shows and movies such as The Daily Show, Dog Bites Man, Old School, Role Models, and The Hangover.
Interview: Director Jorma Taccone on his upcoming action-comedy MacGruber
Posted by: Paul Little • April 23, 2010 @ 3:09am
If you're a regular viewer of Saturday Night Live, you're likely well aware of the recurring MacGruber sketches, which feature Will Forte as a ridiculous MacGyver-esque hero who always ends up getting blown up.
Interview: Jay Baruchel of How to Train Your Dragon and the upcoming The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Posted by: Mark McLeod • April 9, 2010 @ 3:13am
Jay Baruchel, like many young Canadian actors, got an early taste of showbiz on the 90s Nickelodeon/YTV series Are You Afraid of the Dark?, which partially filmed in his hometown of Montreal.
Interview: Breaking Upwards' Daryl Wein & Zoe Lister-Jones
Posted by: Elizabeth Hughes Belzil • April 2, 2010 @ 2:16am
It had been ages since I had experienced true agitation: hands slick with perspiration, hollowed-out insides, shortness of breath, compulsive pacing. But this was the state I found myself in last Tuesday afternoon as I waited by the phone, reading and rereading my notes. I felt like I was about to perform a play with an unfinished script.
Interview: Multi-talented Toronto singer/songwriter Emm Gryner
Posted by: Paul Little • March 30, 2010 @ 12:47pm
Emm Gryner has a career that most people who choose a life in the arts would dream of.
Interview: Psych creator Steve Franks on the season four finale, next season, and putting the show together
Posted by: Paul Little • March 10, 2010 @ 6:47am
A little over a week ago, I posted some Psych scoop on the heels of speaking with Steve Franks, the show's creator, writer, and executive producer. Well, that interview with Mr.
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