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Jim Carrey is of course known as one of the funniest people on the planet. He first came to fame doing nutty features like Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and The Mask. In recent years he has really expanded his repertoire with movies such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Lemony Snicket's A...

Up until this time last time Felicity Huffman was known as a brilliant working TV, film and stage actor but hadnt yet reached mainstream. All that changed when Desperate Housewives premiered last year and became a national phenomenon....

Jack Black is about ready to pop as a major movie star. He of course has his previous hit School of Rock but the release of Peter Jacksons reinterpretation of King Kong should send Black into the stratosphere. Black has nearly as much screen time as Academy Award nominee Naomi Watts...

As a horror nut I first discovered Peter Jackson when Dead Alive was released on VHS tape back in the early 90s. After viewing that first film I knew Jackson was destined to become one of the great filmmakers. I immediately saw his other works such as the Oscar nominated Heavenly Creatures and Meet...

Adam Goldberg usually plays slightly neurotic, manic Jewey characters. So it was interesting to find out that in person hes very neurotic, slightly manic and not as Jewey as I thought....

Rob Marshall could have done any movie with any big movie star after directing the blockbuster Academy Award winning movie musical Chicago. Instead he went the other direction and directed the adaptation of the best selling novel Memoirs of a Geisha which was in limbo after Steven Spielberg decided...

As a young boy growing up in New Zealand Andrew Adamson read all six books in C.S. Lewis Chronicles of Narnia and said to himself I will make a movie of this someday. Unlike the millions of children who thought that, Adamson has made that dream real. After co-directing both Shrek films to monstrous...

Reuben Wu and (Bulgarian born) Mira Aroyo from the UK band Ladytron have been on a DJ tour in support of their newest album, Witching Hour (2005, Ryko/Universal). I called the very hip Jupiter Hotel in Portland to speak with them before a recent gig. When I asked the operator for Reuben Wu, in true...

Bear vs. Shark is fairly new kickass band from Equal Vision records. It is made up of Marc Paffi, Derek Kiesgen, Mike Muldoon, John Gaviglio and Ashley Horak. I got a chance to talk with bassist John Gaviglio about their new album Terrorhawk....

Tommy Ramone and I were originally just supposed to chat about the DVD release of the documentary Punk: Attitude but we ended up chatting about a myriad of recent and future Ramones related issues...

Craig Clevenger made a lot of the waves in the weird book genre with his first novel, The Contortionists Handbook. That book has developed a cult following and is being developed into a film by Donnie Darko creator Richard Kelly...

Penelope Spheeris made her bones flitting back and forth between big budget studio comedies such as Waynes World and Black Sheep to edgy independent documentaries, The Decline of Western Civilization series. Her latest film is The Kid & I, a low budget comedy written by and starring Tom Arnold. Arnold...