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Entries by Dan Persons from 02/2013

Mighty Movie Podcast: Nick Kroll on Kroll Show

| Posted 02.01.2013

Comedy Central has gathered together Bobby Bottleservice, Fabrice Fabrice, Aspen Bruckheimer, plus a whole spectrum of new characters, and found them safe lodgings in the brand new Kroll Show.

Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast: Warm Bodies

| Posted 02.04.2013

Warm Bodies takes a good deal of its commercial instincts from The Twilight Saga, but director Jonathan Levine instills the narrative with credible drama and lots of effective humor to make this a dark romantic fantasy suited for more than just the teen audience.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's Armin Shimerman: The CFQ Interview

| Posted 02.07.2013

It's not often an actor gets to redeem an entire species, but that's what Armin Shimerman did when he took on the role of Quark, the amenable but emin...

Mighty Movie Podcast: Pablo Larrain on No

| Posted 02.10.2013

No, director Pablo Larrain's slightly fictionalized account of anti-Pinochet's "No" campaign, was enough to net Chile its very first Oscar nomination in the foreign language category, and I was able to get some time with Larrain to discuss the project.

Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast: The Birds

| Posted 02.11.2013

With no new genre release in the theaters, the Spotlight gang takes a 50th anniversary look at Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 classic of nature in revolt (and psycho-sexual tension), The Birds.

Starship Troopers' Casper Van Dien: The CFQ Interview

| Posted 02.13.2013

Check his IMDB listing, you'll discover Casper Van Dien has a full, rich career, including key roles in SLEEPY HOLLOW and MONK. But if you're a genre ...

Mighty Movie Podcast: Fred Stoller on Fred & Vinnie

| Posted 02.17.2013

In Fred & Vinnie, comedian and actor Fred Stoller brings amiable, agoraphobic friend Vinnie into his home, and discovers the man's passive-aggressive demeanor and obsessive-compulsive behavior doesn't quite sync with the responsibilities of a show-business professional.

Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast: Beautiful Creatures

| Posted 02.18.2013

The writer and director here is Richard LaGravenese, raising the question: Can the man who was an Oscar nominee for The Fisher King and has garnered praise for his screenplays for A Little Princess and Beloved, among others, bring a similar intelligence to a teen-oriented romance?

Dark Skies' J.K. Simmons: The CFQ Interview

| Posted 02.21.2013

It takes some kind of actor to take the role of a Nazi sadist and make it more than just a broad caricature. And it's no mean feat to then become the flesh-and-blood incarnation of one of comics' most notorious egotists and turn him into a person you might consider hanging out with.

Mighty Movie's Temple of Bad: Mac and Me

| Posted 02.24.2013

Sit back, unwrap your Big Mac, pour a nice, hearty bowl of Skittles, open up a can of Coca-Cola, keep a roll of Brawny paper towels handy, shut off your Sears power tools, and join Andrea Lipinski, Kevin Lauderdale, and I as we tackle one of cinema's true monuments of awfulness.

Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast: Dark Skies

| Posted 02.25.2013

If there's one thing we know about a Blumhouse film, it's that they are convinced the American family just isn't safe at home. In the case of Dark Skies, the entities bedeviling a married couple and their two young sons aren't restless spirits, but malevolent aliens.

Hellraiser's Ashley Laurence: The CFQ Interview

| Posted 02.28.2013

It's not easy playing the ingénue in the psycho-sexual farrago that is Clive Barker's Hellraiser. Ashley Laurence pulled it off, and established herself as a supreme scream queen.