Interviews

The idea of a small-screen update on the Addams Family never seemed like a surefire bet, despite the property’s name recognition. But Wednesday, focusing on the kooky brood’s morbid and emotionally constipated teenager, was an out-of-the-gate hit for Netflix when it premiered in November 2022. Within several weeks it was the streamer’s second-most watched English-language…

As societies around the world grapple with lurches toward authoritarianism and struggle with the wide-scale spread and embrace of disinformation, stories that unpack social unrest against the backdrop of sprawling political canvases gain greater and greater resonance. Witness Netflix’s Zero Day, a limited event series starring Robert De Niro. In some respects, the six-episode political…

Elton John has lived it all. Over the course of a career spanning an incredible seven decades, the venerable British pop-rock singer has sold more than 300 million albums, been inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility in 1994, and racked up an incredible 35 Grammy nominations….

We had the absolute honour of hosting an interview with Ryan Reynolds as he reflects on Deadpool & Wolverine’s creation and box-office success. If “Barbenheimer” was last year’s exhibition-assisting superhero duo of note, this year it was Deadpool & Wolverine. The bawdy movie — the third in the Ryan Reynolds-fronted comic book franchise, but his…

It’s been a couple years now since Gabriel LaBelle made his starring-role debut in Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical The Fabelmans, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards and five Golden Globes, winning two of the latter. Delicately poised between frustrated adolescence and ambitious, champing-at-the-bit young adulthood, it was a performance that marked LaBelle as an emerging…

Directed by Richard Linklater, from a script adapted by the award-winning filmmaker and star Glen Powell, Hit Man was one of the best movies to land at the Venice Film Festival last year — and certainly the most purely enjoyable. Nine months later, it’s on Netflix, even as its banter and goosing, crowd-pleasing scenes cry…

American-born superheroes have dominated the worldwide box office — especially recently, most notably in the form of the sprawling Marvel Cinematic Universe. But of course, Batman, Superman and their well-known cohorts don’t have a monopoly on the superhero genre. One of the most popular and top-selling characters in Asia, and indeed the entire world, is…

Jackass star Steve-O is currently on tour here in the UK and has revealed what his next big stunt will be and it’s certainly one of his craziest yet! The Bucket List Tour is fully underway in the UK right now with the live London special being shot this week. The tour has been a…

The Cast of New Star Wars Series The Acolyte Talk About Their Show in these The Acolyte cast interviews at Star Wars Celebration. The Skywalker saga may have come to a close (for better or arguably worse) with 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. But as even the most casual or lapsed fan of the…

Director Robert Eggers sits down with Brent Simon and talks about The Northman. Writer-director Robert Eggers burst onto the scene in 2015, with the release of The Witch, which was snapped up for distribution by A24 Films following its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, and went on to gross over $40 million during…

Mark Wahlberg opens up about his passion project Father Stu speaking to Brent Simon. Enjoy this Father Stu Interview. So-called faith-based movies have carved out their own lucrative sub-genre in no small measure by catering to an audience’s desire to see characters and stories which not only reflect but actively venerate their own offscreen life…

To celebrate the release of the violent new “class war” Welsh thriller Concrete Planson on 23rd November we spoke to legendary UK composer Paul Hartnoll of Orbital who scored the film. Orbital were pioneers in the dance music scene from the late 80s with many now-classic albums and songs to their name and a huge…