Interviews

Supernatural and real-life terror are two of the tense horror themes explored in Prime Video’s twisted and tense drama Them. The first season of the limited anthology is set in 1953 and follows the story of a Black family as they move from North Carolina to an all-White suburb of Los Angeles.

Growing up as a fifth-generation cattle farmer on a ranch outside Warwick, a small town in southeast Queensland, Australia (about 130 kilometers southwest of Brisbane,) Chris Mauch always wanted to be in a western. So, like any resourceful man, he decided once he got older to make one on his own.

In 2012, Olivia Cooke appeared in the One Direction “Autumn Term” tour video, playing a student who gets a piggyback ride from Harry Styles. One might think the then 19-year-old would have received a lot of street cred for her role, but the actress says none of her friends even knew who the band was at the time.

Academy award-nominated screenwriter, director, producer and actor, Josh Lawson, stars as a rogue mercenary, Kano, in the upcoming film, Mortal Kombat.   He plays opposite Lewis Tan who portrays Cole Young, a young MMA fighter who embarks on a journey to unlock his supernatural abilities to save his family and stop the evil powers of the Outworld.

Emerging filmmaker and screenwriter Joe Raffa is fast becoming known for character-driven storytelling with a penchant for exploring the dark corners of the human psyche. Born in Philadelphia and raised in New Jersey to Italian parents, Joe discovered his passion for storytelling at a young age.

From The Killing and House of Cards to Altered Carbon and Suicide Squad, Joel Kinnaman has notched up an array of prolific roles in movies and television. Most recently, the Swedish-born actor can be seen in Apple TV+’s alternate timeline drama For All Mankind, in which he plays an astronaut named Edward Baldwin.

Keeley Hawes is best known for her role in the Golden Globe-nominated thriller Bodyguard, but the versatility of the British icon is demonstrated by a long list of acting credits. On the small screen, Hawes most recently appeared in the HBO Max drama It’s A Sin – but other notable television projects include The Durrells, Mrs.

While cities like London, New York, Nashville, Detroit, and Los Angeles can easily be identified as centers of musical influence, there was no place like Minneapolis in the 1980s. The Minnesota metropolis became the capital of funk, due largely to the purple man himself.

Some may remember British actress Vanessa Kirby, 32, as Princess Margaret in the first two seasons of the TV series The Crown, or as black market arms dealer White Widow in Mission: Impossible-Fallout, with Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt. This year she received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress in a Drama from the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for her performance in Pieces of a Woman, by Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó, a role which had already earned her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at last year’s Venice Film Festival.

Hannah John-Kamen is no stranger to dystopian drama. Audiences have watched the British actor tackle lead roles in television shows including Black Mirror and Brave New World, as well as big-screen endeavors in movies such as Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the Steven Spielberg-directed Ready Player One.