Interviews

In the new film Rebecca, Golden Globe-nominated Armie Hammer plays Maxim De Winter, a man best described as romantic, rich, prudish, sinister, and full of secrets. As the great-grandson of tycoon Armand Hammer, the 34-year-old Santa Monica born actor could logically have developed in a similar fashion.

Actress, filmmaker, and author Miranda July, has enjoyed an eclectic career, initially inspired by the Riot Grrrl Movement and her friendship with bands such as Bikini Kill, Excuse 17, and Heavens to Betsy. Often described as quirky, the material she gravitates towards has been compared to that of Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach, as evidenced in her movies, Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) and The Future (2011).

Before she agreed to this interview, she requested to avoid any family questions. Perhaps she is too tired for interviews that meander toward her grandfather, Charles Chaplin, her mother Geraldine Chaplin, or her grandfather, playwright Eugene O’Neill, or even her own father, a former cinematographer, the Chilean Patricio Castilla.

Most young boys dream of one day playing professional baseball, football or basketball. Not David Arquette.

On the screen he's blonde with piercing blue eyes, always dressed in his immaculate superhero suit in the colors of the American flag, defiant and arrogant behind the camera and smiling and charming in front of it. He's the perfect Homelander in The Boys and certainly one of the many reasons the show, created by Eric Kripke, has become a hit on Amazon.

Sex and the City and Younger creator Darren Star is back with another female-centric comedy, Emily in Paris which stars Lily Collins as a young confident Chicago marketing executive who is hired to provide her perspective at a marketing firm in Paris. Of course, her French counterparts are not the least impressed by what they see as her brash upfront ideas, so this particular American in Paris has to navigate her way in a new city and new culture.

Italian actress and icon Isabella Rossellini, 68, talks about her upcoming show, Sex and Consequences, a one-of-a-kind, 40-minute absurdist comedy about biodiversity and the multiple ways animals reproduce.   The show will be streaming live from her farm, 60 miles outside New York City, and will feature some of her favorite furry co-stars, including goats, dogs, and a temperamental chicken.

Lav Diaz, who is known to be an avid supporter of the slow cinema movement with his usually more than three-hour feature presentations, recently added a feather to his cap with his Orizzonti win for Best Director of his unusually “short” two-hour black-and-white film, Genus Pan (Lahi, Hayop) at the Venice International Film Festival. The movie follows the lives of three Filipino mine workers as well as exposing the corruption of government authorities and questioning the notion of humanity.

In the new supernatural series, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Oliver Jackson-Cohen not only has to navigate through the paranormal and the mystical, but he has to go toe-to-toe with other forces of nature: two adolescents, played by Amelie Bea Smith and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth. “I love working with kids,” laughs the 33-year-old London native, who reunites with the same creative team and cast from the 2018 series The Haunting of Hill House.

Frank Langella knows a thing or two about sucking the life out of an individual. You see, he played Dracula, the title character in John Badham’s 1979 darkly romantic horror film adaptation of the Bram Stoker vampire tale.