 | | Life in the Lloyd Lane |  | STACK’s resident Entourage fans Paul Jones and Scott Hocking catch up with Ari Gold’s long suffering assistant Lloyd – aka REX LEE. Rex Lee has been fascinated by Australia for a long time. This is his first visit Down Under and within five hours of landing... more |
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|  | | Date Night | | | Despite its title, director SHAWN LEVY explains why his latest film is no romantic comedy. Who do you think is the audience for Date Night? SHAWN LEVY: Well I didn’t make the movie for young boys. I have made a lot of movies for younger viewers and so... more |
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 | | Titan-ic | | | It's all Greek to French director Louis Leterrier, helming the big budget update of the 1981 fantasy adventure CLASH OF THE TITANS. Can you talk about the scope and scale of Clash of the Titans and what drew you to the project? LOUIS LETERRIER: It’s the biggest... more |
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|  | | Kicking Ass | | | Director MATTHEW VAUGHN explains why his violent comic book action film KICK-ASS is not recommended for kids. A lot of people have had very visceral responses to the film and family groups have been quite negative... MATTHEW VAUGHN: There’s a clue to what this... more |
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 | | Hit Girl | | | .: Interview with KICK-ASS' Hit Girl, Chloe Moretz :. Is it strange making a film that in the UK you wouldn’t be allowed to see? CHLOE MORETZ: Well in America I wouldn’t be allowed to see it because my mom and my parents only let me see PG-13 movies. So if... more |
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|  | | The Descent | | | Teenage actor Harrison Gilbertson makes the journey from boy to man in the Aussie war story BENEATH HILL 60. Your character’s quite integral to the film — how did you feel about landing the role? HARRISON GILBERTSON: It was a really exciting script to read.... more |
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 | | Essential Director: KEVIN SMITH | | | If you were in the real estate market, the less than princely sum of $27, 575 wouldn’t buy you much more than an outside toilet. Yet somehow 39-year-old director Kevin Smith managed to parlay the amount into a multi-million dollar, 15 year (and counting) career in... more |
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|  | | Forever is a long time | | | ARJ BARKER on fame, shopping and why his face will not appear on the cover of his next DVD. Arj Barker is a busy man. Today he’s just finished a photo shoot, tomorrow he’s flying to Europe for the Edinburgh Comedy Festival via Amsterdam and Ireland. He’s also just... more |
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 | | Genre Spotlight: Greece is the word! | | | No matter what you like, chances are the Greeks invented it. While US swimmer Michael Phelps’s infamous bong smoking incident, Ian Thorp’s sexuality, and Russian women with voices deeper than a leaking BP oil well have all been hot conversation topics for Olympic... more |
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|  | | Redemption Song | | | Four-time Academy Award nominee Jeff Bridges finally gets the Oscar win he deserves, for CRAZY HEART. Few actors can inhabit the prosaic surrounds of a tenpin bowling alley with the same intrigue as Jeff Bridges. He did so through the extended shenanigans of The Big... more |
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 | | Alice in Wonderland | | | Veteran producer Richard D. Zanuck promises that Tim Burton’s new film will instill a sense of wonder in viewers of all ages. You must be hoping that Alice in Wonderland will achieve classic status? RICHARD D. ZANUCK: It is a very good picture. It’s Tim Burton,... more |
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|  | | Lethal Weapon | | | Following a spell away from acting, MEL GIBSON returns to the screen in EDGE OF DARKNESS, playing a cop driven to the brink, as he searches for his daughter’s killer. The Hollywood superstar talks about his attraction to this challenging role. Mel, you took a long... more |
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 | | Genre Spotlight: Real Life Criminals on Film | | | ... Telling the truth can be a dirty business. On August 22nd, 1972, John Wojtowicz walked into the Brooklyn branch of the Chase Manhattan bank in New York with a pre-operative transsexual accomplice, and commenced a 14 hour siege that led to him becoming a media... more |
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|  | | It's Love Actually | | | Directed by Hollywood veteran Garry Marshall, VALENTINE’S DAY explores love in all its facets on the one day a year dedicated to the art of expressing it. On set in L.A., Marshall and the star studded cast explain further. It is a picture postcard setting this... more |
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 | | The Butler Did It | | | From legendary Spartan warrrior in 300, to his latest action-comedy gambit The Bounty Hunter. If versatility was a crime, GERARD BUTLER is guilty as charged. Please give us a brief outline of the story in Bounty Hunter… GERARD BUTLER: I play a former... more |
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|  | | Essential Director: Luc Besson | | | Beefy 51-year-old French director Luc Besson’s formative years read much like the script of a Wes Anderson film. Both his parents worked as diving instructors for Club Med – so Besson grew up a nomad moving between European resorts, developing a solitary interest... more |
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 | | Emerald City | | | Director Paul Greengrass reunites with Matt Damon for GREEN ZONE. What did you set out to achieve with Green Zone? PAUL GREENGRASS: To make a big thriller set in Iraq. And as a filmmaker, your primal responsibility is always to tell stories that people... more |
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|  | | Underbelly: The Golden Mile | | | Despite controversy, producer Des Monaghan remains calm. The NSW State Government might’ve been criticised for their sponsorship of Underbelly: The Golden Mile’s DVD launch, at former gangster John Ibrahim’s Kings Cross nightclub last month. The show might even have... more |
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 | | Bombs Away | | | A deadly signature of the war in Iraq is the large number of unexploded roadside bombs. THE HURT LOCKER looks at the men who put their lives at risk to defuse them, and the adrenaline rush that comes with the job. Kathryn Bigelow’s blistering war film The Hurt Locker... more |
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|  | | Diamond in the Rough | | | Interview with LEE DANIELS, Director of PRECIOUS LEE DANIELS began his career in entertainment as a manager representing a talent pool that included several Academy Award nominees and winners. Monster’s Ball, the first production by Lee Daniels Entertainment, was... more |
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