 | | 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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|  | | Essential Director: Kathryn Bigelow | | | While Kathryn Bigelow’s star has shot to prominence since her film The Hurt Locker fell from the rafters to snare the director an Oscar for best picture in March this year (the film won six in all), it’s probably fair to say that the tens of thousands of illegal... more |
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 | | Drawn Together | | | .: Interview with THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG's John Lasseter :. JOHN LASSETER—co-founder of Pixar, the history-making computer animation studio; chief creative officer of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios; and also the principal creative advisor to Walt Disney... more |
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|  | | Scorsese's Island | | | Master filmmaker MARTIN SCORSESE brings Dennis Lahane’s thriller SHUTTER ISLAND to the screen. What was it about Dennis Lehane’s book, Shutter Island, that inspired you to make this movie? MARTIN SCORSESE: I actually read the script first, and then read... more |
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 | | Twice Bitten | | | True Blood: Season 2 Special Three of the stars from the sexy southern vampire TV series True Blood - ANNA PAQUIN, STEPHEN MOYER and MICHELLE FORBES - each open up to STACK this month about their roles in Season 2.
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|  | | Downey Does Doyle | | | The star of Iron Man 2 takes on the role of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s iconic super sleuth in Guy Ritchie’s action packed interpretation of SHERLOCK HOLMES. How did this Sherlock Holmes movie come to be? ROBERT DOWNEY JR.: I’ll make this quick. A hundred and... more |
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 | | Highway to Hell | | | Star of The Road Viggo Mortensen shares his kit bag with STACK... VIGGO MORTENSEN is one of the few The Lord of the Rings stars to really prosper in the trilogy’s aftermath, earning an Oscar nomination for his role in David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises. He... more |
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|  | | Blue Movie | | | Avatar Special How James Cameron created a fictional world that has changed the real one we live in.
I’m the king of the world!” declared director James Cameron at the 70th Annual Academy Awards ceremony... more |
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 | | Avatar Star Q+A | | | Avatar Special Interview with Avatar star SAM WORTHINGTON (Jake Sully)
Can you discuss working with the new technology pioneered on this film?
SAM WORTHINGTON: We were working with... more |
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|  | | Avatar Star Q+A | | | Avatar Special Interview with Avatar star ZOE SALDANA (Neytiri)
What kind of training did you do?
ZOE SALDANA: We did archery and movement. We worked with an amazing choreographer... more |
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