Interviews

Kevin has a chat with independent film star Tanna Frederick about her new film, Henry Jaglom’s Irene in Time

Judging by their output for Star Trek, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and The Proposal all in one summer, it seems like screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman don’t sleep. And they won’t get to anytime soon. We caught them not napping in order to ask them about writing for Michael Bay and their upcoming Cowboys and Aliens.

Tommy Wirkola sat down with us to talk about his much buzzed about Nazi zombie opus.

There aren’t many chances that you get to watch an artist progress in front of your eyes. How many of us would love to see David Fincher’s first productions in a festival? We get that chance with Lena Dunham’s Creative NonFiction, which was selected for screening at SXSW as part of the fest’s Emerging Visions category.

We sat down with rising star Ed Helms to talk about his role in The Hangover, the upcoming The Goods, and to confirm that Andy from “The Office” isn’t pregnant.

Keavin Eastman sits down with our very own Adam Sweeney to discuss sharing the Ninja Turtles with his own son, geek out a bit about Casey Jones, and gives us a stellar update about the Heavy Metal adaptation he’s producing.

We sat down with Nia Vardalos at a roundtable interview for My Life in Ruins, her first film in five years.

The director of The Hangover talks Old School-style R-rated comedy, sugar-coated semen, and several other things I could hyphenate if I wanted.

FSR chats with the ‘Pontypool’ director about his unique, extremely entertaining zombie movie, currently in limited release and available for purchase in living rooms nationwide through IFC On Demand.

Ivan Drago himself was nice enough to give us a few minutes, calling in from the set of The Expendables to talk about his new movie Direct Contact and his love of making action flicks.

The Visual FX Supervisor for Terminator Salvation gave us some of his time to discuss the concepts behind creating the world after the bombs fell.

Up director Pete Docter and his producer Jonas Rivera visit the University of Cincinnati to talk about the latest film from Disney/Pixar.

The star of The Hangover sits down with FSR’s cameras to discuss the finer points of waking up with a tiger in your bathroom, the blunter points of growing up, and the pointier points of being cast as Green Lantern.

We interviewed Sasha Grey for her role in The Girlfriend Experience, a role that’s causing people to shout her cultural importance from the rooftops. Is she changing the face of cinema, or are we celebrating too soon?

Kevin Carr sits in the interrogation room with William Sanderson, aka Sheriff Bud Dearborne from HBO’s monster hit True Blood

Born and raised in Austin, Texas, the charming and incredibly talented Christina Murphy took some time to chat with FSR about her humble beginnings, the Wayans family army and why she can’t get cast as the good girl in spite of her down to Earth personality.

Film School Rejects chats with ‘The Brothers Bloom’ director about his love for con man stories, his unique stylistic vision and working with a cast full of famous people, on a big scale, in Eastern Europe.

Seasoned filmmaker Kevin Reynolds talks with us about the magic moments of filmmaking, advises aspiring filmmakers to be hobos for a while, and tries to unravel his dedication to Kevin Costner.

Screenwriter Mark Boal and director Kathryn Bigelow share the methods they used to create an intense, heartfelt combat film. We talk camera angles, mistaken journalists, and cleaning the dust off after coming in from the desert.

Robert Fure wraps up his trifecta of Trek interviews with a chat with Bruce Greenwood, the new Captain Christopher Pike.