Known for his performances in such contemporary comedy classics as Knocked Up and Pineapple Express, Vancouver-born comedian/actor Seth Rogen goes for the funny bone in Observe & Report, but the laughs are uncomfortable ones in this black comedy. With Rogen says he tackled one of his most demanding roles of his career in Observe & Report, and came up on the right side of the law — chalking up another hit to list on his already impressive cinematic résumé.
Posts Tagged ‘DVD’
Interview: Hugh Jackman on
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Australian superstar Hugh Jackman returned to his X-Men roots as the iconic character of Wolverine/Logan for X-Men Origins: Wolverine. After the jump, Jackman (who also produced X-Men Origins) explains why he wanted more action in film than in the last X-Men picture, how he thought Wolverine had become a bit of a softie, and talks about the film’s love story and why the music of Godsmack is important in turning beastly. (Plus, this week in home video, all after the jump.)
Interview: Joshua Jackson
on Fringe
Canadian-born television and film veteran Joshua Jackson (Dawson’s Creek, The Skulls) has been entering homes weekly this past TV season as the star of the soon-to-return sci-fi hit Fringe.
In this chat, Jackson recalls the heatwave that hit his hometown of Vancouver during the Fringe filming season, jokes about having to attend DeVry University to make heads or tells of the fringe science unveiled on the show, and explains why characters Peter Bishop and Olivia Dunham are nothing like Fox Mulder and Dana Scully on The X-Files — a classic series to which Fringe has been compared to. Plus: this week on home video, all after the jump.
Interview: Jared Padelecki
on Supernatural
With equal doses of pitch-black dark humor and historically-based, skin-crawling tales of the paranormal, plus a few demons, angels, shape-shifters, vampires and Lucifer himself, thrown in for good measure, the fourth season of the Emmy-nominated Supernatural is the funniest, scariest season of the series so far.
Currently filming Season Five in Vancouver, the San Antonio, Texas-born Jared Padelecki (one half of Supernatural’s Winchester brothers team) took a little time away from vanquishing ghosts and summoning archangels to chat about fans’ undegarments, his own superstitions, the paranormal, and a certain species of godless killing machine. Plus: this week’s DVDs and BDs after the jump.
Interview: David Duchovny
on Californication
Teeming with edgy, in-your-face dialogue, controversial sex situations and tender family moments, Californication features David Duchovny (the former Agent Fox Mulder from the decade-long running series The X-Files) in the most hedonistic and narcissistic role of his career. “I don’t want people to judge it superficially or morally,” Duchovny says of Californication, the second season of which in now out on home video. “It’s not a show about a drug addict or a show about a sex addict or a show about all of these tags that you try to put on it because they’re spectacular or they might make good copy or they might enrage someone. I think it’s a comedy. It’s a human comedy. It’s an adult comedy. It’s not an adult acting like a six year old, which is what most comedies are like. It’s about an adult doing adult things.”
Check out Earl Dittman’s chat with Duchovny, and this week’s DVDs and Blu-rays, after the jump.
Interview: Perlman, Sagal
and Sutter on Sons of Anarchy
From the twisted, creative mind of Kurt Sutter (a staff writer and eventual executive producer on the critically acclaimed The Shield), Sons of Anarchy follows the love lives, the sexual appetites, the lethal rivalries and illegal activities of an international outlaw biker gang that rules the tiny town of Charming, California.
Ron Perlman plays the hot-tempered Clay, the club president of this branch of SOA, head of their gun-running business “Sam Crow,” and stepfather of Jax Teller (Charlie Hunnam), the pensive 20-something son of a former SOA founder who is being groomed to take over the club by his devious, ambitious mom, Gemma Teller (Katey Sagal). With Season Two of the Emmy-nominated show slated to air next month, the show’s creator, Kurt Sutter, his real-life wife and the actress behind Gemma (Katey Sagal) and veteran character Ron Perlman sat down to discuss their roles, how real bikers are reacting to a bloody and violent show about them, and the dynamics between the lead characters.
INTERVIEW: Paul Rudd & Jason Segel — The sequel
Becoming an instant box office smash when it was theatrically released in March, I Love You, Man — still one of the most original and smartest comedies released this year — arguably turned costars Paul Rudd and Jason Segel into the hottest new comedy team in motion pictures. If, for some crazy reason, you missed I Love You, Man when it was playing at your neighborhood multiplex, here is your opportunity to experience the bromance of the century in the privacy of your own home. In March, Paul Rudd and Jason Segel sat down for an exclusive chat with Earl Dittman to discuss the film (read it here).
With the release of the I Love You, Man on Blu-ray and DVD, may we now present our own extended version of the interview, containing questions deleted from the original chat. Consider it DRIVEN’s own Bonus Feature. Plus: this week in home video, after the jump.
Sincerely, John Hughes
A director whose films (and their associated catch-phrases) shaped the psyche on a couple of generations, left this world yesterday.
The reminiscing about John Hughes’ body of work — Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Home Alone, etc., etc. — and its impact will go on for quite a while.
However, it is hard to imagine a better tribute to the man himself than this blog post detailing the long and unusual correspondence he had with one teenage fan:
INTERVIEW: Downey, Jr. and Foxx on The Soloist
Based on the best-selling book of the same name, by Los Angeles Times journalist Steve Lopez , The Soloist stars two of the biggest actors on the planet in this true story of how Lopez (Robert Downey, Jr.) discovered that Nathaniel Ayers (Jamie Foxx), a homeless schizophrenic man who played violin on the streets of Los Angeles, was once a classical music prodigy. The Soloist chronicles Lopez’s attempts to help the troubled genius find his way back to the music world he loved so dearly.
In this exclusive interview the Oscar-winning Foxx and Academy Award-nominated Downey, the Hollywood heavyweights recall meeting their real-life counterparts for the first time, while Robert explains why he wanted to look inside Lopez’s closet and Foxx, discusses how and why he studied the physical and emotional aspects of Ayers, and how playing a schizophrenic almost drove the former Dreamgirls leading man insane. Plus: this week’s Blu-rays and DVDs, after the jump.
Interview: Katee Sackhoff on
Battlestar Galactica
In this exclusive talk with Earl Dittman, Battlestar Galactica’s Katee Sackhoff jokes about the contrast between her life and that of her tough cigar-smoking character, Kara “Starbuck” Thrace, sheds light on the difficulties of living in the shadow of a character that has been portrayed by someone else — who just happened to be male, in 1978’s original run of Battlestar — and explains how a sci-fi show sometimes feels like it’s not fiction at all. Plus: this week’s DVDs and Blu-rays, after the jump.
