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.
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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.
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It’s been quite a year for Australian actor Eric Bana. After two show-stopping performances this summer (the first as Star Trek’s Romulan villain, Nero, the second opposite Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen in the dark stand-up comedy comedy Funny People), the Melbourne-native is playing the leading man (opposite Canadian beauty Rachel McAdams) in the sensational big-screen love story The Time Traveler’s Wife.
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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.
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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.
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We do aspire to have a strong enough sense of cool in the Hot Issue: Witness our travelogue through the slush fun(d) that can currently be found in Iceland (“Reykjavik’s progress,” pp50-52), as well as the following web-exclusive interview set in the southern antipode of Antarctica. What’s hotter than Kate Beckinsale kicking high-concept action ass in leather (Van Helsing, the Underworld series)? Clearly, it’s Kate Beckinsale kicking high-concept action ass in leather with fur on top — for the late-summer action thriller, Whiteout.
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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.
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Golden Globe-nominee Wentworth Miller (shown right), the 37-year-old actor who became an overnight sensation and instant sex symbol for portraying the clever and hunky Michael Scofield, gives his last performance of the series in Prison Break: The Final Break. Required to keep most of the two-hour film’s storylines and plot twists close to the vest, Miller (a British-born, Brooklyn native) chooses to reminisce about the four seasons he spent playing Michael Scofield on the hit series.
In this interview with Earl Dittman, the personable and witty Miller (a Princeton grad and a veteran of Buffy, The Vampire Slayer) recalls some of the stranger fan encounters he experienced over the years as Michael, reveals how many packs of cigarettes a prisoner can get for a 8 X 10 of him, why he tries not to pick his nose in public and if being the series’ leading man helped him out with ladies at all. Plus this week’s DVDs and Blu-rays, all after the jump.
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With the first episode of Season Two premiering this week, there’s just enough time for fans of Leverage (the action-filled hit series about a Robin Hood-like team of professional thieves and con artists that devise elaborate schemes to steal from the corrupt rich in order to give millions of dollars they recover back to the bad guys’ victims) to catch up on the do-good crew’s swindling, double-crossing antics and cons from Season One.
On the eve of Season Two, Timothy Hutton talks with Earl Dittman about what he believes made Season One successful. He also explains why an Oscar-winning actor like himself doesn’t mind working on the small screen, confesses if he ever wanted to take revenge on someone in his personal life, and reveals what Leverage aficionados can expect from the upcoming season. Plus: this week’s DVDs and Blu-rays after the jump.
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For her first major big screen outing I Love You, Beth Cooper, Hayden Panettiere (the romantic comedy’s stunning leading lady), was required to dust off her pom-poms to play another high school cheerleader. “I think I’m just going to start putting it in my contract that I refuse to wear a cheerleading outfit for the rest of my career,” the Save the cheerleader, save the world girl from the hit TV series Heroes says with laugh. “But, luckily, in this film, I only had to put it on once for a picture, but that was it.”
In this chat with Earl Dittman, Panettiere describes experiencing high school for the first time, sheds light on the future of her character on Heroes, and explains why everything you’ve heard about her probably isn’t true.
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