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Interview with 'The Invisible War' director Kirby Dicknew

Q: The Invisible War premiered at Sundance last year, shortly after news broke on San Antonio's Lackland Air Force Base scandal.
San Antonio Current  |  Joy-Marie Scott  |  01-30-2013  |  Profiles & Interviews

A Q&A with director Sacha Gervasinew

For filmmaker Sacha Gervasi, reinvention has been both an inevitable professional trajectory and a personal test of will.
San Antonio Current  |  Jeff Meyers  |  12-05-2012  |  Profiles & Interviews

Martial arts way of life leads RZA to 'The Man with the Iron Fists'new

Introduced to Hollywood in the late '90s, RZA — Grammy-winning hip-hop MC/producer and co-founder of the Wu-Tang Clan — thought he would try something different when filmmaker Jim Jarmusch asked him to compose music for his new action-drama Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai. It was not a gig he thought would lead to anything.
San Antonio Current  |  Kiko Martínez  |  10-31-2012  |  Profiles & Interviews

The Horrornew

Mark Patton, star of Nightmare on Elm Street 2, on acting, horror and his 'scream queen' status.
The Pitch  |  Abbie Stutzer  |  10-12-2012  |  Profiles & Interviews

Mad About Madsennew

The actor opens up and dishes career, family turmoil and horse fucking.
Santa Fe Reporter  |  Enrique Limón  |  10-09-2012  |  Profiles & Interviews

Reality Show Fame and a Ride "So Pimpy, It's Disgusting"new

If you’ve ever wondered what happens to a guy who travels with his family in a Christian singing group as a child, grows up to host a local Saturday night horror program as a vampire Elvis (using an Eastern European accent learned from his immigrant grandparents), and turns his lifelong love of cars and motorcycles into a successful business, then you might tune into History Channel’s Counting Cars (Tuesdays, 10 p.m.), which starts filming its second season this fall.
Las Vegas Weekly  |  Kristen Peterson  |  09-25-2012  |  Profiles & Interviews

At age 80, multi-award winner Rita Moreno still vocal about challenges Latinas face in Hollywoodnew

Fifty years after actress Rita Moreno earned an Academy Award for her role as Anita del Carmen in West Side Story, the Puerto Rico-born performer is still the only Latina to ever win an Oscar in an acting category.
San Antonio Current  |  KIKO MARTÍNEZ  |  09-20-2012  |  Profiles & Interviews

The Unchained Tour's Peter Aguero talks about life on the busnew

It took only three days for the 1972 Blue Bird school bus to break down on the Unchained Tour's last jaunt in February. The vehicle, which transports a cluster of kooky storytellers and musicians to venues around the South, still had a ways to go. While most of the performers went ahead in a van, the bus perpetually lagged behind the rest of the day.
Charleston City Paper  |  Susan Cohen  |  09-19-2012  |  Profiles & Interviews

According to Ira Glass, Making Movies Isn't So Funnew

A conversation with Ira Glass about Sleepwalk With Me.
Charleston City Paper  |  Susan Cohen  |  09-13-2012  |  Profiles & Interviews

Actor Thomas Haden Church can't blame much on squirm-worthy Killer Joenew

Academy Award-nominated actor Thomas Haden Church (Sideways) doesn’t think violence in films should be held responsible for violent things that happen in real life.
San Antonio Current  |  KikO MARTÍNEZ  |  08-23-2012  |  Profiles & Interviews

Matthew McConaughey dressed more likely to impressnew

It might be a tired subject, but there's a running joke in Hollywood that actor Matthew McConaughey is allergic to shirts.
San Antonio Current  |  KikO MARTÍNEZ  |  08-23-2012  |  Profiles & Interviews

Director Bart Layton confronts "The Chameleon"new

Getting to the truth wasn't going to come easy for director Bart Layton. He knew this even before he turned on the video camera and gave serial imposter Frédéric Bourdin a platform to do what he does best.
San Antonio Current  |  Kiki Martinez  |  08-16-2012  |  Profiles & Interviews

Spiel Time with Bill Mahernew

"My audience is the first to tell me if they think something is out of line."
Colorado Springs Independent  |  Bill Forman  |  07-18-2012  |  Profiles & Interviews

Baha'i Five!new

The Office's Rainn Wilson talks adobe, oppression and Oprah.
Santa Fe Reporter  |  Enrique Limon  |  07-12-2012  |  Profiles & Interviews

Director Patricia Riggen: rebellious teen to Latina filmmakernew

After introducing herself to audiences in 2007 with the heartwarming drama Under the Same Moon (La misma luna), director Patricia Riggen, 41, returns to the big screen with a coming-of-age film about the conflict between a rebellious teenage daughter and her mother in Girl in Progress.
San Antonio Current  |  Kiko Martínez  |  05-11-2012  |  Profiles & Interviews

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