For Tobey Maguire, it was a 10-year-journey to get his drama about chess player Bobby Fischer on the big screen. After false starts, he finally secured enough financing for the $16 million picture, “Pawn Sacrifice,” which premieres at Toronto on Thursday night. Director Edward Zwick shot the film in 40 days in Montreal last fall. Tobey […]
Cake (2014): Interview with Jennifer Aniston
September 8, 2014 by
Jennifer Aniston says her performance in new drama “Cake” was physically and emotionally tough, but it was “beyond a dream role.” Co-starring Anna Kendrick and Sam Worthington, the indie drama finds the actress playing a character who is in massive chronic pain, who’s addicted to pills and booze and who has alienated everyone in her […]
Rosewater: Jon Stewart on his Feature Debut
August 28, 2014 by
I don’t think that Jon Stewart felt responsible for my arrest, but I think he felt personally invested in the story because his name came up in a dark interrogation room in a prison in Iran–Maziar Bahari
If I Stay: Director J. T. Cutler
August 21, 2014 by
When I read the Gail Forman book, I was moved in a way that I didn’t understand — it is the darkest of fairy tales in losing our parents.
Foxcatcher: Interview with Steve Carell
July 23, 2014 by
I don’t see him as a monster. I see him as someone who did something terrible, suffering from mental illness. He was a very sad, damaged human being–Carell
