Interviews with big names and up-and-coming talent from the movie, television, music, and comedy worlds.
Interview: Heart of a Dragon director Michael French
Posted by: Mark McLeod • October 26, 2010 @ 2:09am
If you live in British Columbia or throughout Canada, you may not know the name Michael French, but you should know the name Rick Hansen and his Man in Motion tour, which captured international media attention in the 1980s when the paraplegic athelete wheeled around the world to gain awareness for spinal cord research.
For Vancouverites, the name Jim Byrnes is synonymous with two things: television and music.
Interview: Waiting for 'Superman' director Davis Guggenheim
Posted by: Mark McLeod • October 15, 2010 @ 11:02am
Davis Guggenheim didn't start out intending to make documentaries, even though his father Charles had directed many during his career.
TIFF Interviews: Canadian Directors Deborah Chow, Katrin Bowen, and Ingrid Veninger
Posted by: Elizabeth Hughes Belzil • September 26, 2010 @ 7:58pm
During the final days of this year's Toronto International Film Festival, I had the opportunity to speak to three Canadian women, all at the festival promoting their feature directorial debuts: Deborah Chow (winner of the Skyy Vodka Award for Best First Feature by a Canadian Director), Katrin Bowen, and Ingrid Veninger.
Interview: Victor Webster, star of Heart of a Dragon, the new film inspired by Rick Hansen's journey
Posted by: Mark McLeod • September 13, 2010 @ 8:44pm
Canadian actor Victor Webster has been quite busy in the dozen years or so he's been in the business.
Interview: Director Jorma Taccone on his upcoming action-comedy MacGruber
Posted by: Paul Little • April 23, 2010 @ 3:09am
If you're a regular viewer of Saturday Night Live, you're likely well aware of the recurring MacGruber sketches, which feature Will Forte as a ridiculous MacGyver-esque hero who always ends up getting blown up.
Interview: Jay Baruchel of How to Train Your Dragon and the upcoming The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Posted by: Mark McLeod • April 9, 2010 @ 3:13am
Jay Baruchel, like many young Canadian actors, got an early taste of showbiz on the 90s Nickelodeon/YTV series Are You Afraid of the Dark?, which partially filmed in his hometown of Montreal.
Interview: Breaking Upwards' Daryl Wein & Zoe Lister-Jones
Posted by: Elizabeth Hughes Belzil • April 2, 2010 @ 2:16am
It had been ages since I had experienced true agitation: hands slick with perspiration, hollowed-out insides, shortness of breath, compulsive pacing. But this was the state I found myself in last Tuesday afternoon as I waited by the phone, reading and rereading my notes. I felt like I was about to perform a play with an unfinished script.
Folk Fest Interview: Loudon Wainwright III talks about music, his famous offspring, and his role in the blockbuster kids' movie G-Force
Posted by: Paul Little • August 12, 2009 @ 7:07am
It's not every day you get to meet and speak with a bona fide legend. Sure, I've met and talked to a lot of amazingly talented comedians, actors, and comedians over the last 2 years I've been doing interviews for ShowbizMonkeys.com.
Interview: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen special effects guru Scott Farrar of ILM
Posted by: Mark McLeod • June 22, 2009 @ 6:39pm
Special effects are an important part of the movie business. From May to September each year, movie studios big and small try to blow audiences with their biggest budget releases of the year, and the majority of these are centered on the special effects.
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