Interview: Shawn Doyle Talks ‘Bellevue’, His First Day On-Set and One Crazy Audition
“The first day is always, ‘What the hell am I doing here? Who am I kidding? They’re gonna see. They’re gonna fire me!'” – Shawn Doyle on Acting Jitters
Interview: Johnathan Fernandez on ‘Lethal Weapon’ and the Self-Taped Audition That Got Him the Role
“I’m learning a ton, and the character is evolving a bunch, and I feel like I learn something new every time I learn a new script.” – Johnathan Fernandez on ‘Lethal Weapon’
Interview: Anne Winters on ‘Mom and Dad,’ ‘Thirteen Reasons Why’ and Selma Blair Audition Stories
“Anytime I get a chance to play something completely different, or do something that’s so out of the ordinary, than I take that.” – Anne Winters on Choosing Her Roles
Interview: Tamlyn Tomita on ‘The Good Doctor’, Learning From Mistakes and Her Long Career
Tamlyn Tomita also talks about The Good Doctor cast and how bad auditions are a “lesson learned.”
Interview: Richard Short on ‘Crazy Famous’, Broadway and Asking Himself, “What Would [Mark] Rylance Do?”
“Oh, they’re horrible. They’re horrible, and they’re fake and their not inductive to good work. That’s the truth.” – Richard Short on Auditions
Movie Review: ’12 Strong’ Starring Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon and Michael Pena
Pena and Shannon are the ones who always jolt up every scene. Unfortunately, there’s not enough of them to make and entertaining evening.
Johnathon Schaech Interview: ‘Day of the Dead: Bloodline’, Playing a Zombie and His Long Running Career
“Every time I work, I work to create something special and unique and no matter what platform it is, I always try to bring something to it.” – Johnathon Schaech
Theatre Review: ‘Hamilton’ at San Diego Civic Theatre
If you’re wondering whether or not Hamilton lives up to its hype, worry no more. It does. It absolutely does.
Movie Review: Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Post’ Starring Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep
Spielberg might be the only director working today who could have taken this story, that is sometimes full of hard to comprehend facts and make it exciting and taught, leaving you on the edge of your seat.
Movie Review: Alexander Payne’s ‘Downsizing’ Starring Matt Damon
Chau is the one to watch. She’s a flat out scene-stealer here.
Movie Review: ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’
Ryan Johnson deserves all the credit in the world for delivering this terrific Jedi to the storied franchise. Let’s have him direct all of the other ones going forward, shall we?
Movie Review: ‘Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool’
Based on the book by Peter Turner that tells his story of life with Grahame. Turner (Jamie Bell) was a young actor in Liverpool when he met and began a relationship with the once famous film star, played by Annette Bening.
Play Review: Stephen Karam’s ‘Speech and Debate’
The only thing wrong with Steven Karam’s new play, Speech & Debate, is that you might wish it would continue for another scene or two.
Interview: Odeya Rush on ‘Almost Friends’, How She Prepares for a Role and Her Worst Audition
Rush also spoke about directing her first short, “I loved it. That’s my passion, really, writing and directing.”
Movie Review: ‘The Night Watchmen’
If you can’t have fun watching The Night Watchmen, there may be no hope for you.
Interview: Mario Van Peebles Talks ‘Superstition’, Acting and His Long Career
Mario Van Peebles also discusses what he was looking for when casting the series and the advice Clint Eastwood gave him.
Movie Review: ‘Roman J. Israel, Esq.’ Starring Denzel Washington
As Israel, Washington takes on his most difficult role to date and leaves no doubt that he’s one of the best actors working today.
Movie Review: Martin McDonagh’s ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’
With this these terrific actors he’s assembled, this is easily one of the best movies of the year.
Movie Review: ‘Justice League’
It’s a shame that they went with such a bland story but for what it is, it’s a marked improvement.
Movie Review: Kenneth Branagh’s ‘Murder on the Orient Express’
Branagh is terrific as Poirot. The character can see things mere mortals can’t and you can just see the machinations of his brain working as he eyes each passenger.