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Great character actors are the ones who create so many memorable, recognizable characters on film, television and stage, that you may not always know the name of the person bringing them to life. Leon Russom is one of those great character actors. Having appeared in stage, film and television...

The late comedy legend Jerry Lewis was the ruler of the box office. He rose to the top of the box office as part of the beloved duo with crooner Dean Martin, a partnership that lasted 10 years and numerous films and other appearances, Lewis would eventually go solo and enjoy continued and...

Walt Disney (through RKO Radio Pictures) finally brought J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan to audiences in 1953, the 14th animated feature film from the studio. The story of the boy who never grew up, and the adventure of Wendy and brothers on their trip to Neverland, was received warmly by critics and...

Veteran stunt performer and coordinator Jo McLaren has made her mark on projects big and small. Everything from British television drama (Grantchester, The Tunnel), to the globe-hopping stunt spectaculars on Fast & Furious 6, World War Z, Gravity, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and more, she has made...

Native Chicagoan, Michael Gross, is a prolific stage, television and film actor, and is perhaps most known for two very different roles. Many audiences know and admire him for his work as the ex-Hippy Steven Keaton, father to Michael J. Fox’s Alex, and Justine Bateman’s Mallory, on the award...

Eddie Deezen’s appearance in Grease helped launch the archetypal ‘nerd’ that we’ve grown so accustomed to since. Suited up with a bow tie and a pinched voice in the upper register, Deezen’s Eugene character in Grease made an indelible mark in just a few minutes and a few lines of dialogue. Eddie...

California natives Eshom and Ian Nelms, brothers who write and direct together, are a likable pair. Genuine film fans who seem giddy, even after several short films and features under their belt, to call filmmaking what they do for a living. Like all moviemakers worth watching, they combine...

Director Alex Zamm has an impressive resume of family-focused films, He began his career with comedic short films, earning nominations from the Writer’s Guild of America and for the Palme d’Or for Best Short Film (Maestro). His filmography features a variety of direct-to-DVD films, including...

Lisa Henson, CEO of The Jim Henson Company and daughter of the great Jim Henson, spoke with Home Theater Forum about The Dark Crystal, its upcoming 4K UHD release, and the planned Fathom event returning the film to the big screen. The Dark Crystal is the seminal 1982 live-action film featuring...

Julie Taymor is a gifted and award winning film, theater, and opera director. Following her Academy Award nominated turn as director of Frida (2003), she turned her eye toward a unique musical based on the songs from The Beatles – Across the Universe. Working with the film’s eventual...

2006’s An Inconvenient Truth –winner of the Best Documentary Academy Award – changed the way we talk about climate change. While controversial – as it seems anything climate change related becomes – the film moved the science and startling data behind the assertion of humanity’s contribution to...

Chuck Wepner has a magnetic personality. Learning to fight on the streets of New Jersey, he joined the U.S. Marines where he made a name for himself on the boxing team as a man who could take punches. He became a professional boxer, becoming the New Jersey State Heavyweight Boxing Champion, but...

Rupert Sanders rose to directorial prominence through television advertisements before making his big-screen directorial debut with the 2012 hit Snow White and the Huntsman. That film demonstrated Sanders’ command of the impressive production design, integrated visual effects, and the pressures...

Charles Shyer has written or co-written a number of memorable comedies, including Private Benjamin, Smokey and the Bandit, Protocol, and Father of the Bride, which he also directed. Shyer made his feature directorial debut on Irreconcilable Differences, and followed it up with the Diane Keaton...

In her short time as an actress, young Saniyya Sidney has acquitted herself with an impressive resume of appearances – having a small role on the 2016 remake of Roots, and appearing in two of 2016’s most critically celebrated films, Hidden Figures and the extraordinary Fences. A delightful...

Marion Bailey is a British actress with a wonderfully long and varied resume of film, television and theatrical productions to her name. She has worked numerous times with her partner, award-winning British writer/director Mike Leigh (Happy Go-Lucky, Secrets & Lies), including a role as Mrs...

Arrival is one of the most impressive science fiction films of the last decade. A masterfully produced film that impresses with its performances, production values and the ideas at the core of the story. And those ideas, that seed themselves throughout the film and reveal their true nature as...

Aldis Hodge is experiencing a transcendence in his career. The North Carolina born son to military parents began his career modeling as a child before making his first big screen appearance at nine years old along with his brother as Samuel L. Jackson’s two sons in Die Hard with a Vengeance...

Clea DuVall, a notable actress with roles in a variety of film and television projects, such as The Faculty, Identity, Argo, But I’m A Cheerleader and HBO’s Veep to her name, stepped behind the typewriter to pen the script, and behind the camera to make her directorial debut in a funny and...

David Farrier, a likeable ‘light entertainment’ television reporter on a local New Zealand station, and television producer, Dylan Reeve, stumbled upon videos of bizarre “competitive endurance tickling”. Inquiring about the nature of the videos with Jane O’Brien media, owners of the videos...

Home Theater Forum spoke recently with Andrew. M Siegel who served as Property (Prop) Master on Star Trek Beyond, the third film in the reboot series produced by J.J. Abrams. Siegel also served as prop master on Star Trek Into Darkness, as well as films as varied as The Amazing Spider-Man, Bad...

The follow-up to 2014’s incredibly successful big-screen Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles adventure, this year’s sequel, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, featured the entire turtle cast of actors returning, along with Will Arnett and Megan Fox. The sequel, which brought back...

In The Man Who Knew Infinity, Academy Award® winner Jeremy Irons portrays Cambridge’s Trinity College Professor, G.H. Hardy, who in 1913 discovered a young, poor mathematical genius from India, Srinivasa Ramanujan, played by Dev Patel, a man who would profoundly change Hardy’s life. Hardy would...

Director Richard Linklater is one of the great American filmmakers. His last film, Boyhood, was the epitome of his strengths as a master at examining the ‘ordinary’. His films often feature fascinating innovation (Boyhood filmed with the same cast over 12 years, A Scanner Darkly animating filmed...

10 Cloverfield Lane, a “spiritual successor” to 2008’s Cloverfield is a clever, superbly executed and crafted movie with a delicious mystery wrapped inside a tight, claustrophobic thriller, and features three actors at the tops of their game. One of those three actors, John Gallagher, Jr. (Short...

Author Terry Brooks has been writing Shannara books since the late 1970s, with almost 30 novels set within the fascinating world of our distant future where Elves, Gnomes, Dwarves, Trolls and Humans now exist together. But this future is in jeopardy as the Ellcrys, a magical tree holding evil...

Dominic Fumusa, perhaps best known for his role as Kevin Peyton on Showtime’s Nurse Jackie, has a rich resume of film, television, and stage performances. In Michael Bay’s 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, he portrays John ‘Tig’ Tiegen, one of the members of the Ex-Seal security team...

I'd like to mention that over at The Digital Bits we have posted a retrospective article on "The Bad News Bears" to, among other reasons, draw attention to the fact the movie has not yet been given a Blu-ray release (at least in the United States). I hope you'll consider taking a look at the...

The lovely and talented New Orleans native Dana Gourrier is making her mark on Hollywood. With roles on the critically lauded first season of HBO’s True Detective, two seasons of HBO’s Togetherness, the 2013 season of American Horror Story: Coven, the recently released Jeff Nichol’s film...

Tom Noonan, acclaimed actor on stage and screen, provides the voices of every character but two in Charlie Kaufman’s deeply human and surprising animated puppet film, Anomalisa. A veteran actor, Tom Noonan has appeared in films such as Heat (1995), Seraphim Falls (2006), Robocop 2 (1990), and as...