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Luke Benward as BILLY
Hallie Kate Eisenberg as ERIKA
Adam Hicks as JOE
Austin Rogers as ADAM
Alexander Gould as TWITCH
Ryan Malgarini as BENJY
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Samuel L. Jackson as NEVILLE FLYNN
Julianna Margulies as CLAIRE MILLER
Nathan Phillips as SEAN JONES
Rachel Blanchard as MERCEDES
Flex Alexander as THREE G’S
Kenan Thompson as TROY
An Interview with RZA, soundtrack composer of “The Protector”
BY KEVIN CARR
The RZA is the co-founder of Wu Tang Clan and the composer of several hot soundtracks, including “Kill Bill,” “Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai” and “Blade III.” Kevin talks with the RZA about his upcoming film, the Thailand import “The Protector,” brought to the states by the Weinstein Company. Excepts from the interview follow.
Excepts from the interview follow. Hear the entire interview here…
7M: WHAT BROUGHT YOU TO THIS FILM?
I was actually supposed to have been in this film, but I couldn’t make it this time because of my schedule. So when the Weinstein Company acquired the film, they asked me to add some music to it. It was my pleasure because I always wanted to be involved in this film from its inception. Being that I missed my first opportunity to actually be a member of the cast in this film, I get to come in and help out this film in another way.
7M: DO YOU SEEK OUT MARTIAL ARTS THEMED MOVIES, OR DO THEY FIND YOU?
Both. Being a guy whose had a lot of time to view a lot of these films – and a movie geek as well, I love movies, the martial arts stuff is my favorite brand of movies. But being a guy whose been in that movie world for years, and a constant watcher of it, I think that maybe that translates a lot of things and taps into my source of values.
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Nicolas Cage as JOHN MCLOUGHLIN
Michael Pena as WILL JIMENO
Maggie Gyllenhaal as ALLISON JIMENO
Maria Bello as DONNA MCLOUGHLIN
Stephen Dorff as SCOTT STRAUSS
Jay Hernandez as DOMINICK PEZZULO
Michael Shannon as DAVE KARNES
TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY (PG-13) ***1/2 (out of 5)
August 4, 2006
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Will Ferrell as RICKY BOBBY
John C. Reilly as CARL NAUGHTON
Gary Cole as REESE BOBBY
Jane Lynch as LUCY BOBBY
Leslie Bibb as CARLEY BOBBY
Michael Clarke Duncan as LUCIUS WASHINGTON
Greg Germann as LARRY DENNIT, JR.
Sacha Baron Cohen as JEAN GIRARD
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Kevin James as OTIS THE COW
Courtney Cox as DAISY THE COW
Sam Elliot as BEN THE COW
Danny Glover as MILES THE MULE
Wanda Sykes as BESSY THE COW
Andie MacDowell as ETTA THE HEN
David Koechner as DAG THE COYOTE
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Robin Williams as GABRIEL NOONE
Toni Collette as DONNA D. LOGAND
Joe Morton as ASHE
Bobby Cannavale as JESS
Rory Culkin as PETE D. LOGAND
Sandra Oh as ANNA
An Interview with Neil Marshall, director of “The Descent”
BY KEVIN CARR
Neil Marshall is the director of the new horror film “The Descent.” Kevin talks with Neil about how the film came about, what inspired the work and possible news of a “Dog Soldiers” sequel. Excepts from the interview follow.
Hear the entire interview…
7M: WHAT DREW YOU TO THIS PROJECT?
I was looking to do something really scary after my first film. My first film, “Dog Soldiers,” had come out more as a black comedy than a straight horror film, and I still had this hankering to fulfill the need to do a really, really dark and bleak horror film in the vision of horror films I grew up with and loved, and still love. Things like “John Carpenter’s The Thing” and “Deliverance” and “Alien.”
7M: WHY DID YOU CHOOSE AN ALL FEMALE CAST?
Just to be different, really. I thought it was something that was contemporary. I thought it was something that was unique, certainly within this genre of brutal action horror film. I thought it’d never been done before. I thought it’d be interesting to try something fresh, and I thought why not in this day and age. Continue reading →
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Colin Farrell as SONNY CROCKETT
Jamie Foxx as RICARDO TUBBS
Gong Li as ISABELLA
Naomie Harris as TRUDY JOPLIN
Ciaran Hinds as AGENT FUJIMA
Justin Theroux as LARRY ZITO
Barry Shabaka Henley as MARTIN CASTILLO
Luis Tosar as ARCÁNGEL DE JESÚS MONTOYA
John Ortiz as JOSÉ YERO
Elizabeth Rodriguez as GINA CALABRESE
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Jesse Metcalfe as JOHN TUCKER
Brittany Snow as KATE
Ashanti as HEATHER
Sophia Bush as BETH
Arielle Kebbel as CARRIE
Penn Badgley as SCOTT
Jenny MacCarthy as LORI
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Brian O’Halloran as DANTE HICKS
Jeff Anderson as RANDAL GRAVES
Jason Mewes as JAY
Kevin Smith as SILENT BOB
Jennifer Schwalbach as EMMA
Trevor Fehrman as ELIAS
Rosario Dawson as BECKY
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Steve Buscemi as NEBBERCRACKER
Mitchel Musso as DJ
Catherine O’Hara as MOM
Fred Willard as DAD
Sam Lerner as CHOWDER
Maggie Gyllenhaal as ZEE
Jason Lee as BONES
Spencer Locke as JENNY
Kevin James as OFFICER LANDERS
Nick Cannon as OFFICER LISTER
Brian O’Halloran and Jeff Anderson play Dante Hicks and Randal Graves in the new Kevin Smith comedy “Clerks II.” Kevin talks with Brian and Jeff about the success of the first film, what it is like playing the clerks and what it was like coming back to play them more than ten years later.
Excepts from the interview follow. To hear the entire interview, click here.
7M: WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE FILM? JEFF: I’m really happy with the way it turned out. Going into this, I was skeptical. I didn’t want to do this movie. They dragged me in kicking and screaming. Almost literally. And I’m really happy with the way it turned out.
7M: WHY WERE YOU HESITENT? JEFF: I don’t know. “Clerks” was a weird movie. I always attributed a large part of the success sort of to the back story. The black and white look of it was just as big of a character in the film as we were. What are we going to do? How do you replicate that? Do you go back to shoot black and white? If you do that, you’re trying to do the same movie. Do you go back and shoot color? If you do color, then it’s weird, and you’re trying not to do the same movie. Continue reading →