While the Middle East rages with popular uprisings and civil wars and its people are being butchered by their leaders and terror groups, American and Israeli filmmakers are seeking to capture this harsh reality on TV. Last week, I spent a few days on two film sets in Israel: Tyrant and Dig. The first tells … Continue reading Will “Tyrant” reflect reality in the Middle East? – interview
Author: Husam "Sam" Asi
Robert Pattinson loves watching Hollywood Movies, but doesn’t like making them – TV interview
The Twilight franchise assured his fortune, made him a teen hearthrob and brought him worldwide fame, yet Robert Pattinson seems indifferent. With such superstardom, international appeal and good looks, he could be making Hollywood blockbusters and amassing more wealth and fame, but instead he has been chasing roles in small and often obscure art-house movies, … Continue reading Robert Pattinson loves watching Hollywood Movies, but doesn’t like making them – TV interview
Clint Eastwood: I Never Let the Old Man in – interview
Smiling jovially and offering greetings as he saunters into a meeting room in New York’s Astoria Waldorf, Clint Eastwood conjures up none of the tough characters, most notably eponymous Dirty Harry, that he portrayed in so many movies. Slim and beaming with life, The 84-year-old Hollywood legend looks and sounds at least 10 years his … Continue reading Clint Eastwood: I Never Let the Old Man in – interview
Sam Mendes uses two different parts of his brain for Theatre and Cinema
Originating in ancient Athens, theatre had dominated human culture for nearly 2500 years, offering its audience a live performance of actors who communicated their experiences to them through a combination of gesture, song, speech, dance and music, until the advent of cinema, an illusion of moving images that gained a hold on the public imagination. … Continue reading Sam Mendes uses two different parts of his brain for Theatre and Cinema
Overlapping Dark Themes at the Cannes Film Festival
Following a limping opening with the controversial biopic “Grace of Monaco,” that was panned by the critics, condemned by the royal family of Monaco, and avoided by its American distributor Harvey Weinstein who was glaringly absent from the red carpet, the 67th Cannes Film Festival picked up steam and offered a delicious feast of international … Continue reading Overlapping Dark Themes at the Cannes Film Festival
Why was Ellen Page afraid to come out as gay?
At the age of 15, Ellen Page knew that she had a sexual propensity to women, and she thought that she was bisexual until she turned 20, when she became sure that she was gay and embarked on a romantic relationship with a woman, a fact that she kept secret for 6 years until February … Continue reading Why was Ellen Page afraid to come out as gay?
Zac Efron: Drug addiction was a great life lesson – interview
“I was a little bit on my own,” Zac Efron tells me when I speak to him at the Meridien Oriental hotel in New York. This sense of loneliness, isolation and abandonment that possesses child actors usually stems from the intense public adoration placed on them and the high expectation for them to do well … Continue reading Zac Efron: Drug addiction was a great life lesson – interview
Cameron Diaz urges women to watch comedies
Cameron Diaz wanted to make The Other Woman because it was a story about female friendship. “But it wasn’t,” she exclaims, when I talk to her at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. “I am not interested in telling stories about revenge. You have known me long enough and seen all of my films … Continue reading Cameron Diaz urges women to watch comedies
How New Wave was François Truffaut’s cinema?
In its 18th edition, Colcoa (City of Lights, City of Angels) Film Festival, which is considered the biggest French film festival outside of France, screening this year 61 films this year, celebrated the legacy of iconic French director, François Truffaut, who passed away 30 years ago, with a screening of one of his movies The … Continue reading How New Wave was François Truffaut’s cinema?
Is Johnny Depp to blame for Transcendance box office failure? – interview
The dismal performance of Johnny Depp’s starrer “Transcendence” in the US box office over the weekend heralded the 4th flop in a row for the Hollywood superstar. The $100 million production opened with just $11 million. The actor’s other movies that failed to deliver in the box office were: The Rum Diary (2011), Dark Shadows … Continue reading Is Johnny Depp to blame for Transcendance box office failure? – interview
Husam (Sam) Asi 