Here’s a podcast with Amy Ryan, Oscar nominated for Gone Baby Gone and Jack Goes Boating , which she was promoting in this particular case. The film is the directorial debut of Phillip Seymour Hoffman, who you can see in the photo to your left, accompanied by his dreadlocks. There were seven of us in the room with Amy and the occasion was brief, so we only had time for a few questions each, which probably makes my absolutely absurd first question either an utter waste of time or an utter waste o...
Sep 29, 2010•19 min
This podcast was a tough one. It’s an interview with the writer of Going the Distance , Geoff LaTulippe. Geoff wrote the original screenplay that was on the 2008 Blacklist ( Up in the Air was also on it), which is a list of all of the best unproduced screenplays floating around Hollywood. I’ve read Geoff’s screenplay, or at least one early draft, and I thought it was a pretty funny, dark, mean-spirited romantic comedy with an appropriate and well-written bittersweet conclusion (it can be found i...
Sep 05, 2010•1 hr 21 min
Here is a podcast q+a with Kelly McGillis ( Witness, Top Gun ), recorded during Philadelphia’s QFest (Queerfest), as Ms. McGillis was being given the artistic achievement award. Normally, this isn’t the sort of q+a I’d upload, but the whole thing was so strange, I figured I should share. To give some context, Ms. McGillis was considered a “get” for the festival, though why she was being given the award is unclear, except for the fact that she came out of the closet last year, she was available, ...
Aug 17, 2010•1 hr 7 min
Here is part II with Jordan Brady, stand-up comic, and director of the new documentary on stand-up, I Am Comic. While this podcast was recorded at the same time as part I (which you can find here ) and it’s not required to listen to it to understand part II. You’ll probably be confused though, so I still recommend it, especially if you want to know about the minutia on films you’ve never seen like Jordan’s films The Third Wheel, American Girl , Dill Scallion, and Waking Up in Reno . Anyway, this...
Jul 29, 2010•48 min
Though this may seem like a normal podcast for A Regrettable Moment of Sincerity, it’s actually unique for a few reasons. First, because the interview with I Am Comic director and stand-up comedian Jordan Brady went on for more than 3 hours, I’ve split it into two parts (part II is here ). Second, because I’m aware that not many people will have seen Jordan’s early movies, namely Dill Scallion , American Girl, The Third Wheel , and Waking Up in Reno, I’ve taken screenshots and added text to expl...
Jul 13, 2010•1 hr 16 min
Here’s a podcast q&a with the star of the Duplass brothers’ new film Cyrus , John C. Reilly. The interview was held after a Philadelphia screening of Cyrus . There’s nothing mindblowing about the questions, they cover the expected topics like working with Will Ferrell, Marisa Tomei, and the differences between playing comedy and playing drama. However, what is amazing is Reilly’s timing and how sharp and witty he is, especially in the face of promotional idiocy. You’ll hear a moment where so...
Jun 21, 2010•19 min
Here’s a podcast with Roger Nygard, the director of Trekkies, Trekkies 2, High Strung (w/Steve Odekerk and Jim Carrey) , Back to Back: American Yakuza 2, Suckers , and his new documentary The Nature of Existence . This hour long podcast covers such topics as how to sell your movie in Japan by adding a vs. to the title, how fans of the new Star Trek remake would change the inevitable Trekkies 3 , why his fiction films are so damning of humanity and yet his documentaries are so non-judgmental, how...
Jun 09, 2010•1 hr 2 min
Below is a podcast I did with Mark Jones, the director of Fraternity Massacre at Hell Island , a very low-budget gay slasher parody. And since the movie was finished in 2005, did the festival circuit in 2007, and was finally released on DVD in April, it probably means that not only have none of you reading this seen the movie, you’ve never even heard of it. Luckily, this 17 minute interview covers all sorts of other topics that only tangentially deal with the movie (while still discussing it), s...
Jun 02, 2010•17 min
Thanks to Natalie Toren for the photo. Here’s an audio interview I conducted with character actor Daniel Franzese, star of Bully , Mean Girls , The Missing Person , and the upcoming remake of I Spit on Your Grave . In the course of an hour, Daniel told many detailed stories about how he was cast in Bully , despite Larry Clark’s intense dislike of him, how Mean Girls helped his career but not the variety of scripts he was offered, the production problems with Killer Pad , what happens when you sh...
May 27, 2010•1 hr 2 min
Here’s a 30-minute Q&A with Vincenzo Natali, the director of Splice , which I recorded after a screening of the film last week. Vincenzo was very composed and self-effacing and was willing to answer any question (including a deliberately absurd one I asked early on). Those who haven’t seen Splice may want to skip through this podcast’s spoilers, which tend to come in the first few minutes. Though they might be vague enough (such as the name for the genetic mutation, Dren) not to spoil it for...
May 19, 2010•29 min
Australian stuntman Nash Edgerton made his first feature, The Square , back in 2008, but it was just released in the US. The film is a twisty noir that takes place in a small, insular town, similar to Henrik Ruben Genz’s Terribly Happy (which also got a podcast dedicated to it ). I interviewed Edgerton along with a writer from Film Threat (he’s the one with the husky voice) and the 14 minute podcast below covers many plot details about The Square, so be wary of spoilers (though the movie is so c...
Apr 22, 2010•14 min
Here’s an interview I did with Zoe Kazan, the star of Bradley Rust Gray’s spare, no-frills drama, The Exploding Girl . Kazan, who won a best actress award at The Tribeca Film Festival for the film, plays a girl struggling with her epilepsy, and so Zoe and I discussed how to keep her emotions in check, why she might wear pigtails for more than practical reasons, and shooting an entire film with long lenses, amongst other things. The interview is a shade under 8 minutes and the self-indulgence I p...
Apr 19, 2010•8 min
Below is an interview with the director of the Danish dark comedy Terribly Happy, Henrik Ruben Genz. We discuss the connections between his film and Blood Simple , the satirical underpinnings of Terribly Happy and how that relates to political refugees in Denmark, the inherent humor within the arrogance of Dogme ’95 and how Lars Von Trier is viewed in his native country, and the unique way that Danish films are financed, among other things. The interview runs just over 35 minutes and some of the...
Mar 25, 2010•36 min
Here’s a podcast with Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper who led lead actor Jeff Bridges to a Golden Globe Award. The film is about “Bad” Blake, an alcohol soaked, washed up rock/blues singer, touring dingy bars across the US. Unable to get albums released without the help of his former protege, and now big star, Tommy Sweet (played by Colin Farrell), Blake, bitter and angry, flounders amidst one-night stands in sleazy motels. Crazy Heart is Cooper’s first film behind the camera, he’s had an reas...
Jan 18, 2010•22 min
Here’s an audio interview conducted in a room full of reporters with Youth In Revolt stars Michael Cera and Portia Doubleday. While all 15 of us got to ask 2 questions each*, there were a plethora of tangents that had nothing to do with the movie (yes, Cera would be interested in an Arrested Development movie, but there’s apparently no finished script yet), so I cut the interview down to just under a still rather loose 11 minutes and change. For those unfamiliar with either C.D. Payne’s series o...
Jan 07, 2010•12 min
Here’s an audio interview I did with Alexis Spraic, the director of Shadow Billionaire , a movie without a distributor at the moment, that I reviewed here. We talk about how hard it must be to profile her subject Larry Hillblom, DHL magnate and procurer of young Vietnamese and Filipino virgin girls, in an objective fashion, how specific film festivals are, and how documentaries are often just preaching to the converted. You can listen to the podcast by clicking below or downloading it to your co...
Nov 03, 2009•13 min
Here’s a nearly 30 minute interview I did with Troy Duffy, the director of The Boondock Saints and the upcoming The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day ( he was also the subject of the muckraking documentary Overnight ). Also in attendance were Boondock stars Sean Patrick Flannery and Norman Reedus. Sean is very talkative, but Norman almost never interjects and is very soft-spoken. You’ll hear me address him directly about 11 minutes in by saying, “Norman, I feel like I’m ignoring you.” The topic...
Oct 23, 2009•29 min
Here’s an interview with the writer/star and the director of the new blaxploitation parody, Black Dynamite , Michael Jai White ( Spawn ) and Scott Sanders (the review of the movie is here) . The topics covered include comparisons to the movie Grindhouse , the political agenda of Black Dynamite , the specificity of the blaxploitation era (as well as the way other films of the era were thrown under the bus of that description, simply for having a black lead), the impossibility of making a genuine ...
Oct 11, 2009•27 min
This is the radio interview I did with the editors of Outlook Weekly . The broadcast was about a two-part story I did for Outlook where I pretended be an ex-gay going through Christian reorientation therapy . The first part, which you can read here , appeared in Outlook Weekly in June of 2008, the second part, which you can read here ran in September of 2008. You can listen to the podcast below or download it using the link underneath the audio player. Download the full interview. (Right-click, ...
Sep 29, 2009•23 min
Below is a podcast I conducted with Soylent Green about his reaction to Mike Judge’s Extract . You can read my review of the film here . Click the play icon to listen to the podcast. Or you can download the podcast here. (Right-click, Save Link As…)...
Sep 06, 2009•4 min
Below is a podcast I conducted with Jesus about his reaction to the recent 3-D hit, The Final Destination . You can read my review of the film here . Click the play icon to listen to the podcast. Or you can download the podcast here. (Right-click, Save Link As…)...
Sep 04, 2009•5 min
Below you’ll find a podcast about Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds , which I conducted with the famed star of 30 years worth of films, Benji. You can read a review of the film here . Click the play icon to listen to the podcast. Or you can download the podcast here. (Right-click, Save Link As…)...
Aug 23, 2009•4 min
Believe it or not, Russ is not Bruce Campbell. Below you’ll find an interview with the director of Fissure , Russ Pond (the review can be read here ), that I conducted recently. The interview is about 17 minutes long and I’ve broken it up into three parts. The first two parts discuss the movie itself, so if you want to avoid spoilers, I’d be cautious about listening to it. For those who just want to hear what Russ has to say about making a very low-budget independent genre movie and the business...
Aug 17, 2009•5 min
Below you’ll find a review of Neill Bloomkamp’s Action-Sci-fi hybrid, District 9 . I’m also including a podcast about the film which I conducted with the official mascot for Hamburger Helper, Helping Hand. Click the play icon to listen to the podcast. Or you can download the podcast here. (Right-click, Save Link As…) The downside of a genre movie’s success is that even though most of the eventual rip-offs are obvious, sometimes a truly interesting piece of work falls victim to the zeitgeist, tak...
Aug 14, 2009•5 min
Below you’ll find a review of Louie Psihoyos’ documentary, The Cove . I’m also including a podcast about the film which I conducted with famed dictator Pol Pot, the former Prime Minister of Cambodia. Click the play icon to listen to the podcast. Or you can download the podcast here. (Right-click, Save Link As…) Actor Jeremy Piven certainly understands the importance of keeping the human population and dolphins mercury-free. The use of the yellow peril stereotype is one of the most effective ways...
Aug 07, 2009•4 min
Below you’ll find a review of Lynn Shelton’s Humpday , which accompanies the interview I conducted with her about the movie that you can read here . On top of that there’s a new feature on A Regrettable Moment of Sincerity, podcasts. In this particular podcast, I interview famed 13 year-old critic Jordan Walters regarding his thoughts on the themes of Humpday . Click the play icon to listen to the podcast. Or you can download the podcast here. (Right-click, Save Link As…) The recent success of S...
Jul 31, 2009•6 min
