Back during the Cannes Film Festival, Spike Lee was in town drumming up interest for his new World War II drama Miracle at St. Anna. Never one to shy away from controversy, Lee took the opportunity not only to criticize the treatment of life and death by Joel and Ethan Coen, but also to point [...]

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Jody Hill, Will Ferrell, Ben Best, Danny McBride and Adam McKay
Throw a press conference in L.A. to promote a $70,000 indie martial arts comedy called The Foot Fist Way written, produced and directed by three friends from the North Carolina School of the Arts and you might be hard pressed to find many takers. Promise [...]

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Garth Jennings (right) directs Will Poulter on the set of Son of Rambow
To spread the word about their newest film, Son of Rambow, the British filmmaking team known as Hammer & Tongs (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) recently subjected themselves to a roundtable interview at Paramount Studios; sort of the journalistic equivalent of a [...]

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