Director Michael Winterbottom praised the dedication of his leading actress, Angelina Jolie, for her honest, moving portrayal of Mariane Pearl in A Mighty Heart. Winterbottom’s distinctive way of working – long scenes shot in chronological order where the actors are encouraged to improvise – was embraced by Ms Jolie and indeed all the cast who [...]

It all began with a call out of the blue. “And you know what?” says Irfan Khan. “All of the films that have meant a lot to me, like A Mighty Heart which means an awful lot to me, came the same way. And I’m very, very grateful.” The call was from director Michael Winterbottom [...]

Dan Futterman took on one of his toughest, and ultimately most rewarding, roles of his career playing Daniel Pearl in A Mighty Heart. Daniel Pearl was the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and murdered by Islamic extremists in 2002. A Mighty Heart is the story of his wife Mariane’s efforts to discover who [...]

As if Bioware haven’t been whoring themselves around enough recently. In the wake of their recent Electronic Arts buyout, today it was known that the RPG veterans will be combining efforts with Lucasarts to produce a new game. This collaboration is set to combine the proven talent in both story and immersion of the two [...]

One word: Cosplay. I didn’t even know what it was before setting foot into the hallowed tent that is the annual Atomic Live show, held at the Sydney Showgrounds at Olympic Park on Sunday 21st October, but I have been trying to erase it ever since as though it were only a psychotic Episode, Total [...]

CannedGeek.com has another podcast up this week and once again I am the all important guest. I had a lot of fun on this one, this time making the trip over to Will’s place so we wouldn’t have to use skype and could improve the audio quality. We discuss Dumbledoor being gay, Okami on the [...]

Fun “Fact”: Despite playing drunken womanizers in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle and How I met your Mother, Neil Patrick Harris is actually gay.

Space Meat and Canned Geek present an interview with animation and video game voice actor Richard Horvitz (Invader Zim, Psychonauts). Filmed live at the 2007 Armageddon Expo in Melbourne on Sunday 14th October. Interview by Kyle Evans. Cinematography by Will Owen. Armageddon Expo: Richard Horvitz Interview – YouTube High Quality Stage6 Video:

Space Meat and Canned Geek present an interview with animation and video game voice actor Neil Kaplan (Digimon, Transformers: Robots in Disguise). Filmed live at the 2007 Armageddon Expo in Melbourne on Sunday 14th October. Interviewers are Kyle Evans and Will Owen, cinematography by Liam Marcon. Armageddon Expo: Neil Kaplan Interview – Part 1 (YouTube) [...]

A spin off to the X-Men film franchise, Wolverine will be starting shooting in Australia and New Zealand this December. Over a six to eight week shooing period from December to January, the film will be shot in Queenstown and Central Otago in New Zealand was well as the Fox Studios in Sydney. Afterwards shooting [...]