If you were to ask me to name my top five movies of the last couple years, I’d tell you two of them are the Edward Burns films Newlyweds and The Fitzgerald Family Christmas. These critically acclaimed gems were filmed in New York with pretty much the same cast, including the amazing Marsha Dietlein. I don’t want to say she steals every scene she’s in because all the actors were great in them, but she kicks my ass and yours in these films. She was also in Burns’ Nice Guy Johnny and other stuff. But we’ll get into all that because she’s the next interview on The Dodgy. Look for it February 9 and find out what role she was up for in Burns’ She’s The…
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“That’s part of what we do with our shows, we make you feel like you’re in our living room and we’re all just hanging out after a nice dinner…listening to music and hearing some road stories too.” It’s fitting The Dodgy’s interview with Caroline Brooks of the Good Lovelies is posted in December. For myself, like the film Love Actually, the Toronto-based, Juno award-winning indie-roots-folk trio has become synonymous to Christmas. They are currently on a Christmas tour across Canada and Washington with the Vinyl Café (kind of like the Canadian version of ‘Prairie Home Companion’). And Brooks, Kerri Ough, and Sue Passmore first played together in Toronto in 2006 at Christmas time where they swapped songs in a folk-festival style – after only…
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is keeping Javier Botet pretty busy these days. Earlier this year the Spanish actor played “Mama” alongside arguably the No. 1 actress in Hollywood today, Jessica Chastain, in Mama, which was produced by del Toro. Botet is currently part of two new del Toro projects. The film Crimson Peak reunites him with Chastain and also stars Sons of Anarchy‘s Charlie Hunham. The other is del Toro’s upcoming television series The Strain. How did you come to be in Mama? I was in Fantastic Fest in Austin introducing REC2 (a movie Botet is in) and I met (Mama director) Andy Muschietti. He proposed me to be Mama. How was it working with Guillermo del Toro? Last week I was again in Toronto (the place we…
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