EASTERN PROMISES is a gloriously dark and compelling thriller that plays cat and mouse with its audience the way that the characters involved play cat and mouse with each other. The tension, though, in this well-plotted suspense yarn arises not so much from the evil that the villains purvey, it’s the way that the underworld… Read More »
Barrie Osborne Welcomes LORD OF THE RINGS – RETURN OF THE KING
When I got word that I’d be talking with producer Barrie Osborne, I didn’t have to think twice about the first thing I wanted to ask him. Taking on the LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy was something that no one had done before, so what prepares you for it? Then, of course, when we could expect… Read More »
David Cronenberg & Viggo Mortensen Make EASTERN PROMISES
Click here to listen to the interview. When I talked with Viggo Mortensen and David Cronenberg about EASTERN PROMISES on August 24, 2007, it was just a matter of time before the steam bath came up. In one of Cronenberg’s most audacious sequences, Mortensen, wearing only his manly pride, engages in a brutal knife-fight with two assailants. I saved… Read More »