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Born in Waco, Texas, Peri Gilpin grew up in Dallas, where her family encouraged her acting abilities. After studying at the Dallas Theater Center, she pursued acting at the University of Texas at Austin and then at London's British-American Academy. She appeared in guest roles on such popular situation comedies as Designing Women (1986), Cheers (1982) and Wings (1990), where she worked with the late producer, Roz Doyle, the namesake of her character on Frasier (1993). Follow Illeana Douglas...

Director/Producer Amanda Ladd-Jones is Alan Ladd, Jr.’s youngest daughter from his first marriage. She was born in London, six weeks before her father—Laddie, as he’s known to his friends—moved the entire family back to L.A. to begin his famously successful stint at 20th Century Fox. Amanda’s film education began at a very young age, seated on the floor of her father’s screening room while he ran movies for the industry’s most accomplished filmmakers. Between spending time on that screening...

A. S. Hamrah is the author of The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing, 2002-2018 (n+1 Books) and the film critic for The Baffler. He was n+1’s film critic from 2008-2019 and was the editor of their film review supplement. Hamrah also writes for a number of other publications including Harper’s and Bookforum. He has worked as a movie theater projectionist, a semiotic brand analyst, a political pollster, a football cinematographer, a zine writer, and for the film director Raúl Ruiz. He lives in...

#PopcornTalk #TheFilmScene #Homecoming Our guests got their start in podcasting, with Gimlet Media's breakthrough podcast Homecoming, which made a national impression when adapted into an Amazon Show of the same name starring Julia Roberts! On today's show, we talk about the twisty first season, what to expect for season 2, and what's next for the brilliant showrunners. @thePopcornTalk @IlleanaDouglas Every day is an adventure. Make sure to subscribe to Popcorn Talk! -...

Stern worked as a reporter for Fortune and Money magazines and as an editor and award-winning columnist for the Scarsdale Inquirer before she started freelance writing. Her column, “Suburban Exposure,” covered politics and contemporary culture as well as her family and community, but she discontinued it after her sons left home and stopped providing her with material. She has freelanced for numerous publications including the New York Times. In addition to an undergraduate degree in history,...

#PopcornTalk #TheFilmScene #IlleanaDouglas Our guest today, writer/director Jonathan Goldstein, has his hand in some of the greatest studio comedies of the last decade. With writing and/or directing credits on films like VACATION, HORRIBLE BOSSES, and GAME NIGHT, he's maintaining an art for the studio comedy when that art seems to be slowly disappearing.

#PopcornTalk #TheFilmScene #IlleanaDouglas From Hal Himself...I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, raised in Kentucky – a little town called Peaks Mill. Don’t strain your brain, you’ve never heard of it. I lived in the sticks, I was a boy Scout, started taking karate there when I was 8 years old, saw The Shining when I was 7, didn’t have a TV so I spent most of my life listening to comedy records – when I wasn’t at the movies.

#TheFilmScene #IlleanaDouglas #AlanKRode Alan K. Rode’s affinity for classic cinema is part of his DNA. His mother grew up in Hollywood and was an extra in Our Gang comedy shorts and studied acting at Ben Bard Drama. His grandfather was a silent film violinist who went from bit actor to Universal Studios house composer and eventually founded Corelli-Jacobs Recording Inc. A great-uncle doubled Gary Cooper in The Virginian (1929) and fought Jack Dempsey. Yet another grandfather promoted rodeos...

Paul Fishbein, creator of the internationally broadcast AVN Awards Show, sold AVN Media Network in 2010 and formed Plausible Films, an independent production company. Plausible Films is known for the documentary X-Rated: The Greatest Adult Movies of All-Time, The Sex Awards, and the original series Sex with Sunny Megatron (co-produced with The Jay & Tony Show), all broadcast on Showtime Networks. Plausible recently finished a two-part documentary, Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of...

 Illeana takes more fan questions and continues to dig into her incredible career! She is a member of the Women Film Critics Circle.  For two years, she hosted the podcast Fear(ful)less: Filmmaking From the Edge, a monthly window into the successes, failures, and conversations of an independent filmmaker, which is available on iTunes and GooglePlay. Make sure to subscribe to Popcorn Talk! - http://youtube.com/popcorntalknetwork  HELPFUL LINKS: Website - http://popcorntalk.com Follow us on...

#PopcornTalk #TheFilmScene She is a member of the Women Film Critics Circle. For two years, she hosted the podcast Fear(ful)less: Filmmaking From the Edge, a monthly window into the successes, failures, and conversations of an independent filmmaker, which is available on iTunes and GooglePlay. @jeffreycgraham Make sure to subscribe to Popcorn Talk! - http://youtube.com/popcorntalknetwork

#PopcornTalk #TheFilmScene #ChristinaLane Christina Lane is Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Interactive Media at the University of Miami, where she also directs the Norton Herrick Center for Motion Picture Studies. She teaches courses on film history, women and media, and directors. Her scholarship focuses on silent cinema, classic Hollywood, and contemporary American independent film. Dr. Lane is the author of the forthcoming book, Phantom Lady: Hollywood...

#IlleanaDouglas #TheFilmScene #NaomiMcDougalJones Naomi McDougall Jones is an award-winning actress, writer, producer, and women in film activist. Naomi wrote, produced, and starred in the 2014 indie feature film, Imagine I'm Beautiful, which took home 12 awards on the film festival circuit including 4 Best Pictures and, for Naomi, 3 Best Actress Awards and The Don Award for Best Independently Produced Screenplay of 2014. The film was named as #8 of OscarWorld's Top 10 Films of 2014 and was...

#PopcornTalk #TheFilmScene #BrianKoppelman Koppelman was born on April 27, 1966 in Roslyn Harbor,[6] New York to a Jewish family, the son of Brenda "Bunny" Koppelman and Charles Koppelman. His father was a producer and media executive. Koppelman holds degrees from Tufts University and Fordham University School of Law. Career He first started managing local Long Island bands as a teenager. He would also book bands at a local nightclub. Through booking acts, he came into contact with Eddie...

#DeeWallace #TheFilmScene #IlleanaDouglas Wallace began her career on television appearing in episodes of The Streets of San Francisco, Starsky and Hutch and Police Woman, before appearing in the box-office horror hit film The Hills Have Eyes (1977). In 1981, she played a leading role in the another horror film, The Howling opposite her husband Christopher Stone. They later starred together in Cujo (1983) based on Stephen King's 1981 novel of the same name. In 1982, Wallace went to star in...

#TheFilmScene #IlleanaDouglas #AnnaBiller Today we feature groundbreaking feminist writer/director Anna Biller. Biller is an independent American filmmaker who has directed two feature films. Biller consciously explores feminist themes throughout her work, including exploring the female gaze in cinema. She is vocal on both her website and in interviews about gender inequalities in the film industry. Her most recent feature, The Love Witch, is listed at number 41 on Rotten Tomatoes' list of...

#IlleanaDouglas #DennisChristopher #TheFilmScene Dennis Christopher (born Dennis Carrelli; December 2, 1955) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in Breaking Away (1979), Fade to Black (1980), It (1990), Chariots of Fire (1981), and Django Unchained (2012). He has appeared in nearly 40 movies and made-for-TV movies since 1975. Make sure to subscribe to Popcorn Talk! - http://youtube.com/popcorntalknetwork

Today, we're thrilled to welcome actor Tia Carrera. While attending Sacred Hearts Academy, Tia was discovered in a Waikiki grocery store and landed the female lead in the film Aloha Summer. Although her passion has always been singing (grandmother Rae took Tia to her first singing lesson at age 11), Tia would continue her ascent in the acting world with a regular stint on General Hospital as Jade Soong and a string of co-starring roles on MacGyver, Quantum Leap, Married With Children, and...

Today, we're thrilled to welcome actor and director John Caroll Lynch: He first gained notice for his role as Norm Gunderson in Fargo. He is also known for his television work on the ABC sitcom The Drew Carey Show as the title character's cross-dressing brother, Steve Carey, as well as on American Horror Story: Freak Show and American Horror Story: Cult as Twisty the Clown. He returned to American Horror Story as a series regular, in American Horror Story: 1984, to portray Benjamin Richter,...

TBD#PopcornTalk #DolemiteIsMyName #ScottAlexander #LarryKaraszewski  Hollywood writing team and industry staples Larry Karaszewski chat with Illeana and Jeff about Dolemite Is My Name, including Eddie's Murphy's process, Craig Robinson's Piano Skills, and that Epic Final Shot!  Make sure to subscribe to Popcorn Talk! - http://youtube.com/popcorntalknetwork  HELPFUL LINKS: Website - http://popcorntalk.com Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/thepopcorntalk Merch -...

#TheFilmScene #MovieLittleChristmas #AlonsoDuralde Today, we chat with noted film critic Alonso Duralde - the critic expert on Christmas films - and each of us are going to discuss our top 5 Christmas films! More on Alonso: he was the artistic director at the USA Film Festival/Dallas for five years. He was also the former arts and entertainment editor at the national gay and lesbian magazine The Advocate. In 2007, he became the film critic for MSNBC.com, and in 2009, his reviews began...

#TheFilmScene #MattOswalt #IlleanaDouglas Illeana is joined by special guest Matt Oswalt on today's episode! Make sure to subscribe to Popcorn Talk! - http://youtube.com/popcorntalknetwork

#TheFilmScene #JasonClark #IlleanaDouglas Jason Clark is a producer in the world of live-action and CGI feature films and television programs. He recently served as executive producer on the Jackie Robinson biographical sports film, 42 (2013), released by Warner Bros. on April 12, 2013. Prior to that, Clark produced Seth MacFarlane's blockbuster film, Ted (2012), released by Universal on June 29, 2012. This CG comedy went on to be the highest-grossing, original R-rated comedy of all-time,...