Author: Will Harris

Either Tyler Labine is such a great actor that you can’t tell when he’s acting, or he’s not actually acting at all. It’s probably a little bit of both, but after speaking with him in conjunction with the return of “Reaper” to The CW’s airwaves, it’s pretty clear that, at the very least, there’s a whole lot of Labine in the character of Sock. (It probably doesn’t hurt that he has a certain amount of wiggle room when it comes to the script.) Bullz-Eye talked to Labine about his work on the series and how psyched he was to get…

Billy West has voiced animated characters ranging from Ren and Stimpy to the Honey Nut Cheerios Bee and spent many hours on various spots on your radio dial, but at present, he’s probably best known for his work as Philip J. Fry on “Futurama.” The series lost its battle against cancellation, but like another animated series on Fox, it has since risen from the dead as a result of ceaseless reruns and has spawned a new series of feature-length movies. The first in the bunch, “Bender’s Big Score,” was released on DVD in November and is now making its basic…

When “30 Rock” hit the airwaves in the fall of 2006, it had just as much chance of failing as it did succeeding, thanks to the unlikely coincidence of being one of two series with a premise revolving around the backstage antics at a sketch-comedy show. Sure, “30 Rock” had the credentials to be more authentic, given that its star and creator was a former head writer and a performer for “Saturday Night Live,” but, still, the competition – “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” – had the combined efforts of Aaron Sorkin and Matthew Perry! No dice, “Studio 60.”…

It was a role in Alan Parker’s 1976 film, “Bugsy Malone,” that first brought Dexter Fletcher to the eyes of the world. Subsequent parts in “The Elephant Man,” “The Long Good Friday,” The Bounty” and “Revolution” kept his resume steadily growing, but it was his role as Spike Thomson in the BBC series “Press Gang” that really made him into a proper star in the U.K. Here in the States, he’s probably best known for his roles in “Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels” or as SSgt. John Martin in HBO’s “Band of Brothers,” but aficionados of BBC America will…

The problem with trying to successfully translate comic books into live-action motion pictures has always been a balance of the economic and the creative. You’ve got to have the money to make the drawings on the page come to life on the screen, and you’ve got to walk the tightrope of changing the look of things so they don’t appear completely laughable when translated into a real-world setting. Alas, the problem is that some properties are only viable in animation, and when you think “animated superheroes,” you think “something for the kids.” The only real exception that leaps to mind…

He’s a stuntman by trade, but if you ask a well-informed sci-fi fan who Dick Durock is, the immediately reply is, “He’s the guy who played Swamp Thing!” And they’ll be right: Durock played the famed DC Comics muck monster in both of his cinematic exploits (1982’s “Swamp Thing” and 1989’s “Return of Swamp Thing”), then reprised the role for the full run of the USA Network series based on the character. We spoke to Durock on the occasion of the release of the first two seasons of “Swamp Thing: The Series” on DVD, quizzing him about his experiences on…

Though he’s instantly recognizable for his breakthrough role as Soviet boxer Ivan Drago in “Rocky IV,” Dolph Lundgren continued to earn a steady paycheck throughout the late ’80s and early ’90s, racking up decent box office numbers with “Masters of the Universe,” “Universal Soldier,” “Red Scorpion,” and the highly underrated “I Come In Peace.” (He also teamed with the late Brandon Lee for “Showdown in Little Tokyo.”) Though he’s mostly been riding the straight-to-video rails for the last several years, Lundgren’s recently started to find his way behind the camera, most recently writing, directing, and starring in “Missionary Man.” Bullz-Eye…

There have been plenty of times in his career when Martin Lawrence has been dismissed as the poor man’s Eddie Murphy, and, okay, you can kind of see why people might make the comparison: he’s done the obligatory black-guy-teams-up-with-white-guy buddy pictures (“Nothing to Lose” with Tim Robbins, “National Security” with Steve Zahn), donned a fat suit (the “Big Momma’s House” flicks), and even voiced an animated character (“Open Season”). Recently, however, Lawrence ventured into a genre that Murphy’s never gone anywhere near: the ensemble comedy. Granted, it was a little surreal to see our man Martin in “Wild Hogs” and…

He hasn’t been a part of the team’s line-up for more than two decades, but there are only a handful of names as immediately identified with the Harlem Globetrotters as the legendary Curly Neal. Born Fred Neal, our man Curly joined the ‘Trotters in 1963, and he dribbled and shot his way to superstardom, which is why he’s one of only five alumni of the organization to earn the honor of having his number – 22 – retired from the roster. We spoke with Neal on the occasion of the upcoming MyNetworkTV special, “The Harlem Globetrotters: A New Generation,” airing…

Zachary Levi first started making his mark in television during his four years as a cast member of ABC’s underrated sitcom, “Less Than Perfect,” but the Fall 2007 season brought him new levels of fame as the title character of NBC’s “Chuck.” In addition, however, he’s got a side gig as a film producer, serving in that capacity in the indie thriller, “Spiral,” in which he also co-stars. We spoke with Levi about the process of getting “Spiral” off the ground, how things are going with his series, how much acting is involved in his performance as Chuck Bartowski, and…