Author: Will Harris

All it took was a quick roll in the rose petals to vault Mena Suvari from small parts to full-fledged movie stardom, but while she’s arguably still best known for her “American” two-fer in 1999 – “American Beauty” and “American Pie” – Suvari has amassed a sizable collection of work over the past decade or so. Right now, she’s in the midst of promoting the film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s “Garden of Eden,” (now available on DVD) which spent a significant length of time in limbo before finally earning a proper release this year. Bullz-Eye chatted with Suvari about her…

When “The Event” joined the NBC schedule back in the fall of 2010, many people took a look at the preview trailer for the series and, without even watching the pilot, decided that they couldn’t be bothered with any show trying so damned hard to be the next “Lost.” Quite a few folks still ended up tuning in for the premiere, of course, but the numbers have been dwindling, and, frankly, most odds makers will shake their head sadly if you ask them about the chances of seeing Season 2 of “The Event.” This will no doubt be disappointing news…

Karen Allen is an actress who’s never been afraid to jump between genres, as evidenced by her roles in such classic films as “Animal House,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Starman,” and “Scrooged.” After becoming a mother in 1990, Allen put her acting career on the back burner, taking fewer and smaller roles in order to spend more time raising her son, but now that the lad has hit the magic age of 18, she’s starting to get back in the swing of things again. Most notably, she reprised the role of Marion Ravenwood in “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom…

Peter Riegert may have slipped comfortably into an acting career where he’s often identified as “that guy I saw on that show” – most recently, he’s had recurring roles on “One Tree Hill” and “The Good Wife,” and you’ve also seen him turn up on “Damages,” “Law & Order: SVU,” and “The Sopranos” – but he first came to fame on the big screen, courtesy of one of the funniest films of all time: “National Lampoon’s Animal House.” Riegert still keeps his eyes open for quality movie work even now, which is how he came to play a part in…

When we walked into the panel for the new season of “Torchwood” during the 2011 Winter TCA Press Tour, we literally only knew two things about the series’ return: it will now be broadcast on Starz, and Mekhi Phifer and Bill Pullman are going to be part of the cast. We thought we knew a third thing – that the subtitle of the series would be “The New World” – but when series mastermind Russell T. Davies took the stage a few moments later to make his brief introductory remarks, we found out that we had been wrong. “The first…

Of the revelations offered by Guy Pearce during our conversation in conjunction with the release of the 10th anniversary Blu-ray of “Memento,” the one which proved the most immediately startling was that he’d most recently seen the film when he was compiling a show reel to spotlight his best work. It’s not that he’d want to include “Memento” – if you’re searching for his signature role, it’s right up there with “L.A. Confidential” – but, rather, that an actor of his caliber and credits should still need to compile a show reel. Upon further consideration, however, it’s hard to deny…

As an actor, Phil Morris comes by his gifts honestly: you may recall that his father, Greg Morris, spent 100+ episodes playing Barney Collier on “Mission: Impossible.” When that series was revived for television in the late 1980s, father and son even had the opportunity to play together for a few episodes. By then, though, Phil was the series regular. Since then, Morris has bounced from genre to genre many, many times, and has seemingly done so with ease, based on his performances on everything from “Smallville” (as J’onn J’onzz, the Martian Manhunter) to “Seinfeld” (as attorney Jackie Chiles). You’ve…

Mimi Rogers is decidedly best known for her work as an actress, but over the past several years, she and her husband, Chris Ciaffa, have found equally honest employment behind the camera, serving as producers on several films made for television. In 2010, however, Rogers and Ciaffa produced their first theatrical release, and it was a doozy: “Unstoppable,” directed by Tony Scott and starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pine. Bullz-Eye was fortunate enough to chat with Rogers in conjunction with “Unstoppable” hitting DVD, and although the conversation was woefully short (we got the “last question” announcement just before hitting the…

You may recognize Fred Melamed from his role as Sy Ableman in the Coen brothers’ “A Serious Man.” Similarly, if Lonny Ross looks familiar, it’s probably because you’ve seen him on “30 Rock.” Put the two of them together, cast the former as an angry old man and the latter as a gay teenage runaway, and you’ve got one of the newest additions to Atom.com’s ever-increasing lineup of web series: “Angry Old Man & Gay Teenage Runaway.” (What, like they were going to call it “The Odd Couple 2011”?) Bullz-Eye had a chance to chat with Ross and Melamed about…

The alternate title of this interview could easily be “Tyler Labine: Repeat Offender.” Not because we’ve interviewed him on several previous occasions (although we have, even having a drink with him, but because he’s been on so many series that – for better or worse – haven’t managed to take off for the long haul, including two Bullz-Eye favorites: “Invasion” and “Reaper.” After surviving the short-lived Fox sitcom “Sons of Tucson,” however, Labine has hopped to CBS and found himself in a series that would seem to be the best bet for success that he’s had in a very long…