Creator/Writer/Director/Actor Mackenzie Crook and Lead Actor Pearce Quigley talk to The Inside Reel about approach, cadence, situational comedy, context and heart in regards to their new series: “Small Prophets” on Apple TV.

Actor Waleed Zuaiter talks to The Inside Reel about his personal perspective, seeing how to be able to take on the role and the Darwinian concept of the man in the limited series: "High Value Target: The Hunt For Saddam Hussein" on TNT.

Actor Waleed Zuaiter talks to The Inside Reel about the psychology of Saddam Hussein, the corrolation of history and worldview and physically manifesting the man on screen in the limited series: "High Value Target: The Hunt For Saddam Hussein" on TNT.

Stephen Chow created one of the best crossover comedies back in the early 2000s with "Kung Fu Hustle" but afterwards worked mostly in China which made sense due to the burgeoning Chinese film industry there. "Kung Fu Soccer" is his most expensive film yet but harks back by design to "Shaolin Soccer" where he burst into the international cinema with a bombastic kung fu approach to sports. He starred in that film and it shares DNA here.

A video game adaptation can be done many ways but it depends who is adapting it. They can be done larger that life but the way the humor and the play of it works is key. "Street Fighter" wants to be fun but makes so much fun of itself while trying to have some real moments that is becomes embarrassingly stupid while still having a couple really cool sequences.

The interesting element of "Whalefall", as shown by the trailers, is can that function of the story sustain for a feature length film? The truth is it can using specific structural character points that make a lot of sense even if the actual physical aspect within the whale requires more than a little suspension of disbelief.