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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.

After the intention of "Godzilla Minus Zero", a follow-up was inevitable but the trick was to try to make it bigger while still pulling at the heartstrings. The first one comparably has a more existential element in who is Godzilla and his destructive power. It took a smaller story about a pilot wanting to find a way back home, especially after the war and make something better. Godzilla, as always, is a metaphor beyond anything else.

The aesthetic of surrealism is based in the idea of what the end game of a character is. "The Cat In The Hat", like the "Monsters Inc." crew later are doing a job but it comes down to the endgame. Bill Hader provides the voice of Cat and that manic connotation of what the Cat actually represents is a really cool motif of the film. It uses certain essences of the concept of say "Inside Out" but using a more linear progression.

With some of the previews, one would suspect that "Wicker" is Much more naughty than it is. Though it does play to that inherent strength and novelty, it is surprisingly sweet but it is an innocuous fable on class and social norms. The spin has to do with Peter Dinklage’s character who can somehow make a living creator from wicker (or other materials for that matter).

Special Creature Effects Supervisor Neal Scanlan talks to The Inside Reel about humanity, old school inspiration, the balance curve and cinematic scale in regards to the digital/in-home release of "Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker.”