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Giga Chikadze started off as a Goju-Ryu Karate fighter at the age of 14 in Eastern Europe, making his professional kickboxing debut, now Chikadze has transitioned to Mixed Martial Arts and holds a 10-2 record. On Saturday, October 10, 2020, Chikadze will be facing Venezuelan striker, Omar Morales, a 10-0 fighter in the Lightweight, 155 lb. weight division. We spoke to Chikadze about his upcoming f...

Since 1990, I have been watching Mrs. Foley's Baby Boy as Good Ol' "JR" Jim Ross loved to call him, jump off ring aprons, dropping elbows on opponents to the hard concrete. I've watched him compete in Japanese Death Matches and be thrown off a 15-foot high Hell in the Cell cage by The Undertaker and the one thing that surprised me post about Mick Foley as his role of Nick in 12 Hour Shift was that...

Showrunners Moshe Zonder ( Fauda , Loners ) & Dana Eden  ( Yom Haem , Magpie ) bring to the United States the Israeli espionage series Tehran to Apple TV+. Tehran follows a young Mossad operative named Tamar (Ziv Sultan), who goes on her first assignment in her native Iran. Tamar is a Mizarhi Jew that grew up in Israel and now deals with the struggles of being a stranger in her homeland,...

Shaun Toub is a world renound actor. You have seen him the Iron Man franchise, Blood & Oil , The Kite Runner , Snowpiercer , Maryam and The Sopranos just to name a few. Toub is now part of an ensemble cast for the Israeli series Tehran, which beings streaming on Apple TV+ on Friday, September 25, 2020. The series is created by Dana Eden, Moshe Zonder, Moar Khon and Omri Shenhar. A couple of th...

Director and Producer, Amir Amirani takes us back to February 15, 2003 when the world stood together in solidary against the coming war in Iraq. Amirani, who was at the Berlin Film Festival at that time and took part in the events in Germany took 9 years to make We Are Many , a documentary that chronicles the largest protest in the history of the world as nearly 30 million people took part in as i...

Phyllis Stuart is the creator, writer and director of the documentary, Wild Daze. A film that originally started off following the poaching on the African continent of the majestic elephants who are being slaughtered for their tusks. However, what started off as something that was against big game hunting evolved into a project that focused on the peoples of the continent, the desire for biodivers...

He has been known by many names, Johnny Nitro, Johnny Mundo, Johnny Impact, Johnny Ultra, John Morrison but no matter what you call him, John Hennigan is a tremendous talent that is not only an incredible athlete, a parkour king but overall a really pleasant guy to be around. Hennigan stars in the new short film entitled Speed of Time , which had a two night run at Dances With Films and will be ma...

Flying ace and Topgun pilot, instructor and all around man's man, Commander Guy M. Snodgrass has written a new book entitled TOPGUN'S TOP 10: Leadership Lessons from the Cockpit . Commander Snodgrass is not only a pilot but has worked as former Director of Communications and Chief Speechwriter to former Secretary of Defense James Mattis. We spoke with Commander Snodgrass about a couple of lesson's...

S. Preston, a nationally known illustrator, is melding sports and classic cartoons with the debut of officially licensed Minimalist Baseball Bugs - MLB Edition prints. Preston has collaborated with Chuck Jones Gallery™ and Major League Baseball to bring fourth his style of art not only to celebrate the national past-time but also the 80 anniversary of that scwey wabbit! Inspired by the Looney Tune...

Celeste M. Cooper was born to play this part...or at least trained for it by force as a child. Cooper, was a track, basketball and swimming star who's father was tough when it came to being the best at the sports she participated in. Fast forward a few years and we come to Range Runner , a film described as: A woman thru-hiking an isolated trail runs into trouble when her pack is hijacked by two m...

I have a tendency to refer to Kat Foster as my, "Fellow May, Bay Area, Baby," because we were both born in the Bay Area and I'm two weeks older than her. Putting that ever-so-slight bias aside, I spoke with Foster and writer/director Gina O'Brien about their new tennis comedy coming to VOD on Tuesday, September 8, 2020 entitled, First One In . Foster plays Madi, a former high school tennis star th...

Directed by Sanjay Rawal, Gather is a documentary Executive Produced by Jason Momoa about the intimate portrait of a growing movement amongst Indigenous Americans to reclaim their spiritual and cultural identities through obtaining sovereignty over their ancestral food systems, while battling against the historical trauma brought on by centuries of genocide. The documentary follows the individual...

Producer, actress and filmmaker Xenia Leblanc (Orange Is the New Black)'s female-driven web series Gritty & Pretty , which will premiere its pilot episode at the Dances with Films festival on September 5, 2020 with a second screening scheduled for Sunday, September 6th. Leblanc's series was accepted into the festival's 2020 Web and TV Series slate. The series took seven days to film and an $11...

Rarely do I fanboy out hard in an interview, but I've known Vampiro (aka Ian Hodgkinson) for a few years and the last time we spoke was during the final season of Lucha Underground. Vampiro has lived quite an interesting life from being a bodyguard for Milli Vanilli to becoming a Lucha Libre sensation in Mexico. The guy brought The Misfits to WCW for-crying-out-loud and is a consummate professiona...

Performing on Saturday, August 29, 2020 at the Ventura County Fairgrounds, Fitz and the Tantrums takes to the stage in CBF Productions, Concerts in Your Car , California’s first socially-distanced concert and entertainment venue. The special popup style of events will take place through the end of September at the Ventura County Fairgrounds parking lot. We spoke with Noelle Scaggs of Fitz and the...

Roughly two decades ago, Hollywood crossed over with professional wrestling, when the first time in history, an actor became the world heavyweight champion as David Arquette won the World Championship Wrestling (WCW) title on an episode of Thursday Night Thunder that aired on TBS. This was all in part to Arquette being a lifelong wrestling fan and the cross promotion for his then upcoming film, Re...

A film that was thought to be lost to the ages that is finally seeing the light of day is Chief Zabu . A comedy that was inspired by our current incumbent 30 years prior to him revealing political aspirations. Filmmakers Zach Norman (who plays Sammy in Chief Zabu ) and writer/producer/director Neil Cohen spoke to me the other day on the significance of the film, how dirty and underhanded politics...

Ron Funches is one of the funniest comedians out on there today. On top of the stresses of living in a pandemic filled world, Funches remains active in his home life as a husband and father. To put the proverbial icing on the cake, Funches has also lost and maintained losing 140 lbs, where as most people have gained the quarantine fifteen. We spoke to Funches about stand-up, weight loss, family li...

Scottish born actress, Ruth Connell who played Rowena MacLeod on the smash hit CW series Supernatural , will be apart of a virtual Q&A panel alongside friend and bellow actress Lotte Verbeek from Outlander , on Saturday, August 22, 2020 at noon Pacific time via a, "Pay what you can" through StageIt. We had our own virtual conversation with Ruthie (as she refers to herself) about the series, th...

When I first heard Jim McBride AKA Mr. Skin on The Howard Stern Show back in the 1990s. I thought his premise for a website was absolutely ridiculous, I mean an entire site just dedicated to nude scenes in film? Who's got the time just to fast forward that far ahead and break it down to the exact minute? Well, the joke was on me as two decades later, McBride continues to go strong in his endeavors...

Paul Fishbein isn't a household name, but he has done his fair share for the Adult Entertainment Industry. Fishbein is the founder of Adult Video News and the creator of the AVN Awards. He sold AVN Media Network in 2010 and formed Plausible Films, an independent production company. Fishbein's company has released a three-part documentary, Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All-Time , and being...

The last time I spoke with the producing team of Christa Campbell and Lati Grobman, we discussed their two action movies that were hitting theaters, Angel Has Fallen and Rambo: Last Blood . This time we are discussing their latest film Tesla , staring Ethan Hawke and Kyle MacLachlan as Thomas Edison. The founders of Campbell Grobman Films have also found success with the Texas Chainsaw Massacre fr...

Garo Setian proves in his labor of love that a science fiction film with a heart can be made on a limited budget, especially when the story is told properly. In his first full-length feature film Automation , Setian, wrote, directed and produced a movie about a military robot that was reprogrammed for civilian work that lead to the replacement of human workers, causing a retaliation that rebooted...

Season Two of The Amazon Prime hit series The Boys begins streaming on the service beginning September 4, 2020. Based on the comic book created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, the series follows the theme of the comic without going full blown, "What the heck did I just watch?" We caught up with Karl Urban aka Billy Butcher and Laz Alonso aka Mother's Milk to discuss the second season, the evo...

I have never felt so emasculated as when I spoke with Chris Bombardier about his new documentary Bombardier Blood . Bombardier at the time of the filming of this documentary had already climbed five of the seven's world largest mountains. What makes this documentary unique is that Bombardier is a hemophiliac. According to the Mayo Clinic, Hemophilia is a rare disorder in which your blood doesn't c...