Mia Wasikowska beat out thousands of young actresses to land the title role in Tim Burton’s adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. The native Australian is a relative new comer to American audiences, which will undoubtedly change after the release of this film. At only 20 years old she’s landed a gig alongside Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter so when we had the opportunity to attend the official press conference for the film we wanted to know what it was that made her THE Alice.

In the film, Alice is no longer the precocious girl we’re using to seeing and hearing about in popular culture. She’s an adult dealing with some serious challenges regarding her future. During this time her family has marriage on the brain and she feels pressured to conform to what they want despite her own reservations. Wasikowska used her own interpretation of that struggle to make her version of the character truly unique.

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The legendary six-time Oscar winner Arthur Cohn teamed up with British director Udayan Prasad to produce The Yellow Handkerchief, an indie drama hitting theaters nationwide this weekend. The film highlights the lives of three strangers who, through an odd series of events, end up on a road trip through post-Katrina Louisiana in search of a little livin’.

The film was shot two years ago, so it’s easy to assume that the only thing responsible for scoring it’s distribution is the international recognition of co-star Kristen Stewart, who plays Martine, a disaffected teen. Thanks, Twilight! Still, the rest of the cast is pretty stellar with William Hurt, Maria Bello, and Eddie Redmayne whom we had the privilege of sitting down with at a recent press conference.

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I have done a lot of interviews with a variety of people, but never have I sat down with writer, director, producer Uwe Boll and never have I asked some of the questions that FunnyCrave got to ask him including a number of direct jabs at Michael Bay, Megan Fox and basically all of Hollywood put together. Boll is not known for subtly and neither is FunnyCrave. Neither one of them are afraid to throw punches or mock Hollywood and it’s quite obvious when Boll is asked about getting Megan Fox to appear naked and he responds with “She looks like a bitch so why she shouldn’t do it?”

Oh yeah, we’re at that level. Check it out…

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At a recent press conference for Kristen Stewart‘s latest indie flick, The Yellow Handkerchief, also starring Maria Bello and William Hurt, we squeezed a little extra juice out of the actress regarding her upcoming projects.  Stewart recently exploded into prominence after her multi-million dollar success with Stephanie Meyers’ Twilight intoxicated teenage girls all over the universe. Despite the constant tsunami of vampire frenzy, Stewart was surprisingly, well, normal and willing to talk about Twilight and more.

Check out the clips from the interview below…

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“I do the best I can with every movie I make”, was the answer given by Mr Scorsese after being called the “Greatest Living Director” at the Shutter Island Press Conference in London — pretty modest I would say. Martin Scorsese is and always will be the one of the greatest directors to ever hit the film industry. With his career spanning nearly 50 years, he has made some of the most beloved cinematic masterpieces ever created, this includes Goodfellas, Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, finally winning his overdue Best Director Academy Award in 2007 with The Departed, and now he takes on the psychological thriller, Shutter Island.

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There are celebrities and then there are movie stars — actors that take you back to the days when names like Carey Grant and Ingrid Bergman ran Hollywood leaving no room for the “little guy.” A time before all the paparazzi killed the mystery and turned Hollywood into a reality channel. Certain actors harkens back memories of the movie star, Leonardo DiCaprio is lucky enough to still carry some of that old Hollywood charm and did so at the Shutter Island press conference with Martin Scorsese in London.

He started as, “Leo” a teen heartthrob with dreamy blue eyes but with a number of accomplished dramatic roles over the past decade alongside some of the best directors of the past millennium, he has well established himself more as “Leonardo DiCaprio,” a true actor that takes us back to the good ol’ days and can sell a ticket reading a phonebook.

Despite the tabloids exploiting the few pictures of Leo drinking a Latte, we have a pieces from the press conference with DiCaprio where he talks about his true passion, acting. He walks about taking on the most difficult role of his life, why he’s attracted to such dark roles and what drives him…

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From the award winning novel by critically acclaimed author Nicholas Sparks, comes the current box office champ, (breaking Avatar’s record) Dear John. Following in the footsteps of A Walk to Remember and The Notebook, director Lasse Hallstrom plays off that love lorn history to captivate a new audience. The film stars everyone’s favorite heartthrob, Channing Tatum as a soldier who falls in love with a college student while on leave. The always refreshing Amanda Seyfried plays the object of his affection, and adds a breath of fresh air to this 21st century love story.

Here’s what happened when we got the opportunity to speak with Tatum, Seyfried, and the creator of it all, Nicholas Sparks…

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When you’re watching documentary after documentary, at the Sundance Film Festival, it seems like all these different filmmakers are trying to shock you into believing them. From the makers of An Inconvenient Truth, Davis Guggenheim and Leslie Chilcott comes Waiting for Superman, a documentary that isn’t filled with violence or horrifying images, but an important message: How can we solve all the other problems in the world — pollution, corruption, murder — when we can’t even come up with a system to properly educate future generations? At first the problem may seem simple, get better teachers, pay them more! But like many things, the education system is so wrapped up in politics that it seems to have lost its focus: the children.

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Actor, writer, and director Mark Duplass, a star amongst indie filmmakers for his work in Baghead, Puffy Chair and of course Humpday, a film that took a typical bro-mance to the extreme, sat down with ScreecCrave for a moment to chat with us about his latest film at Sundance. At this year’s festival he and his brother Jay got back behind the camera and returned to their comedic roots with their first rom-com ever, Cyrus, only this time they got a couple of A-list celebs to lend them a hand.

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