Buffy the Vampire Slayer

iVillage.com has this neat little editorial by staff writer Jackie Garfinkel about how her love of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series actually ended two of her romantic relationships.

"Well, about 30 minutes into the episode -- I kid you not -- the phone rang. And, yes, it was my boyfriend, Chris. And yes, my heart sank as I realized he was calling to break up. Sitting on my couch, with my TV on mute, I watched Riley and Buffy end their relationship yet again, while simultaneously listening to a guy end a relationship with me. Yet again."

It gets funnier. Enjoy the article.

We're super excited because actress/writer/director Juliet Landau's funny, cutting-edge short documentary Take Flight is out on February 25th, 2010. Landau's doc follows actor Gary Oldman as he shoots a music video entirely on his Nokia telephone. He asked Juliet to direct a behind the scenes "making-of" and her take on the ensuing madness bloomed into a documentary that is awesome.

“It’s like being inside his brain...seeing through his eyes,” says Landau, who reveals Oldman in a fascinating light: playful, funny, joyous, fluid, capturing his childlike exploration and an uncharted perspective on the artist....

Two-time Academy Award-winning actress Hilary Swank will be honored with the "Hollywood Actress Award" at the The 13th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Awards today, October 26th.

Swank stars in the 2010 thriller The Resident about a doctor who suspects she may not be alone in her Brooklyn loft, and learns that her landlord has formed a frightening obsession with her. Swank's other genre credits include Brian De Palma's real-life crime drama The Black Dahlia, opposite Josh Hartnett and Scarlett Johansson, Sam Raimi's The Gift, with Cate Blanchett and Keanu Reeves, Christopher Nolan's Insomnia, opposite Al Pacino and Robin Williams, The Reaping, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Interview by Nic Brown

It is easy for an actress to become stereotyped into one sort of role. This can be especially true when the actress in question is best known for her role in show with a cult following as strong as Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer. But actress Amber Benson who played Tara Maclay, a fan favorite and part of one of the first openly gay couples on mainstream television, is no ordinary actress. In fact, just calling her an actress is selling her talents short. While still working on Buffy, Amber wrote and directed her first feature film: Chance. She hasn’t limited herself to film and television either. Amber has also co-written the Ghosts of Albion series as well as a number of graphic novels with writer Chris Golden and she’s just released her first solo novel Death’s Daughter...