Top Ten 2012 - Sheila Roberts
1 Lincoln
2 Zero Dark Thirty
3 Moonrise Kingdom
4 Django Unchained
5 Skyfall
6 Amour
7 The Master
8 Life of Pi
9 ParaNorman
10 Beasts of the Southern Wild
Sheila Roberts
Sheila Roberts is an entertainment journalist and film critic who lives in Los Angeles where she interviews leading film and television industry figures and writes about film for a variety of print and online publications including MoviesOnline, Collider, MovieScopeMag, Cineplex and UCLA Magazine. She is a graduate of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and holds an MA in Cinema & Media Studies and an MFA in the Producers Program.
Articles by Sheila Roberts
Julie Delpy talks 2 DAYS IN NEW YORK — Sheila Roberts interviews
In an exclusive interview, the multi-talented writer/director/actress discusses how romance, cultural misunderstanding, life in a bustling metropolis and her love of comedies by Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Ernst Lubitsh and Cary Grant inspired her latest film and why she feels she’s in a good place in her life now and hopes to direct more. Read more>>
Marjane Satrapi talks CHICKEN WITH PLUMS - Sheila Roberts interviews
In an exclusive interview, Oscar-nominated director and acclaimed graphic artist Marjane Satrapi discusses adapting her graphic novel, “Chicken with Plums,” to the big screen and directing her first live-action feature inspired by the second volume in a trilogy that began with “Persepolis.” Read more>>
Directors Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris Talk RUBY SPARKS - Sheila Roberts interviews
The married directing duo discuss RUBY SPARKS, their long-awaited follow-up to their runaway hit, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE. Read more>>
Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu Talk ELEMENTARY - Sheila Roberts interviews
Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu discuss their new television series, ELEMENTARY, intelligent writing, and taking risks. Read more>>
Oliver Stone Talks SAVAGES - Sheila Roberts interviews
Three-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone returns to the screen with the ferocious thriller Savages, based on Don Winslow’s best-selling crime novel. The film tells the tale of two Laguna Beach entrepreneurs who run a lucrative, homegrown industry raising some of the best marijuana ever developed until the Mexican Baja Cartel decides to move in. Read more>>
Salma Hayek & Blake Lively Talk SAVAGES - Sheila Roberts interviews
Salma Hayek and Blake Lively reveal how their characters evolved from book to screen, what the directing process was like with Oliver Stone, how they each faced off with Benicio del Toro’s character, and why so many big moments in the film were not on the page. Read more>>
Benh Zeitlin, Quvenzhané Wallis & Dwight Henry Talk BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD - Sheila Roberts interviews
Shooting on location in the coastal parishes of Louisiana, director Benh Zeitlin casts local non-actors in the lead roles of Beasts of the Southern Wild, a spellbinding adventure set just past the known edges of the American Bayou, in a forgotten but defiant community known as The Bathtub. Read more>>
Jonathan Demme Talks NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS - Sheila Roberts interviews
Academy Award winning filmmaker Jonathan Demme embarks on a road trip with Neil Young in his 1956 Crown Victoria as he drives from his idyllic hometown of Omemee, Ontario to downtown Toronto’s iconic Massey Hall to perform the last two nights of his solo world tour. Read more>>
Virginia Madsen & Morgan Freeman Talk THE MAGIC OF BELLE ISLE - Sheila Roberts interviews
The actors discuss their new Rob Reiner comedy-drama, The Magic of Belle Isle, about a man who’s given up on life and a woman and her three daughters who renew his will to live when he becomes their next door neighbor during one summer in a small upstate New York lakeside town. Read more>>