Author: Nick

Tom Cruise Likes To Go Fast In ‘Jack Reacher’ Featurette

When filming “Jack Reacher,” Tom Cruise presented director Christopher McQuarrie with a unique problem. Most actors do not do their own stunt driving and therefore require stand-ins and crafty camera work to create the illusion that they do. As we see in this exclusive featurette from the Best Buy edition of the “Jack Reacher” Blu-ray, Cruise required the opposite.

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Matthew McConaughey Won’t Say Anything About Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’

There are only a handful of people in Hollywood that have the inside scoop on “Interstellar,” the upcoming science fiction film from Christopher Nolan, and one of those people happens to be on a press tour right now promoting a movie. MTV News’ Josh Horowitz sat down with Matthew McConaughey, the man tapped to star in the time travel movie, and he kept a pretty tight lid on what’s going on with “Interstellar.” He couldn’t even really discuss how he came to join the project for the sake of keeping company secrets. “Oh, I can tell you a little bit, but even that is sort of under lock and key.

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A new kind of summer job: open source coding with Google Summer of Code

If you’re a university student with CS chops looking to earn real-world experience this summer, consider writing code for a cool open source project with the Google Summer of Code program. Over the past eight years more than 6,000 students have “graduated” from this global program, working with almost 400 different open source projects. Students who are accepted into the program will put the skills they have learned in university to good use by working on an actual software project over the summer

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