Chilean filmmaker Sebastian Silva, born in Santiago, Chile, grew up in a big house, with his family and a live-in-maid always around. At a young age, he was intrigued, some­times annoyed, sometimes comforted, by the presence of an addi­tional authority figure, the maid, not a family member per se, but close enough.

First time feature film director Ruben Fleischer admits he had no business directing the action-comedy roller-coaster ride Zombieland. Starring Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg, the film is a zombie-slayin’ badass of a good time. “I had no right getting this job,” Fleisch­er confesses.

The curtain opens to a sparse living room in a French cottage where a young woman bathes herself. Her angst-ridden father enters in a dapper suit waging a confrontation. The woman stands from her tub, defiant, dripping wet, and fully nude. Welcome to Phyllis Nagy’s “Never Land.” “Peter Pan” this ain’t.

The reimagining of Monty Python and the Holy Grail as “Spamalot,” a Broadway musical, finally gives The Lady of the Lake the credit she’s due. It took over three decades, but the sentiment that “strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government,” now takes a back seat to her role as muse, wise coun­sel, and over-the-top diva.

Take Mad Max as an example,” recounts director Mark Hartley. “On the first day of the shoot, Grant Page, the stunt coordinator, has got the lead actress on the back of his motorcycle on the way to the set. What they were doing the night before, I’ll leave up to your imagination. He’s driving down the road early in the morning, and a semi-trailer is coming towards them. The sun is blaring in the truck driver’s eyes and he doesn’t see them.

Since he stopped waiting tables and started living his dream as a working actor, David Blue has racked up an impressive resume on shows such as the ‘tweener sitcom “The Suite Life of Zack and Cody,” and the teen detective drama “Veronica Mars.” He’s also had recurring roles as photographer Cliff St. Paul on ABC’s hit sitcom, “Ugly Betty,” and as techno­geek vampire Logan Griffen on CBS’ cult favorite, “Moonlight.”

In the early ’60s, Britain had not quite started swing­ing yet, but it was about to. While we were driving Cadillacs and generally thinking big here in post-war America, much of Britain was still in economic and emo­tional recovery from WWII at the dawn of that decade. If you had to pick a color scheme to represent the mood of the time, it would be a light grey, with some vibrant primary shades starting to bleed in from the edges.

Actress Lara Pulver, best known in her native England for her role as the troubled Isabella on the hit BBC series “Robin Hood,” makes her Los Angeles stage debut at the Mark Taper Forum in “Parade,” the grip­ping Tony Award-winning musical, and she couldn’t be happier to be in the City of Angels.

“I’ve been hiking in LA loads, which I love. We did the backbone trail around Topanga Canyon the other day.