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FRASIER: Actress Toks Olagundoye on Season 2 of the sitcom reboot – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 10/27/2024
Toks Olagundoye is Olivia in FRASIER - Season 2 - "The Dedication" | ©2024 Paramount+/Chris Haston

FRASIER, now in its second season streaming on Paramount Plus, is not so much a reboot as a revival. The comedy series picks up from the earlier FRASIER, which won five Emmys for Outstanding Comedy Series, that ran for eleven seasons, 1993-2004, on NBC. (The original FRASIER was a spinoff of NBC’s also multi-Emmy-winning CHEERS, which ran on NBC 1982-1993.) Kelsey Grammer won four Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series Emmys in FRASIER’s original run as tightly-wound psychiatrist Frasier Crane. In the original FRASIER, Frasier had moved from Boston back to his hometown of Seattle, where he hosted a […]Read On »


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SMILE 2: Actor Peter Jacobson on costarring in the Parker Finn directed new sequel – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 10/26/2024
Actor PETER JACOBSON | ©2024 photographer Luke Fontana

In screenwriting lore, there is a character often referred to as “Morris the Explainer.” This is the person who shows up in the story to deliver the exposition that there’s just no other way of providing to either the other characters or the audience. In SMILE 2, which opened in theatres on Friday, October 18, that character is literally named Morris. Played by Peter Jacobson, he’s the one who relates the workings of a malevolent supernatural entity to troubled pop star Skye Riley (Naomi Scott). We first encountered the viral curse demon in 2022’s SMILE which, like SMILE 2, is […]Read On »


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Movie Review: VENOM: THE LAST DANCE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 10/25/2024
VENOM: THE LAST DANCE movie poster | ©2024 Sony/Columbia/Marvel

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Tom Hardy, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Juno Temple, Stephen Graham, Rhys Ifans, Alanna Ubach, Clark Backo, Cristo Fernández, Peggy Lu, Hala Finley, Dash McCloud Writer: Kelly Marcel, story by Kelly Marcel & Tom Hardy, based on the Marvel Comics by Todd McFarlane and David Michelinie Director: Kelly Marcel Distributor: Sony/Columbia/Marvel Release Date: October 25, 2024 Who is VENOM: THE LAST DANCE for? It’s certainly for fans of Tom Hardy, who is back as Eddie Brock and the voice of his alien symbiote Venom. It’s even more for those who enjoy watching all sorts of CGI monsters battle it out […]Read On »


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Movie Review: MADS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
MADS movie poster | ©2024 Capella Film/Shudder

Rating: TV-MA Stars: Lucille Guillaume, Laurie Pavy, Milton Riche, Yovel Lewkowski, Sasha Rudakowa, Vincent Pasdermadjian Writer: David Moreau Director: David Moreau Distributor: Capella Film/Shudder Release Date: October 18, 2024 (Shudder) MADS is made to look as though it was shot in one continuous take. We know it wasn’t, of course, as it moves from day to night, indoors to outdoors and back again, and through multiple neighborhoods. The conceit does keep us on our toes, though. We’re somewhere in France, where Romain (Milton Riche) is celebrating his eighteenth birthday by getting high on a snortable drug of unknown provenance, at […]Read On »


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Movie Review: CONCLAVE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
CONCLAVE movie poster | ©2024 Focus Features

Rating: PG Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Lucian Msamati, Brian F. O’Byrne, Isabella Rossellini, Sergio Castellitto, Carlos Diehz, Balkissa Maiga Writer: Peter Straughan, based on the novel by Robert Harris Director: Edward Berger Distributor: Focus Features Release Date: October 25, 2024 Just in time for the American presidential election comes the political thriller CONCLAVE. People who love this genre but are about to weep at what’s happening in the U.S. may be reassured on hearing that the politics here surround the election of the new Catholic Pope in the Vatican, after the previous one dies unexpectedly. Indeed, this […]Read On »


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Movie Review: YOUR MONSTER

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
YOUR MONSTER movie poster | ©2024 Vertical Entertainment

Rating: R Stars: Melissa Barrera, Tommy Dewey, Edmund Donovan, Meghann Fahy, Kayla Foster, Ikechukwu Ufomadu Writer: Caroline Lindy Director: Caroline Lindy Distributor: Vertical Entertainment Release Date: October 25, 2024 YOUR MONSTER starts with the opening credit “Based on a True-ish Story.” The elements that are possibly taken from life include recovering from cancer, plus a callous ex-boyfriend who is also a credit-stealing collaborator. The invented aspect is likely the Monster (Tommy Dewey) in the closet of our protagonist, Laura Franco (Melissa Barrera). When we meet her, Laura is being discharged from the hospital, but doesn’t seem thrilled. This is largely […]Read On »


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Movie Review: MAGPIE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
MAGPIE movie poster | ©2024 Shout! Sudios

Rating: R Stars: Daisy Ridley, Shazad Latif, Matilda Lutz, Hiba Ahmed, Cherrelle Skeete, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Alistair Petrie Writer: Tom Bateman, based on an original idea by Daisy Ridley Director: Sam Yates Distributor: Shout! Studios Release Date: October 25, 2024 As MAGPIE begins, Anette (Daisy Ridley) is videotaping her little daughter Matilda’s (Hiba Ahmed) audition for a big-budget movie. Great news: Matilda gets the part. Momentarily, Matilda, Anette and Anette’s husband/Matilda’s dad Ben (Shazad Latif) couldn’t be happier. The family, plus baby boy Lucas, lives in a spacious modern house in the English countryside. Ben is a successful author. Anette would […]Read On »


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MATLOCK: Actor Jason Ritter talks about the reboot of the classic mystery series – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 10/19/2024
Jason Ritter in MATLOCK - Season 1 | ©2024 CBS/Art Streiber

CBS’s new iteration of MATLOCK had its premiere on Sunday, September 22, and is now settling into its regular timeslot on Thursdays, beginning October 17, with episodes subsequently available on Paramount Plus. The original MATLOCK ran for nine seasons, 1986-1995, starring Andy Griffith as wealthy, brilliant attorney Ben Matlock, who defends his clients by finding the real culprit. The new MATLOCK stars Kathy Bates as Madeline “Matty” Matlock, an older attorney who comes out of retirement and talks her way into an assistant gig at top-flight New York legal firm Jacobson & Moore. The other MATLOCK is verbally referred to […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SMILE 2

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 10/18/2024
SMILE 2 movie poster | ©2024 Paramount Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Naomi Scott, Rosemary DeWitt, Kyle Gallner, Dylan Gelula, Ray Nicholson, Lukas Gage, Peter Jacobson, Drew Barrymore, Raúl Castillo, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Iván Carlo Writer: Parker Finn, based on characters created by Parker Finn Director: Parker Finn Distributor: Paramount Pictures Release Date: October 18, 2024 SMILE 2 is a clear case of a sequel that’s superior to the original. Writer/director Parker Finn, back from the 2022 SMILE, not only avails himself of a bigger budget but also displays better storytelling and scare chops this time around. One of the big problems that the original SMILE had was that it […]Read On »


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Movie Review: BEEZEL

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
BEEZEL movie poster | ©2024 Epic Pictures / Dread

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Bob Gallagher, LeJon Woods, Caroline Quigley, Kimberly Salditt Poulin, Nicolas Robin, Victoria Fratz Fradkin Writers: Adam Fradkin & Victoria Fratz Fradkin Director: Adam Fradkin Distributor: Epic Pictures/Dread Release Date: September 20, 2024 (theatrical); September 24, 2024 (VOD) BEEZEL does something a bit different with the found footage format. While we do get a reasonable amount of camera p.o.v., the movie plays with different types of cameras and mediums (Super 8mm film, a variety of video formats) and has characters literally finding the footage. BEEZEL takes place in one location, a sprawling Massachusetts house with a large […]Read On »


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