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PBS NATURE: SAN DIEGO: AMERICA’S WILDEST CITY: Director Nate Dappen and NATURE executive producer Fred Kaufman on new documentary – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 11/05/2024
SAN DIEGO: AMERICA’S WILDEST CITY Key Art for PBS NATURE | ©2024 PBS

San Diego, California, is famous for many things, but it’s generally not heralded for its free-roaming wildlife. But perhaps it should be, according to the PBS NATURE documentary SAN DIEGO: AMERICA’S WILDEST CITY, which premieres on PBS Wednesday, November 6. During PBS’s portion of the summer 2024 Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour in the somewhat less wild city of Pasadena, CA, SAN DIEGO: AMERICA’S WILDEST CITY writer/director Nate Dappen and PBS NATURE executive producer Fred Kaufman sit down to talk about their geographically contained but biologically epic film. Dappen is especially intrigued by the intersection of wild creatures and […]Read On »


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POPPA’S HOUSE: Actor, co-creator and executive producer Damon Wayans on new CBS comedy – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 11/04/2024
Damon Wayans as Poppa, from the CBS original pilot POPPA’S HOUSE - Season 1 | ©2023 CBS Broadcasting, Inc./ Sonja Flemming/ All Rights Reserved

The new CBS Monday night (streaming subsequently on Paramount+) half-hour series POPPA’S HOUSE is a family comedy in multiple ways. Onscreen, POPPA’S HOUSE concerns amicably divorced podcaster Poppa, who goes from working as a radio host to doing a podcast from his home studio. His routine is disrupted when his adult son Damon, Damon’s wife Nina (Tetona Jackson), and their little daughter Maya (River Blossom) move in next door to him. Behind the scenes, the series was co-created, with Kevin Hench, by executive producer Damon Wayans, who plays Poppa. Wayans’s real-life son, Damon Wayans Jr., plays Damon. Wayans Jr. is […]Read On »


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FOUND: Creator and executive producer Nkechi Okoro Carroll on Season 2 of the NBC thriller – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 11/03/2024
Nkechi Okoro Carroll creator of FOUND | ©2024 J Squared Photography/NBCUniversal

Nkechi Okoro Carroll is the creator/executive producer of FOUND, now on Thursday nights on NBC in its second season, with episodes streaming subsequently on Peacock. In FOUND, crisis manager Gabi Mosely (Shanola Hampton), heads up Mosely & Associates, or M&A, a firm that specializes in finding overlooked people who are missing and/or have been abducted. Gabi’s colleagues and friends know that her dedication to her calling comes from her experience of having been abducted and held captive for over a year by her high school teacher Hugh Evans, aka “Sir” (Mark-Paul Gosselaar). What Gabi’s circle doesn’t know is that she’s […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE GUTTER

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 11/01/2024
THE GUTTER movie poster | ©2024 Magnolia Pictures

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Shameik Moore, D’Arcy Carden, Paul Reiser, Susan Sarandon, George Basil, Rell Battle, Chelsea Devantez, Earthquake, Jay Ellis, Kim Fields, Nelson Franklin, Jackée Harry, Langston Kerman, Adam Pally, Rob Scheer Writer: Yassir Lester Directors: Isaiah Lester & Yassir Lester Distributor: Magnolia Pictures Release Date: November 1, 2024 (theatrical, VOD) Directed by Isaiah Lester & Yassir Lester from Yassir Lester’s script, THE GUTTER is a very broad comedy about the meteoric rise of young bowler Walt (Shameik Moore). It also has a lot of race-based jokes. At first, Walt knows nothing about bowling, except that there’s an open […]Read On »


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Movie Review: ABSOLUTION

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
ABSOLUTION movie poster | ©2024 Samuel Goldwyn Films

Rating: R Stars: Liam Neeson, Yolanda Ross, Frankie Shaw, Daniel Diemer, Javier Molina, Jimmy Gonzales, Josh Drennen, Deanna Nayr Tarraza, Terrence Pulliam, Ron Perlman Writer: Tony Gayton Director: Hans Petter Moland Distributor: Samuel Goldwyn Films Release Date: November 1, 2024 Because ABSOLUTION stars Liam Neeson as a low-level gangster, we know that violence will eventually occur in the film. However, ABSOLUTION is only secondarily a crime-action film. Mostly, it’s a character study of a man facing mental decline, attempting to come to terms with his past and figure out what to do with the rest of his future. Director Hans […]Read On »


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Movie Review: HE NEVER LEFT

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
HE NEVER LEFT movie poster | ©2024 Epic Pictures/Dread

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Colin Cunningham, Jessica Staples, James Morris, Sean Hunter, David E. McMahon, Charla Bocchicchio, William McAllister, Jake Watters Writer: James Morris, story by James Morris & Michael Ballif & Colin Cunningham Director: James Morris Distributor: Epic Pictures/Dread Release Date: November 1, 2024 (theatrical), November 5, 2024 (VOD) At the beginning of HE NEVER LEFT, an onscreen set of titles informs us that the small town of Larsen City has been plagued by murders and disappearances at the hands of a masked killer. In 1997, he stopped … but the community never truly healed … We then see […]Read On »


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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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