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MATLOCK: Actress Skye P. Marshall gives the scoop on the new CBS reboot series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 12/15/2024
Skye P. Marshall a in MATLOCK - Season 1 - "No, No Monsters" | ©2024 CBS / Sonja-Flemming

CBS’s freshman legal dramedy MATLOCK, adapted very loosely from the 1986-1995 series by showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman, airs Thursday nights and then streams on Paramount Plus. Kathy Bates plays the title character, elderly lawyer Maddie Matlock, who has just wrangled a job as a legal assistant at prestigious New York law firm Jacobson & Moore. Except, as audiences found out at the end of the series premiere, Maddie Matlock is really Madeline Kingston, a wealthy lawyer who has really wrangled her way into Jacobson & Moore (and taken on a fake identity) to find out which one of its top […]Read On »


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HOLIDAZED: Actor Dennis Haysbert gets into the spirit with new Hallmark series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 12/10/2024
Dennis Haysbert at TCA Summer 2024 Press Tour promoting HOLIDAZED | ©2024 Television Critics Association

HOLIDAZED, created by Claudia Grazioso, is a new limited series on the Hallmark+ streaming channel that follows six families on the same cul-de-sac in suburban Oregon as they all prepare for the December festivities in different ways. New episodes premiere Tuesday nights. Dennis Haysbert stars as Robert Lewin, who is returning after several years’ absence to spend Christmas with his ex-wife Linda (Loretta Devine) and their family. Linda has invited her current boyfriend for the occasion. Haysbert famously played U.S. President David Palmer in the first several seasons of 24. Later, he played God on LUCIFER. In between, Haysbert, a […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE ORDER

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 12/06/2024
THE ORDER movie poster | ©2024 Vertical Entertainment

Rating: R Stars: Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Jurnee Smollett, Tye Sheridan, Marc Maron, Alison Oliver Writer: Zach Baylin, based on the book THE SILENT BROTHERHOOD by Kevin Flynn & Gary Gerhardt Director: Justin Kurzel Distributor: Vertical Entertainment Release Date: December 6, 2024 THE ORDER begins by informing us that it is “based on true events.” Indeed, these events have been written about at length, and dramatized several times before. This film is specifically based on the book THE SILENT BROTHERHOOD by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt. A splinter group of the Aryan Nations, the Order was a white supremacist gang […]Read On »


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Movie Review: NIGHTBITCH

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
NIGHTBITCH movie poster | ©2024 Searchlight Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Amy Adams, Scoot McNairy, Arleigh Patrick Snowden, Emmett James Snowden, Jessica Harper Writer: Marielle Heller, based on the novel by Rachel Yoder Director: Marielle Heller Distributor: Searchlight Pictures Release Date: December 6, 2024 NIGHTBITCH is one of those movies that is very hard to quantify. It is so astute and acute on some levels, while appearing to think it’s being universal yet in actuality so niche on others, that one can’t either wholly praise or dismiss it. Amy Adams plays an upper-middle-class mom, referred to in the credits as “Mother” (one of those would-be universal touches), who […]Read On »


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Movie Review: WEREWOLVES

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
WEREWOLVES movie poster | ©2024 Briarcliff Entertainment

Rating: R Stars: Frank Grillo, Katrina Law, Ilfenesh Hadera, Kamdynn Gary, James Michael Cummings, Lydia Styslinger, Lou Diamond Phillips, James Kyson Writer: Matthew Kennedy Director: Steven C. Miller Distributor: Briarcliff Entertainment Release Date: December 6, 2024 In WEREWOLVES, the starting premise is that, a year ago, a supermoon triggered a global event in which over a billion people turned into werewolves for a night. Now it’s the day before another supermoon. People who have turned and survived the first event will turn again, and it’s unknown who else will be susceptible. From dusk until dawn, there is an emergency curfew. […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE RETURN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
THE RETURN movie poster | ©2024 Bleecker Street

Rating: R Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Charlie Plummer, Marwan Kenzani, Claudio Santamaria, Angela Molina Writers: John Collee, Edward Bond, Uberto Pasolini, based on THE ODYSSEY by Homer Director: Uberto Pasolini Distributor: Bleecker Street Release Date: December 6, 2024 THE RETURN is a dramatization of part of one of the oldest known narratives in Western culture, THE ODYSSEY by Homer, written in the eighth or seventh century BC (per Wikipedia). This is the story of Odysseus (played here by Ralph Fiennes), King of Ithaca, and his ten-year journey back home after being on the winning side of the Trojan War, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: WICKED: PART 1

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 11/22/2024
WICKED - PART 1 | ©2024 Universal Pictures

Rating: PG Stars: Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande-Butera, Jonathan Bailey, Marissa Bode, Ethan Slater, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, Peter Dinklage (voice) Writers: Winnie Holzman and Winnie Holzman & Dana Fox, based on the stage musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman, based on the novel by Gregory Maguire Director: Jon M. Chu Distributor: Universal Pictures Release Date: November 22, 2024 While it can’t hurt, it turns out that it’s not really necessary to be familiar with either L. Frank Baum’s 1900 fantasy classic THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ, or its famous 1939 film musical adaptation, […]Read On »


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LEONARDO DA VINCI: Filmmakers Sarah Burns and David McMahon on new PBS documentary – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 11/18/2024
LEONARDO DA VINCI Key Art | ©2024 PBS

It is perhaps impossible to overstate the influence of the Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519, on subsequent civilization. Scientist, inventor, engineer, painter, sculptor and architect, da Vinci did so much that exploring his entire life seems a Herculean task. But that’s exactly what filmmakers Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon set out to do with their four-hour documentary LEONARDO DA VINCI, which airs on PBS over two nights, Monday, November 18, and Tuesday, November 19. During PBS’s portion of the summer 2024 Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour, Sarah Burns (Ken Burns’s daughter) and McMahon (Sarah Burn’s husband) […]Read On »


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Movie Review: RED ONE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 11/15/2024
RED ONE movie poster | ©2024 MGM / Amazon Studios

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans, Lucy Liu, J.K. Simmons, Bonnie Hunt, Kristofer Hivju, Kiernan Shipka, Wesley Kimmel, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Nick Kroll Writer: Chris Morgan, story by Hiram Garcia Director: Jake Kasdan Distributor: MGM/Amazon Studios Release Date: November 15, 2024 The premise of RED ONE contains all sorts of intriguing Northern and Eastern European folklore: not only Santa Claus, but some darker figures as well. This could have made a great Rankin-Bass special, either with conventional animation or RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER-style puppetry, or even a live-action fantasy, a la the NARNIA films. However, RED ONE, directed by […]Read On »


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HOLIDAZED: Actor John C. McGinley on new Hallmark holiday series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 11/14/2024
John C. McGinley and Virginia Madsen in HOLIDAZED - Season 1 | ©2024 Hallmark Channel

HOLIDAZED, Hallmark’s new limited series about six different families, each preparing for Christmas on their cul-de-sac in Oak Bay, Oregon, premieres with a double episode on Thursday, November 14. John C. McGinley is part of the star-studded cast as Chuck Manetti-Hanahan. Chuck has always been competitive about his house’s holiday light display, and recent family issues have made him more determined than ever to outshine the neighbors. McGinley has been acting in television, film, and theatre for decades. Oliver Stone saw McGinley in an off-Broadway performance of DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA and cast him in PLATOON. McGinley has […]Read On »


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