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ENGLISH TEACHER: Executive producers Paul Simms and Dave King on Season 1 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 10/12/2024
Brian Jordan Alvarez as Evan Marquez in ENGLISH TEACHER - Season 1 | ©2024 FX/Pari Dukovic

ENGLISH TEACHER has its first-season finale on FX on Monday, October 14. Following this, the episode will join the rest of the comedy’s first season streaming on Hulu. Series creator Brian Jordan Alvarez stars as Evan Marquez, a gay high school teacher in Austin, Texas, where unexpected controversies continually baffle staff and students alike. When ENGLISH TEACHER has a Q&A panel during FX’s portion of the summer Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour, one of the executive producers, Paul Simms, offers this observation: “A lot of what the show is about is the characters within the show talking about what […]Read On »


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Movie Review: TERRIFIER 3

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 10/10/2024
TERRIFIER 3 movie poster | ©2024 Cineverse

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Lauren LaVera, David Howard Thornton, Elliott Fullam, Sarah Voigt, Samantha Scaffidi, Chris Jericho, Antonella Rose, Margaret Anne Florence, Bryce Johnson, Alexa Blair, Mason Mecartea, Krsy Fox, Clint Howard, Jon Abrahams, Daniel Roebuck, Jason Patric Writer: Damien Leone Director: Damien Leone Distributor: Cineverse Release Date: October 11, 2024 TERRIFIER 3 provides two-for-one holiday horror. Arriving just in time for Halloween, it’s actually set during Christmas. Like its predecessors, 2016’s TERRIFIER and 2022’s TERRIFIER 2, TERRIFIER 3 is written and directed by Damien Leone. Actor David Howard Thornton is likewise back for his third round as Art the […]Read On »


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Movie Review: V/H/S/BEYOND

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
V/H/S/BEYOND movie poster | ©2024 Shudder

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Mitch Horowitz, Brian Baker, Sam Gorski, Niko Pueringer, Wren Weichman, Thom Hallum, Jolene Andersen, Vas Provatakis, Namrata Sheth, Sayandeep Sengupta, Rohan Joshi, Bobby Slaski, Hannah McBride, Libby Letlow, Alanah Pearce Writers: Jordan Downey (“Stork”), Kevin Stewart (“Stork”), based on artwork by Oleg Vdovenko, Virat Pal (“Dream Girl”), Evan Dickson (“Dream Girl”), Ben Turner (“Live and Let Dive”), Justin Martinez (“Live and Let Dive”), Christian Long (“Fur Babies”), Justin Long (“Fur Babies”), Mike Flanagan (“Stowaway”) Directors: Jay Cheel (“Abduction/Adduction”), Jordan Downey (“Stork”), Virat Pal (“Dream Girl”), Justin Martinez (“Live and Let Dive”), Christian Long (“Fur Babies”), Justin […]Read On »


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MOONFLOWER MURDERS: Actress Pippa Bennett-Warner on playing a 1950s detective’s assistant – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 10/09/2024
Daniel Mays, Pippa Bennett-Warner and Tim McMullan in MASTERPIECE: MOONFLOWER MURDERS | ©2024 PBS/ Eleventh Hour Films

In MOONFLOWER MURDERS, Sunday nights on PBS MASTERPIECE, actual retired English book editor Susan Ryeland (Lesley Manville) and fictional ‘50s master detective Atticus Pünd (Tim McMullan) are both back on the case. In the previous MAGPIE MURDERS, Susan had been the editor on all of the Atticus Pünd mystery novels. When the last book led to the murder of Atticus’s creator, unpleasant novelist Alan Conway (Conleth Hill), Susan wound up solving the crime. Surprisingly, Atticus began appearing to Susan and giving her oblique advice, at the same time he was busy solving the 1950s case that Alan had written for […]Read On »


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ENGLISH TEACHER: Actor Sean Patton on new FX comedy – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 10/08/2024
Sean Patton as Markie Hillridge in ENGLISH TEACHER - Season 1 | ©2024 FX/Steve Swisher

In ENGLISH TEACHER, series creator Brian Jordan Alvarez plays the title role, Evan Marquez, an instructor at an Austin, Texas high school where nuance is everything. The comedy airs Monday nights on FX, with episodes available the following day on Hulu. Sean Patton plays Evan’s colleague Markie Hillridge, the school’s physical education instructor and football coach. Markie and Evan are friends, even though Markie is in many ways a traditional conservative good ol’ boy, and Evan is gay and progressive. Patton, originally from Louisiana, has appeared in a number of films and TV shows, including INSIDE AMY SCHUMER and MARON, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SATURDAY NIGHT

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 10/04/2024
SATURDAY NIGHT movie poster | ©2024 Sony Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Gabriel LaBelle, Rachel Sennott, Corey Michael Smith, Matt Wood, Dylan O’Brien, Ella Hunt, Nicholas Braun, Lamorne Morris, Kim Matula, Emily Fairn, Tommy Dewey, Cooper Hoffman, Willem Dafoe, Catherine Curtin, Finn Wolfhard, J.K. Simmons, Matthew Rhus, Nicholas Podany, Corinne Britti, Naomi McPherson, Jon Batiste Writers: Gil Kenan & Jason Reitman Director: Jason Reitman Distributor: Sony/Columbia Pictures Release Date: September 27, 2024 (theatrical limited); October 11, 2024 (theatrical wide) October 11, 2024 is the fiftieth anniversary and start of the fiftieth season of that NBC staple, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, still cranking out episodes and minting new comedy stars lo […]Read On »


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Movie Review: HOLD YOUR BREATH

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
HOLD YOUR BREATH | ©2024 Searchlight Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Sarah Paulson, Amiah Miller, Annaleigh Ashford, Alona James Robbins, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Frances Lee McCain, Courtney Cunningham Writer: Karrie Crouse Directors: Karrie Crouse & Will Joines Distributor: Searchlight Pictures Release Date: October 3, 2024 (Hulu) HOLD YOUR BREATH is set in the Oklahoma Panhandle in 1933, when blinding, catastrophic dust storms were ravaging the American Midwest. Directors Karrie Crouse & Will Joines, working from Crouse’s script, give us an environment as ominous as the deep ocean, and use it to set a horror story that can be read as supernatural, psychological, or both. Wheat farmer Margaret Bellum (Sarah […]Read On »


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Movie Review: NIGHT OF THE HARVEST

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
NIGHT OF THE HARVEST movie poster | ©2024 Gravitas Features

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Jessica Morgan, Brittany Isabell, Aeric Azana, Jim Cirner, Taylor Falshaw, Ashton Jordaan Ruiz, Autumn Gubersky, John Noble, Steve McKee, Jesse Pickering, Angelica Ornelas, Dustin Rieffer, Michaela Ivey Writer: Christopher M. Carter, story by Christopher M. Carter & Jessica Morgan Directors: Christopher M. Carter & Jessica Morgan Distributor: Gravitas Features Release Date: September 24, 2024 (digital) NIGHT OF THE HARVEST is a low-budget but decently-made Halloween horror slasher. It has a couple of strong plot twists, and succeeds in keeping us guessing if something supernatural or just psychotic is occurring. However, directors Christopher M. Carter & Jessica […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE WILD ROBOT

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 09/27/2024
THE WILD ROBOT | ©2024 Universal Pictures

Rating: PG Stars (voices): Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal, Kit Connor, Bill Nighy, Stephanie Hsu, Matt Berry, Ving Rhames, Mark Hamill, Catherine O’Hara Writer: Chris Sanders, based on the book by Peter Brown Director: Chris Sanders Distributor: Universal/DreamWorks Animation Release Date: September 27, 2024 It’s hard to make a movie, whether animated or live-action, about the parent-child bond that is touching without being either rote or overkill. Based on Peter Brown’s illustrated children’s novel, the action-packed but gentle-spirited THE WILD ROBOT succeeds. Directed by Chris Sanders, who adapted the screenplay, THE WILD ROBOT introduces us to Rozzum Unit 7134 (voiced by […]Read On »


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Movie Review: AMBER ALERT

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
AMBER ALERT movie poster | ©2024 Lionsgate

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Hayden Panettiere, Tyler James Williams, Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Kurt Oberhaus, Katie McClellan, Kevin Dunn, Ducky Cash Writers: Kerry Bellesa & Joshua Oram Director: Kerry Bellesa Distributor: Lionsgate Release Date: September 27, 2024 (theatrical, VOD) An Amber Alert is a law enforcement notification to the public about an abducted or missing child (the alert got its name from 1996 kidnap/murder victim Amber Hagerman). AMBER ALERT (the new release, not to be confused with earlier films that share the title) uses this notification as a springboard for a plot that is improbable but nevertheless entertaining. We start out in […]Read On »


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