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SHOGUN: Co-creator Rachel Kondo discusses new mini-series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 04/16/2024
SHOGUN miniseries Key Art | ©2024 FX Networks

The miniseries SHŌGUN, now running Tuesday nights on FX and available for streaming on Hulu, is the second adaptation of James Clavell’s epic 1975 bestseller. The first adaptation was an NBC miniseries in 1980. All concern a power struggle in 1600s Japan that comes to involve an English ship’s navigator, who is folded into the retinue of shrewd Lord Toranaga. However, both the NBC edition and the book itself are primarily from the Western point of view. The new version is told more from the Japanese perspective. Executive producers (who are also married to one another) Rachel Kondo & Justin […]Read On »


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ELSBETH: The cast and creators talk the new COLUMBO-like procedural – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 04/13/2024
ELSBETH Key Art - Season 1 | ©2024 CBS

If you have been missing COLUMBO these many years, ELSBETH is here to fill the void. Once more, here’s a series where we see a murder committed at the outset. It’s just that instead of Peter Falk playing a rumpled police detective who solves the crime, we now have Carrie Preston reprising her Emmy-winning role as Elsbeth Tascioni. Previously a Chicago lawyer who was a recurring character on CBS’s THE GOOD WIFE and its Paramount Plus spinoff THE GOOD FIGHT, Elsbeth has moved to New York City to be a civilian oversight observer with the NYPD in ELSBETH. Like Columbo, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: CIVIL WAR

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 04/12/2024
CIVIL WAR movie poster | ©2024 A24

Rating: R Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Maura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Nelson Lee, Evan Lai, Nick Offerman, Jesse Plemons Writer: Alex Garland Director: Alex Garland Distributor: A24 Release Date: April 12, 2024 Writer/director Alex Garland’s CIVIL WAR depicts a second intra-state conflict within the U.S., but it comes at present-day politics from an oblique angle. Take away the familiar scenery and a couple of musings by the characters, and this tale of combat photojournalists could be set pretty much anywhere that heavily armed people are fighting with one another. At the White House, the U.S. President (Nick Offerman) is […]Read On »


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Movie Review: ARCADIAN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
ARCADIAN movie poster | ©2024 RLJE Films / Shudder

Rating: R Stars: Nicolas Cage, Jaeden Martell, Maxwell Jenkins, Sadie Soverall Writer: Mike Nilon Director: Benjamin Brewer Distributor: RLJE Films/Shudder Release Date: April 12, 2024 In ARCADIAN, centralized civilization is already nearing its end when Paul (Nicolas Cage) is running through back alleys. The sky is full of smoke, sirens are wailing somewhere, and there are crucified bodies in the background. Paul finds a lone crying baby and comforts the child. Fifteen years later, Paul is far from this urban catastrophe. He is now the father of two teen sons, Joseph (Jaeden Martell) and Thomas (Maxwell Jenkins). Since Thomas is […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SNOW VALLEY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
SNOW VALLEY movie poster | ©2024 Gravitas Ventures

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Rachel Michiko Whitney, Cooper van Grootel, Tom Williamson, David Lambert, Paige Elkington, Ali Fumiko Whitney, Barbara Crampton, Zachary Bird Writer: Brandon Murphy Director: Brandon Murphy Distributor: Gravitas Ventures Release Date: April 2, 2024 (digital) Technically, SNOW VALLEY could be described as a contemporary Gothic horror comedy. That would give the wrong impression, though. SNOW VALLEY isn’t making fun of Gothic horror so much as it is having fun within that genre’s conventions. It’s not a parody, but rather a dark comedy of manners that overlaps with lethal danger. Writer/director Brandon Murphy begins the film with a […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE LONG GAME

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
THE LONG GAME movie poster | ©2024 Bonniedale/Mucho Mas Media

Rating: PG Stars: Jay Hernandez, Cheech Marin, Dennis Quaid, Julian Works, Jaina Lee Ortiz, Brett Cullen, Oscar Nuñez, Paulina Chavez, Gregory Diaz IV, Christian Gallegos, Miguel Angel Garcia, José Julián, Gillian Vigman, Richard Robichaux, Jimmy Gonzales, Michael Southworth Writers: Paco Farias & Jennifer C. Stetson and Julio Quintana, based on the novel MUSTANG MIRACLE by Humberto G. Garcia Director: Julio Quintana Distributor: Bonniedale/Mucho Mas Media Release Date: April 12, 2024 An opening title informs us that THE LONG GAME is “based on a true story.” Since the credits tell us that this basis is a novel, MUSTANG MIRACLE by Humberto […]Read On »


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Movie Review: DAMAGED

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
DAMAGED movie poster | ©2024 Lionsgate

Rating: R Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Vincent Cassel, Gianni Capaldi, Laura Haddock, John Hannah, Kate Dickey, Brian McCardie Writers: Koji Steven Sakai, Gianni Capaldi, Paul Aniello, story by Paul Aniello & Gianni Capaldi Director: Terry McDonough Distributor: Lionsgate Release Date: April 12, 2024 The notion of Samuel L. Jackson as a Chicago homicide detective in Edinburgh, Scotland is full of potential. DAMAGED doesn’t play with those possibilities in the way we might expect. Still, as a serial killer thriller, it’s decently intriguing until it becomes unglued in the third act. When a young woman is followed home from her synagogue […]Read On »


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Movie Review: BLACKOUT

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
BLACKOUT movie poster | ©2024 Dark Sky Films/Glass Eye Pix

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Alex Hurt, Addison Timlin, Motell Gyn Foster, Joseph Castillo-Midyett, Ella Rae Peck, Rigo Garay, John Speredakos, Michael Buscemi, Jeremy Holm, Cody Kostro, Marc Senter, Kevin Corrigan, Joe Swanberg, Asta Paredes, Clay von Carlowitz, Barbara Crampton, James Le Gros, Marshall Bell Writer: Larry Fessenden Director: Larry Fessenden Distributor: Dark Sky Films/Glass Eye Pix Release Date: March 13, 2024 (New York); April 12, 2024 (VOD, digital) What would you do if you suspected you had become a werewolf? That is the propelling question of BLACKOUT, an intelligent horror film with a fair amount of character development and plot […]Read On »


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Movie Review: STING

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
STING movie poster | ©2024 Well Go USA Entertainment

Rating: R Stars: Ryan Korr, Alyla Browne, Penelope Mitchell, Robyn Nevin, Noni Hazlehurst, Silvia Colloca, Danny Kim, Jermaine Fowler Writer: Kiah Roache-Turner Director: Kiah Roache-Turner Distributor: Well Go USA Entertainment Release Date: April 12, 2024 STING is a decent family drama playing out inside a giant alien spider movie. There is a fair amount of overlap in the plotting, especially in the film’s latter portions, but the further we get into it, the more we understand the flash-forward start. Without it, STING would take quite a long time to get to its main horror action. Directed and written by Kiah […]Read On »


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ALEX RIDER: Creator Anthony Horowitz gives the scoop on Season 3 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 04/07/2024
ALEX RIDER Season 3 Key Art | ©2024 Amazon Freevee

Season 3 of the spy thriller ALEX RIDER premieres in its eight-episode entirety on Amazon Freevee in the U.S., the U.K. and Germany. Based on the series of bestselling novels by Anthony Horowitz, ALEX RIDER follows the title character, played by Otto Farrant, an English teenager who discovers that his late uncle and his late father were both spies. The clandestine U.K. government group, the Department, that hired both men (and got them killed in the line of duty) enlists Alex to infiltrate a school for them in 2020’s Season 1. Then they cut him loose, despite Alex’s desire to […]Read On »


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