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Movie Review: THE UGLY STEPSISTER (DEN STYGGE STESOSTEREN)

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/18/2025
THE UGLY STEPSISTER (DEN STYGGE STESOSTEREN) | ©2025 IFC Films/Shudder

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Lea Myren, Ane Dahl Torp, Thea Sofie Loch Næss, Flo Fagerli, Isac Calmroth, Malte Gårdener, Ralph Carlsson, Cecilia Forss, Katarzyna Hermann, Adam Lundgren Writer: Emilie Blichfeldt Director: Emilie Blichfeldt Distributor: IFC Films/Shudder Release Date: April 18, 2025 THE UGLY STEPSISTER (DEN STYGGE STESØSTEREN) is an intriguing dark fairytale, seen from the point of view of one of Cinderella’s famed relatives-by-marriage. While there is plenty of body horror, and Shudder is listed as a co-distributor, the movie is not conventionally scary. Directed and written by Emilie Blichfeldt, THE UGLY STEPSISTER is mostly simply dark period comedy/social commentary, […]Read On »


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NCIS: ORIGINS: Actor Kyle Schmid on Season 1 of the CBS prequel series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/17/2025
Kyle Schmid as Mike Franks in NCIS: ORIGINS - Season 1 - "Vivo o Muerto" | ©2025 CBS/Robert Voets

NCIS: ORIGINS is a prequel series to CBS’s long-running (twenty-two seasons and renewed for a twenty-third) NCIS. Both shows air on CBS Monday nights and are thereafter available for streaming on Paramount+. NCIS is the acronym for Naval Criminal Investigative Service, the department of the U.S. Navy that deals with, as its name suggests, investigating crimes involving that branch of the military. Created by showrunners Gloria Lucita Monreal & David J. North, NCIS: ORIGINS, is now in its first season and renewed for a second. It deals with the early career of Leroy Jethro Gibbs, played in ORIGINS by Austin […]Read On »


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LAW & ORDER: Actor Mehcad Brooks on the twenty-fourth season – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/07/2025
Mehcad Brooks as Detective Jalen Shaw in LAW & ORDER - Season 24 - "A Price to Pay" | ©2025 NBC/Virginia Sherwood

Mehcad Brooks has played all sorts of characters in his acting career, from a bespelled small-town Louisiana man in TRUE BLOOD to mysterious cul-de-sac dweller Matthew Applewhite on DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES to a pro football player in the TV series version of NECESSARY ROUGHNESS to legendary D.C. Comics newspaperman in six seasons of SUPERGIRL to one of Earth’s greatest heroes in the 2021 feature MORTAL KOMBAT. For the past three seasons, Brooks, originally from Texas, has played NYPD homicide detective Jalen Shaw on NBC’s long-running procedural LAW & ORDER. The series is now in its twenty-fourth season Thursday nights and streaming […]Read On »


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GROSSE POINTE GARDEN SOCIETY: Actor Matthew Davis on the NBC dramedy – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
Matthew Davis as Joel in GROSSE POINT GARDEN SOCIETY | ©2025 NBC / Sally Montana

Created by Jenna Bans & Bill Krebs, the new dramedy GROSSE POINTE GARDEN SOCIETY jumps back and forth in time to reveal how four volunteers of the title organization – wealthy Birdie (Melissa Fumero), real estate agent Catherine (Aja Naomi King), landscaper Brett (Ben Rappaport), and high school teacher Alice (AnnaSophia Robb) – wind up having to bury a body together in the dead of night. The series moves from Sundays to Fridays on NBC beginning April 4, with episodes thereafter available on Peacock. Matthew Davis plays Grosse Pointe sheriff Joel, who knew Birdie back in high school. Joel married […]Read On »


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Movie Review: BLOODY AXE WOUND

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/28/2025
BLOODY AXE WOUND movie poster | ©2025 RLJE Films/Shudder

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Sari Arambulo, Billy Burke, Molly Brown, Eddie Leavy, Margot Anderson-Song, Taylor Seupel, Angel Theory, Matt Hopkins, Jeffrey Dean Morgan Writer: Matthew John Lawrence Director: Matthew John Lawrence Distributor: RLJE Films/Shudder Release Date: December 27, 2024 (theatrical); March 21, 2025 (Shudder streaming) With apologies to Stephen Graham Jones, who wrote an unrelated novel with this title, I WAS A TEENAGE SLASHER would have been a more informative moniker for BLOODY AXE WOUND. The initial set-up for BLOODY AXE WOUND, which we’ll get to in a bit, suggests that the film is going to head in one direction, […]Read On »


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THE IRRATIONAL: Series creator Arika Lisanne Mittman and actresses Maahra Hill and Travina Springer on Season 2 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/18/2025
THE IRRATIONAL Key Art - Season 2 | ©2025 NBCUniversal

THE IRRATIONAL, now in its second season Tuesday nights on NBC and streaming on Peacock, stars Jesse L. Martin as Dr. Alec Mercer. Although Alec’s main job is being a university professor, he often consults with law enforcement to help solve cases that require psychological expertise. THE IRRATIONAL creator/showrunner/executive producer Arika Lisanne Mittman based the series on Dan Ariely’s 2008 nonfiction book PREDICTIBLY IRRATIONAL: THE HIDDEN FORCES THAT SHAPE OUR DECISIONS. Mittman has also served as a writer/producer on series including DEXTER, TYRANT, ELEMENTARY, PARADISE LOST, TIMELESS and LA BREA. Two people near and dear to Alec are his younger […]Read On »


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GEORGE & MANDY’S FIRST MARRIAGE: Co-creator and executive producer Steven Molaro on new CBS series – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/11/2025
GEORGE AND MANDY'S FIRST MARRIAGE - Season 1 Key Art | ©2025 CBS

CBS’s comedy GEORGE & MANDY’S FIRST MARRIAGE, now on Thursday nights in its first season (with episodes then available on Paramount+ TV), is already renewed for Season 2. The show is a spinoff of CBS’s seven-season hit YOUNG SHELDON, which in turn was spun off from the twelve-season, massively successful THE BIG BANG THEORY. We first met Sheldon Cooper, as played by Jim Parsons, in THE BIG BANG THEORY as a physicist who is as brilliant as he is nerdy. In YOUNG SHELDON, Sheldon is played as a child genius by Iain Armitage. In this series, we get to know […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE GORGE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/28/2025
THE GORGE Key Art | ©2025 AppleTV

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Miles Teller, Anya Taylor-Joy, Sigourney Weaver, Sope Dirisu, William Houston Writer: Zach Dean Director: Scott Derrickson Distributor: Apple TV+ Release Date: February 14, 2025 THE GORGE has something for everyone, especially monster lovers. We get espionage, romance, sharpshooters, mysteries that mostly have logical answers, and eventually, lots of different kinds of homicidal creatures. Levi (Miles Teller) is a former U.S. government assassin, now retired, who is called back to service by his old colleague Bartholomew (Sigourney Weaver). Bartholomew reaches out to Levi because this is a top-secret year-long job that will have (supposedly) no human contact, and […]Read On »


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FIRST WORD ON HORROR: Author Stephen Graham Jones on new documentary – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/25/2025
FIRST WORD IN HORROR key art | ©2025 Etch

FIRST WORD ON HORROR is a new Substack docuseries, broken up into five three-part episodes that premiere every other Friday. Directed by Philip Gelatt and produced by Will Battersby through Etch, their company with Morgan Galen King, FIRST WORD ON HORROR interviews and profiles five acclaimed contemporary horror writers – Stephen Graham Jones, Paul Tremblay, Elizabeth Hand, Laird Barron, and Mariana Enriquez – each of whom reads one of their short stories and discusses their inspirations, philosophies and techniques. The stories are visually realized onscreen under the authors’ narration. Jones, a multi-award-winning author, was born in Midland, Texas, and is […]Read On »


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THE SPACE RACE: Astronauts and the executive producer talk about the Hulu documentary – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/15/2025
THE SPACE RACE key art | ©2024 National Geographic

The award-winning documentary THE SPACE RACE was originally produced for National Geographic Channel and is now streaming on Hulu. Directed by Lisa Cortes & Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, the film chronicles the struggle to get Black men and women into NASA’s astronaut programs. It is as or more timely than when it was originally released in 24. Astronaut Leland Melvin, one of THE SPACE RACE’s executive producers, is also one of the film’s subjects. His autobiography CHASING SPACE: AN ASTRONAUT’S STORY OF GRIT, GRACE, AND SECOND CHANCES, was published in 2017. Victor Glover is still an active NASA astronaut who […]Read On »


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