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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: V/H/S/BEYOND

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/10/2024
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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BRILLIANT MINDS: Creator and executive producer Michael Grassi – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/24/2024
BRILLIANT MINDS - Season 1 Key Art | ©2024 Peacock

In the new series BRILLIANT MINDS, premiering on NBC Monday, September 23, with episodes then available for streaming on Peacock, Zachary Quinto stars as cranky but gifted New York neurosurgeon Oliver Wolf. BRILLIANT MINDS creator/executive producer Michael Grassi explains that the show was originally entitled WOLF but, due to Quinto’s past genre work (HEROES, AMERICAN HORROR STORY, STAR TREK, NOS4A2), prospective viewers thought it might be a show about a werewolf. The name was briefly changed to DR. WOLF, but that just made people think “Werewolf doctor. That’s not us.” Grassi has a lot of genre credits himself, having been […]Read On »


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ENGLISH TEACHER: Actress and story editor Stephanie Koenig on new FX series – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
Stephanie Koenig as Gwen Sanders, Brian Jordan Alvarez as Evan Marquez in ENGLISH TEACHER - Season 1 | ©2024 FX/Steve Swisher

Stephanie Koenig is pulling double duty on FX’s new comedy ENGLISH TEACHER, which airs Monday nights and is then available for streaming on Hulu. Koenig plays high school teacher Gwen Sanders, best friend to title character Evan Marquez (series creator Brian Jordan Alvarez). She is also the series’ story editor. This sort of hyphenation isn’t new for Koenig. She wrote, directed and appeared in the 2021 feature A SPY MOVIE, which starred Alvarez, and was an actor/writer on 2019’s WEB SERIES: THE MOVIE, which Alvarez directed, starred in and co-wrote. As a performer, Koenig’s other credits include the Emmy-nominated LESSONS […]Read On »


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PBS POV: WHO’S AFRAID OF NATHAN LAW?: Producer Matthew Torne and executive producer Chris White on new documentary – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/19/2024
WHO'S AFRAID OF NATHAN LAW? key art | ©2024 PBS

The documentary WHO’S AFRAID OF NATHAN LAW? premieres in theatres on Friday, September 20, and then debuts on PBS’s POV series on Monday, September 23. The film centers on young Hong Kong democracy activist Nathan Law who, with friends Joshua Wong and Agnes Chow, paid a heavy price for opposing China’s efforts to impose its own style of government on the island. WHO’S AFRAID OF NATHAN LAW? is directed and written by Joe Piscatella, who is also one of its producers. Another of the film’s producers, Matthew Torne, and PBS POV executive producer Chris White, sit down during PBS’s portion […]Read On »


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PBS NATURE: BIG CATS 24/7: Producer and director Rowan Crawford on new docuseries – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/17/2024
BIG CATS 24/7 Key Art | ©2024 PBS

The six-part docuseries BIG CATS 24/7 launches on PBS NATURE on Wednesday, September 18. The series takes advantage of new technology to show three species of African big cats – lions, leopards and cheetahs – in their activities by night as well as by day. During PBS’s portion of the summer Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour in Pasadena, BIG CATS 24/7 producer/director Rowan Crawford sits down to discuss this deep dive into mega felines. Some of Crawford’s other credits include THE ZOO, COAST, NATURAL WORLD, and DOGS IN THE WILD. Crawford is a staff series producer with BBC Studios […]Read On »


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