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THE SPACE RACE: Filmmakers Diego Hurtado de Mendoza and Lisa Cortes on new NASA documentary – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 02/20/2024
THE SPACE RACE key art | ©2024 National Geographic

Directors Lisa Cortés and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza came together to direct and produce THE SPACE RACE, now streaming on both National Geographic and Disney+. This is the first time the filmmakers have collaborated. Separately, Cortés won an Emmy for the documentary THE APOLLO. Cortés’s other credits include ALL IN: THE FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY, THE REMIX: HIP HOP X FASHION and LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING. Hurtado de Mendoza has made documentaries including BRANDING KOSOVO and THE PEOPLE’S FIGHTERS: TEOFILO STEVENSON AND THE LEGEND OF CUBAN BOXING. Jointly Hurtado de Mendoza and Cortés have already won three awards for THE […]Read On »


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GENIUS: MLK/X: Actor Aaron Pierre on playing Malcolm X – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 02/16/2024
GENIUS MLK X key art | ©2024 National Geographic

GENIUS: MLK/X is the fourth installment of National Geographic’s anthology series GENIUS. Airing Thursday nights and then available on demand, MLK/X dramatizes the parallel rise of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Both men spent most of their lives immersed in the struggle for civil rights and in religion (Christianity for King, Islam for Malcolm X), and both were assassinated in the 1960s. They only met in person once, but it was a mutually significant encounter, shown in MLK/X. British actor Aaron Pierre portrays Malcolm X in MLK/X. Jayme Lawson plays his wife, Betty Shabazz; Kelvin Harrison Jr. […]Read On »


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Movie Review: NO WAY UP

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
NO WAY UP movie poster | ©2024 RLJE Films

Rating: R Stars: Sophie McIntosh, Will Attenborough, Jeremias Amoore, Manuel Pacific, Grace Nettle, Phyllis Logan, Colm Meaney, James Carroll Jordan Writer: Andy Mayson Director: Claudio Fäh Distributor: RLJE Films Release Date: February 16, 2024 NO WAY UP manages to put a respectably straight face on its multi-disaster movie premise. First, there’s the airplane crash catastrophe, as a notably rickety jet blows on engine and plummets into the Pacific as it heads from LAX to Cabo San Lucas. Then we get a variation on THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE. Yes, the plane does stay right-side up, but it gradually fills up with water […]Read On »


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Movie Review: MIDNIGHT PEEPSHOW

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
MIDNIGHT PEEPSHOW movie poster | ©2024 Dark Star Pictures

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Richard Cotton, Sarah Diamond, Mark Hampton, Roisin Browne, David Wayman, Ocean M. Harris, Miki Davis, Jack Fairbank, Jamie Bacon, Derek Nelson, Chiara D’Anna, Ryan Oliva, Bethan Walker, Zach Galligan (voice), Melanie Thompson Writers: Airell Anthony Hayles & Jake West and Andy Edwards, concept by Airell Anthony Hayles Directors: Ludovica Musumeci, Airell Anthony Hayles, Andy Edwards, Jake West Distributor: Dark Star Pictures Release Date: February 13, 2024 (digital, DVD)  MIDNIGHT PEEPSHOW is quasi-anthology horror, with segments bound together more firmly than is usually the case. It also successfully straddles the line between the supernatural and mundane cruelty, […]Read On »


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THE SPACE RACE: Executive Producer Frank Marshall on new National Geographic film – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 02/12/2024
THE SPACE RACE key art | ©2024 National Geographic

THE SPACE RACE, National Geographic’s documentary about the history of Black astronauts in NASA, premieres Monday, February 12, and is available thereafter on Nat Geo and Disney+. The stories and interviews include now ninety-year-old Ed Dwight, who was on track to be the first Black American in space until the assassination of President John F. Kennedy interrupted his career. THE SPACE RACE also includes discussion of Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, a Cuban cosmonaut who became the first Black man in space in 1980 on the U.S.S.R. Soyuz mission. Frank Marshall, the producer who won the Academy’s Irving G. Thalberg Award in […]Read On »


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Movie Review: LISA FRANKENSTEIN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 02/09/2024
LISA FRANKENSTEIN movie poster | ©2024 Focus Features

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Kathryn Newton, Cole Sprouse, Liza Soberano, Henry Eikenberry, Bryce Romero, Carla Gugino, Joe Chrest Writer: Diablo Cody Director: Zelda Williams Distributor: Focus Features Release Date: February 9, 2024 Just in time for Valentine’s Day, director Zelda Williams and writer Diablo Cody deliver the new period rom zom com LISA FRANKENSTEIN. After a delightful shadow puppet opening credit sequence that details the tragedy of nineteenth-century gentleman Frankenstein (Cole Sprouse) – not a scientist here, just a lovelorn musician – we get to our live-action story. It’s the ‘80s. Lisa Swallows (Kathryn Newton) is a teen traumatized by the […]Read On »


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Movie Review: OUT OF DARKNESS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
OUT OF DARKNESS movie poster | ©2024 Bleecker Street

Rating: R Stars: Safia Oakley-Green, Kit Young, Chuku Modu, Iola Evans, Arno Luning, Luna Mwezi, Rosebud Melarkey, Tyrell Mhlanga Writer: Ruth Greenberg, story by Andrew Cumming & Ruth Greenberg & Oliver Kassman Director: Andrew Cumming Distributor: Bleecker Street Release Date: February 9, 2024 OUT OF DARKNESS experiments with the definition of screen horror. It has murder and gore, as well as the titular darkness, but its ultimate goal is more social commentary than scares. Director Andrew Cumming and screenwriter Ruth Greenberg, working from a story they crafted with producer Oliver Kassman, have created something largely worthwhile, though probably not what […]Read On »


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Movie Review: ARGYLLE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 02/02/2024
ARGYLLE movie poster | ©2024 Universal Pictures/Apple+

Rating: R Stars: Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell, Henry Cavill, Bryan Cranston, Catherine O’Hara, Sofia Boutella, John Cena, Samuel L. Jackson Writer: Jason Fuchs Director: Matthew Vaughn Distributor: Universal Pictures/Apple+ Release Date: February 2, 2024 With more plot twists than a tartan has squares, ARGYLLE combines ROMANCING THE STONE with – well, let’s not completely give the game away. We’ll say it starts out as one of those movies where a woman author unexpectedly finds herself living out one of her novels. In ARGYLLE, writer Elly Conway (Bryce Dallas Howard) pens espionage tales rather than romance. This immediately raises our […]Read On »


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Movie Review: DEPARTING SENIORS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
DEPARTING SENIORS movie poster | ©2024 Dark Sky Films

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Ignacio Diaz-Silverio, Yani Gellman, Ireon Roach, Cameron Scott Roberts, Maisie Merlock, Ryan Foreman, Sasha Kuznetsov, Cole Steeves Writer: Jose Nateras Director: Clare Cooney Distributor: Dark Sky Films Release Date: February 2, 2024 DEPARTING SENIORS almost immediately scores points by centering on two characters who would normally be on the supporting sidelines: gay Latino A student Javi Campos (Ignacio Diaz-Silverio) and his emotionally obtuse bestie Bianca (Ireon Roach). Due to being gay, Latino, and an A student, Javi is the target of bullying jocks who are his high school peers. However, when Javi is quasi-accidentally pushed down […]Read On »


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FEUD: CAPOTE VS. THE SWANS: The creators and stars talk about new limited FX series – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 02/01/2024
FEUD: CAPOTE VS THE SWANS Key Art | ©2024 FX

Truman Capote was an author, screenwriter, playwright, and actor probably still most known for his nonfiction bestseller IN COLD BLOOD. The novel itself has been adapted for film, and several films were made about Capote’s writing of the book and the lingering effect it had on him. But Capote is also famous for, among other things, his unfinished novel ANSWERED PRAYERS. Capote had entered a charmed circle of New York society women, whom he collectively called “the Swans.” These women included Jacqueline Onassis’s sister Lee Radziwill and Babe Paley. Capote kept putting off finishing the work, but sold four chapters […]Read On »


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