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Movie Review: DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 02/23/2024
DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS | ©2024 Focus Features

Rating: R Stars: Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan, Beanie Feldstein, Colman Domingo, Bill Camp, Joey Slotnick, C.J. Wilson, Matt Damon, Pedro Pascal Writers: Ethan Coen & Tricia Cooke Director: Ethan Coen Distributor: Focus Features Release Date: February 23, 2024 DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS has the unmistakable cadence of a Coen Brothers movie, even though on this one, Ethan Coen is directing solo and co-wrote the script with Tricia Cooke, rather than sibling Joel, his usual collaborator. The film succeeds in being at once super-raunchy, somewhat sweet, occasionally very violent, and often so light that it threatens to float away. We begin in late […]Read On »


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Movie Review: CELLPHONE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
CELLPHONE movie poster | ©2024 Gravitas Ventures

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Whitney Rose Pynn, Justin Malik Jackson, Jared Noble, Isaac Versaw, Katherine Barber, Malcolm McDowell Writer: Rachel Sommer Director: Luke Sommer Distributor: Gravitas Ventures Release Date: February 13, 2024 (digital, VOD) CELLPHONE has great, creepy atmosphere and a secret weapon in the performance of Justin Malik Jackson. Jackson plays the very un-creepy (once we get to know him) Chris, a talkative fellow who’s got problems of his own, but is friendly toward new neighbor Wynne (Whitney Rose Pynn). We start by meeting a young couple in an isolated farmhouse. They are tensely checking their cellphones and affirm […]Read On »


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CRIMETIME: FREEFALL: Actress Lyndie Greenwood on new telefilm – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
Lyndie Greenwood in CRIMETIME: FREEFALL | ©2024 Hallmark

CRIMETIME: FREEFALL premieres Friday, February 23, on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Channel. The telefilm stars Lyndie Greenwood as TV star Hadley, who decides to help resistant detective Shawn (Luke Macfarlane) solve a murder. The tone is distinctly light-hearted. Greenwood spent four seasons as Jenny Mills, who investigated supernatural mysteries on SLEEPY HOLLOW. The Toronto native has also been a regular or recurred on NIKITA, STAR, S.W.A.T., THE EXPANSE and SHELVED. SHELVED, Greenwood says, provided “one of my favorite roles ever. That was a workplace comedy series, and I realized doing that how much I absolutely adore comedy. And then this […]Read On »


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SON OF A CRITCH: Actor Malcolm McDowell and actor-creator Mark Critch on new sitcom – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
Sophia Powers as Fox, Mark Ezekiel Rivera as Ritchie Perez, Mark Critch as Mike Critch, Claire Rankin as Mary Critch, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth as Mark Critch, and Colton Gobbo as Mike Critch Jr., and Malcolm McDowell as Patrick “Pop” Critch in SON OF A CRITCH - Season 1 Key Art | ©2024 Project 10 Productions

SON OF A CRITCH, now in its third season Thursday nights on The CW, is originally based on a book by Mark Critch, who co-created the half-hour comedy with Tim McAuliffe. Critch plays his own father, 1980s St. John’s Newfoundland radio host Mike Critch. Malcolm McDowell (A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, O LUCKY MAN, TIME AFTER TIME) plays Mike’s irascible father, Patrick “Pop” Critch. Benjamin Evan Ainsworth plays Mark Critch as his young teen self. As a writer, Critch has done a lot of comedy, including THE MUPPETS ALL-STAR COMEDY GALA; as an actor, he was a regular on REPUBLIC OF DOYLE […]Read On »


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RESIDENT ALIEN: Actor Alan Tudyk talks Season 3 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 02/21/2024
Alan Tudyk as Harry Vanderspeigle and Sara Tomko as Asta Twelvetrees in RESIDENT ALIEN - Season 2 - "Radio Harry" |©2022 Syfy/James Dittiger

RESIDENT ALIEN is back for its third season Wednesday nights on Syfy, with Seasons 1 and 2 now available on Netflix. Alan Tudyk stars as the title character, an extraterrestrial who has taken on the identity of Colorado small-town doctor Harry Vanderspiegle. Initially, Harry was sent here to destroy humankind. Since then, though, Harry has made human friends like bestie Asta (Sara Tomko), and decided he wants to save Earth. Good thing, too, because now we’re being menaced by Grey aliens. Harry has warily teamed up with stern Gen. Eleanor Wright, played by Linda Hamilton, to protect the world from […]Read On »


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THE ROOKIE: Creator and executive producer Alexi Hawley gives the scoop on Season 6 and more – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 02/20/2024
Nathan Fillion in THE ROOKIE - Season 6 - "Strike Back" | ©2024 Disney/Raymond Liu

THE ROOKIE, ABC’s dramedy cop show, premieres its sixth season on Tuesday, February 20. The following week, the series celebrates its milestone 100th episode, which features the wedding of Nathan Fillion’s LAPD rookie-turned-training officer John Nolan to Jenna Dewan’s firefighter Bailey Nune. Series creator/executive producer Alexi Hawley, who wrote and directed Episode 100, “The Hammer,” sits down for a one-on-one interview to discuss THE ROOKIE during ABC’s portion of the Winter 2024 Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour in Pasadena, California. Not many shows make it to one hundred episodes. What does Hawley credit with THE ROOKIE’s longevity? “Nathan Fillion, […]Read On »


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THE WAY HOME: Actress Chyler Leigh on Season 2 of the hit Hallmark series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
THE WAY HOME -Season 2 Key Art | ©2024 Hallmark

Hallmark Channel’s series THE WAY HOME, now in its second season on Sunday nights, is a bit of a departure for the network. Hallmark is known for its depictions of multi-generational families, and THE WAY HOME, created by Marly Reed & Alexandra Clarke & Heather Conkie, fits this description. Chyler Leigh stars as divorced journalist Kat Landry, who moves with her teen daughter Alice (Sadie Laflamme-Snow) from the big city back to the family farm in Canada, still run by Kat’s widowed mother Del (Andie MacDowell). Where THE WAY HOME differs from other Hallmark fare is that it is also […]Read On »


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

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
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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