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LUCKY HANK: Executive producers Paul Lieberstein and Aaron Zelman on new dramedy series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 03/17/2023
LUCKY HANK Season 1 Key Art | ©2023 AMC

Less than a year after wrapping up six seasons on AMC’s much-awarded BETTER CALL SAUL, Bob Odenkirk is back on the network in LUCKY HANK, which premieres Sunday, March 19, on AMC, AMC+, BBC America, IFC, and SundanceTV. Show runners/executive producers Paul Lieberstein & Aaron Zelman adapted LUCKY HANK from Richard Russo’s 1997 novel STRAIGHT MAN. Both the TV series and the explore the life of Odenkirk’s character, William Henry “Hank” Devereaux Jr., the perpetually annoyed chair of the English department at a small university in a small town. Hank decries both school ad community as the epitome of mediocrity […]Read On »


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DEVIL’S PEAK: Producer Griff Furst on new coming-of-age crime drama – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
DEVIL'S PEAK movie poster | ©2023 Screen Media Films

DEVIL’S PEAK, based on David Joy’s novel WHERE ALL LIGHT TENDS TO GO, is now available on demand on Prime Video and other VOD services. The film, starring Billy Bob Thornton and Robin Wright, is a coming-of-age crime drama, set in the mountains of North Carolina. Griff Furst is one of DEVIL’S PEAK’s producers, and a prime mover of the project. He is also a prolific director and actor. Speaking by phone, Furst talks about how DEVIL’S PEAK came together, and his career overall. ASSIGNMENT X: Are you in DEVIL’S PEAK as an actor? GRIFF FURST: I am, but it’s […]Read On »


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Movie Review: MOVING ON

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
MOVING ON movie poster | ©2023 Roadside Attractions

Rating: R Stars: Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Malcolm McDowell, Sarah Burns, Richard Roundtree, Catherine Dent, Marcel Nahapetian Writer: Paul Weitz Director: Paul Weitz Distributor: Roadside Attractions Release Date: March 17, 2023 Clearly, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin enjoy acting together. Almost the moment they wrapped their Netflix comedy series GRACE AND FRANKIE after five seasons, they star in two movies together, last month’s 80 FOR BRADY, and now MOVING ON. MOVING ON is a few shades darker than Fonda and Tomlin’s other collaborations. In other hands, the material might be stark drama, but writer/director Paul Weitz puts a gentle, bemused […]Read On »


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Movie Review: CRAM

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
CRAM movie poster | ©2023 Terror Films

Rating: Not Rated Stars: John DiMino, Brandon E. Burton, Conrado Falco III, Carolina Đð, Jane Bradley Writer: Abie Sidell Director: Abie Sidell Distributor: Terror Films Release Date: March 17, 2023 (VOD, digital) CRAM starts out with student Marc Lack (John DiMino) in the college library, desperately trying to complete a paper overnight. He hasn’t read the relevant book and doesn’t have any thoughts on the material. Marc engages in a protracted effort to convince his friend Alice (Carolina Đð) to let him use her paper so he won’t have to write his own. When Alice understandably refuses, Marc winds up […]Read On »


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Trailer Debut: Bruce Dern in BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE WILD BUNCH on Tubi

By The Editors of ASSIGNMENT X | 03/16/2023
BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE WILD BUNCH movie poster | ©2023 Tubi

Streaming service Tubi is getting into the Originals game with BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE WILD BUNCH, a retelling of the classic western tale featuring Ross Jirgl as Butch Cassidy, Jilon VanOver as The Sundance Kid and Nikki Leigh as Etta Place. It debuts today and you can follow the link here. CLICK HERE TO WATCH BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE WILD BUNCH The film also stars Academy Award nominee Bruce Dern (NEBRASKA, COMING HOME) as Mike Cassidy, genre favorite Jeffrey Combs (RE-ANIMATOR) as Pinkerton Detective Charles Siringo and E.T. star Dee Wallace As Alice Cassidy. The Plot: When Butch Cassidy and […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SCREAM VI

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 03/10/2023
SCREAM VI movie poster | ©2023 Paramount Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Melissa Barrera, Courteney Cox, Jenna Ortega, Jasmin Savoy-Brown, Mason Gooding, Hayden Panettiere, Devyn Nekoda, Josh Segarra, Jack Champion, Liana Liberato, Tony Revolori, Samara Weaving, Dermot Mulroney, Henry Czerny, Roger Jackson Writers: James Vanderbilt & Guy Busick, based on characters created by Kevin Williamson Directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett Distributor: Paramount Pictures Release Date: March 10, 2023 At this point, constructing a new SCREAM movie has got to be like solving a Rubik’s cube, or maybe one of those mathematical equations relating to quantum mechanics. Just figuring out why a serial killer would dress up in that […]Read On »


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Movie Review: UNWELCOME

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
UNWELCOME movie poster | ©2023 Well Go USA Entertainment

Rating: R Stars: Hannah John-Kamen, Douglas Booth, Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, Kristian Nairn, Chris Walley, Colm Meaney, Niamh Cusack, Finbar Lynch Writer: Mark Stay, story by Mark Stay & Jon Wright Director: Jon Wright Distributor: Well Go USA Entertainment Release Date: March 10, 2023 (theatrical); March 14, 2023 (digital) UNWELCOME is part of a pleasing new mini-trend in horror. Instead of keeping secrets for no good reason, someone who actually knows what’s going on explains it early on, and it falls to the main characters to heed the warning or not. This may cut down on mystery a bit, but it stops […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SOUND OF SILENCE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
SOUND_OF_SILENCE_©_2023_XYZReleasing

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Penelope Sangiorgi, Rocco Marazzita, Lucia Caporaso, Daniele De Martino, Chiara Casolari, Peter Stephen Wolmarans, Alessandra Pizzullo Writers: T3 – Alessandro Antonaci, Stefano Mandalà, Daniel Lascar Directors: T3 – Alessandro Antonaci, Stefano Mandalà, Daniel Lascar Distributor: XYZ Releasing   Release Date: March 9, 2023 (VOD, digital) SOUND OF SILENCE is brought to us by T3, a writer/director trio consisting of Alessandro Antonaci, Stefano Mandalà, and Daniel Lascar. The group divides up other individual creative positions, with (at least for SOUND OF SILENCE) Antonaci as cinematographer, Mandalà as production designer, and Lascar as stunt coordinator. This suggests a […]Read On »


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Movie Review: PUNCH

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
PUNCH movie poster | ©2023 Dark Sky Pictures

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Tim Roth, Jordan Oosterhof, Conan Hayes Writer: Welby Ings Director: Welby Ings Distributor: Dark Star Pictures Release Date: March 10, 2023 (theatrical, on demand); April 11, 2023 (DVD) PUNCH begins with some young boys playing on a hill, paper wings strapped to their backs and dark goggles over their eyes. Stan (Tim Roth) retrieves his son Jim from the group. Now in his teens, Jim (Jordan Oosterhof) is being trained by Stan as a boxer. Stan works at a cement-making plant and Jim is still in high school. They live in the small New Zealand town […]Read On »


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A SPY AMONG FRIENDS: Actress Anna Maxwell Martin on fact-based espionage series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
Anna Maxwell Martin in A SPY AMONG FRIENDS | ©2023 MGM+

A SPY AMONG FRIENDS, the six-part British miniseries premiering Sunday, March 12, on MGM+ (formerly Epix), is based Ben Macintyre’s nonfiction book A SPY AMONG FRIENDS: KIM PHILBY AND THE GREAT BETRAYAL. Harold Adrian Russell “Kim” Philby, as real-life espionage buffs know, was a high-ranking officer in British Intelligence’s MI-6 division (their equivalent of the CIA) during and after World War II. In 1963, it was revealed that Philby was spying for the Russians, causing him to flee to Moscow. Philby’s friend and fellow MI-6 agent Nicholas Elliott was sent to get a full confession while they were both in […]Read On »


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