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ALEX RIDER: Actress Sofia Helin and executive producer Eve Gutierrez on Season 3 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 08/06/2024
Sofia Helin is Julia Rothman in ALEX RIDER - Season 3 | ©2024 Amazon/Freevee

All three seasons of the British spy thriller series ALEX RIDER are now available in their entirety for streaming in the U.S. on Amazon Freevee. The series is also playing in the U.K., Germany, and multiple other countries. Based on the series of bestselling novels by Anthony Horowitz, ALEX RIDER follows the title character, played by Otto Farrant, an English teenager who discovers that his late uncle and his late father were both spies. The clandestine U.K. government group, the Department, that hired both men (and got them killed in the line of duty) enlists Alex to infiltrate a school […]Read On »


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CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION: Actors Kirsten Vangsness, Adam Rodriguez and Zack Gilford on the latest season – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 08/04/2024
CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION - Season 2 | ©2024 Paramount+

All episodes of CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION Season 2, aka CRIMINAL MINDS Season 17, are now streaming on Paramount Plus, along with Season 16/Season 1, and all fifteen seasons of the original CRIMINAL MINDS. The series has been picked up for (depending on how one views it) Season 18 or Season 3. CRIMINAL MINDS launched on CBS in 2005. It is a procedural drama involving the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, or BAU. These are the special agents who profile and track down serial killers. The series spent fifteen years on the CBS network. That run ended in February 2020, but CRIMINAL […]Read On »


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Movie Review: TRAP

By CARL CORTEZ | 08/03/2024
TRAP movie poster | ©2024 Warner Bros.

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Shyamalan, Hayley Mills, Alison Pill Writer-Director: M. Night Shyamalan Distributor: Warner Bros. Ever since writer-director M. Night Shyamalan broke out with his classic 1999 thriller THE SIXTH SENSE, he’s struggled to maintain the simplistic beauty of that Bruce Willis starrer. His subsequent films either leaned too heavy into a last act twist (that worked depending on the viewer – UNBREAKABLE, SIGNS) or were so pretentious the film was virtually unwatchable (THE HAPPENING anyone). Thankfully, the last decade has brought Shyamalan back to earth and has focused him. THE VISIT took him out […]Read On »


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QUEENS: Composer Morgan Kibby and photographer Jen Guyton on new nature series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 08/02/2024
A male euglossa orchid bee approaches a Coryanthes orchid iN QUEENS | ©2024 National Geographic for Disney/Oscar Dewhurst

QUEENS, the seven-part documentary series about animal matriarchs, is now streaming in its entirety on both National Geographic and Disney+. Narrated by Angela Bassett, each episode focuses on different kinds of species in different environments. QUEENS is also primarily made by women filmmakers. Morgan Kibby composed the score for all the episodes. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE photographer captured still images related to the “African Queens” episode, which focuses on lions and hyenas. Guyton and Kibby sit down for a joint interview arranged by National Geographic during their portion of the Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour, and then join their QUEENS […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE BEAST WITHIN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
THE BEAST WITHIN movie poster | ©2024 Well Go USA Entertainment

Rating: R Stars: Kit Harington, Ashleigh Cummings, James Cosmo, Caolinn Springall Writers: Greer Taylor Ellison & Alexander J. Farrell Director: Alexander J. Farrell Distributor: Well Go USA Entertainment Release Date: July 26, 2024 THE BEAST WITHIN begins with the onscreen proverb, ““There are two wolves inside of us … they are always at war.” We then see a woman in old-time garb searching in the forest for “William.” This ends badly. Then we’re in the present, or thereabouts. An English family – Noah (Kit Harington), his wife Imogen (Ashleigh Cummings, of NOS4A2), their young daughter Willow (Caolinn Springall) and Imogen’s […]Read On »


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Movie Review: DOCTOR JEKYLL

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
DOCTOR JEKYLL movie poster | ©2024 Hammer

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Eddie Izzard, Scott Chambers, Robyn Cara, Morgan Watkins, Jonathan Hyde, Simon Callow, Lindsay Duncan Writer: Dan Kelly-Mulhern, based on the novella THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE by Robert Louis Stevenson Director: Joe Stephenson Distributor: Hammer Films Release Date: August 2, 2024 (theatrical and VOD) Since “Jekyll and Hyde” has long been an expression, there’s a plot twist we anticipate from the start in DOCTOR JEKYLL, the latest of many films (and TV shows and stage plays and musicals) based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND […]Read On »


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Movie Review: #AMFAD: ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DEAD

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
#AMFAD: ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DEAD movie poster | ©2024 Cineverse

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Jade Pettyjohn, Jennifer Ens, Ali Fumiko Whitney, Michaela Russell, Julian Haig, Justin Derickson, Cardi Wong. Jack Doupe-Smith, JoJo Siwa Writers: Josh Sims & Jessica Sarah Flaum, story by John Baldecchi, Jessica Sarah Flaum, Josh Sims Director: Marcus Dunstan Distributor: Cineverse Release Date: August 2, 2024 (theatrical, digital, VOD) #AMFAD: ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DEAD is one of those slashers that throws a few notable genre plots into a blender. Fortunately, the end result is pretty good in terms of what the filmmakers are going for, even if we do have to accept that most of the […]Read On »


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Movie Review: DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 07/30/2024
DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE movie poster | ©2024 Marvel/Disney

Rating: R Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Emma Corrin, Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney, Leslie Uggams, Karan Soni, Matthew McFadyen Writers: Ryan Reynolds & Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick & Zeb Wells & Shawn Levy, based on characters created by Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza Director: Shawn Levy Distributor: Disney/Marvel Release Date: July 26, 2024 For those who enjoy the core tenets of Marvel’s DEADPOOL movies – nonstop crude verbal humor and violent assaults on both bodies and the fourth wall – DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE offers virtually nonstop entertainment. Those who are at least mildly conversant with the characters will remember […]Read On »


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HOTEL PORTOFINO: Actor Mark Umbers on Season 3 of the hit UK series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 07/28/2024
HOTEL PORTOFINO key art | ©2024 PBS

The third season of HOTEL PORTOFINO premieres on PBS’s MASTERPIECE THEATRE on Sunday, July 28. Produced in partnership with the U.K.’s ITV and created by Matt Baker, HOTEL PORTOFINO chronicles the ups and downs of the English Ainsworth family in 1920s Italy. Fascism is on the rise, but the Ainsworths have more immediate troubles. Chief among these is the rift between hotel manager Bella Ainsworth, played by Natascha McElhone, and her husband Cecil Ainsworth, played by Mark Umbers. Cecil is of British nobility by birth – his title is Viscount Heddon – but his behavior is distinctly ignoble. He cheats […]Read On »


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Movie Review: STARVE ACRE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 07/26/2024
STARVE ACRE movie poster | ©2024 Brainstorm Media

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Matt Smith, Morfydd Clark, Erin Richards, Robert Emms, Sean Gilder, Melanie Kilburn, Arthur Shaw, Roger Barclay Writer: Daniel Kokotajlo, based on the novel by Andrew Michael Hurley Director: Daniel Kokotajlo Distributor: Brainstorm Media Release Date: July 26, 2024 (theatrical and VOD) Based on Andrew Michael Hurley’s 2019 novel, STARVE ACRE is set in contemporary northern England. It begins with a poem, “The Dandelion,” by Neil Willoughby, which we observe is actually an invocation for a kind of devil. We’ll find out more about the poem’s author by and by. Meanwhile, university professor Richard (Matt Smith), his […]Read On »


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