Movie Review: BLACKOUT

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/12/2024
BLACKOUT movie poster | ©2024 Dark Sky Films/Glass Eye Pix

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Alex Hurt, Addison Timlin, Motell Gyn Foster, Joseph Castillo-Midyett, Ella Rae Peck, Rigo Garay, John Speredakos, Michael Buscemi, Jeremy Holm, Cody Kostro, Marc Senter, Kevin Corrigan, Joe Swanberg, Asta Paredes, Clay von Carlowitz, Barbara Crampton, James Le Gros, Marshall Bell Writer: Larry Fessenden Director: Larry Fessenden Distributor: Dark Sky Films/Glass Eye Pix Release Date: March 13, 2024 (New York); April 12, 2024 (VOD, digital) What would you do if you suspected you had become a werewolf? That is the propelling question of BLACKOUT, an intelligent horror film with a fair amount of character development and plot […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SCREAM OF THE WOLF

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/23/2023
SCREAM OF THE WOLF movie poster | @2023 Uncork’d Entertainment

Rating: Not Rated Stars: James Fleet, Jay Taylor, Thalia Zucchi, Rupert Procter, Stephen Mapes, Sade Malone, Martin Portlock, John May, Morgan Rees-Davies, John Henshaw, Nicky Evans, Damien Mathews, Rula Lenska Writers: Joel Ferrari & Pete Wild Director: Dominic Brunt Distributor: Uncork’d Entertainment Release Date: June 13, 2023 (digital, DVD) At the start of SCREAM OF THE WOLF, we might imagine we’re watching the making of a Hammer-type horror film. We see opening credits for a feature from “Francis-Castle Pictures,” CRIMSON MANOR, and even an onscreen certificate from the British Board of Film Censors. But we quickly learn we’re in the […]Read On »


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CALL THE MIDWIFE: Jenny Agutter on CALL THE MIDWIFE and AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON – Exclusive Interview – Part 3

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/21/2021
Jenny Agutter and David Naughton in AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON | ©1982 Universal Pictures

In Part 3 of our exclusive interview with Jenny Agutter, she talks about the fortieth anniversary of AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, in which she played Nurse Alex Price, as well as more about her ten years of portraying Sister Julienne on CALL THE MIDWIFE – Season 10 airs on PBS on Sundays – and other recent projects. ASSIGNMENT X: Do you do much acting outside of CALL THE MIDWIFE, or do you do something else altogether between seasons? JENNY AGUTTER: I’ve had the opportunity to do two not very big parts, but good fun parts, in Marvel films [THE […]Read On »


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CALL THE MIDWIFE: Actress Jenny Agutter on new season – Exclusive Interview – Part 1

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/05/2021
Jenny Agutter as Sister Julienne in CALL THE MIDWIFE | ©2021 PBS

CALL THE MIDWIFE has just begun airing its tenth season in the U.S. Sundays on PBS (check local listings for exact airtimes), with the previous nine seasons currently available on Netflix. The series runs on the BBC in England. Based on the memoirs of real-life midwife Jennifer Worth and adapted for British television by Heidi Thomas, CALL THE MIDWIFE is set at Nonnatus House, a residence for Anglican nuns and lay practitioners who work as midwives in London’s East End. Each season takes place in a new year. Season 10 begins in 1966, when Nonnatus House is facing funding troubles, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: BOYS FROM COUNTY HELL

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/23/2021
BOYS FROM COUNTY HELL movie poster | ©2021 Shudder

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Jack Rowan, Nigel O’Neill, Louisa Harland, Michael Hough, Fra Fee, Robert Nairne, Andrea Irvine, Morgan C. Jones, David Pearse, John Lynch Writer: Chris Baugh, story by Chris Baugh & Brendan Mullin Director: Chris Baugh Distributor: Shudder Release Date: April 22, 2021 BOYS FROM COUNTY HELL is a Northern Irish horror/comedy. It seeks to emulate AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (there’s even a dialogue reference, along with a whole sequence that’s fairly similar) or SHAUN OF THE DEAD. We’re in the picturesque small town of Six Mile Hill. It’s nighttime. An older couple is watching television, when […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE CABIN IN THE WOODS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/14/2012
THE CABIN IN THE WOODS poster | ©2012 Lionsgate

Rating: R Stars: Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams, Richard Jenkins, Bradley Whitford, Brian White, Amy Acker Writers: Joss Whedon & Drew Goddard Director: Drew Goddard Distributor: Lionsgate Release Date: April 13, 2012 The first thing that should be said about THE CABIN IN THE WOODS is that it is an awesome movie. Unfortunately, the next thing that must be said is that discussing specifics about what makes it so awesome is liable to dampen the experience for those seeing it for the first time. The good news is that it holds up just great on […]Read On »


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TV Review: BEING HUMAN – Season 2 – “When I Think About You, I Shred Myself”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF 03/15/2012
Sam Witwer in BEING HUMAN - Season 2 - "When I Think About You, I Shred Myself" | ©2012 Syfy/Phillipe Bosse

Stars: Sam Witwer, Meaghan Rath, Sam Huntington, Kyle Schmid, Natalie Brown, Robert Naylor, Susanna Fournier, Jay Baruchel, Dusan Dukic, Gianpaolo Venuta Writer: Mike Ostrowski, adapted for U.S. television by Jeremy Carver & Anna Fricke, created for U.K. television by Toby Whithouse Director: Stefan Schwartz Network: Syfy, Mondays @ 9 PM Airdate: March 12, 2012 BEING HUMAN takes on the trappings of ‘80s horror with some of the developments in “When I Think About You, I Shred Myself.” While we may have suspected that all is not as it seems with Sally’s (Meaghan Rath) Reaper would-be mentor (Dusan Dukic), the revelation […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: TEEN WOLF star Dylan O’Brien brings comedic bite to the new MTV series

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/01/2011
Dylan O'Brien in TEEN WOLF - Season 1 - "Lunatic" | ©2011 MTV

You think it’s tough being a teenaged werewolf? Try being the non-super-powered best friend of a teenaged werewolf – all of the secrecy, more of the danger, and no perks like heightened reflexes. It’s a tough job, but somebody’s got to do it. On MTV’s TEEN WOLF, Monday nights at 10, the gig is filled by Dylan O’Brien, who plays Stan “Stiles” Stilinsky, who researches all the mythology that comes with the hairy curse afflicting his pal Scott McCall (Tyler Posey).New York native O’Brien, who will be twenty later this month, talks to us about portraying the compadre of a […]Read On »


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TV Review: TEEN WOLF – Season 1 – “Wolf Moon”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF 06/06/2011
Holland Roden, Colton Haynes, Dylan O’Brien, Crystal Reed, Tyler Posey and Tyler Hoechlin in TEEN WOLF - Season 1|©2011 MTV

Stars: Tyler Posey, Crystal Reed, Dylan O’Brien, Tyler Hoechlin, Holland Roden, Colton Haynes, Linden Ashby, JR Bourne Writer: Jeff Davis Director: Russell Mulcahy Network: MTV, airs Monday nights Airdate: June 5, 2011 Whether you found 1985’s feature film TEEN WOLF, starring Michael J. Fox in makeup that looked more simian than lupine when he wolfed out, adorable or incredibly annoying, just forget the whole thing when it comes to MTV’s TEEN WOLF. The two share a title, the basic concept of a teenaged male werewolf and presumably a lot of legal agreements. That’s it. MTV’s TEEN WOLF fits somewhere in […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: BEING HUMAN showrunners Jeremy Carver & Anna Fricke talk about vamps, werewolves and ghosts

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/28/2011
Sam Huntington in BEING HUMAN - Season 1 - "I Want You (Back from the Dead)" | ©2011 Syfy/Phillipe Bosse

BEING HUMAN started life as a BBC series, created by Toby Whithouse, about three Londoners sharing a flat, who just happen to be, respectively, a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost. Syfy Channel has now made a Boston-set version of the show, with Sam Witwer as vampire Aidan, Sam Huntington as werewolf Josh , Meaghan Rath as ghost Sally and Mark Pellegrino as Aidan’s bloodsucking mentor/maker Bishop. While Whithouse is a producer on the new version, the executive producers/show runners are Jeremy Carver and Anna Fricke, who sit together on a couch as they talk about all their characters who […]Read On »


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