Movie Review: HOLD YOUR BREATH

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/04/2024
HOLD YOUR BREATH | ©2024 Searchlight Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Sarah Paulson, Amiah Miller, Annaleigh Ashford, Alona James Robbins, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Frances Lee McCain, Courtney Cunningham Writer: Karrie Crouse Directors: Karrie Crouse & Will Joines Distributor: Searchlight Pictures Release Date: October 3, 2024 (Hulu) HOLD YOUR BREATH is set in the Oklahoma Panhandle in 1933, when blinding, catastrophic dust storms were ravaging the American Midwest. Directors Karrie Crouse & Will Joines, working from Crouse’s script, give us an environment as ominous as the deep ocean, and use it to set a horror story that can be read as supernatural, psychological, or both. Wheat farmer Margaret Bellum (Sarah […]Read On »


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MASTERS OF SEX: Creator Michelle Ashford on Season 4 and beyond – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/25/2016
Michael Sheen in MASTERS OF SEX - Season 4 |©2016 Showtime

In Season 4 of Showtime Network’s MASTERS OF SEX, Sunday nights, we’re in the Sixties. However, things don’t start out too swinging for Dr. William Masters, played by Michael Sheen, who has lost his wife Libby (Caitlin FitzGerald) to divorce and his practice to scandal. He’s also lost beloved professional partner and sometimes lover Dr. Virginia Johnson (Lizzy Caplan) to another man, or so it would seem. MASTERS OF SEX creator (working from Thomas Maier’s nonfiction book)/executive producer/show runner Michelle Ashford talks about what’s in store in Season 4. ASSIGNMENT X: What are you looking forward to, going into Season […]Read On »


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MASTERS OF SEX: Annaleigh Ashford on Season 3 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/02/2015
Annaleigh Ashford in MASTERS OF SEX - Season 3 | ©2015 Showtime/Liz Von Hoene

Actress Annaleigh Ashford is sitting down in the lounge at the Beverly Hilton Hotel to talk about Season 3 of Showtime’s MASTERS OF SEX, Sundays at 10 PM. However, the Colorado-born actress has just won a Tony Award for Actress in a Featured Role in a Play for her work as Essie in the Broadway revival of YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU, so there’s discussion of that, along with her starring gig as the title character in the upcoming production of SYLVIA. Although MASTERS OF SEX centers around the real-life characters of pioneering researchers Dr. William Masters (played by […]Read On »


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MASTERS OF SEX creator Michelle Ashford on Season 2 – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/08/2014
MASTERS OF SEX - Season 2 poster | ©2014 Showtime/

Now in its second season on Showtime, Sundays at 10 PM, and renewed for a third, MASTERS OF SEX chronicles the unusual personal and working relationships of pioneering sex researchers William Masters, played by Michael Sheen, and Virginia Johnson, portrayed by Lizzy Caplan. Based on Thomas Maier’s nonfiction book, Season 1 of MASTERS showed how Johnson came to work for Masters, how their study into human sexuality progressed and how they eventually became sexually involved with one another – as part of the study – even though Masters is married to Libby (Caitlin FitzGerald). The first season earned Allison Janney […]Read On »


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MASTERS OF SEX star Annaleigh Ashford talks Season 2 – Exclusive

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/17/2014
Annaleight Ashford as Betty in MASTERS OF SEX | © 2014 Showtime

Showtime’s MASTERS OF SEX, now in its second season on Sunday nights, dramatizes the life and work of pioneering sex researchers William Masters, played by Michael Sheen, and Virginia Johnson, played by Lizzy Caplan. Although Masters and Johnson – and their research – were real, a number of fictional and composite characters appear in the series. One of the most unusual original characters is Annaleigh Ashford’s Betty DiMello. During the course of MASTERS OF SEX so far, we’ve seen Betty go from a lesbian prostitute who is instrumental in helping Masters and Johnson get their study started to an upwardly […]Read On »


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