Movie Review: STRANGE DARLING

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/23/2024
STRANGE DARLING | ©2024 Magenta Light Studios / Miramax

Rating: R Stars: Willa Fitzgerald, Kyle Gallner, Madisen Beatty, Bianca Santos, Steven Michael Quezada, Ed Begley Jr., Barbara Hershey Writer: JT Mollner Director: JT Mollner Distributor: Magenta Light Studios/Miramax Release Date: August 23, 2024 How to review STRANGE DARLING without spoilers? It seems fair enough to include the film’s opening, which informs us that it’s shot in 35mm (something of a rarity these days). This allows cinematographer Giovanni Ribisi (also one of STRANGE DARLING’s producers) to play with crisp black-and-white, saturated colors and even over-saturation, depending on the mood of the sequence. At the black-and-white start, we see a man […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: ONCE UPON A TIME creators Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz on Season 3

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/30/2014
Lana Parrilla in ONCE UPON A TIME - Season 3 | ©2014 ABC/Bob D'Amico

Now in its third season on ABC, Sundays at 8 PM, ONCE UPON A TIME has finished its sojourn in Neverland, with Mr. Gold/Rumplestiltskin (Robert Carlyle) heroically sacrificing himself to stop Peter Pan (Robbie Kay) – who is actually Rumplestiltskin’s father! – from controlling everything and everyone. A curse sent many of the characters back from Storybrooke to the Enchanted Forest, while Emma (Jennifer Morrison) and her son Henry (Jared S. Gilmore) had their memories altered to believe they’d always lived in New York. Another curse has brought our people back to Storybrooke, and Captain Hook (Colin O’Donoghue) has restored […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: The creators of ONCE UPON A TIME IN WONDERLAND talk Season 1

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/07/2013
Emma Rigby as The Red Queen, Naveen Andrews as Jafar, Sophie Lowe as Alice, Peter Gadiot as Cyrus, John Lithgow as the voice of The White Rabbit and Michael Socha as The Knave of Hearts in ONCE UPON A TIME IN WONDERLAND - Season 1 | ©2013 ABC/Bob D'Amico

In ONCE UPON A TIME IN WONDERLAND, ABC Thursdays at 8 PM, ONCE UPON A TIME creators/executive producers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz have (with fellow WONDERLAND creators Zack Estrin and Jane Espenson) woven together a story in the same universe as their mothership (now in its third season on ABC, Sundays at 8 PM). We’ve visited Wonderland before with Sebastian Stan’s Mad Hatter and Barbara Hershey’s Queen of Hearts. Those characters don’t show up in the new series, which combines traditional elements from Lewis Carroll’s classics ALICE IN WONDERLAND and ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS with Disney’s ALADDIN. Here, Alice […]Read On »


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Movie Review: INSIDIOUS CHAPTER 2

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/14/2013
INSIDIOUS CHAPTER 2 movie poster | ©2013 Film District

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Lyn Shaye, Ty Simpkins, Barbara Hershey, Steve Coulter, Leigh Whannell, Angus Sampson, Andrew Astor Writer: Leigh Whannell, story by James Wan & Leigh Whannell Director: James Wan Distributor: FilmDistrict Release Date: September 13, 2013 Usually, when watching a sequel, it helps to have seen the original. However, in the case of INSIDIOUS CHAPTER 2, people who haven’t seen 2010’s truly creepy INSIDIOUS may be at an advantage. The storytelling is a bit choppy and seems to borrow from a number of sources, including A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET: DREAM WARRIORS, but it still […]Read On »


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THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN Highlights this week in Blu-ray and DVD Releases

By PETER BROWN 11/09/2012
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN | (c) 2012 Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Your time is short. We know this. So in order to expedite your buying and Netflix decision making, we provide you with a list of the cool and not-so-cool titles coming out for movies, television and everything in-between. So put your feet up, grab some popcorn and check out this week’s selections. Movies: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN – It’s odd that a franchise that just ended a short five years ago gets a reboot but considering how the third SPIDER-MAN film under the helm of Sam Raimi was without doubt the worst in the series, maybe it was needed. THE AMAZING […]Read On »


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Free Special screening of INSIDIOUS courtesy of FANGORIA plus live Q&A streaming on July 11

By DON E. PETERSON 07/10/2011
INSIDIOUS Blu-ray | ©2011 Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

If you’re a fan of INSIDIOUS and want to see the hit James Wan directed thriller again before its hits DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday, FANGORIA magazine is holding a special screening tomorrow, Monday, July 11 followed by a live streaming Q&A with Wan and screenwriter Leigh Whannell on Facebook. The event is being held at the Silent Movie Theater, 611 North Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles, CA. To get free tickets, send an email to FANGORIAscreening@gmail.com with “INSIDIOUS” in the subject. Fans are encouraged to send in questions to the director and screenwriter in advance via Facebook and Twitter […]Read On »


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Exclusive Photos : From Peter O’Toole’s Hand and Footprints Ceremony

By SUE SCHNEIDER 05/02/2011
Peter O'Toole puts his hands in the cement at the Hand and Footprints Ceremony for Peter O'Toole | ©2011 Sue Schneider

Legendary actor Peter O’Toole was honored during the 2011 TCM CLASSIC FILM FESTIVAL with a special Hand and Footprints Ceremony in the foyer of the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, April 30th.  Robert Osborne from Turner Classic Movies introduced O’Toole. O’Toole joins stars from yesteryear and today who have enshrined their hands and feet in cement and are viewed by thousands of tourists each year that come to Hollywood. O’Toole was joined by his family, daughter Kate and son Lorcan, and stars, which included: Rose McGowan, Angelica Huston, Richard Benjamin, Paula Prentiss, Barbara Hershey and Illeana Douglas…and hundreds of fans.


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Profile: INSIDIOUS actress Lin Shaye is the psychic next door in the hit new movie

By SEAN ELLIOTT 04/05/2011
Lin Shaye in INSIDIOUS | ©2011 FilmDistrict

Lin Shaye has played a lot of colorful characters over the years. Her roles have ranged from the wildly comedic to deadly serious. Her latest role in the new hit horror thriller INSIDIOUS, is a more natural and down to earth performance. In the film Shaye plays a sensitive or psychic, if you will, that has been called in to help a family that is being haunted and to help save a child’s life. ASSIGNMENT X got the chance to speak with Shaye at the Magic Castle in Los Angeles last week, the perfect setting for this kind of film’s […]Read On »


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Movie Review: INSIDIOUS

By SEAN ELLIOTT 04/01/2011
INSIDIOUS movie poster | ©2011 FilmDistrict

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins, Andrew Astor, Lin Shaye, Barbara Hershey, Leigh Whannell, Angus Sampson Writers: Leigh Whannell Director: James Wan Distributor: FilmDistrict Release Date: April 1, 2011 Let’s just start right off the bat by saying that I love horror movies of all kinds and shapes. I watch them like people eat candy, and I don’t get scared. I might have a movie here or there that makes me jump or produced a surprise reaction, but I generally don’t get freaked by a movie. INSIDIOUS on the other hand, made me sweat. I literally sweat […]Read On »


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Profile: INSIDIOUS creators James Wan and Leigh Whannell want to scar a generation

By SEAN ELLIOTT 03/31/2011
Leigh Wannell in INSIDIOUS | ©2011 FilmDistrict

James Wan and Leigh Whannell have given audiences plenty of nightmares over the last several years. The directing and writing team (respectively) are the men behind such films as the SAW series, and DEAD SILENCE. Their latest voyage into the world of horror, INSIDIOUS, opens this Friday, and despite its PG-13 rating is scaring critics across the country and being hailed as one of the scariest movies in years. The film involves a family that is being haunted, and one of the children’s life is in peril. Wan and Whannell spoke about using practical on set effects, effective horror not […]Read On »


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