Movie Review: BELFAST

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/12/2021
BELFAST movie poster | ©2021 Focus Features

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Caitriona Balfe, Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Ciarán Hinds, Jude Hill, Lewis McAskie Writer: Kenneth Branagh Director: Kenneth Branagh Distributor: Focus Features Release Date: November 12, 2021 Belfast has, tragically, been synonymous with violence in Northern Ireland for much of the twentieth century. BELFAST the movie incorporates that, but it’s also the story of a boy, his family and their home. Director/writer Kenneth Branagh has based BELFAST on his own childhood. He achieves an appealing balance of nostalgia and verisimilitude in his depiction of a family, a neighborhood, and an era. BELFAST opens with a color panorama of […]Read On »


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OUTLANDER: Executive Producer Maril Davis gives the scoop on Season 5 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/20/2020
Sophie Skelton as Brianna Randall, Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser and Richard Rankin as Roger Wakefield in OUTLANDER - Season 5 | ©2020 Starz

OUTLANDER is now in its fifth season on Starz Sunday nights. Based on the novels by Diana Gabaldon, OUTLANDER tells the story of time-crossed lovers Claire Randall (Caitriona Balfe), a World War II nurse turned postwar surgeon, and eighteenth-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser. In Season 5, Jamie and Claire are settled in the North Carolina colonies as the Revolutionary War looms. Their daughter Brianna (Sophie Skelton), born in the twentieth century, has joined them, as has her twentieth-century-era husband Roger (Richard Rankin), but as always, trouble finds them. Executive producer Maril Davis tells a Q&A session for OUTLANDER that, from her […]Read On »


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OUTLANDER: Richard Rankin gives the Season Three scoop – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/28/2017
Sophie Skelton is Brianna Randall and Richard Rankin is Roger Wakefield in OUTLANDER - Season 3 | ©2017 Starz

Like his OUTLANDER cast mate Sam Heughan (who plays heroic eighteenth-century Highlander Jamie Fraser), actor Richard Rankin speaks with an authentic Scots accent. Rankin hails from Glasgow; his OUTLANDER character, Roger Wakefield, is from Inverness. The adult Roger entered OUTLANDER at the end of Season 2. English couple Claire Randall (Caitriona Balfe) and her husband Frank (Tobias Menzies) met the orphaned boy as a child during their fateful ‘40s trip to Scotland, when Claire accidentally traveled 200 years into the past. It is there that she and Jamie meet and fall in love. At the end of Season 2, Claire […]Read On »


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OUTLANDER: Actress Caitriona Balfe on Season 3 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/20/2017
Caitriona Balfe is Claire Randall Fraser in OUTLANDER - Season 3 | ©2017 Starz

Season 3 of Starz’s OUTLANDER, which airs Sunday nights, shos off actress Caitriona Balfe’s versatility. Her character Claire, a twentieth-century combat nurse, has time-traveled to eighteenth-century Scotland, where she has met and fallen in love with Highlander Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan). After a passionate marriage, the pregnant Claire was forced to return to her own time, while Jamie expected to die at the Battle of Culloden. In Season 3, we see Claire age twenty years, from the 1940s to the 1960s. She gives birth to her and Jamie’s daughter Brianna (played as an adult by Sophie Skelton), loses her present-day […]Read On »


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OUTLANDER: Showrunner Ronald D. Moore on Season 3 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/12/2017
Caitriona Balfe is Claire Randall Fraser and Sam Heughan is Jamie Fraser in OUTLANDER - Season 3 | ©2017 Starz

OUTLANDER is now in its third season Sunday nights on Starz. Twentieth-century nurse-turned-surgeon Claire Randall, played by Caitriona Balfe, was forced to leave eighteenth-century Scotland by her great love, Highlander Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan), before the Battle of Culloden. After a sojourn raising their daughter in England and America through the 1960s, Claire has found her way back to Jamie. Even though twenty years have passed for both of them, their passion remains true. Ronald D. Moore is the executive producer/show runner who adapted OUTLANDER from Diana Gabaldon’s series of best-selling novels. He talks about what the show has in […]Read On »


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OUTLANDER: Executive producer Maril Davis on Season 3 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/24/2017
OUTLANDER logo | ©2017 Starz

The Starz series OUTLANDER, now in its third season on Sunday nights, owes its success to many people. The Diana Gabaldon novels, translated for the television screen by Ron Moore, stars Caitriona Balfe as mid-twentieth-century English nurse-turned surgeon Claire Randall and Sam Heughan as her eighteenth-century Highlander soulmate Jamie Fraser. Without executive producer Maril Davis, OUTLANDER the show would not exist, at least not in its present form. It was Davis who brought the project to her producing partner Moore in the first place. ASSIGNMENT X: Has OUTLANDER the series turned out pretty much the way you envisioned it when […]Read On »


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OUTLANDER: Tobias Menzies on Season 3 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/10/2017
OUTLANDER - Season 3 key art |©2017 Starz

OUTLANDER, based on the series of novels by Diana Gabaldon, tells of the centuries-spanning love affair between British WWII nurse-turned-surgeon Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and 18th-century Highlander Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan). Now in its third season on Starz on Sunday nights, OUTLANDER took Claire through a ring of standing stones from her mid-20th-century life back to a few years before Bonnie Prince Charlie lost Scotland to the British at the Battle of Culloden. At the end of Season 2, Jamie sent Claire back to her own time through the stones; she was pregnant with his child and he was sure he […]Read On »


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Movie Review: MONEY MONSTER

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/13/2016
MONEY MONSTER | © 2016 Sony/Tristar

Rating: R Stars: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O’Connell, Dominic West, Caitriona Balfe, Giancarlo Esposito, Christopher Denham, Lenny Venito, Emily Meade Writers: Jamie Linden and Alan DiFiore & Jim Kouf, story by DiFiore & Kouf Director: Jodie Foster Distributor: Release Date: May 13, 2016 MONEY MONSTER is almost always entertaining, even when it gets predictable, improbable, or some combination of the two. As movies about the workings of Wall Street go, it has the misfortune to be following THE BIG SHORT while that film – last year’s Oscar winner for Adapted Screenplay – is still in people’s memories. MONEY MONSTER […]Read On »


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OUTLANDER: Sam Heughan discusses the season finale – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/30/2015
Sam Heughan in OUTLANDER - Season 1 | ©2015 Starz

Starz’s series OUTLANDER, adapted by executive producer Ronald D. Moore from Diana Gabaldon’s best-selling novels, has its first-season finale Saturday, May 30 at 9 PM. The success of OUTLANDER has been such that renewal for a second season was assured pretty much by the time it premiered. The season finale promises to be tense, with time-traveling WWII British Army nurse Claire, played by Caitriona Balfe, still in eighteenth-century Scotland, trying to rescue her Highlander husband Jamie, portrayed by Sam Heughan. Jamie is the prisoner of English garrison commander “Black Jack” Randall (Tobias Menzies), a sadist who intends to hang his […]Read On »


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OUTLANDER: Author Diana Gabaldon discusses the move to TV – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/14/2015
Caitriona Balfe as Claire Randall in OUTLANDER | © 2015 Starz

Starz’s OUTLANDER, Saturdays at 9 PM, is now in the midst of its overwhelmingly popular first season and renewed for a second. The series tells the story of Claire Beauchamp Randall (Caitriona Balfe), a married WWII British Army nurse who finds herself transported to the Highlands of 1700s Scotland, where she meets, has to marry and eventually falls in love with Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan), a local laird with his own castle – and major troubles with British officer Jack Randall (Tobias Menzies), the sadistic ancestor of Claire’s twentieth-century spouse Frank (also Menzies). Diana Gabaldon, who wrote the best-selling series […]Read On »


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