Movie Review: IF

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/17/2024
IF movie poster | ©2024 Paramount Pictures

Rating: PG Stars: Cailey Fleming, Ryan Reynolds, John Krasinski, Fiona Shaw, Alan Kim, Bobby Moynihan, Liza Colón-Zayas, Audrey Hoffman, Steve Carell (voice), Phoebe Waller-Bridge (voice), Louis Gossett Jr. (voice), Emily Blunt (voice), Matt Damon (voice), Maya Rudolph (voice), Jon Stewart (voice), Sam Rockwell (voice), Sebastian Maniscalco (voice), Christopher Meloni (voice), Awkwafina (voice) Writer: John Krasinski Director: John Krasinski Distributor: Paramount Pictures Release Date: May 17, 2024 One would have to be a Grinch of the highest order to object to the premise of IF, which is, broadly, that imagination makes everybody’s lives better. Written and directed by John Krasinski, the […]Read On »


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HAPPY!: Creator Grant Morrison gives the scoop on Season 2 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/28/2019
Chris Meloni as Nick Sax, Patton Oswald as Happy! in HAPPY! - Season 2 | ©2019 Syfy

Syfy’s HAPPY!, a unique combination of whimsy and mayhem, begins its second season Wednesday, March 27. In HAPPY! Season 1, Christopher Meloni’s ex-cop-turned-alcoholic-hitman Nick Sax is enlisted by Happy (an animated being in an otherwise live-action show, voiced by Patton Oswald), the flying blue unicorn imaginary best friend of Nick’s little daughter Hailey (Bryce Lorenzo), to rescue the child. By the end of Season 1, Hailey was not only rescued from the most perverse bad guys imaginable, but she was maturing enough that she no longer needed Happy. So Happy has moved on to a new person who needs a […]Read On »


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HAPPY!: Patrick Fischler chats Syfy’s HAPPY! and TWIN PEAKS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/20/2018
Patrick Fischler as Smoothie in HAPPY! - Season 1 - "White Sauce Hot Sauce" | ©2017 NBCUniversal/Peter Kramer

Based on a graphic novel series, Syfy’s new Wednesday-night series HAPPY! chronicles what happens when a little girl’s imaginary flying unicorn friend (the animated creature is voiced by Patton Oswalt) seeks out the child’s ex-cop hitman father Nick Sax (played by Christopher Meloni) to rescue her from a kidnapper. Developed by Grant Morrison and Brian Taylor, HAPPY! is surreal, funny and very violent. This last quality is enhanced by the character of Smoothie, a mob torturer who really enjoys his work, played by Patrick Fischler. Fischler is a California known for a wide variety of characters, including the fate-changing Isaac […]Read On »


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CAPTAIN AMERICA CIVIL WAR highlights Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Releases for Sept. 13, 2016

By PETER BROWN 09/17/2016
CAPTAIN AMERICA CIVIL WAR | © 2016 Disney Home Video

  Movies: CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR – One of the best movies of 2016 is indeed a comic book movie. And it is a doozy in a lot of ways. First it is one of the last movies of Phase 2 in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and it does a tremendous job of wrapping up everything that has come before it. Not only is CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR a continuation of the previous Cap film, CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER, but it also serves as a sequel to AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON. The film straddles the line of showing the […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/07/2015
THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL | © 2015 Sony Pictures Classic

Rating: R Stars: Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgard, Christopher Meloni, Kristen Wiig Writer: Marielle Heller, based on the book by Phoebe Gloeckner Director: Marielle Heller Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics Release Date: August 7, 2015 It’s easy to imagine that THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL. Those who find it true to their own experience, metaphorically (and possibly though not necessarily literally), are likely to love it. Those whose teen years went in completely other directions may still be intrigued, but could equally be disbelieving, alienated and/or bored. For those open to its appeal, THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL is full […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Christopher Meloni on SURVIVING JACK

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/26/2014
Christopher Meloni in SURVIVING JACK - Season 1 | ©2014 Fox/Christopher Fragapane

Christopher Meloni is so associated with his long-running TV drama roles, especially NYPD detective Elliot Stabler on twelve years of LAW & ORDER: SVU and prison inmate Chris Keller on HBO’s OZ, plus last year’s turns as heroic Col. Nathan Hardy in MAN OF STEEL and principled Leo Durocher in 42, people tend to forget he has a lighter side. Meloni voiced Spike in DINOSAURS, appeared as different characters in the first two HAROLD & KUMAR films, had a wryly amusing guest turn on Season 5 of TRUE BLOOD and can currently be seen on the big screen as a […]Read On »


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Interview: Bill Lawrence talks new series SURVIVING JACK and COUGAR TOWN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/18/2014
SURVIVING JACK - Season 1 key art | ©2014 Fox/Joseph Cultice

Bill Lawrence is a very busy writer/executive producer/show runner. His new half-hour comedy series, SURVIVING JACK, launches Thursday, March 27 at 8:30 PM on Fox. The show is set in the Nineties, with Christopher Meloni as Jack Dunlevy, a successful doctor who thinks he can handle being the primary parent in the household when his wife (Rachael Harris) decides it’s time to get her law degree. Lawrence’s COUGAR TOWN, starring Courteney Cox, is now in its fifth season – its second on TBS, Tuesdays at 10 PM, following a three-year run on ABC. GROUND FLOOR, a comedy about a romance […]Read On »


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Movie Review: 42

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/13/2013
42 movie poster | ©2013 Warner Bros.

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Harrison Ford, Nicole Beharie, Christopher Meloni, Andre Holland, Max Gail, Lucas Black, Hamish Linklater, Ryan Merriman, Brad Beyer, Alan Tudyk, John C. McGinley, James Pickens Jr. Writer: Brian Helgeland Director: Brian Helgeland Distributor: Warner Bros. Release Date: April 12, 2013 Most sports films have to reach a little if they want to be more than character and/or game studies. Many of them are successful, even inspirational, stories of team spirit or friendship or romance or competitiveness, but even a film like INVICTUS, which wove the World Cup football game into the end of apartheid inSouth […]Read On »


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TV Review: TRUE BLOOD – Season 5 – “Hopeless”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF 07/20/2012
Denis O'Hare, Christopher Meloni in TRUE BLOOD - Season 5 - "Hopeless" | ©2012 HBO/John P. Johnson

Stars: Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Alexander Skarsgard, Sam Trammell, Ryan Kwanten, Rutina Wesley, Christopher Meloni, Chris Bauer, Nelsan Ellis, Joe Manganiello, Carrie Preston, Deborah Ann Woll, Michael McMillian, Denis O’Hare, Jim Parrack, Kristin Bauer van Straten, Todd Lowe, Lauren Bowles, Valentina Cervi, Janina Gavankar, Lucy Griffiths, Scott Foley, Chris Heyerdahl, Alfre Woodard, Kevin Alejandro, Tina Majorino, Dale Dickey Writer: Alan Ball, series created by Alan Ball, based on Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse novels| Director: Daniel Attias Network: HBO, Sundays @ 9 PM Airdate: July 15, 2012 TRUE BLOOD promises to get a whole lot bloodier with the finale of “Hopeless,” […]Read On »


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TV Review: TRUE BLOOD – Season 5 – “Let’s Boot and Rally”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF 07/10/2012
Anna Paquin in TRUE BLOOD - Season 5 - "Let's Boot and Rally" | ©2012 HBO/John P. Johnson

Stars: Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Alexander Skarsgard, Sam Trammell, Ryan Kwanten, Rutina Wesley, Christopher Meloni, Chris Bauer, Nelsan Ellis, Joe Manganiello, Carrie Preston, Deborah Ann Woll, Michael McMillian, Denis O’Hare, Jim Parrack, Kristin Bauer van Straten, Todd Lowe, Lauren Bowles, Valentina Cervi, Janina Gavankar, Lucy Griffiths, Scott Foley, Chris Heyerdahl, Alfre Woodard, Kevin Alejandro, Tina Majorino Writer: Angela Robinson, series created by Alan Ball, based on Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse novels Director: Michael Lehmann Network: HBO, Sundays @ 9 PM Airdate: July 8, 2012 This seems like a strange complaint to level at a show about vampires, werewolves and other […]Read On »


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