Movie Review: SATURDAY NIGHT

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/04/2024
SATURDAY NIGHT movie poster | ©2024 Sony Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Gabriel LaBelle, Rachel Sennott, Corey Michael Smith, Matt Wood, Dylan O’Brien, Ella Hunt, Nicholas Braun, Lamorne Morris, Kim Matula, Emily Fairn, Tommy Dewey, Cooper Hoffman, Willem Dafoe, Catherine Curtin, Finn Wolfhard, J.K. Simmons, Matthew Rhus, Nicholas Podany, Corinne Britti, Naomi McPherson, Jon Batiste Writers: Gil Kenan & Jason Reitman Director: Jason Reitman Distributor: Sony/Columbia Pictures Release Date: September 27, 2024 (theatrical limited); October 11, 2024 (theatrical wide) October 11, 2024 is the fiftieth anniversary and start of the fiftieth season of that NBC staple, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, still cranking out episodes and minting new comedy stars lo […]Read On »


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Movie Review: GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/21/2024
GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE movie poster | ©2024 Sony Pictures/Columbia Pictures

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Mckenna Grace, Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Kumail Nanjiani, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, Bill Murray, Celeste O’Connor, James Acaster, Logan Kim, William Atherton, Patton Oswalt Writers: Gil Kenan & Jason Reitman, based on the 1984 film GHOSTBUSTERS, directed by Ivan Reitman, written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis Director: Gil Kenan Distributor: Sony/Columbia Release Date: March 21, 2024 When GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE arrived in theatres in November of 2021, it was something of a tonal oddity. Yes, all of the original Ghostbusters eventually showed up, but it felt less like GHOSTBUSTERS and more like a […]Read On »


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Exclusive Photos of the GHOSTBUSTERS: ANSWER THE CALL Los Angeles premiere

By SUE SCHNEIDER 07/11/2016
Melissa McCarthy at the Los Angeles Premiere of GHOSTBUSTERS

GHOSTBUSTERS first graced the big screen in 1984 and starred Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Sigourney Weaver among many others. It was an instant hit. Now in 2016 GHOSTBUSTERS: ANSWER THE CALL returns to the big screen with the GHOSTBUSTERS being woman. Some of the original cast return to once again save the world! Columbia Pictures in association withe Village Roadshow Pictures held the Los Angeles Premiere at the TCL Chinese. It was a big premiere closing Hollywood Blvd down. Fans lined the streets and some fans were lucky enough to be in the stands on the red carpet. Those […]Read On »


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Movie Review: GET ON UP

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/02/2014
GET ON UP | © 2014 Universal Pictures

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Nelsan Ellis, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Dan Aykroyd Writers: Jez Butterworth & John-Henry Butterworth, story by Steven Baigelman and Jez Butterworth & John-Henry Butterworth Director: Tate Taylor Distributor: Universal Pictures Release Date: August 1, 2014 The late soul singer/entertainer James Brown was known as “the hardest-working man in show business” and the biographical drama with music GET ON UP shows us why in detail. It is also consistently entertaining and intermittently moving, but by the end, we realize that it hasn’t been all that illuminating. We see Brown’s traumatic childhood, which suggests the adult Brown […]Read On »


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Movie Review: LEGENDS OF OZ: DOROTHY’S RETURN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/09/2014
LEGENDS OF OZ movie poster | ©2014 Clarius Entertainment

Rating: PG Stars (voices): Lea Michele, Dan Aykroyd, Kelsey Grammer, Jim Belushi, Martin Short, Oliver Platt, Bernadette Peters, Hugh Dancy, Megan Hilty Writers: Randi Barnes and Adam Balsam, based on the book DOROTHY OF OZ by Roger Stanton Baum, based on THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ by L. Frank Baum Directors: Daniel St. Pierre and Will Finn Distributor: Clarius Entertainment Release Date: May 9, 2014 If your only exposure to Oz has been the 1939 MGM musical, you’ve missed the terrific children’s book that inspired it, THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ by L. Frank Baum. Baum wrote twelve-and-a-half more Oz […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Chevy Chase is on COMMUNITY and you’re not

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/29/2012
Chevy Chase in COMMUNITY - Season 3 | ©2012 NBC/Mitchell Haaseth

To the delight of its devoted fans, COMMUNITY has resumed its third season on Thursday nights at 8 PM. Created by Dan Harmon, the half-hour comedy started with the premise of young lawyer Jeff Winger (Joel McHale) having to return to community college to shore up his law degree, but as it proceeded, the show has taken on movie parodies, Claymation and all manner of other unpredictable content. Chevy Chase co-stars as Pierce Hawthorne, who made a fortune in the moist towelette business but joins the central study group as a way to make friends, even though he’s not very […]Read On »


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CD Review: TRADING PLACES soundtrack (2,000 edition)

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER 12/28/2011
TRADING PLACES soundtrack | ©2011 La La Land Records

An old fogey named Elmer Bernstein became the new (and perhaps unwitting) king of youth comedy scores when filmmaker John Landis had the idea that the composer’s straight-laced, old Hollywood approach would be ideal to play the classically pompous academia who did their best to make sure Faber College had no fun of any kind. The keg smash of 1978’s ANIMAL HOUSE made Bernstein into The Man in more ways than one, tuning his often brassy approach to the height of wealth-spoofing irony- an approach that would pay huge dividends for both men ten years later with TRADING PLACES. Of […]Read On »


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Exclusive Photos from the Los Angeles Premiere of YOGI BEAR

By SUE SCHNEIDER 12/20/2010
Director Eric Brevig and Yogi Bear and Boo Boo at the Los Angeles Premiere of YOGI BEAR | 2010 © Sue Schneider

Warner Bros. Pictures presented the Los Angeles Premiere of YOGI BEAR on December 11th at the Village Theater in Westwood, in Association with Sunswept Entertainment/De Line Pictures Production and Rhythm & Hues. The brown carpet had YOGI BEAR written down the length and the background was decorated like a forest park. Arriving early I got a chance to walk through where the pre-party was to be held. It was set up with rides for the kids, food areas, and logs to sit on … just like Jellystone Park. Everyone is familiar with Yogi Bear and his pal Boo-Boo which are […]Read On »


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