Movie Review: WRONG TURN 2021

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/26/2021
WRONG TURN | ©2021 Lionsgate

Rating: R Stars: Charlotte Vega, Adain Bradley, Matthew Modine, David Hutchison, Emma Dumont, Dylan McTee, Vardaan Arora, Adrian Favela, Tim deZarn Writer: Alan McElroy Director: Mike P. Nelson Distributor: Lionsgate Release Date: February 23, 2021 WRONG TURN 2021 is in theory a remake of the much-sequelized 2003 WRONG TURN. It even has the same writer, Alan McElroy. However, while it has the same general premise – a group of young, attractive people go into the woods and have trouble with the folks who live there – it doesn’t have exactly the same plot, or even exactly the same genre. Indeed, […]Read On »


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THE GIFTED: Grace Byers and Emma Dumont chat Season 2 finale – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/26/2019
Grace Byers as Reeva Payge in THE GIFTED - Season 2 | ©2018 Fox/Justin Stephens

In Season 2 of Fox’s THE GIFTED, which has its finale Tuesday, February 26, the characters played by Emma Dumont and Grace Byers have gone on quite a journey together. Dumont’s Lorna Dane, aka Polaris, has inherited the metal-manipulating powers of her father, the infamous (though never directly-named) Magneto. Lorna has also inherited his distrust of humans. At the end of Season 1, then-pregnant Lorna left her lover and the Mutant Underground to join up with the militantly anti-human mutant group the Inner Circle. Byers’s Reeva Payge, who can kill with her voice, welcomed Polaris as mutant royalty. However, Lorna […]Read On »


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THE GIFTED: Executive producer-writer Melinda Hsu Taylor on Season 2 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/07/2019
L-R: Skyler Samuels, Grace Byers, Emma Dumont, Percy Hynes White, Natalie Alyn Lind, Stephen Moyer, Amy Acker, Sean Teale, Blair Redford, Jamie Chung and Coby Bell in THE GIFTED - Season 2| ©2018 Fox/Justin Stephens

In Season 2 of Fox’s MARVEL’S THE GIFTED on Tuesday nights, the factions of superpowered mutants and non-powered but armed humans have multiplied. In the series created by Matt Nix, set in the X-MEN universe, we still have the Mutant Underground, mutants who are trying to keep the peace, and Sentinel Services, the human government arm tasked with suppressing any mutant activity deemed suspicious. Now there’s also the militant mutant group the Inner Circle, which wants to dominate or entirely eradicate regular humans, the violently anti-mutant human cadre the Purifiers, and the literally underground mutant community of Morlocks. Stuck in […]Read On »


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THE GIFTED: Actress Emma Dumont talks about Polaris on Season 2 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/25/2018
Emma Dumont plays Polaris/Lorna Dane in THE GIFTED - Season 2 - "coMplications" | ©2018 Fox/Justin Stephens

When the first season of Fox Networks’s THE GIFTED ended in May, the super-powered mutants of the X-MEN universe were bitterly divided. Some continue to want to make peace with the increasingly hostile human population, while others seek to put mutants first by violent means. When THE GIFTED Season 2 premieres on Tuesday, September 25, Emma Dumont’s metal-manipulating character Lorna Dane, aka Polaris, is solidly in the latter camp. Polaris brought down a private airplane containing a sadistically anti-mutant scientist. This commitment to the cause has made Emma decide to leave her pacifist lover Marcos, aka Eclipse (Sean Teale), even […]Read On »


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THE GIFTED: Emma Dumont on playing Polaris on Season 1 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/06/2017
Emma Dumont is Polaris/Lorna Dane in THE GIFTED - Season 1 | ©2017 Fox/Ryan Green

In THE GIFTED, Fox Network’s Monday night series about superpowered mutants on the run from the authorities, Emma Dumont plays Lorna Dane, aka Polaris. Polaris is a famous figure in Marvel Comics (Marvel is a participant in the series), but when she started, Dumont wasn’t aware of the extent of Polaris’ metal-manipulating abilities. Matt Nix, who created and show-runs THE GIFTED, tells a story about Dumont during a Fox-sponsored Q&A session for the show. “In the pilot, there’s a scene where she’s moving cars around [at a distance, using her powers]. As scripted, she actually didn’t stop bullets. [But when] […]Read On »


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AQUARIUS’ John McNamara gives the scoop on Season 1 – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/25/2015
David Duchovny stars as Sam Hodiak in the NBC series AQUARIUS | © 2015 Vivian Zink/NBC

NBC’s new series AQUARIUS, Thursdays at 10 PM (or available streaming on NBC and On Demand in its thirteen-episode entirety), is a work of historical fiction. Set in Los Angeles in the Sixties, it has original characters LAPD detectives Sam Hodiak, played by David Duchovny, and Brian Shafe, played by Grey Damon, looking into the disappearance of a runaway teenager. Their search brings them to an unsuccessful musician named Charles Manson, played by Gethin Anthony. AQUARIUS creator/executive producer John McNamara talks about the origins of the series with a group of journalists at a panel sponsored by NBC. When the […]Read On »


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