Movie Review: CRESCENT CITY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/16/2024
CRESCENT CITY movie poster | ©2024 Lionsgate

Rating: R Stars: Terrence Howard, Esai Morales, Nicky Whelan, Alec Baldwin, Reema Sampat, Madonna Akhtar Writer: Rich Ronat Director: RJ Collins Distributor: Lionsgate Release Date: August 16, 2024 (theatrical, digital, VOD) The title of CRESCENT CITY turns out to be like that of CHINATOWN – it’s not where the action is set, just the site of a significant event in the lives of several characters. (The film has nothing to do with either New Orleans or the fantasy book series with that name.) Instead, we are mostly in Little Rock, AR, where a serial killer is leaving mannequin heads next […]Read On »


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Movie Review: MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING PART ONE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/11/2023
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING PART ONE | ©2023 Paramount Pictures

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Pom Klementieff, Esai Morales, Vanessa Kirby, Shea Whigham, Greg Tarzan Davis, Cary Elwes, Henry Czerny Writers: Christopher McQuarrie & Erik Jendresen, based on characters created by Bruce Geller Director: Christopher McQuarrie Distributor: Paramount Release Date: July 12, 2023 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE: DEAD RECKONING PART ONE gives us a villain known as the Entity. The Entity is an artificial intelligence that isn’t just self-aware. It’s capable of tapping into any online electronics on the planet (or circling it, as with satellites) and can make anyone see, hear, read, and […]Read On »


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Movie Review: MASTER GARDENER

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/23/2023
MASTER GARDENER movie poster | ©2023 Magnolia Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Joel Edgerton, Sigourney Weaver, Quintessa Swindell, Esai Morales Writer: Paul Schrader Director: Paul Schrader Distributor: Magnolia Pictures Release Date: May 19, 2023 MASTER GARDENER is one of those films that makes a reviewer contemplate existential questions. These are not just the ones within the framework of the movie, like the nature of redemption, and what qualifies as redemption, but also the nature of reviewing. Whatever the purpose of a review may be, it is not to criticize a filmmaker for doing something different with the subject matter than the reviewer would have done. On the flip side, […]Read On »


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MARS: Actor Esai Morales and showrunner Dee Johnson chat Season 2 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/20/2018
Esai Morales in Season 2 of MARS | ©2018 National Georgraphic/Dusan Martincek

National Geographic Channel’s series MARS has been described as a hybrid. Now in its second season on Monday nights, MARS employs both scripted drama and documentary footage to explore how what is happening in the real world today could be mirrored when humanity attempts to colonize a new planet. Dee Johnson is the Season 2 show runner and an executive producer on MARS. Esai Morales (who coincidentally portrayed another Earth-originated dweller of another planet as a series regular on CAPRICA) plays wealthy industrialist Roland St. John, whose company clashes with the scientists already in residence on Mars. Both Johnson and […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SUPERFLY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/13/2018
SUPERFLY movie poster | ©2018 Sony Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Trevor Jackson, Jason Mitchell, Lex Scott Davis, Andrea Londo, Michael Kenneth Williams, Esai Morales, Kaalan Walker, Jennifer Morrison, Big Bank Black, Brian F. Durkin Writer: Alex Tse, based on the 1972 screenplay by Phillip Fenty Director: Director X. Distributor: Columbia Pictures/Sony Release Date: June 13, 2018 One thing the new SUPERFLY has going for it is conviction. Not only does everyone involved seem unconcerned that they’re in a remake of the 1972 exploitation flick SUPER FLY, they proceed as though this is the first story ever told about a criminal who wants out of the life as […]Read On »


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Exclusive Photos from the World Premiere of GEOSTORM

By SUE SCHNEIDER 10/18/2017
Cast shot: Dean Devlin, Abbie Cornish, Gerard Butler, Jim Sturgess and Talitha Bateman at the World Premiere of GEOSTORM

The World Premiere of GEOSTORM, was held on October 16th at the TCL Chinese Theater. GEOSTORM is a Warner Bros. Pictures and a Skydance Production, an Electric Entertainment Production, and a film by Dean Devlin. GEOSTORM is Dean Devlin’s feature film directorial debut with this suspense action thriller. Walking the carpet were the stars, which included: Gerard Butler, Jim Sturgess, Abbie Cornish, Tabitha Bateman, David S. Lee, Billy Slaughter, Judd Lormand, Blake Burt, and Dean Devlin (Director/Writer/Producer). Joining the stars were guests, which included: Lisa Brenner, Diana Marks, Andre Swilley, Gabriel Bateman, Dexter Darden, Alix Angelis, Soni Nicole Bringas, Emma […]Read On »


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FROM DUSK TILL DAWN: Juan Carlos Coto with more news on Season 2 – Part 2 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/07/2015
Esai Morales in FROM DUSK TILL DAWN - Season 2 | ©2015 El Ray

In Part 2 of our exclusive interview with FROM DUSK TILL DAWN show runner/executive producer Juan Carlos Coto – “Carlos” to all his friends and colleagues – he talks more about Season 2, airing Tuesdays on the El Rey Network. ASSIGNMENT X: The Culebras drink blood, but they’re snakelike instead of batlike. Do you watch snakes at all for ideas about how the Culebras act? JUAN CARLOS COTO: Yeah. Malvado [played by Esai Morales] is a character obsessed with skin, molting, as a snake does. You’ll find out how and why when you watch the show – again, skin being […]Read On »


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FROM DUSK TILL DAWN: Juan Carlos Coto on Season 2 – Part 1 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/03/2015
FROM DUSK TILL DAWN | © 2015 El Ray

Juan Carlos Coto – called “Carlos” by absolutely everyone except the IMDB – is in his second year as show runner/executive producer on FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, the TV series created by Robert Rodriguez, based on the 1995 bank robbers and vampires movie directed by Rodriguez and scripted by Quentin Tarantino from a story by Robert Kurtzman. The television DUSK, now in its second season Tuesday nights on the El Rey Network (co-founded by Rodriguez), has expanded on the film’s mythology. The creatures of the night are no longer traditional vampires but rather snakelike Culebras, who drink the souls of […]Read On »


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THE BRINK star Jack Black discuss the new HBO series – interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/22/2015
Jack Black stars in THE BRINK | © 2015 Merie W. Wallace/HBO

Jack Black, star of bigscreen comedies including SCHOOL OF ROCK, the voice of the hero in the animated KUNG FU PANDA franchise and one-half of the band Tenacious D, is making a leap into series television as a lead actor and producer with HBO’s THE BRINK. Created by Kim Benabib and Robert Benabib, THE BRINK, Sundays at 10:30 PM, is a satirical look at the possible start of World War III. Black plays U.S. State Department employee Alex Talbot, a low-level screw-up assigned to the American Embassy in Pakistan, where he constantly aggravates his better-educated local driver, played by Aasif […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: CAPRICA’s Sasha Roiz gets into mob mentality

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/04/2011
Sasha Roiz in CAPRICA - Season One | ©2010 Syfy/photo by Jeff Weddell

The storyline is blowing up – literally – on Syfy’s CAPRICA, the prequel series to the network’s acclaimed remake of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. There are monotheistic terrorists from Gemenon running amok, the persona of one dead girl wandering through cyberspace as an immortal, another girl in the giant body of a prototype Cylon – and then there are the Adama brothers, Joseph, played by Esai Morales, a very conflicted lawyer (and father of young William, who will grow up to be played by Edward James Olmos on BSG), and his brother Sam, played by Sasha Roiz, who is a professional mobster. […]Read On »


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