SMILE 2: Actor Peter Jacobson on costarring in the Parker Finn directed new sequel – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/26/2024
Actor PETER JACOBSON | ©2024 photographer Luke Fontana

In screenwriting lore, there is a character often referred to as “Morris the Explainer.” This is the person who shows up in the story to deliver the exposition that there’s just no other way of providing to either the other characters or the audience. In SMILE 2, which opened in theatres on Friday, October 18, that character is literally named Morris. Played by Peter Jacobson, he’s the one who relates the workings of a malevolent supernatural entity to troubled pop star Skye Riley (Naomi Scott). We first encountered the viral curse demon in 2022’s SMILE which, like SMILE 2, is […]Read On »


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PRODIGAL SON: Actor and director Lou Diamond Phillips on Season 2 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/11/2021
Lou Diamond Phillips in PRODIGAL SON - Season 2 - "It's All in the Execution" | ©2020 Fox/Phil Caruso

PRODIGAL SON returns for the premiere of its second season on Tuesday, January 12, on Fox. The show stars Tom Payne as Malcolm Bright, who works as a consultant for a homicide department of the NYPD, headed up by Lou Diamond Phillips’s character, Lieutenant Gil Arroyo. Malcolm has unique insights into serial killers, since his incarcerated father, Dr. Martin Whitly (Michael Sheen), happens to be one. Season 1 ended with Malcolm’s sister, TV journalist Ainsley (Halston Sage), stabbing wealthy murderer Nicholas Endicott (Dermot Mulroney) to death in order to save herself and her brother. Before this happened, Gil had embarked […]Read On »


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FEAR THE WALKING DEAD: Alycia Debnam-Carey, Frank Dillane & Elizabeth Rodriguez on Season 1 – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/04/2015
Alycia Debnam Carey as Alicia, Frank Dillane as Nick, Kim Dickens as Madison, Cliff Curtis as Travis, Elizabeth Rodriguez as Liza, Lorenzo James Henrie as Chris, Ruben Blades as Daniel Salazar, Patricia Reyes Spa­ndola as Griselda Salazar and Mercedes Mason as Ofelia in FEAR THE WALKING DEAD - Season 1 |©2015 AMC/Frank Ockenfels 3

Although it is co-created by THE WALKING DEAD comics originator Robert Kirkman, AMC’s FEAR THE WALKING DEAD is set across the country (in Los Angeles, rather than the American South) and some time earlier than both the comics and THE WALKING DEAD. FEAR THE WALKING DEAD, which wraps its first season Sunday at 9 PM after earning enormous ratings and will be back with a longer second season next year, is only based conceptually on the source material. Kirkman and Dave Erickson use FEAR to explore the beginning of the zombie apocalypse, when people at first have no idea what […]Read On »


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POP SHOW PODCAST – Episode 5: The Emmys, L.A traffic and more

By PETER BROWN 09/22/2015
Pop Show Podcast | © 2015 AssignmentX

Hi folks, the POP SHOW PODCAST is back again after a bit of a hiatus and this time the gang got together to discuss all the interesting stuff happening in the realm of pop culture. In this episode, I get kidnapped and tortured (true story), we discuss The Emmys and if award shows have meaning, how L.A. traffic might be getting worse, the troubles with network television and a short discussion on the new hit TV show FEAR THE WALKING DEAD. Listen and Subscribe to the POP SHOW PODCAST on iTunes! POP SHOW PODCAST on other podcast outlets (coming soon)! Follow […]Read On »


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FEAR THE WALKING DEAD: Lorenzo James Henrie on Season 1 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/09/2015
Lorenzo James Henrie as Chris in FEAR THE WALKING DEAD - Season 1 | ©2015 AMC/Frank Ockenfels

In AMC’s FEAR THE WALKING DEAD, Sundays at 9 PM, Lorenzo James Henrie plays Los Angeles teen Chris Manawa. Chris lives with his divorced mother Liza, played by Elizabeth Rodriguez. He’s so angry at his father Travis, played by Cliff Curtis, for living with another woman that he’s initially reckless when the city is hit by a wave of “civic unrest” (the audience knows what it really is, but at first the characters don’t). Henrie, a native of Arizona, has some previous genre credits, including playing “Vulcan Bully” in the 2009 STAR TREK feature. He also had an arc on […]Read On »


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FEAR THE WALKING DEAD: 5 things to expect in Season 1

By PETER BROWN 08/27/2015
A zombie terrorizes in an upcoming episode of FEAR OF THE WALKING DEAD | © 2015 Justina Mintz/AMC

After the first episode of FEAR THE WALKING DEAD debuted to a cable record ratings, it is probably safe to say AMC has another hit on its hands despite some viewers’ opinions that it was too slow or there was not enough zombie carnage. While the first season is only six episodes (the same as the original series’ first season), there is still much that can happen to capture an audience. The cast and crew of FEAR THE WALKING DEAD believes so too and they gave AssignmentX five things to expect to see on the show during Season 1. 1) […]Read On »


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FEAR THE WALKING DEAD: Scares, subtext and plotlines in Season 1 – Part 2 – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/24/2015
Lexi Johnson as Gloria after eating dinner on FEAR THE WALKING DEAD | © 2015 Justin Lubin/AMC

In Part 2 of our exclusive interview with AMC’s FEAR THE WALKING DEAD director/co-executive producer Adam Davidson, he talks about scares, subtext and more. AX: How often do you actually want to go for a hard scare where there’s a visual shock, versus something that’s scary but presented mundanely, like a zombie seen at a distance? ADAM DAVIDSON: There isn’t any mathematical equation, it really comes down to storytelling. [There’s a scene in the pilot in the high school] that wasn’t intended as a scare moment, but when we staged the scene and I started shooting, I was like, “This […]Read On »


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TV Review: FEAR THE WALKING DEAD – Season 1 – “Pilot” – Season Premiere

By PETER BROWN 08/23/2015
Lexi Johnson as Gloria in Fear the Walking Dead | © 2015 Justin Lubin/AMC

Cast: Cliff Curtis, Kim Dickens, Frank Dillane, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Mercedes Mason, Ruben Blades, Colman Domingo, Lorenzo James Henrie Writers: Robert Kirkman, Dave Erickson Director: Adam Davidson Network: Airs on AMC, Sundays @ 9 p.m. Original Telecast: Aug. 23, 2016 The interesting thing about the world of THE WALKING DEAD and it carries over to the spin-off show FEAR OF THE WALKING DEAD is that it exists in a universe where there have been no zombie movies or zombie lore. Because obviously they wouldn’t be nearly as confused as they appear to be when first seeing the dead come back to […]Read On »


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FEAR THE WALKING DEAD: The Scoop on Season 1 – Part 1 – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/20/2015
Lexi Johnson as Gloria having a bit of a snack on FEAR THE WALKING DEAD | © 2015 Justin Lubin/AMC

Created by THE WALKING DEAD comics originator Robert Kirkman and Dave Erickson, AMC’s FEAR THE WALKING DEAD, which premieres Sunday, August 23, is set in the same universe but a little earlier. We’re in urban/suburban Los Angeles, where a large blended family of a high-school English teacher (Cliff Curtis), his high-school guidance counselor girlfriend (Kim Dickens), her two teenaged children (Alycia Debnam-Carey, Frank Dillane) and the teacher’s ex-wife (Elizabeth Rodriguez) and adolescent son (Lorenzo James Henrie), are all caught up in the early stages of a mysterious epidemic. Adam Davidson, who directed the FEAR THE WALKING DEAD pilot and then […]Read On »


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