Movie Review: MAXXXINE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/05/2024
MAXXXINE movie poster | ©2024 A24

Rating: R Stars: Mia Goth, Elizabeth Debicki, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Uli Latukefu, Giancarlo Esposito, Chloe Farnworth, Halsey, Kevin Bacon, Lily Collins, Simon Prast Writer: Ti West Director: Ti West Distributor: A24 Release Date: July 5, 2024 MAXXXINE, not counting its flashbacks and flash-forwards, is set in 1985. However, it feels more like a ‘70s indie, with its mix of very tough female protagonist, soft porn (meant to be hard porn where we don’t see all the details), detective story, and horror. It’s a completely fun blend, and star Mia Goth commits two hundred and twenty percent to everything she’s […]Read On »


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PARISH: Actor Skeet Ulrich on new AMC action series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/21/2024
PARISH - Season 1 key art | ©2024 AMC

PARISH, in its first season Sunday nights on AMC and AMC+, stars Giancarlo Esposito (who is also an executive producer on the show) as Gracian “Gray” Parish, a New Orleans upscale car service owner who is trying to stay on the straight and narrow. This becomes more difficult when he is contacted by his old pal Colin, played by Skeet Ulrich. Colin has just been released after a seventeen-year stretch in the brutal Angola Prison. He could have gotten his sentence reduced if he’d flipped on Gray, but Colin stayed loyal. Now Colin wants Gray to go back to being […]Read On »


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Movie Review: ABIGAIL

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/19/2024
ABIGAIL movie poster | ©2024 Universal Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Melissa Barrera, Dan Stevens, Alisha Weir, Kathryn Newton, William Catlett, Kevin Durand, Angus Cloud, Giancarlo Esposito Writers: Stephen Shields and Guy Busick Directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett Distributor: Universal Pictures Release Date: April 19, 2024 Since it’s in the trailers and the artwork, it probably doesn’t count as a spoiler to say that ABIGAIL is about a vampire ballerina who looks like a little girl (Alisha Weir). What we may not necessarily know from the trailers and the artwork is that ABIGAIL is very good bloody fun, with filmmakers who seem to achieve everything they’re attempting […]Read On »


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PARISH: Executive producers and writers Eduardo Javier Canto and Ryan Maldonado on new AMC crime drama – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/30/2024
PARISH - Season 1 key art | ©2024 AMC

In the new series PARISH, premiering Sunday, March 31 on AMC and AMC+, Giancarlo Esposito (one of the show’s executive producers) stars as Gracian “Gray” Parish. Gray has a loving wife, Ros (Paula Malcomson), and a rebellious teen daughter, Makayla (Arica Himmel). All of them, in their own ways, are mourning the loss of Gray and Ros’s son Maddox (Caleb Baumann), who was killed a year ago. Owner of a financially-strapped New Orleans car service, Gray is trying to make ends meet. He serves as one of his own drivers. It’s not long before we learn that Gray used to […]Read On »


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GODFATHER OF HARLEM: Creators Chris Brancato and Paul Eckstein on Season 3 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/26/2023
GODFATHER OF HARLEM - Season 3 Key Art | ©2023 MGM+

GODFATHER OF HARLEM is back for its third season, Sunday nights on MGM+ (formerly Epix). The series, created by Chris Brancato & Paul Eckstein, chronicles the life and times of real-world New York gangster Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson (played by Forest Whitaker), who ran Black Harlem’s drug trade in the ‘60s, frequently clashing with the Italian Mafia. At the same time, Johnson was friends with Malcolm X (played in Season 3 by Jason Alan Carvell, after being portrayed by Nigél Thatch in Seasons 1 and 2), and had a complicated adversary/ally relationship with Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (Giancarlo Esposito). At […]Read On »


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DVD/Blu-Ray Review: CREEPSHOW Season 1

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/02/2020
CREEPSHOW Season 1 - Blu-ray | ©2020 RLJE Films

Rating: TV-MA Stars: Logan Allen, David Arquette, Adrienne Barbeau, Hannah Barefoot, Tobin Bell, Tracey Bonner, Jeffrey Combs, Voltaire Colin Council, Bruce Davison, James Devoti, Giancarlo Esposito, Cailey Fleming, Dana Gould, Tricia Helfer, Ravi Naidu, Antwon “Big Boi” Patton, DJ Qualls, Dane Rhodes, Gena Shaw, Sydney Wease Writers: Philip de Blasi, Christopher Buehlman, Jason Ciamarella, Paul Dini, John Esposito, John Harrison, Bruce Jones, Stephen Langford, Josh Malerman, Dori Miller, David J. Schow, Rob Schrab, John Skipp, Matt Venne, Byron Willinger Directors: Roxanne Benjamin, David Bruckner, John Harrison, Greg Nicotero, Tom Savini, Rob Schrab Distributor: RLJE Films Release Date (home video): June […]Read On »


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BETTER CALL SAUL: Giancarlo Esposito also chats about THE MANDALORIAN – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/05/2020
Giancarlo Esposito as Gustav "Gus" Fring in BETTER CALL SAUL - Season 5 | ©2020 AMC/James Minchin

BETTER CALL SAUL, now in its fifth and penultimate season Monday nights on AMC, is a prequel/sequel series to the network’s multi-Emmy-winning six-season crime drama BREAKING BAD. While BETTER CALL SAUL primarily chronicles how Bob Odenkirk’s character, quasi-normal lawyer Jimmy McGill becomes slippery advocate Saul Goodman, the series brings back a number of other BREAKING BAD characters as well. Chief among these is drug dealer Gustavo “Gus” Fring, portrayed by Giancarlo Esposito. Esposito has received two Supporting Actor Emmy nominations for playing Gus, one each for BREAKING BAD and BETTER CALL SAUL. The actor, born in Denmark and raised in […]Read On »


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GODFATHER OF HARLEM: Co-creator Paul Eckstein on new Epix gangster drama – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/03/2019
GODFATHER OF HARLEM - Season 1 | ©2019 Epix

Epix’s new Sunday-night series GODFATHER OF HARLEM chronicles the life and times of Ellsworth Raymond “Bumpy” Johnson, played by Forest Whitaker, during the 1960s. Bumpy was a fascinating, paradoxical real-life figure, a gangster who not only kept order but actually helped the citizens in his Harlem neighborhood. More, Johnson had people like black revolutionary Malcolm X (played in the show by Nigel Thatch) and Baptist pastor/congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (played by Giancarlo Esposito) in his circle. GODFATHER OF HARLEM creators Chris Brancato and Paul Eckstein (also creators of the series NARCOS) had dealt with Robinson’s story before in the […]Read On »


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BETTER CALL SAUL: Actor Giancarlo Esposito on revisiting his BREAKING BAD character – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/04/2017
Giancarlo Esposito as Gustavo "Gus" Fring in BETTER CALL SAUL - Season 3 |©2017 /AMC/Sony Pictures Television/Michele K. Short

Giancarlo Esposito’s drug kingpin/Los Pollos Hermanos proprietor Gus Fring was one of the standout characters of AMC’s BREAKING BAD, earning the actor an Emmy nomination. It’s taken until Season 3 of BREAKING BAD’s prequel series BETTER CALL SAUL –AMC on Monday nights, starring Bob Odenkirk as criminal lawyer Jimmy McGill prior to his transformation into Walter White’s attorney Saul Goodman – for Gus to show up. Now we’re seeing Esposito play Gus as a less-established, younger man than he was in BREAKING BAD, even though it’s been six years since the actor last played the character. Esposito was born in […]Read On »


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Movie Review: MONEY MONSTER

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/13/2016
MONEY MONSTER | © 2016 Sony/Tristar

Rating: R Stars: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O’Connell, Dominic West, Caitriona Balfe, Giancarlo Esposito, Christopher Denham, Lenny Venito, Emily Meade Writers: Jamie Linden and Alan DiFiore & Jim Kouf, story by DiFiore & Kouf Director: Jodie Foster Distributor: Release Date: May 13, 2016 MONEY MONSTER is almost always entertaining, even when it gets predictable, improbable, or some combination of the two. As movies about the workings of Wall Street go, it has the misfortune to be following THE BIG SHORT while that film – last year’s Oscar winner for Adapted Screenplay – is still in people’s memories. MONEY MONSTER […]Read On »


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