Movie Review: STRANGE DARLING

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/23/2024
STRANGE DARLING | ©2024 Magenta Light Studios / Miramax

Rating: R Stars: Willa Fitzgerald, Kyle Gallner, Madisen Beatty, Bianca Santos, Steven Michael Quezada, Ed Begley Jr., Barbara Hershey Writer: JT Mollner Director: JT Mollner Distributor: Magenta Light Studios/Miramax Release Date: August 23, 2024 How to review STRANGE DARLING without spoilers? It seems fair enough to include the film’s opening, which informs us that it’s shot in 35mm (something of a rarity these days). This allows cinematographer Giovanni Ribisi (also one of STRANGE DARLING’s producers) to play with crisp black-and-white, saturated colors and even over-saturation, depending on the mood of the sequence. At the black-and-white start, we see a man […]Read On »


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SNEAKY PETE: Actress Margo Martindale on Season 1 – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/31/2017
Margo Martindale in SNEAKY PETE - Season 1 | ©2017 Amazon

In Amazon’s series SNEAKY PETE, now streaming its first season and picked up for a second, Margo Martindale plays bail bonds company proprietor and family matriarch Audrey. Audrey’s problems include a husband (Pete Gerety) with serious health issues, a single-mother granddaughter (Marin Ireland) who’s not very good at the family business and grandson Pete (Giovanni Ribisi) who has returned home after a twenty-year absence. Pete poses a whole series of other problems, because he’s actually a con artist named Marius. Marius is trying to avoid an angry crime boss named Vince, played by Bryan Cranston, who co-created SNEAKY PETE with […]Read On »


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SNEAKY PETE: Star Marin Ireland and executive producer Graham Yost on Season 1 – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/05/2017
Marin Ireland and in SNEAKY PETE poster | ©2017 Amazon/CBS

In Amazon’s SNEAKY PETE, now streaming its entire first ten-episode season and renewed for a second, Giovanni Ribisi plays a con artist named Marius Josipovic. When Marius is in prison, his cellmate Pete (Ethan Embry) talks lovingly of the grandparents he hasn’t seen in twenty years. Upon release, Marius impersonates Pete and winds up in the family bail bonds business. He is frequently teamed with Pete’s cousin Julia, played by Marin Ireland. Julia doesn’t realize that Marius isn’t really Cousin Pete; she also doesn’t know much about the bail bonds game herself. SNEAKY PETE was created by Bryan Cranston, who […]Read On »


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Movie Review: A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/30/2014
A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST movie poster | ©2014 Universal Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Seth MacFarlane, Charlize Theron, Amanda Seyfried, Liam Neeson, Giovanni Ribisi, Neil Patrick Harris, Sarah Silverman Writers: Seth MacFarlane & Alec Sulkin & Wellesley Wild Director: Seth MacFarlane Distributor: Universal Release Date: May 30, 2014 There are moments of laugh-out-loud brilliance in A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST, writer/producer/director/star Seth MacFarlane’s send-up of classic Westerns. There are also plenty of just generally funny things. And then there are things that will make at least some people go, “I’m not with you on this one.” It’s 1882 in the Territories, a scrubby stretch of the Old West […]Read On »


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TV Review: DADS – Season 1 – “Pilot” – Series Premiere

By RACHEL REITSLEFF 09/18/2013
Martin Mull, Giovanni Ribisi, Seth Green and Peter Riegert in DADS - Season 1 | ©2013 Fox

Stars: Seth Green, Giovanni Ribisi, Martin Mull, Peter Riegert Writers: Alec Sulkin & Wellesley Wild, created by Alec Sulkin & Wellesley Wild Director: Marc Cendrowski Network: Fox, Tuesdays at 8 PM Original Airdate: September 17, 2013 DADS is a comedy about, among other things, two longtime best pals, Eli (Seth Green) and Warner (Giovanni Ribisi), now business partners in an extremely lucrative videogame company, who wind up having their fathers David (Peter Riegert) and Crawford (Martin Mull) move in with them. Warner is married and thinks his father is like a clumsy but well-intentioned golden retriever; Eli is single and […]Read On »


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Exclusive Photos from the TED World Premiere

By SUE SCHNEIDER 07/03/2012
Mark Wahlberg at the World Premiere of TED | ©2012 Sue Schneider

Universal Pictures and MRC presented the World Premiere of TED, June 21st at the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Fans lined the street and even Spider-man joined them to see Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis and Seth MacFarlane. Not to disappoint the fans they went over to sign autographs. Seems something always happens at a premiere. This time an MTA bus came by when Mark Wahlberg walked back to the beginning of the carpet to wait for his wife Rhea Durham. The bus that was stopped at the red light and the driver open her door to get a better look […]Read On »


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Exclusive Photos from THE RUM DIARY World Premiere

By SUE SCHNEIDER 10/27/2011
Johnny Depp at the World Premiere of RUM DIARY | ©2011 Sue Schneider

FilmDistrict held the World Premiere of THE RUM DIARY, October 13th at LACMA in Los Angeles. This was part of Film Independent at LACMA. THE RUM DIARY is based on the debut novel of Hunter S. Thompson and tells the story of itinerant journalist Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp). Fed up with the noise and madness of New York he travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local newspaper, The San Juan Star. Paul soon becomes use to the rum-soaked life of the island and lands up being obsessed with Chenault (Amber Heard). Chenault, an attractive […]Read On »


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