Movie Review: CONCLAVE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/25/2024
CONCLAVE movie poster | ©2024 Focus Features

Rating: PG Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Lucian Msamati, Brian F. O’Byrne, Isabella Rossellini, Sergio Castellitto, Carlos Diehz, Balkissa Maiga Writer: Peter Straughan, based on the novel by Robert Harris Director: Edward Berger Distributor: Focus Features Release Date: October 25, 2024 Just in time for the American presidential election comes the political thriller CONCLAVE. People who love this genre but are about to weep at what’s happening in the U.S. may be reassured on hearing that the politics here surround the election of the new Catholic Pope in the Vatican, after the previous one dies unexpectedly. Indeed, this […]Read On »


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SHUT EYE: Actor Jeffrey Donovan on new Hulu series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/02/2017
Jeffrey Donovan as Charlie Haverford in SHUT EYE - Season 1 | ©2016 Hulu/Trae Patton

In Hulu’s original series SHUT EYE, now streaming its entire first season and renewed for a second, Jeffrey Donovan stars as Charlie Haverford. In the show created by Leslie Bohem, Charlie and his ambitious wife Linda (KaDee Strickland) are con artists and fake psychics working in the Los Angeles San Fernando Valley. Charlie is quite shocked when he begins to have authentic visions of things to come. Donovan, originally from Massachusetts, starred as former CIA agent Michael Westen in seven seasons of USA Network’s BURN NOTICE. The actor also costarred in Season 2 of FARGO. He has played Robert Kennedy […]Read On »


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Movie Review: JOY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/25/2015
JOY movie poster | ©2015 20th Century Fox

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Edgar Ramirez, Diane Ladd, Virginia Madsen, Isabella Rossellini, Dascha Polanco, Elisabeth Rohm, Aundrea Gadsby, Gia Gadsby Writer: David O. Russell, story by Annie Mumolo and David O. Russell Director: David O. Russell Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Release Date: December 25, 2015 JOY is, in broad strokes, the story of Joy Mangano, though how closely this hews to actual history is an open question so far as onscreen crawls go. On its own terms, JOY works, and if it never exactly produces the title sentiment, it’s still a satisfying experience. JOY […]Read On »


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Movie Review: ENEMY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/22/2014
ENEMY movie poster | ©2014 A24

Stars: Jake Gyllenhall, Melanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon, Isabella Rossellini Writer: Javier Gullon, based on the novel THE DOUBLE by Jose Saramago Director: Denis Villeneuve Distributor: A24 Theatrical Release Date: March 21, 2014 The film ENEMY is based on Jose Saramago’s 2004 novel THE DOUBLE. Saramago is a Nobel Prize-winning author, and it’s entirely possible the source material for this movie is brilliant. ENEMY, however, is not. If it is the chronicle of a disaffected, bored young college professor having a nervous breakdown, we don’t know enough about the man to care and the details of his delusion don’t intrigue us; […]Read On »


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