Movie Review: RUBY GILLMAN, TEENAGE KRAKEN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/30/2023
RUBY GILLMAN: TEENAGE KRAKEN movie poster | @2023 DreamWorks Animation/Universal Pictures

Rating: PG Stars (voices): Lana Condor, Toni Collette, Jane Fonda, Colman Domingo, Blue Chapman, Will Forte, Annie Murphy, Liza Koshy, Ramona Young, Eduardo Franco, Jaboukie Young-White, Sam Richardson Writers: Pam Brady and Elliott DiGiuseppi & Kirk DeMicco Director: Kirk DeMicco; co-director, Faryl Pearl Distributor: Universal Pictures Release Date: June 30, 2023 Most of us have already seen some (or many) versions of the story told in RUBY GILLMAN, TEENAGE KRAKEN. We can, however, safely guess that this is the first with (per the title) a teen Kraken as the main character. A Kraken, for those unfamiliar with the mythology surrounding […]Read On »


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Movie Review: MOVING ON

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/17/2023
MOVING ON movie poster | ©2023 Roadside Attractions

Rating: R Stars: Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Malcolm McDowell, Sarah Burns, Richard Roundtree, Catherine Dent, Marcel Nahapetian Writer: Paul Weitz Director: Paul Weitz Distributor: Roadside Attractions Release Date: March 17, 2023 Clearly, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin enjoy acting together. Almost the moment they wrapped their Netflix comedy series GRACE AND FRANKIE after five seasons, they star in two movies together, last month’s 80 FOR BRADY, and now MOVING ON. MOVING ON is a few shades darker than Fonda and Tomlin’s other collaborations. In other hands, the material might be stark drama, but writer/director Paul Weitz puts a gentle, bemused […]Read On »


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Movie Review: 80 FOR BRADY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/03/2023
80 FOR BRADY movie poster | ©2023 Paramount Pictures

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno, Sally Field, Tom Brady, Harry Hamlin, Sara Gilbert, Bob Balaban, Glynn Turman, Rob Corddry, Guy Fieri, Billy Porter Writers: Emily Halpern & Sarah Haskins Director: Kyle Marvin Distributor: Paramount Pictures Release Date: February 3, 2023 80 FOR BRADY is a genial comedy that brings together four women of a certain age. After first starring together in 1980’s 9 TO 5 and in seven seasons (2015-2022) of the Netflix comedy GRACE AND FRANKIE, it seems perfectly natural to see Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda playing lifelong friends. They are joined here by […]Read On »


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GRACE AND FRANKIE: Sam Waterston on Season 6 of the Netflix comedy series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/14/2020
Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston in GRACE AND FRANKIE - Season 6 | ©2019 Netflix

Netflix’s comedy GRACE AND FRANKIE premieres its sixth and penultimate season on Wednesday, January 15. Created by Marta Kauffman & Howard J. Norris, GRACE AND FRANKIE deals with what happens when Grace Hanson (Jane Fonda) and Frankie Bergstein (Lily Tomlin) are both left by their law partner husbands, who have fallen in love with each other and get married. Frankie’s now-ex-husband Sol Bergstein is played by Sam Waterston; Martin Sheen plays Robert Hanson, Sol’s now-husband and Grace’s ex. Waterston, a native of Massachusetts, was nominated for a Best Leading Actor Oscar for his performance as real-life reporter Sydney Schanberg in […]Read On »


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APB: Actor Ernie Hudson chats about new Fox series – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/07/2017
Ernie Hudson stars as Sgt Ed Conrad in APB | © 2017 Fox/Adrian Burrows

Ernie Hudson is currently on three series. In Netflix’s GRACE AND FRANKIE, renewed for a third season, he’s Jacob, the new love interest of Frankie, whose husband Saul (Sam Waterston) left to marry his longtime business partner Robert (Martin Sheen), formerly married to Jane Fonda’s Grace. In Epix’s political satire GRAVES, Hudson plays another Jacob, Jacob Mann, who is an adviser to former U.S. president Richard Graves (Nick Nolte), whose wife Margaret (Sela Ward) has ambitions of her own. Now Hudson is a regular on Fox Network’s new Monday-night series APB. In APB, Justin Kirk plays Gideon Reed, a technological […]Read On »


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GRACE AND FRANKIE: Co-creator Marta Kauffman on her Netflix comedy – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/30/2015
GRACE AND FRANKIE Key Art | ©2015 Netflix

In Netflix’s GRACE AND FRANKIE, now streaming its full thirteen-episode first season and preparing for its second, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin star as the title characters. Grace is very uptight and Frankie is very free-spirited. The two have baffled and tolerated each other for decades because their husbands, Grace’s Robert (Martin Sheen) and Frankie’s Sol (Sam Waterston), are law partners. It would be an understatement to say that Grace and Frankie – and their grown children – are thrown for a loop when Robert and Sol announce that they’ve been in love with each other for twenty years and […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/21/2014
THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU movie poster | ©2014 Warner Bros.

Rating: R Stars: Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Jane Fonda, Adam Driver, Rose Byrne, Corey Stoll, Kathryn Hahn, Connie Britton, Timothy Olyphant, Dax Shepard, Debra Monk, Ben Schwartz Writer: Jonathan Tropper, based on his novel Director: Shawn Levy Distributor: Warner Bros. Release Date: September 19, 2014 There are some outstanding performances in THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU, which elevates the movie into something actually watchable, as opposed to a couple of good moments interspersed with scenes meant to be funnier or more affecting. The set-up is this: Mort Altman has died. His widow, the formidable therapist and best-selling author Hillary […]Read On »


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Exclusive Photos: From the World Premiere and AFI Benefit Screening of HOW DO YOU KNOW

By SUE SCHNEIDER 12/27/2010
Jack Nicholson at the World Premiere and AFI Benefit Screening of HOW DO YOU KNOW | © 2010 Sue Schneider

Columbia Pictures’ held the World Premiere and AFI Benefit Screening of HOW DO YOU KNOW recently at the Mann Village Theatre in Westwood. HOW DO YOU KNOW is written and directed by James L. Brooks and is a romantic comedy starring Reese Witherspoon as Lisa who finds herself in a love triangle with a major league baseball player Matty (Owen Wilson) and a well-meaning George (Paul Rudd) who is accused of a financial crime he didn’t commit. Jack Nicholson stars as Charles, George’s father. Seen walking the carpet were the stars of the film, which included Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, […]Read On »


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