Movie Review: 88

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/17/2023
©2023 Samuel Goldwyn Films

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Brandon Victor Dixon, Naturi Naughton, Orlando Jones, Thomas Sadoski, Michael J. Harney, Amy Sloan, Jon Tenney, Kenneth Choi, Kelly McCreary, Amanda Seales, Jeremiah King, Anthony Lee Medina, Pegah Rashti, Brian Norris, Vinny Chhibber, Shellye Broughton, William Fichtner Writer: Eromose Director: Eromose Distributor: Samuel Goldwyn Films Release Date: February 17, 2023 88 manages to pack an enormous amount of ideas into its two-hour running time. The film is articulate and well-acted. However, like its protagonist, Femi Jackson (Brandon Victor Dixon), it doesn’t ultimately know what it ought to do with all it has on its hands. Femi […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Creator James Duff on the end of THE CLOSER and the beginning of MAJOR CRIMES

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/14/2012
Graham Patrick Martin, Kearran Giovanni, Jonathan Del Arco, Ransford Doherty, Tony Denison, G.W. Bailey, Mary McDonnell, Michael Paul Chan, Robert Gossett, Phillip P. Keene, Raymond Cruz, Jon Tenney in MAJOR CRIMES - Season 1 | ©2012 TNT

It was a bittersweet night for writer/executive producer James Duff. THE CLOSER, the series Duff created starring Kyra Sedgwick as Brenda Leigh Johnson, a Southerner who comes to Los Angeles to be Deputy Chief of the LAPD, finished its seven-year run last night on TNT. Immediately afterwards, the new series Duff created, MAJOR CRIMES, headed up by Mary McDonnell reprising her CLOSER character of former Internal Affairs operative Sharon Raydor and featuring much of THE CLOSER’s cast, had its series premiere on TNT. The Paley Center for Television in Beverly Hills is having a special event to honor its exhibit […]Read On »


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TCA News: First News on THE CLOSER spin-off MAJOR CRIMES

By CARL CORTEZ 01/14/2012
THE CLOSER THE COMPLETE SIXTH SEASON | © 2011 Warner Home Video

At today’s TCA press tour for the Turner networks, details on the new THE CLOSER spin-off for TNT was announced. The series will be called MAJOR CRIMES and will pick up directly where THE CLOSER leaves off. “THE CLOSER concentrated solely on getting a confessions, this is about getting convictions,” says Michael Wright, executive vice president, head of programming for TNT, TBS and Turner Classic Movies (TCM) Cast members returning from THE CLOSER to the new show include Mary McDonnell (Captain Sharon Raydor), G.W. Bailey (Lt. Provenza), Tony Denison (Lt. Andy Flynn), Michael Paul Chan (Lt. Tao), Raymond Cruz (Detective […]Read On »


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Exclusive photos from the GREEN LANTERN Los Angeles World Premiere

By SUE SCHNEIDER 06/20/2011
Ryan Reynolds at the Los Angeles Premiere of GREEN LANTERN | ©2011 Sue Schneider

Warner Bros. held the Los Angeles World Premiere of GREEN LANTERN June 15th at the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Fans were everywhere you looked as Hollywood Boulevard was closed to traffic. Hoping to catch the stars of the movie, which is based upon the characters appearing in the comic book published by DC Comics.  They were not disappointed as Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively and others signed autographs and posed for pictures with them. The black carpet had the GREEN LANTERN symbol on it and at the end of the carpet the ship. Seen waking the carpet were the stars […]Read On »


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Exclusive: Photos from the FALLING SKIES Premiere Screening

By SUE SCHNEIDER 06/16/2011
Noah Wyle, Moon Bloodgood and Drew Roy at the premiere screening of TNT's FALLING SKIES | ©2011 Sue Schneider

TNT presented the premiere screening of DreamWorks Television and Executive Producer Steven Spielberg’s brand new series FALLING SKIES on June 13th at the Pacific Design Center’s Silver Screen Theater in West Hollywood. In FALLING SKIES aliens have invaded Earth in military force. People have gone into hiding to escape the aliens and find themselves doing extraordinary things to survive. In the first episode why they came to earth is not explored and hopefully will be explained in upcoming episodes. Seen walking the carpet were the stars of the series, which included: Noah Wyle, Moon Bloodgood, Drew Roy, Sarah Carter, Will […]Read On »


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