Movie Review: DREAMLAND

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/05/2020
DREAMLAND movie poster | ©2020 Uncork’d Entertainment

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Stephen McHattie, Henry Rollins, Juliette Lewis, Tomas Lemarquis, Guillaume Kerbusch, Lisa Houle, Themis Pauwels, Morgan Csarno-Peklar Writers: Tony Burgess and Patrick Whistler Director: Bruce McDonald Distributor: Uncork’d Entertainment Release Date (theatrical, digital, VOD): June 5, 2020 DREAMLAND has on its side an impressive dual performance by Stephen McHattie, gorgeous production design by Eugenie Collet, superior style, and the pedigree of director Bruce McDonald, who made the excellent PONTYPOOL (also starring McHattie). However, if a movie is going to venture into the deep darkness of child sex trafficking, it better have a damn good reason for doing […]Read On »


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SACRED LIES: Actors Juliette Lewis and Ryan Kwanten on Season 2 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/26/2020
Juliette Lewis in SACRED LIES: THE SINGING BONES - Season 2 | ©2020 Facebook Watch/Blumhouse

The fantasy-tinged thriller series SACRED LIES, created by Raelle Tucker, is now in its second season on Facebook Watch, with new episodes premiering Thursdays. Each season of SACRED LIES tells a different story. In this year’s SACRED LIES: THE SINGING BONES, Juliette Lewis plays Harper, who works a telemarketing job so that she can pursue true calling, namely unearthing the identities of murdered Jane Does so that they can be laid to rest. Harper crosses paths with Elsie (Jordan Alexander), a young musician. Elsie’s incarcerated father Peter, played by Ryan Kwanten, has something to do with the disappearance of two […]Read On »


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SACRED LIES: Creator Raelle Tucker and Director Scott Winant on Season 2’s THE SINGING BONES – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/20/2020
SACRED LIES: THE SINGING BONES - Season 2 - Key Art | ©2020 Facebook Watch/Blumhouse

Blumhouse Television and Facebook Watch premiere the second season of SACRED LIES on Thursday, February 20. Each season of SACRED LIES, created by Raelle Tucker, tells a new folktale-tinged thriller saga. This season, SACRED LIES: THE SINGING BONES, concerns musically gifted foster child Elsie (Jordan Alexander), her foster mother Shannon (Kristin Bauer), and her biological farther Peter (Ryan Kwanten). Their lives intersect with amateur detective/professional telemarketer Harper (Juliette Lewis), who obsessively seeks to identify anonymous murder victims, and forensic technician Lily (Kimiko Glenn). SACRED LIES is Tucker’s first series as a creator, although she has been a writer/producer on other […]Read On »


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CAMPING: Co-creator Jenni Konner on new HBO comedy series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/16/2018
CAMPING - Season 1 Key Art | ©2018 HBO

HBO’s Sunday-night half-hour comedy CAMPING is based on a British series of the same name, which was created by Julia Davis. Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, who both serve as executive producers on the new edition, adapted the American version for HBO. Jennifer Garner stars as ultra-controlling Kathryn McSorley-Jodell, who plans a group camping trip to celebrate the fortieth birthday of mild-mannered husband Walt (David Tennant). The excursion brings out the worst in everyone. Konner, who was also a executive producer on HBO’s GIRLS with Dunham (the two ended their creative partnership earlier this year), directed several episodes of CAMPING, […]Read On »


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SECRETS AND LIES: Tracey Robertson give the scoop on Season 1 – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/27/2015
Ryan Phillipe star as Ben in SECRETS AND LIES | © 2015 ABC

In SECRETS AND LIES, which has its first-season finale Sunday May 3 at 9 PM on ABC, a quiet upscale suburban cul-de-sac is upended when a little boy is found murdered in the nearby woods. Ryan Philippe stars as Ben Crawford, who is suspected of the murder; Juliette Lewis plays steely homicide detective Andrea Cornell, who presses him for a confession. SECRETS AND LIES is adapted from an Australian series of the same name which was written by Stephen Irwin; Barbie Kligman adapted the show for ABC in the U.S. Tracey Robertson, who served as an executive producer on both […]Read On »


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Movie Review: AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/30/2013
AUGUST OSAGE COUNTY movie poster | ©2013 The Weinstein Company

Rating: R Stars: Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Chris Cooper, Abigail Breslin, Benedict Cumberbatch, Juliette Lewis, Margo Martindale, Dermot Mulroney, Julianne Nicholson, Sam Shepard, Misty Upham Writer: Tracy Letts, based on his play Director: John Wells Distributor: The Weinstein Co. Release Date: December 27, 2013 AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY won the 2008 Best Play Tony for its debut Broadway performance, and it’s easy to see why – Tracy Letts’ script is well-constructed and cumulatively devastating. The film version, with a screenplay adapted by Letts and directed by John Wells, opens the play up somewhat by giving us some of the […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Callum Keith Rennie joins THE FIRM

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/26/2012
Callum Keith Rennie in THE FIRM - Season 1 | ©2012 NBC/Frank Ockenfels

In NBC’s new dramatic thriller THE FIRM, airing Thursdays at 10 PM, ten years have passed since the events in John Grisham’s best seller, which became a 1993 film starring Tom Cruise as Mitch McDeere. Mitch is a lawyer who took down the legal partnership he was working with when he discovered they were allied with organized crime. In the series version, developed for television by Lukas Reiter, Mitch, played by Josh Lucas, his wife Abby (Molly Parker), their young daughter, Mitch’s secretary Tammy (Juliette Lewis) and Mitch’s brother Ray, played by Callum Keith Rennie, have all spent a decade […]Read On »


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