SMILE 2: Actor Peter Jacobson on costarring in the Parker Finn directed new sequel – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/26/2024
Actor PETER JACOBSON | ©2024 photographer Luke Fontana

In screenwriting lore, there is a character often referred to as “Morris the Explainer.” This is the person who shows up in the story to deliver the exposition that there’s just no other way of providing to either the other characters or the audience. In SMILE 2, which opened in theatres on Friday, October 18, that character is literally named Morris. Played by Peter Jacobson, he’s the one who relates the workings of a malevolent supernatural entity to troubled pop star Skye Riley (Naomi Scott). We first encountered the viral curse demon in 2022’s SMILE which, like SMILE 2, is […]Read On »


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Movie Review: BARBER

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/30/2023
BARBER movie poster | ©2023 Brainstorm Media

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Aiden Gillen, Aisling Kearns, Gary Lydon, Helen Behan, Deirdre Donnelly, Liam Carney, Irma Mali, Steve Wall Writers: Fiona Bergin & Fintan Connolly Director: Fintan Connolly Distributor: Brainstorm Media Release Date: September 22, 2023 BARBER is in many ways solidly in the tradition of the private eye thriller. However, there are several changes from convention. For one, we’re in present-day Dublin, somewhere in COVID times; lockdown is over, but nobody is sure when or wear to wear masks, when to shake hands. And nobody carries a gun. Our hero, Valentine Barber (Aiden Gillen), is a low-rent private […]Read On »


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FRAMED BY MY SISTER: Actress Angie Teodora Dick on latest LMN thriller – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/25/2022
Angie Teodora Dick in FRAMED BY MY SISTER | ©2022 Reel One Entertainment

FRAMED BY MY SISTER stars Scout Taylor-Compton as triplets at lethal odds with each other. The thriller film premieres tonight, February 25, on the Lifetime Movie Network. Angie Teodora Dick costars as LAPD Detective Sarzo, tasked with solving the mounting thefts, assaults, and murders of the case. Dick previously worked with FRAMED BY MY SISTER director Anthony C. Ferrante on the films ANOTHER MOTHER, FORGOTTEN EVIL, and ZOMBIE TIDAL WAVE. Her other credits include MURDER BOOK, I’M DYING UP HERE, LUCIFER, and THE UNDERTAKER’S WIFE. In an exclusive interview, Dick talks about taking up the badge for FRAMED BY MY […]Read On »


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EMERGENCE: Creators Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas on new sci-fi thriller – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/29/2019
Ashley Aufderheide as Mia Evans, Robert Bailey Jr. as Officer Chris Minetto, Clancy Brown as Ed, Alexa Swinton as Piper, Allison Tolman as Jo Evans, Zabryna Guevara as Abby Fraiser, Donald Faison as Alex Evans, and Owain Yeoman as Benny Gallagher in EMERGENCE - Season 1 | ©2019 ABC/Frank Ockenfels

EMERGENCE, ABC’s new Tuesday-night sci-fi family drama, begins with a mysterious plane crash on a beach outside a small town. When the town’s police chief, Jo Evans (Allison Tolman), investigates, she finds that the crash’s only survivor is a little girl eventually dubbed Piper (Alexa Swinton). Piper seems to have no memory of the crash, or even her own identity. Jo winds up taking the child home, to the surprise of her dad Ed (Clancy Brown) and her daughter Mia (Ashley Aufderheide), as well as the consternation of Mia’s dad and Jo’s ex-husband Alex (Donald Faison). Then strange people start […]Read On »


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HAPPY!: Creator Grant Morrison gives the scoop on Season 2 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/28/2019
Chris Meloni as Nick Sax, Patton Oswald as Happy! in HAPPY! - Season 2 | ©2019 Syfy

Syfy’s HAPPY!, a unique combination of whimsy and mayhem, begins its second season Wednesday, March 27. In HAPPY! Season 1, Christopher Meloni’s ex-cop-turned-alcoholic-hitman Nick Sax is enlisted by Happy (an animated being in an otherwise live-action show, voiced by Patton Oswald), the flying blue unicorn imaginary best friend of Nick’s little daughter Hailey (Bryce Lorenzo), to rescue the child. By the end of Season 1, Hailey was not only rescued from the most perverse bad guys imaginable, but she was maturing enough that she no longer needed Happy. So Happy has moved on to a new person who needs a […]Read On »


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KEVIN (PROBABLY) SAVES THE WORLD: Co-creator Tara Butters on new ABC series – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/02/2017
KEVIN (PROBABLY) SAVES THE WORLD key art | ©2017 ABC

In ABC’s Tuesday night fantasy dramedy KEVIN (PROBABLY) SAVES THE WORLD, Jason Ritter plays Kevin Finn. Kevin is a one-time Wall Street whiz who has returned to small-town Texas to stay with his widowed sister Amy (JoAnna Garcia Swisher) and her teen daughter Reese (Chloe East) after suffering a breakdown. Kevin’s life is changed when a meteor crashes into a nearby field, accompanied by “Warrior of God” Yvette (Kimberly Hebert Gregory). Yvette informs the astonished Kevin that he is one of the thirty-six righteous people on Earth – it is his task to find the other thirty-five. Yvette, who protects […]Read On »


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ASH VS. EVIL DEAD: Lee Majors and Michelle Hurd join Deadite fight – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/03/2016
ASH VS. EVIL DEAD - Season 2 key art |©2016 Starz

In Season 2 of Starz’s ASH VS. EVIL DEAD, starting Sunday October 2, the antihero played by Bruce Campbell has more company in his fight. In the TV sequel that picks up thirty years after the Eighties film trilogy, Ash has loyal pals Pablo (Ray Santiago) and Kelly (Dana DeLorenzo) to help him, and demonic frenemy Ruby (Lucy Lawless) to keep things ambiguous. The group is now joined by Michelle Hurd’s Linda B. Emery, who used to be Ash’s girlfriend, and Lee Majors as Ash’s dad Brock Williams, who still thinks that Ash murdered his own sister, Brock’s daughter. This […]Read On »


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CHICAGO MED: Executive Producer Matt Olmstead also talks FIRE and P.D. – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/01/2016
CHICAGO MED- Season 2 key art | ©2016 NBCUniversal

As he did with his LAW & ORDER franchise of old, executive producer/creator Dick Wolf is steadily expanding his CHICAGO empire. In 2012, CHICAGO FIRE premiered on NBC. It begins its fifth season Tuesday, October 11. Its first spinoff, CHICAGO P.D., premiered in 2014; it is now in its third season on Wednesday nights. CHICAGO MED, another spinoff about the hospital that serves the fire and police departments on the other two series, has begun its second season on Thursday nights on NBC. Matt Olmstead, who is an executive producer on all three series, co-created CHICAGO P.D. and CHICAGO MED […]Read On »


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CHICAGO FIRE and CHICAGO P.D. co-creator Dick Wolf chats about his new franchise – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/22/2015
Jesse Spencer in CHICAGO FIRE - Season 2 | ©2013 NBC/Nina Munoz

NBC’s CHICAGO FIRE has been such a hit for the network that last spawned a spin-off, CHICAGO P.D., which has also been a success. Spin-offs are nothing new for the two series’ executive producer Dick Wolf, who has also been the power behind NBC’s massive LAW & ORDER franchise. LAW & ORDER: SVU is now in its sixteenth season, Wednesdays at 9 PM. The original LAW & ORDER ran twenty seasons and also launched LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT, LAW & ORDER: TRIAL BY JURY, LAW & ORDER: LOS ANGELES and the ongoing BBC LAW & ORDER: UK. Wolf is […]Read On »


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Donal Logue walks the GOTHAM beat – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/01/2014
Ben McKenzie and Donal Logue in GOTHAM - Season 1 | ©2014 Fox/Michael Lavine

On Fox’s GOTHAM, Monday nights at 8 PM, we are in DC’s BATMAN universe. However, right now, Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz) is still a youth who is only beginning to contemplate how he may fight crime in the city of his birth. For now, trying to uphold the law falls to Gotham City police detective Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie), an upright soul in the midst of profound corruption. A prime – albeit likable – example of this corruption can be found right at Gordon’s side in the person of his police partner Harvey Bullock, played by Donal Logue. Harvey has […]Read On »


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