Movie Review: EILEEN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/01/2023
EILEEN movie poster | ©2023 Neon

Rating: R Stars: Thomasin McKenzie, Anne Hathaway, Shea Whigham, Sam Nivola, Marin Ireland, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Tonya Patano Writers: Luke Goebel & Ottessa Moshfegh, based on the novel by Ottessa Moshfegh Director: William Oldroyd Distributor: Neon Release Date: December 1, 2023 EILEEN is a thriller that threatens explosions at every turn. However, when things finally go crazy, it’s in a way that has been set up well, but that we don’t see coming. We’re in a working-class town in mid-1960s Massachusetts. Our title character, Eileen Dunlop (Thomasin McKenzie), is a young woman who spends her days doing clerical work at […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE BOOGEYMAN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/01/2023
THE BOOGEYMAN movie poster | ©2023 20th Century Studios

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Sophie Thatcher, Chris Messina, Vivien Lyra Blair, Madison Hu, David Dastmalchian, Marin Ireland, LisaGay Hamilton, Maddie Nichols, Leeann Ross Writers: Scott Beck & Bryan Woods and Mark Heyman, screen story by Scott Beck & Bryan Woods, based on the short story by Stephen King Director: Rob Savage Distributor: 20th Century Studios Release Date: June 2, 2023 Stephen King’s short story “The Boogeyman” manages to start out sad and disturbing, and then scare the daylight out of you. Because of the specifics of the short story, a major studio release based on it was very likely to take […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE EMPTY MAN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/25/2021
THE EMPTY MAN movie poster | ©2021 20th Century Fox

Rating: R Stars: James Badge Dale, Marin Ireland, Stephen Root, Ron Canada, Sasha Frolova Writer: David Prior, screen story by David Prior, based on the graphic novel by Cullen Bunn Director: David Prior Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Release Date: October 23, 2020 (theatrical); January 29, 2021 (DVD/Blu-ray) THE EMPTY MAN was prematurely buried – not the entity, the film itself. Copyright 2018, THE EMPTY MAN received a blink-and-miss-it theatrical release in October, 2020, followed by a somewhat more accessible DVD/Blu-ray rollout on January 29 of this year. It is now available on HBO and HBO Max. The fact that THE […]Read On »


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SNEAKY PETE: Star Marin Ireland and executive producer Graham Yost on Season 1 – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/05/2017
Marin Ireland and in SNEAKY PETE poster | ©2017 Amazon/CBS

In Amazon’s SNEAKY PETE, now streaming its entire first ten-episode season and renewed for a second, Giovanni Ribisi plays a con artist named Marius Josipovic. When Marius is in prison, his cellmate Pete (Ethan Embry) talks lovingly of the grandparents he hasn’t seen in twenty years. Upon release, Marius impersonates Pete and winds up in the family bail bonds business. He is frequently teamed with Pete’s cousin Julia, played by Marin Ireland. Julia doesn’t realize that Marius isn’t really Cousin Pete; she also doesn’t know much about the bail bonds game herself. SNEAKY PETE was created by Bryan Cranston, who […]Read On »


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Zachary Quinto on THE SLAP – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/26/2015
Zachary Quinto stars as Harry on THE SLAP on NBC | © 2015 Jeff Riedel/NBC

In NBC’s THE SLAP, Thursdays at 10 PM, a family get-together in Brooklyn erupts when the father of one little boy slaps another child, not his own, for recklessly waving around a baseball bat. The incident has long-lasting repercussions. The eight-part miniseries, adapted by Jon Robin Baitz and Walter F. Parkes from an Australian miniseries that was in turn based on a novel by Christos Tsiolkas, shows each episode from a different character’s point of view. Zachary Quinto (Mr. Spock in the new STAR TREK films and Sylar on NBC’s HEROES) had coincidentally just produced the nonfiction series THE CHAIR, […]Read On »


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THE SLAP producer Jon Robin Baitz talks Season 1- exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/19/2015
Makenzie Leigh stars as Connie on THE SLAP | © 2015 Christopher Saunders/NBC

In NBC’s THE SLAP, Thursdays at 10 PM, an already strained family get-together in Queens, New York, passes the breaking point when Harry (Zachary Quinto), thinking his son is being threatened, strikes another little boy. The eight-episode miniseries, which also stars Thandie Newton, Brian Cox, Peter Sarsgaard, Uma Thurman, Thomas Sadowski and Marin Ireland, is based on the Australian miniseries of the same title, which in turn is based on the novel by Christos Tsiolkas. Executive producers Jon Robin Baitz and Walter F. Parkes did the U.S. series adaptation. Baitz, who also created the series BROTHERS & SISTERS, is an […]Read On »


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