Movie Review: MAESTRO

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/05/2024
MAESTRO movie poster | ©2023 Netflix

Rating: R Stars: Carey Mulligan, Bradley Cooper, Matt Bomer, Maya Hawke, Sarah Silverman, Josh Hamilton, Scott Ellis, Gideon Glick, Sam Nivola, Alexa Swinton, Miriam Shor Writers: Bradley Cooper & Josh Singer Director: Bradley Cooper Distributor: Netflix Release Date: November 22, 2023 (theatrical); December 20, 2023 (Netflix) “A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.” – Leonard Bernstein MAESTRO, which is about the famed conductor/composer/musician and his wife, the actor Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein, opens with this quote. It’s certainly fair enough to quote Bernstein, it’s […]Read On »


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DOOM PATROL: Timothy Dalton chats about playing The Chief – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/16/2019
Timothy Dalton is The Chief in DOOM PATROL - Season 1 | ©2019 DC Universe

DOOM PATROL is one of the new DC Universe streaming services premiere original live-action series (the other is TEEN TITANS). New episodes arriving on Fridays. In DOOM PATROL, Timothy Dalton’s character Niles Caulder, aka the Chief, cares for a group of individuals (played by actors who include Matt Bomer, Brendan Fraser, Diane Guerrero, and April Bowlby) who have powers that don’t quite make them super. They square off against the vengeful Eric Morden, aka Mr. Nobody (Alan Tudyk). Over his extensive career, Dalton, originally from Wales, has portrayed a wide variety of characters on stage, screen and film. He’s played […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE NICE GUYS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/20/2016
THE NICE GUYS movie poster | ©2016 Warner Bros.

Rating: R Stars: Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Angourie Rice, Matt Bomer, Margaret Qualley, Yaya DaCosta, Keith David, Beau Knapp, Lois Smith, Kim Basinger Writers: Shane Black & Anthony Bagarozzi Director: Shane Black Distributor: Warner Bros. Release Date: May 20, 2016 At first, a comparison between the new release THE NICE GUYS and the 1974 classic CHINATOWN may seem incongruous. The older film, after all, is an Oscar-winning drama, while THE NICE GUYS is solidly within the tradition of its director/co-writer Shane Black’s trademark action/buddy comedies. But hang on – both are period pieces (CHINATOWN is set in 1937, GUYS in […]Read On »


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Exclusive Photos from the MAGIC MIKE XXL World Premiere

By SUE SCHNEIDER 07/03/2015
Channing Tatum at the World Premiere of MAGIC MIKE XXL | ©2015 Sue Schneider

The World Premiere of Warner Bros. Pictures MAGIC MIKE XXL was held at the TCL Chinese Theater, Hollywood, California on June 25th. Opening the premiere were guy dancers who proceeded to entertain the press like “Chippendale” dancers. After they finished the stars started to walk the carpet. From the film the stars, which included: Channing Tatum (Star/Producer), Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Nash, Adam Rodriguez, Gabriel Iglesias, Jada Pinkett Smith, Amber Heard, Donald Glover, Stephen “tWitch” Boss, Andie MacDowell, Elizabeth Banks, Carrie Ann Hunt, Crystal Hunt, Gilbert Saldivar, Reid Carolin (Producer/Writer), Gregory Jacobs (Director/Producer), Alison Faulk (Lead Choreographer) and Teresa […]Read On »


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Movie Review: MAGIC MIKE XXL

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/01/2015
MAGIC MIKE XXL poster | ©2015 Warner Bros.

Rating: R Stars: Channing Tatum, Joe Manganiello, Matt Bomer, Adam Rodriguez, Kevin Nash, Gabriel Iglesias, Donald Glover, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Amber Heard, Andie MacDowell, Elizabeth Banks Writer: Reid Carolin, based on characters created by Reid Carolin Director: Gregory Jacobs Distributor: Warner Bros. Release Date: July 1, 2015 MAGIC MIKE XXL is an example of a sequel that improves on the original. In 2012’s MAGIC MIKE, we met the title character (Channing Tatum) and his cohorts at a Miami male strip club. The film registered as one of the least hysterical stories ever told about people who remove their clothes for a […]Read On »


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Interview: Taylor Kitsch talks THE NORMAL HEART and LONE SURVIVOR

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/25/2014
Mark Ruffalo and Taylor Kitsch in THE NORMAL HEART | ©2014 HBO/Jojo Whilden

This is a great week and a half for Taylor Kitsch. The actor, originally from British Columbia, Canada, shot to fame as high school football player Tim Riggins in five seasons of the series FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS and subsequently starred in the big-screen features JOHN CARTER, BATTLESHIP and SAVAGES. Sunday, May 25, Kitsch can be seen on HBO in the premiere of director Ryan Murphy’s film version of Larry Kramer’s play THE NORMAL HEART; Kitsch stars as Bruce Niles, a gay man coping with the AIDS crisis in 1981, when the disease had barely been identified and was being actively […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Mark Ruffalo talks THE NORMAL HEART

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/22/2014
Mark Ruffalo in THE NORMAL HEART | ©2014 HBO/Jojo Whilden

Larry Kramer’s play THE NORMAL HEART was first produced off-Broadway in 1985. In real life, Kramer is one of the founders of ACT UP, which describes itself as “a diverse, non-partisan group of individuals united in anger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis,” which was being largely ignored by the government in the Eighties. In NORMAL HEART, the main character Ned Weeks is Kramer’s fictional surrogate, a gay man who is enraged by the indifference he encounters as he tries to get help for his critically ill lover and friends in 1981. Kramer has now adapted […]Read On »


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Breaking News: The scoop on GLEE Season 4 and how it will balance Ohio and New York storylines – TCA 2012

By A.C. FERRANTE 07/23/2012
Lea Michele in GLEE - Season 3 - "Nationals" | ©2012 Fox/Adam Rose

With GLEE entering its fourth season with storylines set in Ohio and New York, Fox Entertainment President Kevin Reilly reveals this new structure has worked out quite nicely with the three scripts he’s read so far. “I’m very happy with how seamless it is,” says Reilly. “There is a thematic linkage between the two. I think it’s going to be an event for fun for the audience not knowing who is going to show up when. We have a core of returning character we will be servicing every week and limited deals with some actors joining here or there.” Reilly […]Read On »


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Exclusive Photos from the MAGIC MIKE World Premiere and closing night gala of the 2012 Los Angeles Film Festival

By SUE SCHNEIDER 07/04/2012
Channing Tatum and Matthew McConaughey at the World Premiere of Warner Bros. Pictures MAGIC MIKE as the closing night gala of the 2012 Los Angeles Film Festival | ©2012 Sue Schneider

Warner Bros. Pictures held the World Premiere recently for MAGIC MIKE at the Regal Cinemas L.A. Live in Los Angeles, as the closing night gala of the 2012 Los Angeles Film Festival. MAGIC MIKE makes me think of Chippendale’s, where male strippers dressed in costume and performed for women of all ages, as the patrons screamed and stuffed money into the pants of the strippers…and no men were allowed in! Seen walking the carpet were the stars of the film, which included: Channing Tatum, Adam Rodriguez, Alex Pettyfer, Matthew McConaughey, Cody Horn, Olivia Munn, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Nash, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: MAGIC MIKE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/01/2012
MAGIC MIKE poster | ©2012 Warner Bros.

Rating: R Stars: Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matthew McConaughey, Cody Horn, Olivia Munn, Matt Bomer, Riley Keogh, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Nash, Adam Rodriguez, Gabriel Iglesias Writer: Reid Carolin Director: Steven Soderbergh Distributor: Warner Bros. Release Date: June 29, 2012 It should be noted that in a thoroughly unscientific poll taken by this reviewer, virtually every heterosexual woman queried wanted to see MAGIC MIKE. Most of them did not care what the plot was like, or whether there would even be a plot. This may demonstrate that there’s a relatively untapped audience out there eager for male eye candy, or it […]Read On »


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