Movie Review: BOY KILLS WORLD

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/25/2024
BOY KILLS WORLD movie poster | ©2024 Lionsgate

Rating: R Stars: Bill Skarsgård, Jessica Rothe, Famke Janssen, Michelle Dockery, Andrew Koji, Brett Gelman, Isaiah Mustafa, Yayan Ruhian, Sharlto Copley, Quinn Copeland, H. Jon Benjamin (voice) Writers: Tyler Burton Smith and Arend Remmers, story by Arend Remmers & Moritz Mohr Director: Moritz Mohr Distributor: Lionsgate/Roadside Attractions Release Date: April 26, 2024  To paraphrase an old saying, killing is easy, comedy is hard. BOY KILLS WORLD brings this to mind. As an action/revenge movie, it is structured well by screenwriters Tyler Burton Smith and Arend Remmers, working from a story by Remmers and director Moritz Mohr. It has some impressive […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE GENTLEMEN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/24/2020
THE GENTLEMEN movie poster | ©2019 STX Films

Rating: R Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Hugh Grant, Michelle Dockery, Jeremy Strong, Colin Farrell, Henry Golding, Tom Wu, Chidi Ajufo, Eddie Marsan Writer: Guy Ritchie, story by Guy Ritchie and Ivan Atkinson & Marn Davies Director: Guy Ritchie Distributor: STX Films Release Date: January 24, 2020 THE GENTLEMEN boasts a mostly welcome return to early form by filmmaker Guy Ritchie. With THE GENTLEMEN, Ritchie is back in the realm of British crime, which he played with so successfully in his first feature, LOCK, STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS, and just slightly less delightfully in his follow-up SNATCH. Ritchie directed […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SELF/LESS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/12/2015
SELF/LESS movie poster | ©2015 Focus Features

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Natalie Martinez, Matthew Goode, Ben Kingsley, Victor Garber, Derek Luke, Jaynee-Lynne Kinchen, Michelle Dockery Writers: David Pastor & Alex Pastor Director: Tarsem Singh Distributor: Focus Features/Gramercy Pictures Release Date: July 10, 2015 There are a number of problems with SELF/LESS, but much could have been forgiven if the movie had gotten one thing right. Anyone who has seen the trailer knows that the set-up consists of dying billionaire Damian Hale (Ben Kingsley) paying a huge amount of money to have his consciousness put into another body (Ryan Reynolds). The body in question is reportedly lab-grown, […]Read On »


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The scoop on Season 5 of DOWNTON ABBEY from executive producer Gareth Neame – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/04/2015
Jim Carter as Mr. Carson and Phyllis Logan as Mrs. Hughes in DOWNTON ABBEY - Season 5 | ©2015 Carnival Films/Nick Briggs

DOWNTON ABBEY commences its fifth season on PBS Sunday, January 4, at 9 PM. The beloved British import chronicling the lives of the titled Crawley family and their servants is now firmly immersed in the Twenties, when social change is afoot. Executive producer Gareth Neame, also one of the executive producers of SHAKESPEARE UNCOVERED, which will have a new season on PBS as well, takes a moment to talk about DOWNTON‘s international success. ASSIGNMENT X: There were a few shows that preceded DOWNTON ABBEY that were trying to do something like UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS, which did not succeed. Then DOWNTON came […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: THE HOLLOW CROWN reworks Shakespeare for four new PBS films

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/20/2013
Rory Kinnear in GREAT PERFORMANCES: THE HOLLOW CROWN - RICHARD II | ©2013 PBS/BBC

THE HOLLOW CROWN, on PBS’ GREAT PERFORMANCES beginning Friday September 20 at 9 PM and continuing for three Fridays thereafter, consists of four new films of William Shakespeare’s histories HENRY II, starring Ben Whishaw in the title role, and HENRY IV PART I, HENRY IV PART II and HENRY V, starring Jeremy Irons as Henry IV and Tom Hiddleston as Prince Hal/Henry V, with Simon Russell Beale as Falstaff. Other notable cast members include David Bradley (Walder Frey on GAME OF THRONES), Lindsay Duncan, David Morrissey (the Governor on THE WALKING DEAD), James Purefoy (of THE FOLLOWING), Patrick Stewart, David […]Read On »


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