Movie Review: MAGPIE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/25/2024
MAGPIE movie poster | ©2024 Shout! Sudios

Rating: R Stars: Daisy Ridley, Shazad Latif, Matilda Lutz, Hiba Ahmed, Cherrelle Skeete, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Alistair Petrie Writer: Tom Bateman, based on an original idea by Daisy Ridley Director: Sam Yates Distributor: Shout! Studios Release Date: October 25, 2024 As MAGPIE begins, Anette (Daisy Ridley) is videotaping her little daughter Matilda’s (Hiba Ahmed) audition for a big-budget movie. Great news: Matilda gets the part. Momentarily, Matilda, Anette and Anette’s husband/Matilda’s dad Ben (Shazad Latif) couldn’t be happier. The family, plus baby boy Lucas, lives in a spacious modern house in the English countryside. Ben is a successful author. Anette would […]Read On »


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MOONFLOWER MURDERS: Actress Pippa Bennett-Warner on playing a 1950s detective’s assistant – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/09/2024
Daniel Mays, Pippa Bennett-Warner and Tim McMullan in MASTERPIECE: MOONFLOWER MURDERS | ©2024 PBS/ Eleventh Hour Films

In MOONFLOWER MURDERS, Sunday nights on PBS MASTERPIECE, actual retired English book editor Susan Ryeland (Lesley Manville) and fictional ‘50s master detective Atticus Pünd (Tim McMullan) are both back on the case. In the previous MAGPIE MURDERS, Susan had been the editor on all of the Atticus Pünd mystery novels. When the last book led to the murder of Atticus’s creator, unpleasant novelist Alan Conway (Conleth Hill), Susan wound up solving the crime. Surprisingly, Atticus began appearing to Susan and giving her oblique advice, at the same time he was busy solving the 1950s case that Alan had written for […]Read On »


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PBS MASTERPIECE: MOONFLOWER MURDERS: Creator and writer Anthony Horowitz on new mystery mini-series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/15/2024
MASTERPIECE: MOONFLOWER MURDERS key art | ©2024 PBS/ Eleventh Hour Films

The six-episode MOONFLOWER MURDERS premieres on PBS MASTERPIECE on Sunday, September 15. This is a sequel to 2022’s series MAGPIE MURDERS. Both are adapted from bestselling mystery novels of the same titles by Anthony Horowitz, who also wrote all the teleplays, and serves as one of the series’ executive producers. In MAGPIE MURDERS, present-day London book editor Susan Ryeland (Lesley Manville, Oscar-nominated for her performance in 2017’s PHANTOM THREAD) searched the unpublished manuscript of one of her authors, Alan Conway (Conleth Hill of GAME OF THRONES), for clues to his murder. At the same time, we saw the story of Alan’s […]Read On »


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A BIT OF LIGHT: Director Stephen Moyer on helming his second feature film – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/05/2024
Director Stephen Moyer on the set of A BIT OF LIGHT | ©2024 Quiver Distribution

Based on Rebecca Callard’s award-winning play, A BIT OF LIGHT is a film that encompasses grief, hope, and a peculiar friendship. Anna Paquin portrays Ella, a working-class Englishwoman who, at age thirty-nine, has moved back in with her dad. Anna has lost custody of her two little girls to their father Joseph (Yousef Kerkour) and his partner Bethan (Pippa Bennett-Warner). Anna is allowed to have her children with her for a few days here and there, but she feels such guilt over what she did while they were with her that she can barely function. She spends her days sitting […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SEE HOW THEY RUN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/16/2022
SEE HOW THEY RUN movie poster | ©2022 Searchlight

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Sam Rockwell, Harris Dickinson, Adrien Brody, Ruth Wilson, David Oyelowo, Reece Shearsmith, Shirley Henderson, Sian Clifford, Tim Key, Angus Wright, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Lucian Msamati, Charlie Cooper, Pippa Bennett-Warner Writer: Mark Chappell Director: Tom George Distributor: Searchlight Pictures Release Date: September 16, 2022 SEE HOW THEY RUN is a clever, amusing send-up of Agatha Christie-style murder mysteries. The movie is simultaneously a parody and an embodiment of the form. It’s filled with literary, cinematic and theatrical in-jokes, but it is also a respectable whodunit. The target audience for SEE HOW THEY RUN is most likely people […]Read On »


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