FROM DUSK TILL DAWN: Juan Carlos Coto on Season 2 – Part 1 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/03/2015
FROM DUSK TILL DAWN | © 2015 El Ray

Juan Carlos Coto – called “Carlos” by absolutely everyone except the IMDB – is in his second year as show runner/executive producer on FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, the TV series created by Robert Rodriguez, based on the 1995 bank robbers and vampires movie directed by Rodriguez and scripted by Quentin Tarantino from a story by Robert Kurtzman. The television DUSK, now in its second season Tuesday nights on the El Rey Network (co-founded by Rodriguez), has expanded on the film’s mythology. The creatures of the night are no longer traditional vampires but rather snakelike Culebras, who drink the souls of […]Read On »


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FROM DUSK TILL DAWN: Zane Holtz gives the scoop on Season 2 – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/25/2015
FROM DUSK TILL DAWN | © 2015 El Ray

Zane Holtz plays Richie Gecko in El Rey’s series FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, which returns for its second season on Tuesday, August 25. DUSK is based on the 1995 film, directed by Robert Rodriguez and written by Quentin Tarantino from a story by Robert Kurtzman, in which Richie (played by Tarantino in the movie) and his brother Seth (D.J. Cotrona in the series, George Clooney on the big screen), both bank robbers and on the run from the law after killing a Texas Ranger, kidnap a family and wind up taking shelter at the T***y Twister bar – which turns […]Read On »


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Robert Patrick gets stung by SCORPION – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/19/2014
Robert Patrick in SCORPION - Season 1 | ©2014 CBS/Sonja Flemming

On CBS’ popular new drama SCORPION, Mondays at 9 PM, a team of geniuses headed up by Walter O’Brien (Elyes Gabel) work as outside contractors for the FBI. There is a real Walter O’Brien, who IQ tests rate as one of the five most intelligent people alive, and he and his company really do consult with the FBI. In the series, Walter’s FBI handler and liaison is Cabe Gallo, played by Robert Patrick. Although he had a number of film roles before, Patrick first broke big as the lethal T-1000 in TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY. Since then, he’s been in […]Read On »


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MATADOR co-creator Dan Dworkin chats humor, soccer and spies – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/10/2014
MATADOR co-creator Dan Dworkin - Season 1 | ©2014 El Rey

In El Rey’s freshman series MATADOR, Tuesdays at 9 PM, Gabriel Luna stars as Tony Bravo, a DEA agent who is persuaded by the CIA to try out for the L.A. Riot, the soccer team owned by international criminal Andres Galan, played by Alfred Molina. To the surprise of both his handlers and Tony himself, the undercover agent becomes a sports sensation, which allows him to go ever deeper into Galan’s world. Created by executive producers Dan Dworkin, Jay Beattie, Roberto Orci and consulting producer Andrew Orci, MATADOR has already been picked up for a second season. Dworkin and Beattie […]Read On »


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MATADOR star Gabriel Luna on playing Tony Bravo – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/03/2014
Gabriel Luna in MATADOR - Season 1 | ©2014 El Rey

In El Rey Network’s MATADOR, now in its first season Tuesdays at 9 PM and already renewed for a second, Gabriel Luna stars as Tony Bravo. Tony starts out as a DEA agent who unexpectedly has his daydreams of being a professional soccer player fulfilled when he’s recruited by the CIA to try out for the L.A. Riot team, owned by international criminal Andres Galan, portrayed by Alfred Molina. When Tony surprises his CIA handlers by securing a spot on the squad, his missions become more dangerous. Luna is a native of Austin, Texas, which happens to be El Rey […]Read On »


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Alfred Molina tames El Rey’s MATADOR – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/26/2014
Alfred Molina in MATADOR | ©2014 El Rey

In El Rey Network’s MATADOR, now in its first season Tuesday nights at 9 PM and already renewed for Season 2, DEA agent Tony Bravo (Gabriel Luna) is recruited by the CIA to pose as a soccer player so that he can spy on the operations of L.A. Riot team owner – and international criminal – Andres Galan, played by Alfred Molina. London-born Molina will be familiar to most audiences the world over from his small but indelible role as Satipo, who gets the ball rolling (as it were) at the beginning of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. Three decades […]Read On »


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Interview: Robert Rodriguez on El Rey and THE DIRECTOR’S CHAIR

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/12/2014
Robert Rodriguez and Guillermo del Toro in The Director's Chair | © 2014 El Rey

Plenty of creative people have their own production companies. Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez, of EL MARIACHI, FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, DESPERADO, GRINDHOUSE, SIN CITY, MACHETE, the SPY KIDS films and more, has been one of the stars of American independent cinema for decades. Rodriguez already has his own Troublemaker Studios in Austin, Texas. Now Rodriguez has branched out to having his own cable television network, El Rey. El Rey continues to showcase the kinds of movies and TV shows Rodriguez loves – martial arts films, action flicks, reruns of the original STARSKY AND HUTCH and DARK ANGEL – but it also […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Roberto Orci & Scott Sassa on MATADOR

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/15/2014
Matador Season 1 poster | ©2014 El Rey

MATADOR, the second new scripted series (the first was FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, which had its first season earlier this year) on Robert Rodriguez’s El Rey network, premieres Tuesday, July 13. Despite its title, the action/adventure/spy series, created by Jay Beattie, Dan Dworkin, Andrew Orci & Roberto Orci, has nothing to do with bullfighting. Instead, “Matador” is the nickname given to new L.A. Riot soccer player Tony Bravo (Gabriel Luna) due to a particular action he takes during his tryout for the team. Nobody except his handlers know that Tony is really a D.E.A. agent who’s been recruited by the […]Read On »


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Movie Review: HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/26/2013
HANSEL & GRETEL WITCH HUNTERS |(c) 2013 Paramount Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton, Famke Janssen, Pihla Viitala,Thomas Mann, Peter Stormare Writers: Tommy Wirkola and D.W. Harper Director: Tommy Wirkola Distributor: Paramount Release Date: January 25, 2013 There are a lot of good ideas in HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS, not the least of which was having Tommy Wirkola direct and co-write (with D.W. Harper). Wirkola’s previous film, the Norwegian-language Nazi zombie movie DEAD SNOW, displayed some of the antic spirit of Sam Raimi’s EVIL DEAD movies. The trouble is that some of the elements in HANSEL & GRETEL require a different sort of tone, and this […]Read On »


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Exclusive Photos from the DARK SHADOWS Los Angeles Premiere

By SUE SCHNEIDER 05/14/2012
Johnny Depp at the World Premiere of DARK SHADOWS | ©2012 Sue Schneider

Warner Bros. Pictures in association with Village Roadshow Pictures, an Infinitum Nihil/GK Films/Zanuck Company production, a Tim Burton film held the Los Angeles Premiere for DARK SHADOWS on May 7th at the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. In 1966 DARK SHADOWS aired on television with Jonathan Frid, who passed away on April 13, 2012 as Barnabas Collins, and the story continued in 1991 with Ben Cross as Barnabas. Now Johnny Depp takes on the role. Brought to the movie-going audience by Tim Burton you can expect something spectacular in the Tim Burton way! Walking the black carpet were the stars […]Read On »


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