Movie Review: KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/14/2024
KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES movie poster | ©2024 20th Century Studios

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Owen Teale, Freya Allan, Peter Macon, Kevin Durand, Lydia Peckham, Travis Jeffery, William H. Macy, Neil Sandilands Writer: Josh Friedman, based on characters created by Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver Director: Wes Ball Distributor: 20th Century Studios Release Date: May 10, 2024 It’s not necessary to be familiar with any of the previous PLANET OF THE APES films to engage with the new KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES. However, here’s some context. Fans of the original 1968 PLANET OF THE APES, based on Pierre Boulle’s novel, will thrill to certain callbacks in KINGDOM to that […]Read On »


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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: Actor Camden Toy Pt. 2 – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/22/2017
Camden Toy | © 2017 Camden Toy

In honor of the 20th anniversary of Joss Whedon’s groundbreaking BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, we interviewed actor Camden Toy, who played three different terrifying characters on that series, and a more comedic one in the final series of the BUFFY spin-off ANGEL. In Part 1 of our exclusive interview, Toy talked about playing one of the silent, gliding Gentlemen in BUFFY’s near-wordless “Hush” episode. In Part 2, Toy talks his other two BUFFY roles, the sing-songy skin-eating demon Gnarl in the episode “Same Time, Same Place,” and the primal Ubervamp in multiple Season 7 episodes, his work on ANGEL and […]Read On »


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CD Review: FRANK and RUDDERLESS soundtracks

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER 12/17/2014
RUDDERLESS soundtrack | ©2014 Lakeshore Records

For all of the rock stadium popularity that a studio polished song soundtrack might have, it’s often the raw tunes of a decidedly unsigned, outsider band that reaches into the heart, or madness-addled brain in a way no Grammy-friendly album can. At their best, these little tune-filled albums can even find appeal with score fans who normally regard songs CDs as heresy, an open-minded listen especially deserving from them for a big-headed bizarro and a garage band finding the power of healing in unthinkably written songs. FRANK is very loosely based on the strange career of England’s Frank Sidebottom, who had […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: BONES guest star Pej Vahdat on Season 8 and more – Part 2

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/25/2013
Emily Deschanel and Pej Vahdat in BONES - Season 6 - "The Signs in the Silence" | ©2011 Fox/Adam Taylor

In Part 2 of our exclusive interview with Pej Vahdat, who plays Arastoo Viziri on BONES, the actor talks about his life before acting, his work on SHAMELESS and the recent BONES episode “The Patriot in Purgatory.” AX: Did you always want to be an actor? PEJ VAHDAT: Actually, I played professional tennis before I was an actor. I played in the junior circuit, I played for theU.S. on the junior circuit, I played in college, and then I turned pro my junior year in college, and then after summer on the tour, I just wasn’t very happy and I […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE LINCOLN LAWYER

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/18/2011
THE LINCOLN LAWYER movie poster | ©2011 Lionsgate

Rating: R Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei, Ryan Phillippe, Josh Lucas, John Leguizamo, Michael Pena, Bob Gunton, Frances Fisher, Bryan Cranston, William H. Macy Writer: John Romano, based on the novel by Michael Connelly Director: Brad Furman Distributor: Lionsgate Release Date: March 18, 2011 THE LINCOLN LAWYER, adapted from L.A. noir mystery master Michael Connelly’s novel, comes to the screen as a thoroughly enjoyable courtroom drama, with plenty of twists and fake-outs. Although the movie doesn’t get maximum mileage out of the central notion that its protagonist uses the inside of his Lincoln Continental as his law office, director Brad […]Read On »


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Interview: John Wells gets SHAMELESS when it comes to projects – Part 1

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/06/2011
SHAMELESS poster - Season 1 | ©2011 Showtime

Showtime’s new series SHAMELESS, adapted from the long-running British comedy of the same name by the original series creator Paul Abbott, presents us with the dysfunctional Gallagher family. Frank, the patriarch of the large brood played by William H. Macy, is openly alcoholic and not very parental, leaving it to eldest daughter Fiona (Emmy Rossum) to tend to the younger siblings, who include manipulative Lip (Jeremy Allen White), gay Ian (Cameron Monaghan), budding thief Debbie (Emmy Kenney), antisocial Carl (Ethan Cutkosky) and toddler Liam (Blake Alexander Johnson and Brennan Kane Johnson). Meanwhile, over on TNT, the gritty L.A. police drama […]Read On »


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