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Movie Review: NIGHTBITCH

NIGHTBITCH movie poster | ©2024 Searchlight Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Amy Adams, Scoot McNairy, Arleigh Patrick Snowden, Emmett James Snowden, Jessica Harper Writer: Marielle Heller, based on the novel by Rachel Yoder Director: Marielle Heller Distributor: Searchlight Pictures Release Date: December 6, 2024 NIGHTBITCH is one of those movies that is very hard to quantify. It is so astute and acute on some levels, while appearing to think it’s being universal yet in actuality so niche on others, that one can’t either wholly praise or dismiss it. Amy Adams plays an upper-middle-class mom, referred to in the credits as “Mother” (one of those would-be universal touches), who […]Read On »


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Movie Review: WEREWOLVES

WEREWOLVES movie poster | ©2024 Briarcliff Entertainment

Rating: R Stars: Frank Grillo, Katrina Law, Ilfenesh Hadera, Kamdynn Gary, James Michael Cummings, Lydia Styslinger, Lou Diamond Phillips, James Kyson Writer: Matthew Kennedy Director: Steven C. Miller Distributor: Briarcliff Entertainment Release Date: December 6, 2024 In WEREWOLVES, the starting premise is that, a year ago, a supermoon triggered a global event in which over a billion people turned into werewolves for a night. Now it’s the day before another supermoon. People who have turned and survived the first event will turn again, and it’s unknown who else will be susceptible. From dusk until dawn, there is an emergency curfew. […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE RETURN

THE RETURN movie poster | ©2024 Bleecker Street

Rating: R Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Charlie Plummer, Marwan Kenzani, Claudio Santamaria, Angela Molina Writers: John Collee, Edward Bond, Uberto Pasolini, based on THE ODYSSEY by Homer Director: Uberto Pasolini Distributor: Bleecker Street Release Date: December 6, 2024 THE RETURN is a dramatization of part of one of the oldest known narratives in Western culture, THE ODYSSEY by Homer, written in the eighth or seventh century BC (per Wikipedia). This is the story of Odysseus (played here by Ralph Fiennes), King of Ithaca, and his ten-year journey back home after being on the winning side of the Trojan War, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: WICKED: PART 1

WICKED - PART 1 | ©2024 Universal Pictures

Rating: PG Stars: Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande-Butera, Jonathan Bailey, Marissa Bode, Ethan Slater, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, Peter Dinklage (voice) Writers: Winnie Holzman and Winnie Holzman & Dana Fox, based on the stage musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman, based on the novel by Gregory Maguire Director: Jon M. Chu Distributor: Universal Pictures Release Date: November 22, 2024 While it can’t hurt, it turns out that it’s not really necessary to be familiar with either L. Frank Baum’s 1900 fantasy classic THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ, or its famous 1939 film musical adaptation, […]Read On »


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LEONARDO DA VINCI: Filmmakers Sarah Burns and David McMahon on new PBS documentary – Exclusive Interview

LEONARDO DA VINCI Key Art | ©2024 PBS

It is perhaps impossible to overstate the influence of the Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519, on subsequent civilization. Scientist, inventor, engineer, painter, sculptor and architect, da Vinci did so much that exploring his entire life seems a Herculean task. But that’s exactly what filmmakers Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon set out to do with their four-hour documentary LEONARDO DA VINCI, which airs on PBS over two nights, Monday, November 18, and Tuesday, November 19. During PBS’s portion of the summer 2024 Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour, Sarah Burns (Ken Burns’s daughter) and McMahon (Sarah Burn’s husband) […]Read On »


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Movie Review: RED ONE

RED ONE movie poster | ©2024 MGM / Amazon Studios

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans, Lucy Liu, J.K. Simmons, Bonnie Hunt, Kristofer Hivju, Kiernan Shipka, Wesley Kimmel, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Nick Kroll Writer: Chris Morgan, story by Hiram Garcia Director: Jake Kasdan Distributor: MGM/Amazon Studios Release Date: November 15, 2024 The premise of RED ONE contains all sorts of intriguing Northern and Eastern European folklore: not only Santa Claus, but some darker figures as well. This could have made a great Rankin-Bass special, either with conventional animation or RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER-style puppetry, or even a live-action fantasy, a la the NARNIA films. However, RED ONE, directed by […]Read On »


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HOLIDAZED: Actor John C. McGinley on new Hallmark holiday series – Exclusive Interview

John C. McGinley and Virginia Madsen in HOLIDAZED - Season 1 | ©2024 Hallmark Channel

HOLIDAZED, Hallmark’s new limited series about six different families, each preparing for Christmas on their cul-de-sac in Oak Bay, Oregon, premieres with a double episode on Thursday, November 14. John C. McGinley is part of the star-studded cast as Chuck Manetti-Hanahan. Chuck has always been competitive about his house’s holiday light display, and recent family issues have made him more determined than ever to outshine the neighbors. McGinley has been acting in television, film, and theatre for decades. Oliver Stone saw McGinley in an off-Broadway performance of DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA and cast him in PLATOON. McGinley has […]Read On »


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ST. DENIS MEDICAL: Co-creator Eric Ledgin operates on a new NBC comedy – Exclusive Interview

ST. DENIS MEDICAL - Season 1 Key Art | ©2024 NBCUniversal

The new comedy ST. DENIS MEDICAL, which premieres on NBC Tuesday, November 12 (with episodes streaming on Peacock following broadcast), is a mockumentary that follows the mostly dedicated staff of an underfunded Oregon hospital. Series stars include David Alan Grier as seen-it-all chief of surgery Ron, Wendy McClendon-Covey as ambitious hospital administrator Joyce, and Allison Tolman as warm-hearted nurse Alex. Eric Ledgin co-created ST. DENIS MEDICAL with Justin Spitzer; both are executive producers on the series. The two had previously worked together as exec producers on AMERICAN AUTO, which Ledgin wrote for and Spitzer created. Some of Ledgin’s other previous […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER

THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER movie poster | ©2024 Lionsgate

Rating: PG Stars: Judy Greer, Pete Holmes, Molly Belle Wright, Beatrice Schneider, Sebastian Billingsley-Rodriguez, Matthew Lamb, Essek Moore, Kirk B.R. Woller, Ewan Mathys Wood, Mason Nelligan, Kynlee Heiman, Lauren Graham Writers: Ryan Swanson and Platte F. Clark & Darin McDaniel, based on the novel by Barbara Robinson Director: Dallas Jenkins Distributor: Lionsgate Release Date: November 8, 2024 “The Herdmans were absolutely the worst kids in the history of the world.” So begins THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER, based on Barbara Robinson’s 1971 book, which was previously adapted as a 1983 telefilm. Narrated by the adult Beth (Lauren Graham), THE BEST […]Read On »


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Movie Review: DEVON

DEVON movie poster | ©2024 Cineverse

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Lauren Carlin, Steven Entienne, Rotisha Geter, Tara Rule, Hank Santos, Sabrina Aiezza, Xavier Aiezza, Zack Carpinello Writer: Jenni Farley Director: Jenni Farley Distributor: Cineverse Release Date: November 12, 2024 (digital, VOD) DEVON was shot at Spring City’s Pennhurst Asylum, originally (per Wikipedia) an institution known as the Eastern Pennsylvania State Institution for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic. It opened in 1918 and was closed in 1987. Mistreatment of patients resulted in the legal Pennhurst Doctrine. These days, in reality, the establishment is used for “haunted house” tours and, in the case of DEVON, as the setting for […]Read On »


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