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FREE CHOL SOO LEE: Filmmakers and activists Julie Ha, Eugene Yi, Gail Whang and Ranko Yamada on new PBS doc – Exclusive Interview

FREE CHOL SOO LEE | ©2023 PBS

Chol Soo Lee was a young Korean immigrant living in San Francisco’s Chinatown when he was arrested on June 7, 1973, and subsequently convicted, for the murder of Yip Yee Tak. While in prison, Lee was given the death penalty for the killing of a fellow inmate, although Lee claimed self-defense. In June of 1977, reporter K.W. Lee (no relation to Chol Soo), after hearing from young Asian-American activists, began investigating the case for a series of articles in the SACRAMENTO UNION. K.W. Lee found facts that strongly suggested that Chol Soo Lee had been wrongly targeted for the murder […]Read On »


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THE ARK: Creator Dean Devlin and fellow executive producer Jonathan Glassner on the conclusion of Season 1 – Exclusive Interview

THE ARK - Season 1 Key Art | ©2023 Syfy/Electric Entertainment

THE ARK concludes its first season on Syfy on Wednesday, April 19. All episodes are available on Syfy on Demand and streaming on Syfy.com, nbc.com, Peacock, bravotv.com, eonlinecom, and Telemundo.com. The series has already been renewed for a second season. Created by Dean Devlin, THE ARK is set one hundred years from now, when groups of humanity are fleeing the Earth in “Ark” spaceships, seeking more habitable planets. The inhabitants of Ark 1 are awakened from their cryogenic sleep over a year before they reach their intended destination. The catastrophe that caused this unexpected development has badly damaged the ship, […]Read On »


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THE BIG DOOR PRIZE: Actors Djouliet Amara and Sammy Fourlas talk Season 1 of new Apple TV+ series – Exclusive Interview

Djouliet Amara and Sammy Fourlas in THE BIG DOOR PRIZE - Season 1 | ©2023 Apple TV+

In the new Apple TV+ series THE BIG DOOR PRIZE, life in a reasonably contented small American town is disrupted by the arrival of the mysterious Morpho machine. For two dollars, and the input of your fingerprints and your social security number, the Morpho prints out a card that reveals your true potential. Based on the book by M.O. Walsh, THE BIG DOOR PRIZE was adapted for television by David West Read, who was previously an executive producer and writer on SCHITT’S CREEK (a comedy to which THE BIG DOOR PRIZE has already drawn favorable comparisons). The series has already […]Read On »


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THE WATCHFUL EYE: Amy Acker on Season 1 of new Freeform series – Exclusive Interview

Amy Acker in THE WATCHFUL EYE - Season 1 | ©2023 Freeform/Brendan Meadows

THE WATCHFUL EYE has its Season 1 finale Monday, March 27, on Freeform. The episode will stream the following day on Hulu, where the rest of the season is already available. In THE WATCHFUL EYE, Mariel Molino plays Elena Santos, a young woman who takes a job as a nanny in an upscale Manhattan apartment building. Her wealthy employer Matthew (Warren Christie) needs someone to look after his little boy after his wife commits suicide. Amy Acker plays Matthew’s even richer sister-in-law Tory, who is suspicious of Elena from the outside. Tory and Matthew have a volatile relationship and a […]Read On »


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BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE WILD BUNCH: Jeffrey Combs on playing historical lawman Charles Siringo – Exclusive Interview

Jeffrey Combs is Charles Siringo in BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE WILD BUNCH | ©2023 Tubi

In the new Western BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE WILD BUNCH, now available on the free streaming service Tubi, Butch and his gang are relentlessly pursued by relentless lawman Charles Siringo. Like Cassidy, Siringo is a real-life historical figure. He was a sheriff who gained fame when he joined the Pinkerton National Detective Agency — though the film champions him more as the villain of the piece rather than the hero. Jeffrey Combs, who plays Siringo, explains that Pinkerton was like the Blackwater of its time, a group of independent contractors who operated largely outside the law. “Pinkerton detectives were hired […]Read On »


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FREERIDGE: Actress Ciara Riley Wilson on new Netflix teen comedy – Exclusive Interview

Ciara Riley Wilson | ©2023 Ciara Riley Wilson

FREERIDGE, a new half-hour comedy, is a spinoff of ON MY BLOCK. Both series are currently streaming on Netflix. In FREERIDGE, four East Los Angeles high school friends start to believe they are cursed after buying an old box at a garage sale. Not only are they being beset by a lot of weird coincidences, but an old woman who is supposedly dead shows up at the door. Ciara Riley Wilson plays Demi, one of the quartet. Wilson, whose first name is pronounced “Sierra,” has a background in dance and designs fashion when not acting. Although FREERIDGE is her first […]Read On »


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BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE WILD BUNCH: Screenwriter and actor Geoff Meed on new Tubi western – Exclusive Interview

Geoff Meed in BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE WILD BUNCH | ©2023 Tubi

BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE WILD BUNCH, which made its debut this week on Tubi, is a Western that tells a new version of the legend of Butch Cassidy (Ross Jirgl), aka Robert Parker, in the days before he teamed up with the Sundance Kid (Jilon VanOver). The film also stars Bruce Dern and Dee Wallace as Butch’s foster parents, and Jeffrey Combs as lawman Charles Siringo, determined to bring Butch and his gang in by any means necessary. The screenplay for BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE WILD BUNCH was written by Geoff Meed, who also costars as Butch’s surly colleague Kid […]Read On »


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LUCKY HANK: Executive producers Paul Lieberstein and Aaron Zelman on new dramedy series – Exclusive Interview

LUCKY HANK Season 1 Key Art | ©2023 AMC

Less than a year after wrapping up six seasons on AMC’s much-awarded BETTER CALL SAUL, Bob Odenkirk is back on the network in LUCKY HANK, which premieres Sunday, March 19, on AMC, AMC+, BBC America, IFC, and SundanceTV. Show runners/executive producers Paul Lieberstein & Aaron Zelman adapted LUCKY HANK from Richard Russo’s 1997 novel STRAIGHT MAN. Both the TV series and the explore the life of Odenkirk’s character, William Henry “Hank” Devereaux Jr., the perpetually annoyed chair of the English department at a small university in a small town. Hank decries both school ad community as the epitome of mediocrity […]Read On »


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DEVIL’S PEAK: Producer Griff Furst on new coming-of-age crime drama – Exclusive Interview

DEVIL'S PEAK movie poster | ©2023 Screen Media Films

DEVIL’S PEAK, based on David Joy’s novel WHERE ALL LIGHT TENDS TO GO, is now available on demand on Prime Video and other VOD services. The film, starring Billy Bob Thornton and Robin Wright, is a coming-of-age crime drama, set in the mountains of North Carolina. Griff Furst is one of DEVIL’S PEAK’s producers, and a prime mover of the project. He is also a prolific director and actor. Speaking by phone, Furst talks about how DEVIL’S PEAK came together, and his career overall. ASSIGNMENT X: Are you in DEVIL’S PEAK as an actor? GRIFF FURST: I am, but it’s […]Read On »


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Movie Review: MOVING ON

MOVING ON movie poster | ©2023 Roadside Attractions

Rating: R Stars: Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Malcolm McDowell, Sarah Burns, Richard Roundtree, Catherine Dent, Marcel Nahapetian Writer: Paul Weitz Director: Paul Weitz Distributor: Roadside Attractions Release Date: March 17, 2023 Clearly, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin enjoy acting together. Almost the moment they wrapped their Netflix comedy series GRACE AND FRANKIE after five seasons, they star in two movies together, last month’s 80 FOR BRADY, and now MOVING ON. MOVING ON is a few shades darker than Fonda and Tomlin’s other collaborations. In other hands, the material might be stark drama, but writer/director Paul Weitz puts a gentle, bemused […]Read On »


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