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Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez talks EL REY NETWORK and JONNY QUEST – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 12/23/2015
Robert Rodriguez at the World Premiere of DARK SHADOWS | ©2012 Sue Schneider

Robert Rodriguez isn’t the only filmmaker who makes highly individual movies from the SPY KIDS franchise on the family side to the EL MARIACHI/DESPERADO/ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO trilogy, the MACHETE and the SIN CITY movies on the mature end, and he’s not even the only one to have his own production facility, Troublemaker Studios, which is located in Austin, Texas. However, Rodriguez is perhaps the only writer/director/producer to head up his own cable television network. El Rey Network has several original series on its roster: FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, the vampire/crime drama based on the film directed by […]Read On »


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SCORPION: Katharine McPhee feels the sting on Season 2 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 12/21/2015
Katharine McPhee in SCORPION - Season 2 | ©2015 CBS/Sonja Flemming

On SCORPION, now in its second season Mondays on CBS, Walter O’Brien (Elyes Gabel) and his team of unconventional geniuses continue to help the government solve baffling crimes and emergencies in an entertaining manner. The one member of Walter’s Scorpion group who is not a genius is erstwhile waitress Paige Dineen, played by Katharine McPhee. Paige is the designated go-between for the blunt, math-focused Walter and the rest of the world, though an undeniable attraction is brewing between these two opposites. Los Angeles native McPhee first rose to fame as a first-place runner-up on Season 5 of AMERICAN IDOL. Since […]Read On »


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CSI: CYBER: Actor Charley Koontz on Season 2 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 12/20/2015
Charlie Koontz in CSI: CYBER | ©2015 CBS

CSI: CYBER, now in its second season, is the the most recent installment in CBS’s phenomenally successful CSI franchise. Patricia Arquette stars as FBI cyber expert and psychologist Dr. Avery Ryan, who investigates Internet crime across the country and around the world, from terrorists to kidnappers who hack into baby monitors to spy on families. Charley Koontz plays FBI Special Agent Daniel Krumitz, a young “white hat” hacker and computer analyst who is part of Avery’s team. This is Koontz’s first series regular gig; he recurred as Fat Neil on COMMUNITY and appeared in the horror film RUBBER. Earlier this […]Read On »


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Movie Review: STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS – Review #1

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 12/18/2015
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS logo | © 2015 Lucasfilm Ltd.

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Harrison Ford, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Carrie Fisher, Andy Serkis, Gwendoline Christie, Peter Mayhew, Domnhall Gleeson Writers: Lawrence Kasdan & J.J. Abrams and Michael Arndt, based on characters created by George Lucas Director: J.J. Abrams Distributor: Disney Release Date: December 18, 2015 If there ever was a movie where just about nobody cared what the reviews were like, STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS is it. The legions who love George Lucas’ original creation don’t give a flying Fett what anyone has to say – if there’s a chance that the magic spark has […]Read On »


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CHILDHOOD’S END: Screenwriter Matthew Graham on adapting the classic novel – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 12/16/2015
Charles Dance in CHILDHOOD'S END | © 2015 Syfy

Arthur C. Clarke’s 1953 novel CHILDHOOD’S END has been regarded as a science-fiction classic for six decades now. For about the same amount of time, it has been regarded as unfilmable, even though Stanley Kubrick’s cinematic adaptation of another of Clarke’s novels, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, has received near-universal acclaim and despite the fact that CHILDHOOD’S themes of an alien race arriving on Earth with tangible benefits (an end to war, disease and poverty) but dubious motives have been disseminated throughout countless other books, films and TV series. Syfy Channel has finally accepted the challenge and produced a three-part miniseries […]Read On »


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TV Review: BONES – Season 11 – “High Treason in the Holiday Season”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF | 12/15/2015
TJ Thyne in BONES - Season 11 - "High Treason in the Holiday Season" | © 2015 Patrick McElhenney/FOX

Stars: David Boreanaz, Emily Deschanel, Michaela Conlin, TJ Thyne, Tamara Taylor, John Boyd, Ignacio Serricchio, Callard Harris, Rachel Melvin, Dayo Ade, Lochlyn Munro, Gavin MacIntosh, Michael Dempsey, Rob Evers Writer: Jon Cowan, series created by Hart Hanson, based on the life and writings of Kathy Reichs Director: Anne Renton Network: Fox Network, Thursdays @ 8 PM Airdate: November 19, 2015 It’s not unusual for BONES to be topical, but it is less common to have lasting controversy between the characters. In the Season 11 episode “High Treason in the Holiday Season,” FBI Agent Booth (David Boreanaz) doesn’t just disagree, but […]Read On »


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IN THE HEART OF THE SEA: Composer Roque Baños on scoring the seas – Interview

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER |
IN THE HEART OF THE SEA soundtrack | ©2015 WaterTower Music

If you madly hunt for great composing talents the world over, chances are you’ll hear the particular, vast melodic abilities of one Roque Baños. Hailing from Spain where he’d notably engage in the Spaghetti Western pastiche of 800 BULLETS,  the artistic classicism of GOYA IN BOURDEAUX and the bad cop antics of TORRENTE among the numerous movie he’d score in his home country, Baños first caught American ears with his romantically twisted crime stylings for 2000’s SEXY BEAST and the Herrmann-esque doom of 2004’s Theremin-possessed  THE MACHINIST. It’s been a long, prolific journey to our shores over the years before […]Read On »


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DA VINCI’S DEMONS: Creator David S. Goyer on the final season – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
Tom Riley in DA VINCI'S DEMONS - Season 3 | ©2015 Starz

The third and final season of Starz’s DA VINCI’S DEMONS, Saturdays at 8 PM, sees Leonardo Da Vinci, still a relatively young man played by Tom Riley, making weapons of war to defend Italy from the Turks. David S. Goyer, who created DA VINCI’S DEMONS and is one of the executive producers, originally turned over the show-running reins for the third season to John Shiban because he was up to his eyebrows in other projects, including writing the screenplay for the much-anticipated BATMAN V. SUPERMAN and creating/running NBC’s CONSTANTINE, the TV series adaptation of D.C. Comics’ HELLBLAZER. However, as Goyer […]Read On »


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TV Review: BONES – Season 11 – “The Promise in the Palace”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF | 12/14/2015
Michaela Conlin and Tamara Taylor in BONES - Season 11 - "The Promise in the Palace" | © 2015 Jennifer Clasen/FOX

Stars: David Boreanaz, Emily Deschanel, Michaela Conlin, TJ Thyne, Tamara Taylor, John Boyd, Eugene Byrd, Gil Darnell, Jay Thomas, Kevin Fonteyne, Zak Henri, Dustin Ingram, Andrea Bordeaux Writer: Joe Hortua, series created by Hart Hanson, based on the life and writings of Kathy Reichs Director: Jeannot Szwarc Network: Fox Network, Thursdays @ 8 PM Airdate: November 12, 2015 Sometimes a show late in its run hits things a little too hard, and so it is with the BONES Season 11 episode “The Promise in the Palace.” The A story concerns the death of a young woman who turns out to […]Read On »


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THE AFFAIR: Executive Producers Sarah Treem and Jeffrey Reiner on Season 2 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
Maura Tierney as Helen, Dominic West as Noah, Ruth Wilson as Alison and Joshua Jackson as Cole in THE AFFAIR - Season 1 | ©2015 Showtime/Steven Lippman

In Showtime’s THE AFFAIR, now in its second season Sundays at 10 PM and renewed for a third, we see the story unfold from multiple points of view. In the first year of the show, created by Hagai Levi and Sarah Treem, we see what happens unfold from the perspectives of Noah, a married-with-children novelist played by Dominic Wilson, and Ruth Wilson’s character Alison, a Montauk waitress whose young son died in an accident. In Season 2, we also see events through the eyes of Noah’s wife Helen, played by Maura Tierney, and Alison’s husband Cole, portrayed by Joshua Jackson. […]Read On »


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