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HOLIDAZED: Actress Virginia Madsen on new limited dramedy series- Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 01/10/2025
Virginia Madsen in HOLIDAZED | ©2024 Hallmark Media

In HOLIDAZED, the eight-episode miniseries now streaming in its entirety on the Hallmark+ Channel, Virginia Madsen plays Connie Manetti-Hanahan. Connie’s husband Chuck (John C. McGinley) has, for Christmases beyond counting, turned the holiday decorating on their cul-de-sac from friendly competition into suburban warfare. This year, Connie has had enough, and presents Chuck with a contract of behavior she wants and expects from him. In real life, the Chicago-born Madsen says she can’t get enough of Christmas, or her HOLIDAZED costars. Madsen and McGinley had actually worked together before, in 1991’s HIGHLANDER II: THE QUICKENING. Madsen was nominated for a Supporting […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE LAST SHOWGIRL

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
THE LAST SHOWGIRL movie poster | ©2024 Roadside Attractions

Rating: R Stars: Pamela Anderson, Kiernan Shipka, Brenda Song, Billie Lourd, Dave Bautista, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jason Schwartzman Writer: Kate Gersten Director: Gia Coppola Distributor: Roadside Attractions Release Date: December 13, 2024 (limited theatrical), January 10, 2025 (wide theatrical) THE LAST SHOWGIRL manages to be both realistically perceptive and a bit dreamy. Directed with authority by Gia Coppola from Kate Gersten’s thoughtful script, THE LAST SHOWGIRL focuses on Shelly (Pamela Anderson), who has spent the last thirty years as a performer in “Razzle Dazzle,” an unironic old-fashioned Las Vegas revue. Shelly is not the introspective type. She genuinely loves her […]Read On »


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Movie Review: GET AWAY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
GET AWAY movie poster | ©2025 IFC

Rating: R Stars: Nick Frost, Aisling Bea, Sebastian Croft, Maisie Ayres, Ville Vertanen, Eero Milonoff, Anitta Suikkari, Jouko Ahola, Verneri Lilja, Ilkka Koivula Writer: Nick Frost Director: Steffen Haars Distributor: IFC Films Release Date: December 6, 2024 (theatrical); January 10, 2024 (Shudder) It’s easy to see how GET AWAY is supposed to work. It starts out as a parody of THE WICKER MAN/MIDSOMMAR type of folk horror, with a big twist at the two-thirds mark. It looks great, has the pedigree of SHAUN OF THE DEAD costar/PAUL cowriter/costar Nick Frost as star and writer, and plenty of mileage in its […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE PROSECUTOR (NG POON)

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
THE PROSECUTOR (NG POON) movie poster | ©2025 Well Go USA Entertainment

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Donnie Yen, Julian Cheung Chi Lam, Michael Hui, Francis Ng Chun Yu, Shirley Chan, Cheung Tin Fu, Sisley Choi, Mandy Wong, Justin Cheung Kin Sing, Liza Wang, Cheng Jut Si, Lau Kong, Yu Kang, Adam Pak, Lui Leung Wai, Mark Cheng, Ho Yeung Fung Writer: Edmond Wong Director: Donnie Yen Distributor: Well Go USA Entertainment Release Date: January 10, 2025 THE PROSECUTOR (NG POON) opens with the words “based on true events.” It’s perfectly plausible that an officer went from the Rapid Action Unit – Hong Kong’s equivalent of the S.W.A.T. team – to become a […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE MAN IN THE WHITE VAN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 01/03/2025
THE MAN IN THE WHITE VAN movie poster | ©2025 Relativity

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Madison Wolfe, Brec Bassinger, Ali Larter, Sean Astin, Skai Jackson, Gavin Warren, Addison Riecke, Noah Lomax, Darrius Thomas, Deborah Ann Woll Writers: Warren Skeels & Sharon Y. Cobb Director: Warren Skeels Distributor: Relativity Media Release Date: December 13, 2024 Because it is seen primarily from the viewpoint of high school student Annie (Madison Wolfe), and because of some narrative conventions, THE MAN IN THE WHITE VAN has a YA flavor to it. Still, director Warren Skeels and his co-writer Sharon Y. Cobb deliver a relatively suspenseful thriller. An onscreen title at the start tells us that THE […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE DAMNED

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
THE DAMNED movie poster | ©2025 Vertical Entertainment

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Odessa Young, Joe Cole, Siobhan Finneran, Rory McCann, Turlough Convery, Lewis Gribben, Francis Magee, Mícheál Óg Lane Writer: Jamie Hannigan, story by Thordur Palsson Director: Thordur Palsson Distributor: Vertical Entertainment Release Date: January 3, 2025 THE DAMNED is period Scandinavian folk horror that succeeds in being eerie and suspenseful throughout, right up until its “Wait, what?” last scene. We are at a remote fishing station in nineteenth-century Iceland (THE DAMNED was shot in Iceland and Ireland). Eva (Odessa Young) talks about the hardship here, although Magnus, her late husband, said this was a place of opportunity. […]Read On »


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Movie Review: NOSFERATU

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 12/25/2024
NOSFERATU movie poster | ©2024 Focus Features

Rating: R Stars: Bill Skarsgård, Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Willem Dafoe, Simon McBurney Writer: Robert Eggers, based on the screenplay for NOSFERATU by Henrik Galeen and the novel DRACULA by Bram Stoker Director: Robert Eggers Distributor: Focus Features Release Date: December 25, 2024 “Nosferatu” is another word for “vampire.” It is also the title of the still-influential 1922 silent German horror film, directed by F.W. Murnau and scripted by Henrik Galeen, based on Bram Stoker’s novel DRACULA. Werner Herzog directed a 1979 adaptation, NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE, and last year, there was another version, […]Read On »


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MATLOCK: Actress Skye P. Marshall gives the scoop on the new CBS reboot series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 12/15/2024
Skye P. Marshall a in MATLOCK - Season 1 - "No, No Monsters" | ©2024 CBS / Sonja-Flemming

CBS’s freshman legal dramedy MATLOCK, adapted very loosely from the 1986-1995 series by showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman, airs Thursday nights and then streams on Paramount Plus. Kathy Bates plays the title character, elderly lawyer Maddie Matlock, who has just wrangled a job as a legal assistant at prestigious New York law firm Jacobson & Moore. Except, as audiences found out at the end of the series premiere, Maddie Matlock is really Madeline Kingston, a wealthy lawyer who has really wrangled her way into Jacobson & Moore (and taken on a fake identity) to find out which one of its top […]Read On »


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HOLIDAZED: Actor Dennis Haysbert gets into the spirit with new Hallmark series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 12/10/2024
Dennis Haysbert at TCA Summer 2024 Press Tour promoting HOLIDAZED | ©2024 Television Critics Association

HOLIDAZED, created by Claudia Grazioso, is a new limited series on the Hallmark+ streaming channel that follows six families on the same cul-de-sac in suburban Oregon as they all prepare for the December festivities in different ways. New episodes premiere Tuesday nights. Dennis Haysbert stars as Robert Lewin, who is returning after several years’ absence to spend Christmas with his ex-wife Linda (Loretta Devine) and their family. Linda has invited her current boyfriend for the occasion. Haysbert famously played U.S. President David Palmer in the first several seasons of 24. Later, he played God on LUCIFER. In between, Haysbert, a […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE ORDER

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 12/06/2024
THE ORDER movie poster | ©2024 Vertical Entertainment

Rating: R Stars: Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Jurnee Smollett, Tye Sheridan, Marc Maron, Alison Oliver Writer: Zach Baylin, based on the book THE SILENT BROTHERHOOD by Kevin Flynn & Gary Gerhardt Director: Justin Kurzel Distributor: Vertical Entertainment Release Date: December 6, 2024 THE ORDER begins by informing us that it is “based on true events.” Indeed, these events have been written about at length, and dramatized several times before. This film is specifically based on the book THE SILENT BROTHERHOOD by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt. A splinter group of the Aryan Nations, the Order was a white supremacist gang […]Read On »


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