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THE PITT: Creator R. Scott Gemmill, director John Wells and star-writer-director Noah Wyle on Season 2 – Interview

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Created by R. Scott Gemmill, with Gemmill, director John Wells and star Noah Wyle among its executive producers, THE PITT is a drama following the moment-to-moment activities in an underfunded Pittsburgh emergency room. Events unfold in real time over a fifteen-hour shift. The trio worked together on NBC’s long-running ER, where Wyle was one of the stars (as Dr. John Carter) for the series’ fifteen-season run, Wells was the showrunner and a writer/director, and Gemmill was on the writing staff. THE PITT’s first season premiered on HBO Max in 2025 to instant acclaim and proceeded to win five Emmys: Outstanding […]Read On »


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ST. DENIS MEDICAL: Actors Kaliko Kauahi and Kahyun Kim on Season 2 of the comedy series – Exclusive Interview

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Created by Eric Ledgin & Justin Spitzer, ST. DENIS MEDICAL is a half-hour mockumentary comedy series, which is on NBC Monday nights with the second half of its second season, January 9, with episodes streaming on Peacock. Set at at an underfunded Oregon hospital, ST. DENIS MEDICAL has a staff who confides in the documentary crew following them around, a la THE OFFICE. Kaliko Kauahi (pronounced Ko-ah-hee) plays veteran nursing administrator Val and Kahyun Kim plays travel nurse Serena. Kauahi, originally from Hawai’i, was a series regular on SUPERSTORE and had guest roles as medical professionals on UNEXPECTED, TALES FROM […]Read On »


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BOOKISH: Creator and actor Mark Gatiss on new PBS detective series – Interview

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The British period investigative procedural BOOKISH has its U.S. premiere on Sunday, January 11, on PBS. A second series is already in the making. BOOKISH creator Mark Gatiss stars as Gabriel Book, proprietor of an antiquarian bookshop in 1946 England. With his wide-ranging knowledge from all his establishment’s tomes, Book helps the police with their inquiries when murders occur. Book is also a gay man at a time when simply existing as such could lead to arrest and imprisonment, so he is married for the sake of appearance to his childhood best friend Trottie (Polly Walker). Gatiss is famed for […]Read On »


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TEN BEST MOVIES OF 2025 according to Assignment X

SINNERS movie poster | ©2025 Warner Bros.

THE TEN BEST MOVIES OF 2025   SINNERS – It starts out by telling us that some music is so extraordinary that it is magical, transcending space and time, and damn if this 1930s-era story of twin brothers, their juke joint, local racism and vampires doesn’t make us believe. Featuring an outstanding performance by Michael B. Jordan in a dual role and a star-making turn by young Michael Caton as the young bluesman whose tunes draw in the living and the undead. HAMNET – This adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel about William Shakespeare’s creation of HAMLET is an exploration of […]Read On »


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THE ARTIST: Creator-writer-director Aram Rappaport and actor Patti LuPone on the fictional historical mini-series – Exclusive Interview

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Aram Rappaport is the creator, writer and director of the new miniseries THE ARTIST, available for free on thenetwork.stream, a platform that Rappaport founded. Rappaport previously wrote and directed the films INNOCENT, SUMMER SONG, SYRUP, and THE CRASH, and was a writer and director on the miniseries THE GREEN VEIL. Set in the first decade of the twentieth century, Rappaport’s THE ARTIST combines historical figures and fictional characters. Among the latter is robber baron Norman Henry (Mandy Patinkin), who at the outset is murdered at a party in his upstate New York mansion. In flashbacks, we see that Norman has […]Read On »


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RESIDENT ALIEN: Actress Alice Wetterlund on the fourth and final season – Exclusive Interview

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RESIDENT ALIEN wrapped its four-season journey on USA and Syfy Channel cable earlier this year. The entire series is now available for streaming on Peacock, with Seasons 1-3 available on NBC Now, Netflix, Telemundo and other services. In RESIDENT ALIEN, Alice Wetterlund plays D’Arcy Bloom, a local in the small mountain town of Patience, Colorado. D’Arcy is a former champion skier derailed by an accident. She is best friends with fellow Patience dweller Asta (Sara Tomko) and frenemies with the title character, an extraterrestrial who has taken on the form of town doctor Harry Vanderspiegle, played by Alan Tudyk, who […]Read On »


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Movie Review: WE BURY THE DEAD

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Rating: R Stars: Daisy Ridley, Brenton Thwaites, Mark Coles Riley, Matt Whelan, Chloe Hurst, Kym Jackson Writer: Zak Hilditch Director: Zak Hilditch Distributor: Vertical Release Date: January 2, 2026 Technically, WE BURY THE DEAD is a zombie movie. That is, it has decomposed corpses that come back to life and sometimes make alarming movements. However, at the risk of being spoilerish but to make sure audience members know what they will and won’t be getting, it should be said WE BURY THE DEAD is not a zombie movie in the conventional sense, as it doesn’t much depict trying to survive […]Read On »


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Movie Review: ANACONDA

ANACONDA movie poster | ©2025 Sony Pictures

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Paul Rudd, Jack Black, Steve Zahn, Thandiwe Newton, Daniela Melchior, Selton Mello, John Billingsley Writers: Tom Gormican & Kevin Etten, based on ANACONDA written by Hans Bauer and Jim Cash & Jack Epps Jr. Director: Tom Gormican Distributor: Sony/Columbia Release Date: December 25, 2025 The reason so many people love bad horror movies is that, when those movies are terrible enough, they can be wondrously hilarious. The problem is, of course, that it’s very hard to parody something that’s already essentially funny. Gilding the lily can kill the plant, as it were. The new ANACONDA takes place […]Read On »


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Movie Review: IS THIS THING ON?

IS THIS THING ON | ©2025 Searchlight Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Will Arnett, Laura Dern, Andra Day, Bradley Cooper, Sean Hayes, Scott Icenogle, Ciarán Hinds, Christine Ebersole, Blake Kane, Calvin Knegten Writers: Bradley Cooper and Will Arnett & Mark Chappell, story by Will Arnett & Mark Chappell & John Bishop Director: Bradley Cooper Distributor: Searchlight Pictures Release Date: December 19, 2025 After directing and starring in two big musical dramas, 2018’s pop-rocker A STAR IS BORN and 2023’s Leonard Bernstein biopic MAESTRO, Bradley Cooper has taken on a smaller-scale, more dialogue-driven project with IS THIS THING ON? IS THIS THING ON? still revolves around performance, but this time, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: MANOR OF DARKNESS

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Rating: Not Rated Stars: Kim Spearman, Louis James, Sarah Alexandra Marks, Rui Shang, Stuart Wolfe-Murray, Stacey O’Shea, Glenn Salvage, Sorcha Verey Writer: Blake Ridder Director: Blake Ridder Distributor: Ridder Films Release Date: December 9, 2025 (digital, VOD) MANOR OF DARKNESS begins promisingly, with David Engellau’s HALLOWEEN-esque score accompanying us over a cursed-looking forest landscape, culminating in the isolated title estate. Lucas (Stuart Wolfe-Murray) is painting something in the basement. He looks up, reacts in horror, and something oozes through the door lock. We then cut to Laura (Kim Spearman) and her bedridden mother (Stacey O’Shea), who needs surgery. Laura’s job […]Read On »


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