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HIGH POTENTIAL: Executive producer and showrunner Todd Harthan on Season 1 – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 01/18/2025
HIGH POTENTIAL Key Art - Season 1 | ©2025 ABC

On the freshman series HIGH POTENTIAL, Tuesdays on ABC and thereafter streaming on Hulu, Kaitlin Olson stars as Morgan Gillory. Morgan, a single mother of three, goes from LAPD cleaning woman to police consultant when the detectives realize that her remarkably high IQ and skills at noticing details are helpful in solving cases. Besides wanting to provide for her children, and her compulsion to put things in order, Morgan hopes that her new job can help her find her husband, who has been missing for years. HIGH POTENTIAL is based on the French TV series HPI – HAUTE POTENTIEL INTELLECTUEL, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: WOLF MAN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 01/17/2025
WOLF MAN movie poster | ©2025 Universal Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Christopher Abbott, Julia Garner, Matilda Firth, Sam Jaeger, Zac Chandler Writers: Leigh Whannell & Corbett Tuck Director: Leigh Whannell Distributor: Universal Pictures Release Date: January 17, 2025 With their reluctant monster protagonists, werewolf stories are an obvious source of emotion and metaphor, as well as straight-out horror. Director Leigh Whannell and his co-writer, the late Corbett Tuck (the film is dedicated to his memory), attempt to bring enormous heart and introspection to their take on lycanthropy in WOLF MAN. We can see how their approach is meant to work, and our awareness of the tactics involved may […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO (LE COMTE DE MONTE-CRISTO)

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 01/11/2025
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO (LE COMTE DE MONTE-CRISTO) movie poster | ©2025 Samuel Goldwyn Films/Pathe

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Pierre Niney, Bastien Bouillon, Anaïs Demoustier, Anamaria Vartolomei, Laurent Lafitte, Pierfrancesco Favino, Patrick Mille, Vassili Schneider, Julien De Saint Jean, Adèle Simphal, Bruno Raffaeli Writers: Matthieu Delaporte & Alexandre de la Patellière, based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas Directors: Matthieu Delaporte & Alexandre de la Patellière Distributor: Samuel Goldwyn Films/Pathe Release Date: December 20, 2024 (limited), January 3, 2025 (wide) The new French-language film adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’s 1844 adventure novel THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO (LE COMTE DE MONTE-CRISTO) is both visually sumptuous and dramatically engaging. Directed and scripted by Matthieu Delaporte & Alexandre […]Read On »


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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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