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

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/25/2023
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

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/24/2023
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

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/17/2023
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

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
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

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
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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A SPY AMONG FRIENDS: Actress Anna Maxwell Martin on fact-based espionage series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/10/2023
Anna Maxwell Martin in A SPY AMONG FRIENDS | ©2023 MGM+

A SPY AMONG FRIENDS, the six-part British miniseries premiering Sunday, March 12, on MGM+ (formerly Epix), is based Ben Macintyre’s nonfiction book A SPY AMONG FRIENDS: KIM PHILBY AND THE GREAT BETRAYAL. Harold Adrian Russell “Kim” Philby, as real-life espionage buffs know, was a high-ranking officer in British Intelligence’s MI-6 division (their equivalent of the CIA) during and after World War II. In 1963, it was revealed that Philby was spying for the Russians, causing him to flee to Moscow. Philby’s friend and fellow MI-6 agent Nicholas Elliott was sent to get a full confession while they were both in […]Read On »


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THE CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON: Creator Sara Collins on new Britbox miniseries – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
THE CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON Key Art | ©2023 Britbox

THE CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON is a four-part British miniseries, which premieres on BritBox on March 8. Based on the novel by Sara Collins, THE CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON stars Karla-Simone Spence as Frannie, a young, educated Black Jamaican woman who is brought to England in the 1820s. Technically free, Frannie’s gender and race both make it next to impossible for her to refuse employment as a maid in the London household of wealthy George Benham (Stephen Campbell Moore). Then Frannie falls in love with George’s wife Marguerite (Sophie Cookson). Marguerite reciprocates Frannie’s feelings, though their romance is necessarily cloaked […]Read On »


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CARNIVAL ROW: Actors Jamie Harris and Jay Ali on final season – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/01/2023
Jamie Harris as Dombey in CARNIVAL ROW - Season 2 | ©2023 Prime Video

In CARNIVAL ROW, now streaming its second and final season on Prime Video, faeries and humans share a world that resembles eighteenth-century Europe. Many have settled in the Burgue, where some of the Fae and some of the humans would like to coexist in peace. However, a lot of them hate each other. Jamie Harris plays virulently anti-Fae human police officer Sergeant Dombey, and Jay Ali plays the adamantly anti-human Fae freedom fighter/terrorist Kaine. Their personal animosity is particularly fierce, as Dombey killed Kaine’s wife. In reality, Ali and Harris are good friends, which comes across in their separate but […]Read On »


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CARNIVAL ROW: Actors Caroline Ford and Arty Froushan talk about the final season – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/24/2023
Arty Froushan (Jonah) and Caroline Ford (Sophie) in CARNIVAL ROW - Season 2 | ©2023 Prime Video

In CARNIVAL ROW, now in its second and final season on Prime Video, the Fae are rebelling against their human oppressors in the eighteenth-century-Europe-like Burgue. Chief human upholders of the anti-Fae policies are the ruling Chancellor, Jonah Breakspear, played by Arty Froushan, and the leader of the opposition party, Sophie Longerbane, played by Caroline Ford. What nobody except Jonah and Sophie know is that the two of them are in league together. Jonah is privately diffident and listens to Sophie, while Sophie seems to be playing all sides against the middle in her quest for ultimate power. British performer Ford […]Read On »


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FURIA: Actors Ine Marie Wilmann and Pal Sverre Hagen on new Norwegian thriller series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/22/2023
FURIA Key Art | ©2023 Viaplay

Norwegian actors Ine Marie Wilmann and Pål Sverre Hagen have worked together on so many films and TV series that, Hagen quips, “It’s like a national joke now.” Their shared credits include the films DIANA’S WEDDING (DIANAS BRYLLUP), SONJA: THE WHITE SWAN, and I TRAVEL ALONE, and the Norwegian television series EXIT and WAR SAILOR (they also both had guest roles on the same season of DAG, but not the same episode). Separately, Wilmann is one of the stars of the film TROLL (currently available on Netflix) and HOMESICK and the TV series DET TREDGE ØYET. Hagen’s other projects include […]Read On »


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