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PBS FRONTLINE: ANTIDOTE: Director – producer James Jones on new documentary – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/05/2025
Director and producer James Jones from PBS FRONTLINE: ANTIDOTE | ©2025 PBS

The title of the feature-length documentary ANTIDOTE, which premieres on PBS FRONTLINE on Tuesday, May 6, refers broadly to truth being the remedy for lies and tyranny. More specifically, the film chronicles the targeting by Vladimir Putin’s spies of Bulgarian journalist Christo Grozev, head of investigations with THE INSIDER and former lead Russia investigator for the international journalism collective Bellingcat. Bellingcat – its name refers to “belling the cat,” i.e., doing something dangerous in order to warn others – was founded by Eliot Higgins in 2014. The organization is dedicated to fact-checking and open-source intelligence. They are headquartered in Amsterdam, […]Read On »


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LAW & ORDER: Actor Mehcad Brooks on the twenty-fourth season – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/07/2025
Mehcad Brooks as Detective Jalen Shaw in LAW & ORDER - Season 24 - "A Price to Pay" | ©2025 NBC/Virginia Sherwood

Mehcad Brooks has played all sorts of characters in his acting career, from a bespelled small-town Louisiana man in TRUE BLOOD to mysterious cul-de-sac dweller Matthew Applewhite on DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES to a pro football player in the TV series version of NECESSARY ROUGHNESS to legendary D.C. Comics newspaperman in six seasons of SUPERGIRL to one of Earth’s greatest heroes in the 2021 feature MORTAL KOMBAT. For the past three seasons, Brooks, originally from Texas, has played NYPD homicide detective Jalen Shaw on NBC’s long-running procedural LAW & ORDER. The series is now in its twenty-fourth season Thursday nights and streaming […]Read On »


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FIRST WORD ON HORROR: Author Stephen Graham Jones on new documentary – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/25/2025
FIRST WORD IN HORROR key art | ©2025 Etch

FIRST WORD ON HORROR is a new Substack docuseries, broken up into five three-part episodes that premiere every other Friday. Directed by Philip Gelatt and produced by Will Battersby through Etch, their company with Morgan Galen King, FIRST WORD ON HORROR interviews and profiles five acclaimed contemporary horror writers – Stephen Graham Jones, Paul Tremblay, Elizabeth Hand, Laird Barron, and Mariana Enriquez – each of whom reads one of their short stories and discusses their inspirations, philosophies and techniques. The stories are visually realized onscreen under the authors’ narration. Jones, a multi-award-winning author, was born in Midland, Texas, and is […]Read On »


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THE SPACE RACE: Astronauts and the executive producer talk about the Hulu documentary – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/15/2025
THE SPACE RACE key art | ©2024 National Geographic

The award-winning documentary THE SPACE RACE was originally produced for National Geographic Channel and is now streaming on Hulu. Directed by Lisa Cortes & Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, the film chronicles the struggle to get Black men and women into NASA’s astronaut programs. It is as or more timely than when it was originally released in 24. Astronaut Leland Melvin, one of THE SPACE RACE’s executive producers, is also one of the film’s subjects. His autobiography CHASING SPACE: AN ASTRONAUT’S STORY OF GRIT, GRACE, AND SECOND CHANCES, was published in 2017. Victor Glover is still an active NASA astronaut who […]Read On »


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HOLIDAZED: Actor John C. McGinley on new Hallmark holiday series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/14/2024
John C. McGinley and Virginia Madsen in HOLIDAZED - Season 1 | ©2024 Hallmark Channel

HOLIDAZED, Hallmark’s new limited series about six different families, each preparing for Christmas on their cul-de-sac in Oak Bay, Oregon, premieres with a double episode on Thursday, November 14. John C. McGinley is part of the star-studded cast as Chuck Manetti-Hanahan. Chuck has always been competitive about his house’s holiday light display, and recent family issues have made him more determined than ever to outshine the neighbors. McGinley has been acting in television, film, and theatre for decades. Oliver Stone saw McGinley in an off-Broadway performance of DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA and cast him in PLATOON. McGinley has […]Read On »


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SMILE 2: Actor Peter Jacobson on costarring in the Parker Finn directed new sequel – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/26/2024
Actor PETER JACOBSON | ©2024 photographer Luke Fontana

In screenwriting lore, there is a character often referred to as “Morris the Explainer.” This is the person who shows up in the story to deliver the exposition that there’s just no other way of providing to either the other characters or the audience. In SMILE 2, which opened in theatres on Friday, October 18, that character is literally named Morris. Played by Peter Jacobson, he’s the one who relates the workings of a malevolent supernatural entity to troubled pop star Skye Riley (Naomi Scott). We first encountered the viral curse demon in 2022’s SMILE which, like SMILE 2, is […]Read On »


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Movie Review: VENOM: THE LAST DANCE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/25/2024
VENOM: THE LAST DANCE movie poster | ©2024 Sony/Columbia/Marvel

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Tom Hardy, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Juno Temple, Stephen Graham, Rhys Ifans, Alanna Ubach, Clark Backo, Cristo Fernández, Peggy Lu, Hala Finley, Dash McCloud Writer: Kelly Marcel, story by Kelly Marcel & Tom Hardy, based on the Marvel Comics by Todd McFarlane and David Michelinie Director: Kelly Marcel Distributor: Sony/Columbia/Marvel Release Date: October 25, 2024 Who is VENOM: THE LAST DANCE for? It’s certainly for fans of Tom Hardy, who is back as Eddie Brock and the voice of his alien symbiote Venom. It’s even more for those who enjoy watching all sorts of CGI monsters battle it out […]Read On »


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BRILLIANT MINDS: Creator and executive producer Michael Grassi – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/24/2024
BRILLIANT MINDS - Season 1 Key Art | ©2024 Peacock

In the new series BRILLIANT MINDS, premiering on NBC Monday, September 23, with episodes then available for streaming on Peacock, Zachary Quinto stars as cranky but gifted New York neurosurgeon Oliver Wolf. BRILLIANT MINDS creator/executive producer Michael Grassi explains that the show was originally entitled WOLF but, due to Quinto’s past genre work (HEROES, AMERICAN HORROR STORY, STAR TREK, NOS4A2), prospective viewers thought it might be a show about a werewolf. The name was briefly changed to DR. WOLF, but that just made people think “Werewolf doctor. That’s not us.” Grassi has a lot of genre credits himself, having been […]Read On »


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AMERICAN MASTERS: BLAKE EDWARDS: A LOVE STORY IN 24 FRAMES: The scoop on the new PBS documentary – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/27/2024
BLAKE EDWARDS - A LOVE STORY IN 24 FRAMES movie poster | ©2024 PBS

The feature documentary BLAKE EDWARDS: A LOVE STORY IN 24 FRAMES, premieres on PBS’s AMERICAN MASTERS on Tuesday, August 27. Directed by Danny Gold, the film explores the career and personal life of the celebrated filmmaker, who directed, produced, and/or wrote of co-wrote films spanning in genre from the 1962 drama DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES to the 1963 farce THE PINK PANTHER to the 1982 gender-bending musical VICTOR/VICTORIA. Edwards was born in 1922 and died in 2010. He was awarded an honorary Oscar in 2004 “in recognition of his extraordinary body of work,” and was Oscar-nominated for his VICTOR/VICTORIA […]Read On »


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DUCHESS: Actress-producer-writer Charlotte Kirk on new gangster action film – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/09/2024
DUCHESS movie poster | ©2024 Saban Films

In the modern crime action thriller DUCHESS, arriving on digital and VOD on Friday, August 9, the title character works her way up from London pickpocket to international diamond smuggler and mob boss. Charlotte Kirk and wrote DUCHESS with director and her producing partner Neil Marshall. This is their third film together, after 2020’s THE RECKONING and 2022’s THE LAIR. Kirk also stars in all three productions. In DUCHESS, we meet Kirk’s character, real name Scarlett, as she is about to enact vengeance upon a foe. We then flash back to what has brought Scarlett to this moment. She and […]Read On »


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