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PAN’S LABYRINTH: Actor Doug Jones on the the legacy of Guillermo del Toro’s influential fantasy film – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/08/2026
PAN'S LABYRINTH movie poster | ©2026 Cineverse

For its twentieth anniversary, filmmaker Guillermo del Toro’s dark World War II fantasy PAN’S LABYRINTH (EL LABERTINO DE FAUNO) is getting a theatrical re-release release as GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PAN’S LABYRINTH 20TH ANNIVERSARY.. Among its many honors, the movie won Academy Awards for del Toro’s original screenplay, Guillermo Navarro’s cinematography and Eugenio Caballero and Pilar Revuelta’s art direction, and received Oscar nominations for Javier Navarette’s score and David Martí and Montse Ribé’s makeup design. In Spain in 1944, ten-year-old Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) has a mother (Ariadna Gil) who is pregnant and ailing, and a new stepfather, Captain Vidal (Sergi López), […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE GIRL IN THE RIVER

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/05/2026
THE GIRL IN THE RIVER movie poster | ©2026 Samuel Goldwyn Films

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Maggie Grace, Devon Sawa, Tiffany Haddish, Ralph Macchio, Andrew Stevens, Angelena Swords, David Moncrief, Darron Dunbar, Lucy Blair Writer: Brando Benetton Director: Brando Benetton Distributor: Samuel Goldwyn Films Release Date: September 4, 2026 THE GIRL IN THE RIVER is a mostly decently-executed procedural. In its structure, it could be mistaken for a long episode of a serious-minded TV crime-solving series, assuming the show has two leads who don’t like or trust each other very much. Newly-minted Mississippi Department of Investigations (a fictional government branch that resembles the FBI) agent Amelia Pembrock (Maggie Grace) isn’t sure she’s […]Read On »


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SHARK WEEK: WHAT SHARK ATTACKED?: Shark experts Tom “the Blowfish” Hird & Kinga Philipps on new Discovery documentary – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/29/2026
SHARK WEEK: WHAT SHARK ATTACKED | ©2026 Discovery Channel

SHARK WEEK’s documentary WHAT SHARK ATTACKED? premieres on Discovery Channel and its streaming outlets on Wednesday, July 29. It follows shark researchers Tom “the Blowfish” Hird, Rosie Moore, and Kinga Philipps as they examine evidence from unfortunate human/shark interactions and try to determine which species of shark was involved. Philipps and Hird get on Zoom for a joint call from separate locations to discuss WHAT SHARK ATTACKED? Hird shares his office with a terrarium containing crested gecko lizard Ghibli, named after the famed Japanese animation studio. Hird describes himself as not only a big fan of Studio Ghibli’s output, but […]Read On »


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SHARK WEEK: ULTIMATE SHARK DIVE: Professional cliff diver Molly Carlson talks about cage diving – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
SHARK WEEK: ULTIMATE SHARK DIVE | ©2026 Discovery Channel

SHARK WEEK’s ULTIMATE SHARK DIVE premieres on Discovery Channel and its streaming platforms on Thursday, July 30. The documentary pairs professional cliff diver Molly Carlson with shark expert Paul de Gelder for a segment set in the Bahamas. Here, Carlson performs the highest freefall dive in SHARK WEEK history, leaping from a helicopter fifty feet down into a Plexiglas cage situated in a reef populated by multiple types of sharks. Carlson gets on Zoom to discuss her adventure. She is wearing a Red Bull baseball cap for the occasion, in honor of her frequent work with the energy drink brand, […]Read On »


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SHARK WEEK: BIGGEST MAKO ON EARTH: Shark expert Kendyl Berna on the fastest swimming sharks – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/26/2026
SHARK WEEK : BIGGEST MAKO ON EARTH | ©2026 Discovery Channel

In Discovery Channel’s SHARK WEEK, which this year runs on the network Sunday July 26 through Saturday August 1, the documentary BIGGEST MAKO ON EARTH premieres Monday, July 27. Makos are believed to be the fastest-swimming shark species; they can also attain great size. Shark expert Kendyl Berna (pronounced Burr-NAY), veteran shark tagger Keith Poe, and marine biologists Dr. Tristan Guttridge and Clara Calatayud search the waters off the coasts of Southern California and Mexico for some truly enormous animals. Berna, a Southern California native, is a marine biologist and documentarian. She founded the marine conservation organization Beyond the Reef, […]Read On »


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SHARK WEEK: Shark expert Paul de Gelder on INVASION OF THE MEGA SHARKS and BULL SHARK DINNER BELL – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/25/2026
SHARK WEEK: BULL SHARK DINNER BELL | ©2026 Discovery Channel

It is once again time for Discovery Channel’s SHARK WEEK, which this year runs from Sunday, July 26 through Saturday, August 1, with twenty new programs premiering on the network and thereafter available on Discovery’s streaming platforms. Discovery Channel was so generous in providing interviews – four in all, with five individuals –  that it’s effectively Shark Week here at Assignment X as well. Shark expert Paul de Gelder participates in three of this year’s SHARK WEEK documentaries: INVASION OF THE MEGA SHARKS, premiering Sunday, July 26, BULL SHARK DINNER BELL, premiering Monday, July 27, and ULTIMATE SHARK DIVE, premiering […]Read On »


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THE VAMPIRE LESTAT: Showrunner Rolin Jones, actors Sam Reid, Jacob Anderson, Zaman Assad, Eric Bogosian talk about the rock and roll vamp – Article

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/16/2026
THE VAMPIRE LESTAT - Season 1 Key Art | ©2026 AMC

  THE VAMPIRE LESTAT, currently debuting new episodes on AMC Sunday nights and thereafter available on AMC+, is actually Season 3 of the network’s INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, which premiered in 2022. Adapted by executive producer/showrunner Rolin Jones from the late author Anne Rice’s line of VAMPIRE CHRONICLES novels, the first published in 1976, the initial two seasons of INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE were largely told from the point of view of vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac, played by Jacob Anderson. In the TV version (brought forward in time so that the present day is our present, rather than […]Read On »


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GANGLAND: Actor and executive producer Lou Diamond Phillips on new crime film – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/10/2026
GANGLAND movie poster | ©2026 Saban Films

The character of Teddy Sharpe in the new feature drama GANGLAND, opening in theatres and on digital July 10, is not Lou Diamond Phillips’s first go-round playing law enforcement on a reservation. Phillips spent six seasons, 2012-2017, on LONGMIRE as Henry Standing Bear, tribal liaison for the sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming. However, unlike Henry, Teddy is not indigenous. Although he has spent most of his life here, and his wife is a member of the tribe, he is viewed as an outsider on the Thunderstone reservation. As Teddy’s new deputy, fellow outsider Sandra Scala (Dana Namerode), learns, something in […]Read On »


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HAMMERHEAD SHARKS UP CLOSE WITH BERTIE GREGORY: Dr. Katy Ayres and cinematographer Jeff Hester on new special – SHARKFEST Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/05/2026
SHARKFEST: HAMMERHEAD SHARKS UP CLOSE WITH BERTIE GREGORY | ©2026 National Geographic

SHARKFEST, the annual celebration of those aquatic marvels of evolution who remain largely unchanged from their ancestors 20 million years ago, launches its fourteenth season on National Geographic Channel, Hulu and Disney+ on Sunday, July 5. This year’s two-week-long SHARKFEST launches with HAMMERHEAD SHARKS UP CLOSE WITH BERTIE GREGORY. The documentary from the award-winning Gregory examines not only the big sharks famous for their cephalofoil (t-shape or “hammer”) heads, but also protection for the environment that the animals need in order to survive and thrive. HAMMERHEAD SHARKS UP CLOSE was shot in and around the waters of Cabo Pulmo National Park […]Read On »


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CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION: Actor and director Adam Rodriguez on the latest season – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
Adam Rodriguez as Luke Alvez in Season 19 epsiode "Cluster" of CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION | ©2026 CBS/Justin Lubin

Adam Rodriguez joined CRIMINAL MINDS on CBS in its twelfth season in 2016 as FBI Supervisory Special Agent Luke Alvez with the Behavioral Analysis Unit. Actor and character remained through 2020’s Season 15, when CBS canceled the series. When Paramount+ revived it as CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION for a sixteenth season on streaming in 2022, Rodriguez immediately returned, along with the majority of the regular cast. The show is now in the midst of Season 19, with new episodes streaming on Thursdays. Like Luke, Rodriguez is from New York. He’s had previous experience in a law enforcement procedural over ten seasons […]Read On »


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