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Movie Review: #HORROR

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 11/20/2015
#HORROR movie poster | ©2015 IFC Midnight

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Chloe Sevigny, Timothy Hutton, Natasha Lyonne, Balthasar Getty, Taryn Manning, Stella Schnabel, Sadie Seelert, Haley Murphy, Bridget McGarry, Blue Lindberg, Mina Sundwall, Emma Adler, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Lydia Hearst Writer: Tara Subkoff Director: Tara Subkoff Distributor: IFC Midnight Release Date (theatrical & VOD): November 20, 2015 #HORROR is rightly likely to cause a stir, partly because its protagonists are twelve-year-old girls and partly because writer/director Tara Subkoff has an ear for what girls of that age sound like, especially when they’re being mean. Subkoff also displays visual style to burn, setting her story in a uniquely-structured house […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SECRET IN THEIR EYES

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
SECRET IN THEIR EYES movie poster | ©2015 STX Entertainment

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts, Dean Norris, Alfred Molina, Joe Cole, Michael Kelly, Zoe Graham Writer: Billy Ray, based on the screenplay for EL SECRETO DEL SUS OJOS by Juan Jose Campanella & Eduardo Sacheri Director: Billy Ray Distributor: STX Entertainment Release Date: November 20, 2015 The 2009 Argentinean film EL SECRETO DEL SUS OJOS was well-reviewed and well-respected. Now an English-language adaptation by director/screenwriter Billy Ray, SECRET IN THEIR EYES, is here, and something seems to have been lost in translation. A lot of key plot points are the same, but whether it’s due to […]Read On »


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Movie Review: LEGEND

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
LEGEND movie poster | ©2015 Universal Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, David Thewlis, Christopher Eccleston, Chazz Palmintieri Writer: Brian Helgeland, based on the book THE PROFESSION OF VIOLENCE by John Pearson Director: Brian Helgeland Distributor: Universal Release Date (theatrical): November 20, 2015 As biographical gangster films go, LEGEND is good enough. This isn’t the first feature to tackle London’s notorious Kray brothers – actual brothers Gary Kemp and Martin Kemp starred in 1990’s THE KRAYS, which had a fairly different take on Ronnie and Reggie, twins from London’s East End who ruled the crime scene there in the 1960s. LEGEND, adapted by writer/director Brian […]Read On »


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THE ART OF MORE: Kate Bosworth and Cary Elwes talk new Crackle series – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 11/19/2015
Cary Elwes in THE ART OF MORE | ©2015 Crackle

The Crackle streaming service debuts its first one-hour drama THE ART OF MORE today, making the entire ten-hour first season available for those inclined to binge-watch. Created by Chuck Rose, MORE is a thriller set in the high-end art world, where ex-soldier and smuggler Graham Connor (Christian Cooke) maneuvers his way in as an obtainer of rare objects for wealthy collector Arthur Davenport, played by Cary Elwes. Roxanna Whitman, played by Kate Bosworth, is Graham’s opposite number, a wealthy young woman who works for real estate tycoon Samuel Brukner (Dennis Quaid, who is also one of the series’ executive producers). […]Read On »


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THE PLAYER: Wesley Snipes gets some TV action – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
Wesley Snipes in THE PLAYER | ©2015 NBC/Jeff Riedel

Wesley Snipes has long been acclaimed as a big-screen actor in the realms of drama (THE WATERDANCE, JUNGLE FEVER, BROOKLYN’S FINEST), comedy (TO WONG FOO THANKS FOR EVERYTHING, JULIE NEWMAR, WHITE MEN CAN’T JUMP) and action (the BLADE trilogy, PASSENGER 57). However, Snipes hasn’t been a series regular on television since 1990’s H.E.L.P. Now Snipes is back as star and producer on NBC’s THE PLAYER, Thursdays at 10 PM. The Florida-born actor plays the enigmatic Mr. Johnson, who oversees a Vegas-centered gambling competition in which a player – the current one is Alex Kane, played by Philip Winchester – is […]Read On »


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TV Review: DANCING WITH THE STARS – Season 21 – Week 10 – Semi-Finals – Tamar Braxton exits due to illness

By PAMELA HARLAND | 11/17/2015
Tamar Braxton and Valentin Chmerkovskiy in DANCING WITH THE STARS - Season 21 | © 2015 ABC/Craig Sjodin

Stars: Carlos PenaVega, Nick Carter, Bindi Irwin, Alek Skarlatos, Network: ABC, airs Mondays Original Telecast: Nov. 16th, 2015 DANCING WITH THE STARS: The Semi Finals was a show-stopping, spectacular event as the last four couples danced their aching feet off in a last-ditch effort to grab the mirror ball trophy. In the end, no one was sent packing because Tamar Braxton, along with Val Chmerkovskiy,  had to withdraw from the competition due to illness.  The remaining four couples had three dances to perform tonight: An original dance, a trio dance and a dance off. The dance off saw Bindi Irwin […]Read On »


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FARGO: Bokeem Woodbine on Season 2 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
Brad Mann and Bokeem Woodbine in FARGO - Season 2 - "The Gift of the Magi" | ©2015 FX/Chris Large

In Season 2 of FX’s FARGO, Mondays at 10 PM, a small-town diner massacre in 1979 is compounded by the accidental hit-and-run killing of a dim-bulb son of a local mob family, who are at odds with a bigger mob from Kansas City. Bokeem Woodbine (CROOKLYN, PANTHER, THE ROCK, SAVING GRACE, RIDDICK) plays Kansas City enforcer Mike Milligan, who works with Brad Garrett’s Joe Bulo in trying to muscle in on the Gerhardt clan. Woodbine, a native New Yorker, sounds ecstatic about his current gig. “Mike Milligan is a gift from the actor gods. Any actor could have stepped into […]Read On »


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HEROES REBORN: Robbie Kay on being super powered – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 11/15/2015
Robbie Kay in HEROES REBORN - Season 1 | © 2015 NBC/Christos Kalohoridis

In NBC’s HEROES REBORN, Thursdays at 8 PM, Robbie Kay plays Tommy Clark, a teen who discovers that he can make objects – and people – vanish by touching them. This comes at a time when the world at large has turned against people with extraordinary abilities, but Tommy finds he has some unexpected allies. Kay, who hails from Hampshire, England, previously played a malevolent version of Peter Pan on ONCE UPON A TIME (according to IMDB, he’ll return to that role in 2016), the title role in 2008’s PINOCCHIO telefilm and a cabin boy in PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: […]Read On »


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ICE SCULPTURE CHRISTMAS: David Alpay discuss the Hallmark telefilm – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 11/13/2015
Rachel Boston and David Alpay star in ICE SCULPTURE CHRISTMAS | © 2015 Marcel Williams/Hallmark

In Hallmark Channel’s new telefilm ICE SCULPTURE CHRISTMAS, which has its next airing Saturday, November 14 at noon, David Alpay stars as David Manning. David finds true love where he least expects it when he comes to the aid of his childhood friend Callie, played by Rachel Boston. Toronto native Alpay has had series regular roles on SLINGS AND ARROWS, THE BORGIAS and THE LOTTERY. He is also proud of another TV credit. DAVID ALPAY: I was on Season 4 of THE VAMPIRE DIARIES. I played Professor Shane. AX: Your character was scheming with Silas, who was the doppelganger of […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE 33

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
THE 33 | © 2015 Warner Bros.

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Antonio Banderas, Rodrigo Santoro, Juliette Binoche, Lou Diamond Phillips, Bob Gunton, Gabriel Byrne, James Brolin Writers: Mikko Alanne and Craig Borten and Michael Thomas, based on the screen story by Jose Rivera and the book DEEP DOWN DARK by Hector Tobar Director: Patricia Riggen Distributor: Warner Bros. Release Date (theatrical): November 13, 2015 This whole review may or may not need a spoiler alert, depending on what draws people to the theatre in the first place. THE 33 dramatizes an incident that received worldwide coverage for months in 2010. It is one of those stories that, if […]Read On »


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