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Movie Review: MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 12/01/2013
MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM movie poster | ©2013 The Weinstein Company

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Idris Elba, Naomie Harris, Tony Kgoroge, Riaad Moosa, Jamie Bartlett, Lindiwe Matshikiza, Terry Pheto, Deon Lotz Writer: William Nicholson, based on the autobiography by Nelson Mandela Director: Justin Chadwick Distributor: The Weinstein Co. Release Date: November 29, 2013 Nelson Mandela, who spent twenty-seven years in prison and emerged to become the first president of post-apartheid South Africa, is a man who has earned not only respect but study. His story is epic, complex, full of turns and an illustration of what can be accomplished with the right combination of will, wit, charisma, conviction and patience. What Mandela’s […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Rupert Friend chats HOMELAND Season Three

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
Rupert Friend in HOMELAND - Season 3 | ©2013 Showtime/Frank Ockenfels 3

In the universe of HOMELAND, now in its third season on Showtime, Sundays at 9 PM, almost everyone has a secret agenda. We still don’t know whether this is true of CIA assassin Peter Quinn, played by Rupert Friend. What we do know is that Quinn is willing to go against orders when he believes they’re wrong, willing to threaten a superior who he believe is acting from pride rather than national protection, and that he’s willing to shoot to wound friend Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) when he thinks she’s jeopardizing a mission. Friend, born in Oxfordshire, England, earned an […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Three Questions with AN ADVENTURE IN SPACE AND TIME director Terry McDonough

By SEAN ELLIOTT | 11/29/2013
David Bradley in AN ADVENTURE IN SPACE AND TIME | ©2013 BBCAmerica

Director Terry McDonough is the lucky man who was given the somewhat unenviable task of bringing the world of 1960’s BBC and the world of the first incarnation of DOCTOR WHO to life for the new TV movie AN ADVENTURE IN SPACE AND TIME. McDonough is a WHO fan himself, and he took a few minutes to give ASSIGNMENT X a taste of what went into creating that time period and that specific world for today’s audiences. ASSIGNMENT X: Can you talk about the process you went through to re-create the TARDIS and the Daleks on a limited budget? TERRY […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: ALMOST HUMAN star Lili Taylor captains the new Fox sci-fi series

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
Lili Taylor in ALMOST HUMAN - Season 1 | ©2013 Fox/Kharen Hill

In the future according to ALMOST HUMAN, on Fox Mondays at 8 PM, every police officer will have an android partner. Detective John Kennex (Karl Urban) is different in that his new partner Dorian (Michael Ealy) is an android who has feelings. Presiding over their precinct is Captain Sandra Maldonado, played by Lili Taylor. This has been a busy year for the Illinois-born actress, who also played a possessed mother of five in the summer feature hit THE CONJURING and Gypsy matriarch Lynda Rumancek on the Netflix original series HEMLOCK GROVE. Taylor has been nominated for two Guest Actress Emmys […]Read On »


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Snack Food Review: PRINGLES CINNAMON & SUGAR LIMITED EDITION crisps

By CARL CORTEZ |
PRINGLES CINNAMON & SUGAR limited edition crisps | ©2013 Pringles

Manufacturer: Pringles Suggested Retail Price: $1.99 While PRINGLES remains one of the most addictive canned crisps around, the company is always reinventing the brand with new flavors and special limited edition flavors. Last year, they tested the waters with three different types of dessert crisps – PUMPKIN PIE SPICE, WHITE CHOCOLATE PEPPERMINT and CINNAMON & SUGAR. While we didn’t get a chance to sample these chips last year, we did check out the one mainstay from last year CINNAMON & SUGAR (which is joined this year by limited edition PECAN PIE and WHITE CHOCOLATE flavors). The result? An utter disaster. […]Read On »


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Movie Review: FROZEN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 11/28/2013
FROZEN movie poster | ©2013 Disney

Rating: PG Stars (voices): Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Santino Fontana, Josh Gad, Ciaran Hinds, Alan Tudyk Writer: Jennifer Lee, story by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee and Shane Morris, inspired by THE SNOW QUEEN by Hans Christian Andersen Music and Lyrics: Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez Directors: Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures Release Date: November 27, 2013 A consistently delightful animated feature, action-packed, beautiful to watch and studded with strong show tunes, FROZEN harks back to the Disney classics like THE LITTLE MERMAID and BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. FROZEN ventures further from its source […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Chloe Bennet hacks into MARVEL’S AGENTS OF SHIELD

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
Chloe Bennet in MARVEL'S AGENTS OF SHIELD - Season 1 | ©2013 ABC/Bob D'Amico

On MARVEL’S AGENTS OF SHIELD, ABC Tuesdays at 8 PM, the team members working under Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) are still getting used to each other. The newest recruit is brilliant, rebellious young computer hacker Skye, played by Chloe Bennet. Bennet is herself somewhat new to film and television work. Previously, she had an arc on NASHVILLE last season and appeared in the telefilm INTERCEPT. Before that, the Chicago native had a singing career, including the pop single “Uh Oh,” released simultaneously in English and Mandarin editions. At a party thrown by ABC for the Television Critics Association, Bennet […]Read On »


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Movie Review: OLDBOY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 11/27/2013
OLDBOY movie poster | ©2013 FilmDistrict

Rating: R Stars: Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Sharlto Copley, Samuel L. Jackson Writer: Mark Protosevich, based on the 2003 film directed by Park Chan-wook, based on the manga comics by Garon Tsuchiya & Nobuaki Minegishi Director: Spike Lee Distributor: FilmDistrict Release Date: November 27, 2013 Sometimes, translation isn’t just a matter of words. Events and actions and motives that play one way in one culture look and feel very different when transposed to another country where sensibilities are different. This is likewise true of changing mediums – something that works gangbusters on the page may not translate to live-action and […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Frank Darabont inhabits MOB CITY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
MOB CITY poster art | ©2013 TNT

MOB CITY, TNT’s original series that will run in three two-hour blocks on Wednesdays, Dec. 4, 11 and 18, depicts the battle between the Los Angeles Police Department and organized crime that raged through the Forties, mixing real historical figures like LAPD Chief William Parker (Neil McDonough) and gangsters Bugsy Siegel (Ed Burns) and Mickey Cohen (Jeremy Luke) with fictional personages including Detective Joe Teague (Jon Bernthal), mob associate Syd Rothman (Robert Knepper) and mysterious object of desire Jasmine Fontaine (Alexa Davalos). Writer/director/producer Frank Darabont, who brought the first season of THE WALKING DEAD to television (his feature credits include […]Read On »


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CD Review: THANKS FOR SHARING soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER |
THANKS FOR SHARING soundtrack | ©2013 Milan Records

If there’s one addiction that it’s hard to think there’s ever too much of, then it’s likely sex addiction. So understandably, that clinically diagnosed affliction is often mocked by mainstream Hollywood, especially since it usually happens to befall incredibly good looking actors we don’t mind seeing have continuous sex. Given that cinematic problem (one that’s slightly remedied here with the casting of Josh Gad), one can only imagine the score that a comedy-centric composer like Christopher Lennertz might unleash on THANKS FOR SHARING. But as opposed to the rambunctious orchestrations of MARMADUKE or the dirty retro funk of IDENTITY THIEF, […]Read On »


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