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TV Review: SLEEPY HOLLOW – Season 1 – “John Doe”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF | 10/20/2013
Katia Winters, Tom Mison, Nicole Beharie and Orlando Jones in SLEEPY HOLLOW - Season 1 | ©2013 Fox/Michael Lavine

Stars: Tom Mison, Nicole Beharie, Orlando Jones, Katia Winter, Nicholas Gonzalez, Charles Malik Whitfield, Matthew Lintz Writer: Melissa Blake, series created by Phillip Iscove & Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci & Len Wiseman Director: Ernest Dickerson Network: Fox, Mondays @ 9 PM Original Airdate: October 14, 2013 One of the genuine charms of SLEEPY HOLLOW as a series is that the episodes are unafraid to cram in whatever may work, and accelerates past the potentially dull stuff by having characters facilitate whatever needs to be done. However, in “John Doe,” the show overdoes this a bit. When Abbie (Nicole Beharie) […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE FIFTH ESTATE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 10/19/2013
THE FIFTH ESTATE movie poster | ©2013 Touchstone Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Bruhl, Alicia Vikander, Anthony Mackie, Peter Capaldi, David Thewlis, Laura Linney, Stanley Tucci, Carice Van Houten, Alexander Siddig Writer: Josh Singer, based on the books INSIDE WIKILEAKS: MY TIME WITH JULIAN ASSANGE AT THE WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS WEBSITE by Daniel Domscheit-Berg and WIKILEAKS: INSIDE JULIAN ASSANGE’S WAR ON SECRECY by David Leigh & Luke Harding Director: Bill Condon Distributor: Walt Disney/Touchstone Pictures Release Date: October 18, 2013 Whenever there’s a film where the action is largely propelled by what’s happening via computers, the fear is that we’re mostly going to be watching people typing. […]Read On »


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Movie Review: CARRIE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
CARRIE 2013 Theatrical Poster | ©2013 Screen Gems

Rating: R Stars: Chloe Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore, Gabriella Wilde, Portia Doubleday, Alex Russell, Zoe Belkin, Ansel Elgort, Judy Greer Writers: Lawrence D. Cohen and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, based on the novel by Stephen King Director: Kimberly Peirce Distributor: Screen Gems/Sony Release Date: October 18, 2013 Most horror movie and/or pop culture fans can tell you that, decades before there was the Red Wedding, there was the Red Prom. Stephen King’s novel CARRIE was adapted in 1976 by director Brian De Palma and screenwriter Lawrence D. Cohen into a movie that earned Oscar nominations for actresses Sissy Spacey, as the title […]Read On »


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Exclusive Photos from the 12 YEARS A SLAVE Special Screening!

By SUE SCHNEIDER | 10/18/2013
Chiwetel Ejiofor at the Special Screening of 12 YEARS A SLAVE | ©2013 Sue Schneider

FOX Searchlight Pictures, Regency Enterprises and River Road Entertainment Presented a Special Screening recently of 12 YEARS A SLAVE at the Directors Guild of America in West Hollywood. It was a small event with some of the stars in the film. Seen walking the carpet were: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Lupita Nyong’O, Alfre Woodard, Garret Dillahunt, Jay Huguley, Rob Steinberg, Kelsey Scott, Ashley Dyke, Chris Chalk, Storm Reid, Craig Tate, Director Steve McQueen, Director of Photography Sean Bobbitt, Screenwriter John Ridley, and Composer Hans Zimmer. Unfortunately, Brad Pitt, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Michael Fassbender and Paul Giamatti were unable to attend. Joining […]Read On »


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PACIFIC RIM Highlights this week in Blu-ray, DVD and VOD Releases

By PETER BROWN |
PACIFIC RIM | (c) 2013 Warner Home Video

Your time is short. We know this. So in order to expedite your buying and Netflix decision making, we provide you with a list of the cool and not-so-cool titles coming out for movies, television and everything in-between. So put your feet up, grab some popcorn and check out this week’s selections. Movies: PACIFIC RIM – This is a really great film. What’s not to like about giant robots fighting ginormous monsters that want to destroy our world? Absolutely nothing. PACIFIC RIM isn’t complicated film, the premise I’ve already described. But what it doesn’t say about this film is the […]Read On »


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Movie Review: KILL YOUR DARLINGS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
KILL YOUR DARLINGS movie poster | ©2013 Sony Pictures Classic

Rating: R Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Hall, Jack Huston, Ben Foster, David Cross, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Elizabeth Olsen, Kyra Sedgwick, John Cullum, David Rasche Writers: John Krokidas & Austin Bunn, story by Austin Bunn, based on biographical material by Allen Ginsberg Director: John Krokidas Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics Release Date: October 16, 2013 KILL YOUR DARLINGS is advice that essentially means a writer should remove any elements that he or she feels particularly precious about or identifies with too much. In this fact-based film, it also has a more literal interpretation. It turns out that Allen Ginsberg […]Read On »


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Movie Review: 12 YEARS A SLAVE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
12 YEARS A SLAVE movie poster | ©2013 Fox Searchlight

Rating: R Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael K. Williams, Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Fassbender, Lupita Nyong’o, Sarah Paulson, Brad Pitt, Paul Giamatti, Alfre Woodard Writer: John Ridley, based on the book by Solomon Northup Director: Steve McQueen Distributor: Fox Searchlight Release Date: October 18, 2013 For anybody who is now or has ever been soft on the Confederacy, 12 YEARS A SLAVE is here to beat such sympathies into the ground. Based on an extraordinary but evidently true story, the film is set in the pre-Civil War U.S. Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is a well-respected, successful black musician living in Saratoga, New […]Read On »


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Interview: Michael J. Fox on THE MICHAEL J. FOX SHOW

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 10/17/2013
Michael J. Fox stars in THE MICHAEL J. FOX SHOW on NBC | (c) 2013 Eric Liebowitz/NBC

Michael J. Fox is at a party thrown by NBC for its new shows and the Television Critics Association. A small group of reporters is standing around Fox, and someone asks if he’d like to move so he can find a place to sit down. Fox is cordial and direct. “I didn’t come here to sit.” Instead, he is here to talk about THE MICHAEL J. FOX SHOW, which Fox executive-produces with series creators Will Gluck and Sam Laybourne. In the half-hour series, on NBC Thursdays at 9:30 PM, Fox plays Mike Henry. In real life, Fox is a TV […]Read On »


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TV Review: REVOLUTION – SEASON 2 – “Patriot Games”

By PETER BROWN |
Neville (Giancarlo Esposito) gears up to do some dirty work on REVOLUTION "Patriot Games" | (c) 2013 Felicia Graham/NBC

Cast: Billy Burke, Tracy Spiridakos, Zak Orth, Elizabeth Mitchell, David Lyons, Giancarlo Esposito Writer: David Rambo Director: Helen Shaver Network: Airs on NBC, Wednesdays @ 8 p.m. Original Telecast: Oct. 16, 2013 I guess at this point the question has to be asked as to how deep down the rabbit hole does the Patriot group go on REVOLUTION? In “Patriot Games” we saw that those calling themselves the U.S. government has their hands in pretty much every cookie jar going throughout the former country that crumbled after the lights went out. They are obviously making nice with the people in […]Read On »


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TV REVIEW: MARVEL’S AGENTS OF SHIELD – Season 1 – “Eye-Spy”

By PETER BROWN |
Skye (Chloe Bennet) helps the team on MARVEL'S AGENTS OF SHIELD "Eye-Spy" | (c) 2013 ABC/Ron Tom

Cast: Clark Gregg, Cobie Smulders, Ming-Na Wen, Brett Dalton, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge, Ron Glass, J. August Richards Writer: Jeffrey Bell Director: Roxann Dawson Network: Airs on ABC, Tuesdays @ 8 p.m. Original Telecast: Oct. 15, 2013 MARVEL’S AGENTS OF SHIELD has already been up and down in its first season and we are only now on the fourth episode. Unfortunately, “Eye-Spy” didn’t do the show many favors in terms of going up after a pretty decent episode last week. The episode centered on a former Shield agent that was trained by Coulson (Clark Gregg) who for […]Read On »


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