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

By PETER BROWN | 10/18/2013
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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Exclusive Interview: THE ORIGINALS star Charles Michael Davis talks about Marcel

By SUE SCHNEIDER | 10/16/2013
Charles Michael Davis in THE ORIGINALS - Season 1 | ©2013 The CW/Mathieu Young

In the new vampire show THE ORIGINALS, a spin-off from THE VAMPIRE DIAIRES, Charles Michael Davis stars as Marcel, a vampire sired by Klaus Mikaelson (Joseph Morgan), one of the original vampires, hence the name In the first episode, “Always and Forever”, it opens where Klaus returns to New Orleans, a city that was built by Klaus and his family, but Marcel is now the King of the Quarter after the Mikaelson’s had to leave the city so their father wouldn’t find them. Sitting down with Charles at the CBS/CW/Showtime TCA Party in August to talk about his character and […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: HAUNTER helmer Vincenzo Natali brilliantly boxes himself in again

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER |
HAUNTER | ©2013 IFC Midnight

If you’re going to be in horror isolation where history repeats itself, then the Canadian filmmaker you’ll want to call to make your lethal purgatory particularly involving is the Detroit-born Vincenzo Natali. A former animation storyboard artist for EEK! THE CAT and TALES FROM THE CRYPTKEEPER (and later the live action Canadian werewolf classic GINGER SNAPS), Natali would announce himself as one of the region’s most interesting genre filmmakers with 1997s CUBE, a razor-room set tale of paranoia that set the critically acclaimed tone for Natali’s involving psychological stress to come, from a corporate spy trying to recapture his consciousness […]Read On »


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TV Review: THE BLACKLIST – Season 1 – “The Stewmaker”

By PETER BROWN |
Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone) gets kidnapped in THE BLACKLIST "The Stewmaker" | (c) 2013 Virginia Sherwood/NBC

Cast: James Spader, Megan Boone, Ryan Eggold, Harry Lennix, Diego Klattenhoff, Parminder Nagra Writer: Patrick Massett, John Zinman Director: Jace Alexander Network: Airs on NBC, Mondays @ 10 p.m. Original Telecast: Oct. 14, 2013 Last week’s episode of THE BLACKLIST gave us some much-needed intel into what’s going on in the overall mythology of the show. We learned that Raymond Reddington (James Spader) has connections to Elizabeth Keen’s (Megan Boone) father but he isn’t saying how at this point. I speculated that this might be the case or even that he might be her father but it could also just […]Read On »


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TV Review: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST – Season 2 – “Who Am I?” – Season Premiere

By SUE SCHNEIDER | 10/15/2013
Jay Ryan and Kristin Kreuk in BEAUTY AND THE BEAST - Season 2 | ©2013 The CW/Frank Ockenfels

Stars: Kristin Kreuk, Jay Ryan, Austin Basis, Nina Lisandrello, Sendhil Ramamurthy Writers: Brad Kern, series created by Ron Koslow Director: Stuart Gillard Network: The CW, Monday @ 9 PM Original Airdate: October 7, 2013 It’s been three months since Vincent Keller was kidnapped in “Never Turn Back,” last episode of season 1 of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. He was taken away in a net by Muirfield, or so we thought it was Muirfield. As the net is pulled up with Catherine looking up a man with a gun is about to shoot her and the other man tells him “do […]Read On »


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