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Interview: J.J. Abrams talks FRINGE finale and some STAR TREK

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 01/18/2013
Peter (Josh Jackson, R) battles Windmark (guest star Michael Kospa, L) in the final and extraordinary battle | (c) 2013 Liane Hentscher/FOX

After five seasons of complicated familial bonds, inter-dimensional travel, suspended animation and a bunch of generally strange events, Walter (John Noble), Peter (Joshua Jackson) and Olivia (Anna Torv) wrap up their story on the two-hour series FRINGE finale on Fox, Friday night at 8. Executive producer J.J. Abrams, who co-created FRINGE with fellow e.p.s Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, stopped by a party thrown by Fox for the Television Critics Association to give his thoughts on the show’s close – and answer a couple of STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS questions while he was there. ASSIGNMENT X: After directing the second […]Read On »


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TAKEN 2 Highlights this week in Blu-ray and DVD Releases

By PETER BROWN |
TAKEN 2 | (c) 2013 Fox Home Entertainment

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: TAKEN 2 – I am a huge fan of the original TAKEN. Liam Neeson is great in the role as an ex-CIA agent turned hired protection muscle that must do everything in his power to rescue his daughter from the white slave trade. It was brutal and […]Read On »


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TV Review: ARROW – Season 1 – “Burned”

By EGAN BRUMLEY |
Stephen Amell in ARROW - Season 1 - "Burned" | ©2012 The CW/James Dittiger

Stars:  Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, Paul Blackthorne, Colin Donnell, Susanna Thompson, Colin Salmon, Willa Holland, David Ramsey Writer:  Moira Kirkland & Ben Sokolowski Director: Eagle Egilsson Network: The CW, airs Wednesday Nights Original Telecast: January 16, 2013 When we last left ARROW at its midseason break, Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) had just found himself on the receiving end of a brutal beat-down at the hands of a mystery villain in another hooded archer costume, and Oliver’s stepfather, Walter Steele (Colin Salmon) had just been abducted by the cronies of Malcolm Merlyn (John Barrowman), who, not coincidentally, was also revealed to […]Read On »


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TV Review: AMERICAN IDOL – Season 12 – “Audition No. 1” – Season Premiere

By PETER BROWN | 01/17/2013
Gurprett Singh Sarin auditions on AMERICAN IDOL "Audition #1" | (c) 2013 Michael Becker / FOX

Stars: Randy Jackson, Keith Urban, Maria Carey, Nicki Minaj, Ryan Seacrest Airs: Wednesday and Thursdays on Fox @ 8 pm Original Telecast: Jan. 16, 2013 This is the worst time of the year for me. Football is slowly coming to an end. We have at least another two months of winter. All the major holidays are far away. And, yes, the world’s greatest karaoke competition, AMERICAN IDOL, is back on the air. Yes, time for the most popular of the talent shows to once again give us a healthy dose of overexposure, bad auditions and not enough actual good singing. […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: HANSEL & GRETEL star Dee Wallace gets her witch on

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
Dee Wallace in HANSEL AND GRETEL | ©2012 The Asylum

With roughly 196 acting credits, Dee Wallace is an incredibly busy actress that’s always working. Just in the last two years she’s navigated from guest appearances on TV shows like BONES, WAREHOUSE 13 and SWITCHED AT BIRTH to such recent films. independent films like THE JAZZ FUNERAL, THE MARGARINE WARS and CRY OF THE BUTTERFLY. She has also played many iconic heroic characters in her career. She likely will forever be most identified with her role as the single mom in E.T. – THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL but she’s also famous for (among other characters) her intrepid reporter checking out werewolves in […]Read On »


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Desert Flower

By PAUL ZIMMERMAN | 01/16/2013

  Most film festivals like to wrap things up with a kind of ‘best of the fest’ summation. But what if a festival was the best of not just one fest but of many fests? Then they would be the Palm Springs International Film Festival. Now in its 24th year, Palm Springs’ festival is held January 3rd-14th and one could argue it’s the first big film festival of the year. But it’s not. Contrary to its date it’s really the last film festival of the year. Especially since Sundance starts a few weeks later and is the real official beginning […]Read On »


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TV Review: BEING HUMAN – Season 3 – “It’s a Shame About Ray” – Season Premiere

By RACHEL REITSLEFF |
Meaghan Rath, Sam Witwer, Sam Huntington in BEING HUMAN - Season 3 - "It's A Shame About Ray" | ©2013 Syfy/Philippe Bosse

Stars: Sam Witwer, Meaghan Rath, Sam Huntington, Kristen Hager, Mark Pellegrino, Amy Aquino, Susanna Fournier, Pat Kiely, Robert Naylor, Andreas Apergis, Ellen David, Kyle Gatehouse Writers: Jeremy Carver & Anna Fricke, adapted for U.S. television by Jeremy Carver & Anna Fricke, created for U.K. television by Toby Whithouse Director: Stefan Pleszczynski Network: Syfy, Mondays @ 9 PM Airdate: January 14, 2013 We shall begin this review with something that is both a rant and an apology. Season 2 saw the U.S. BEING HUMAN gang often making bad decisions, ignoring each other and generally being annoying. With “It’s a Shame About […]Read On »


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TV Review: THE CARRIE DIARIES – Season 1 – “Pilot” – Series Premiere

By PAMELA HARLAND | 01/15/2013
AnnaSophia Robb in THE CARRIE DIARIES | ©2012 The CW/Giovanni Rufino

Stars: AnnaSophia Robb, Austin Butler, Ellen Wong, Katie Findlay, Stefania Owen, Brendan Dooling, Chloe Bridges, Freema Agyeman, Matthew Letscher Writer: Amy B. Harris Director: Miguel Arteta Network: CW Original Telecast: Jan. 14th, 2013 As a fan of SEX AND THE CITY no one could be more excited to see a new extraction from that series, until well, I actually did see that painful extraction. THE CARRIE DIARIES has no semblance to SEX and the characters are as abstract as they come. The show is a prequel and takes place in 1984 during the beginning of Carrie Bradshaw’s (AnnaSophia Robb) junior […]Read On »


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TV News: DOWNTON ABBEY not to air at same time in U.S. on PBS as in UK

By SEAN ELLIOTT | 01/14/2013
Jim Carter and Shirley MacLaine in DOWNTON ABBEY | ©2013 PBS

So it looks as if the American audience for DOWNTON ABBEY is going to have to be patient to see the next season in January again. Today at PBS’ executive session for the TCAS, President Paula Kerger explained why they place DOWNTON where they do in the schedule for the year. “This is a question of great debate, as to whether to try to bring the broadcast of the two together,” states Kerger.  “It’s complicated, for a lot of reasons.  One is that the version that airs in the UK airs with commercials, and we air ours without, so we […]Read On »


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TV News: Shakespeare vs DOWNTON ABBEY on PBS

By SEAN ELLIOTT |
Jeremy Irons in SHAKESPEARE UNCOVERED | ©2013 PBS

While promoting SHAKESPEARE UNCOVERED, actor Jeremy Irons made some quite hilarious comments about the popular British series DOWNTON ABBEY. Irons is not completely bashing DOWNTON, but he does wish the American audience would broaden their viewing depth and check out the SHAKESPEARE series to see some of the best acting that Britain has to offer. “THE HOLLOW CROWN series is where you see some of the best British actors playing Shakespeare, is what it can do to open up to this huge American audience this gold dust.  Show them that, actually, television doesn’t end with DOWNTON ABBEY,” Irons laughs.  “If […]Read On »


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