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TV Review: SUPERNATURAL – Season 8 – “Trial and Error”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF | 02/19/2013
SUPERNATURAL - Season 8 poster | ©2012 The CW

Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Osric Chau, Danay Garcia, Alisen Dorn, Francis Xavier McCarthy, Tamara Braun Writer: Andrew Dabb, series created by Eric Kripke Director: Kevin Parks Network: The CW, Wednesdays @ 9 PM Original Airdate: February 14, 2013 One of the elements that makes SUPERNATURAL what it is involves Winchester brotherly love. This can take a number of forms, but one of the most visible and recurring is self-sacrifice – even when it’s a big stretch. This time around, it’s Dean (Jensen Ackles) making like the Mr. Fantastic of logic, taking a situation that calls for survival if it’s […]Read On »


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TV Review: DALLAS – Season 2 – “Trial and Error ”

By PAMELA HARLAND |
Dallas - Season 2 - "Trial and Error" | ©2013 TNT/Skip Bolen

Stars: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Brenda Strong, Linda Gray, Josh Henderson, Jesse Metcalfe, Jordana Brewster, Julie Gonzalo Writer: John Whelpley Director: Millicent Shelton Network: TNT, airs Monday nights Original Telecast: Feb. 18th,  2013 The fifth episode of DALLAS, season 2, plays out with not much going on, at least for a drama like DALLAS, anyway. Expectations are high with this fast-paced, high-octane show, but this week’s installment lacks the gusto from previous weeks. C’mon guys kick it up a notch before the audience goes south. Ala THE OUTSIDERS – Do it for Larry! In a quick turn around Ann (Brenda […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Tim Kring on Season 2 of TOUCH

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 02/15/2013
Kiefer Sutherland stars in TOUCH Season 2 | (c) 2013 Isabella Vosmikova/FOX

On TOUCH, now in its second season on Fox, Fridays at 9 PM, Kiefer Sutherland plays Martin Bohm, a single father since his wife died in the 9/11 attacks. Martin’s now eleven-year-old son Jake (David Mazouz) doesn’t speak, but he has the ability to foresee intricately connected events before they even happen. The first season was set in New York, but now Martin and Jake are in Los Angeles, where they’ve met Lucy Robbins, played by Maria Bello, whose missing daughter Amelia has abilities similar to those of Jake. Tim Kring, who created and executive produces TOUCH (his previous credits […]Read On »


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Movie Review: A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD | (c) 2013 20th Century Fox

Rating: R Stars: Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney, Sebastian Koch, Rasha Bukvic, Cole Hauser, Yulia Snigir, Mary Elizabeth Winstead Writer: Skip Woods, certain characters created by Roderick Thorp Director: John Moore Distributor: 20th Century Fox Release Date: February 14, 2013 The good and bad thing about A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD is that one doesn’t have to be familiar with the other four DIE HARD movies (for those keeping track, the original was released in 1988) to hit the ground running here. On the one hand, it cuts down on pesky exposition (kept to a minimum despite the espionage storyline); […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: THE AMERICANS’ star Matthew Rhys on the new spy thriller

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 02/14/2013
Matthew Rhys as Philip Jennings in THE AMERICANS | (c) 2013 Craig Blankenhorn/FX

In THE AMERICANS, the new series created by Joseph Weisberg, FX Wednesday nights at 10 PM, it’s 1981 and the Cold War is raging at full strength. Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings, played respectively by Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell, are the perfect all-American couple with a loving marriage and two children. Except … Phillip and Elizabeth are actually deep-cover Russian spies, whose marriage was arranged for them when they were still back in training in the old country.Elizabeth is still devoutly loyal to the cause, while Phillip is tempted to defect – except he’s fallen in love with his wife […]Read On »


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Movie Review: BEAUTIFUL CREATURES

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES | (c) 2013 Warner Bros

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert, Jeremy Irons, Viola Davis, Emmy Rossum, Emma Thompson Writer: Richard LaGravenese, based on the novel by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl Director: Richard LaGravenese Distributor: Warner Bros. Release Date: February 14, 2013 Like its heroine Lena Duchannes (Alice Englert), BEAUTIFUL CREATURES fights hard to retain control of its soul. On the one hand, screenwriter/director Richard LaGravanese’s adaptation of the novel (the first in a series) by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl has wit, charm and a pair of appealing young leads with Englert and Alden Ehrenreich as her mortal boyfriend Ethan. On the […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: TOTALLY BIASED’s W. Kamau Bell talks Season 2

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
W. Kamau Bell stars in TOTALLY BIASED WITH W. KAMAU BELL | (c) 2013 Matthias Clamer/FX

TOTALLY BIASED WITH W. KAMAU BELL is now in its second season on FX, Thursdays at 11 PM. The talk show, executive-produced by Chris Rock, features Bell’s distinctive progressive viewpoint on a variety of political and social issues, along with guests including George Takei, David Allen Grier and Reggie Watts. At a party thrown by Fox/FX for its talent and the Television Critics Association,Bell moves to a slightly quieter part of the venue to talk about Season 2. AX: Were you surprised or just gratified when TOTALLY BIASED got picked up for a second season? BELL: I was gratified. I […]Read On »


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TV Review: DALLAS – Season 2 – “False Confessions”

By PAMELA HARLAND |
Larry Hagman and Josh Henderson on DALLAS | (c) 2013 TNT/Skip Bolen

Stars: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Brenda Strong, Linda Gray, Josh Henderson, Jesse Metcalfe, Jordana Brewster, Julie Gonzalo Writer: Taylor Hamra Director: Stephen Herek Network: TNT, airs Monday nights Original Telecast: Feb. 11th,   2012 Drinking…lots of it fills South Fork as murder and mayhem plague the Ewing family on DALLAS. In “False Confessions,” Bobby (Patrick Duffy) takes the fall for Annie (Brenda Strong) while Cliff Barnes’ adopted son Frank betrays him and plays nice with Barnes arch nemesis J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman). Meanwhile, John Ross (Josh Henderson) lets his emotions for Pamela Barnes get the best of him and he goes […]Read On »


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Exclusive Photos from the WARM BODIES Los Angeles Premiere

By SUE SCHNEIDER | 02/13/2013
Nicholas Hoult at the Los Angeles Premiere of WARM BODIES | ©2013 Sue Schneider

Summit Entertainment held the Los Angeles Premiere of WARM BODIES recently at the ArcLight Cinerama Dome in Hollywood. WARM BODIES is a comedy besides a love story. After a zombie epidemic, R (Nicholas Hoult) encounters Julie (Teresa Palmer), and rescues her from a zombie attack. This forms a special relationship between the two of them resulting that R is becoming more human and this sets off a romantic and often comical chain of events that begins to affect the other zombies. WARM BODIES is based on the novel by Isaac Marion. Walking the carpet, besides Zombies, were the stars of […]Read On »


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TV Review: ARROW – Season 1 – “Betrayal”

By EGAN BRUMLEY | 02/12/2013
Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen in ARROW "Betryal" | (c) 2013 Jack Rowand/The CW

Stars:  Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, Paul Blackthorne, Colin Donnell, Susanna Thompson, Colin Salmon, Willa Holland, David Ramsey Writer:  Lana Cho & Beth Schwartz Director: Guy Bee Network: The CW, airs Wednesday Nights Original Telecast: February 6, 2013 On the plus side, this week’s ARROW episode takes great strides in building towards the confrontation between Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) and his mother, Moira (Susanna Thompson) we’ve all been waiting for.  On the downside, as a stand-alone episode, “Betrayal” feels utterly generic in every other way, and doesn’t do anything else that makes a particularly strong impression. Cyrus Vanch (David Anders), a […]Read On »


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