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PBS MASTERPIECE: MOONFLOWER MURDERS: Creator and writer Anthony Horowitz on new mystery mini-series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/15/2024
MASTERPIECE: MOONFLOWER MURDERS key art | ©2024 PBS/ Eleventh Hour Films

The six-episode MOONFLOWER MURDERS premieres on PBS MASTERPIECE on Sunday, September 15. This is a sequel to 2022’s series MAGPIE MURDERS. Both are adapted from bestselling mystery novels of the same titles by Anthony Horowitz, who also wrote all the teleplays, and serves as one of the series’ executive producers. In MAGPIE MURDERS, present-day London book editor Susan Ryeland (Lesley Manville, Oscar-nominated for her performance in 2017’s PHANTOM THREAD) searched the unpublished manuscript of one of her authors, Alan Conway (Conleth Hill of GAME OF THRONES), for clues to his murder. At the same time, we saw the story of Alan’s […]Read On »


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ENGLISH TEACHER: Actor Enrico Colantoni on new FX TV series – Exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/01/2024
ENGLISH TEACHER - Season 1 Key Art | ©2024 FX

Enrico Colantoni plays Morrison-Hensley High School Principal Grant Moretti in the new comedy ENGLISH TEACHER. The series premieres on FX with a double episode on Monday, September 2. Episodes will be available to stream on Hulu the day after they air on FX. ENGLISH TEACHER is set in Austin, Texas (it’s shot in Atlanta, Georgia), and centers around English teacher Evan Marquez, played by series creator/director Brian Jordan Alvarez. Evan is gay and Latinx, which gives him a distinct perspective. The school is awash in every kind of personal politics; in the opening episode, a parent wants Evan brought up […]Read On »


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Movie Review: PLACE OF BONES

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/23/2024
PLACE OF BONES movie poster | ©2024 The Avenue

Rating: R Stars: Heather Graham, Tom Hopper, Corin Nemec, Brielle Robillard, Gatlin Griffith, Zachary Keller, Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone Writer: Richard Taylor Director: Audrey Cummings Distributor: The Avenue/Highland Film Group Release Date: August 23, 2024 PLACE OF BONES is, for the most part, a sturdy period Western, economically shot in and around a small mountain farmhouse and its outbuildings, with a few detours to surrounding trails. We get an overview of brown mountains sporting scrubby brushes. The widowed Pandora Meadows (Heather Graham) and her teen daughter Hester (Brielle Robillard) live out here in their flat-roofed stone farmhouse on their own, since […]Read On »


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Movie Review: TRAP

By CARL CORTEZ 08/03/2024
TRAP movie poster | ©2024 Warner Bros.

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Shyamalan, Hayley Mills, Alison Pill Writer-Director: M. Night Shyamalan Distributor: Warner Bros. Ever since writer-director M. Night Shyamalan broke out with his classic 1999 thriller THE SIXTH SENSE, he’s struggled to maintain the simplistic beauty of that Bruce Willis starrer. His subsequent films either leaned too heavy into a last act twist (that worked depending on the viewer – UNBREAKABLE, SIGNS) or were so pretentious the film was virtually unwatchable (THE HAPPENING anyone). Thankfully, the last decade has brought Shyamalan back to earth and has focused him. THE VISIT took him out […]Read On »


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Movie Review: STARVE ACRE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/26/2024
STARVE ACRE movie poster | ©2024 Brainstorm Media

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Matt Smith, Morfydd Clark, Erin Richards, Robert Emms, Sean Gilder, Melanie Kilburn, Arthur Shaw, Roger Barclay Writer: Daniel Kokotajlo, based on the novel by Andrew Michael Hurley Director: Daniel Kokotajlo Distributor: Brainstorm Media Release Date: July 26, 2024 (theatrical and VOD) Based on Andrew Michael Hurley’s 2019 novel, STARVE ACRE is set in contemporary northern England. It begins with a poem, “The Dandelion,” by Neil Willoughby, which we observe is actually an invocation for a kind of devil. We’ll find out more about the poem’s author by and by. Meanwhile, university professor Richard (Matt Smith), his […]Read On »


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Book Review: KOLCHAK: HAUNTED & HUNTED

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/16/2024
KOLCHAK: HAUNTED & HUNTED | ©2024 Moonstone Books

Writer: Paul Terry, based on characters created by Jeff Rice and Richard Matheson Price: $7.49 Publisher: Moonstone Books Publication Date: May 24, 2024 There are certain books, films and TV series that are inflection points for their genres, subtly or even overtly changing the way things are seen and done ever after. One of these was THE NIGHT STALKER, which premiered on ABC January 11, 1972. Based on a previously unpublished novel by Jeff Rice and directed by John Llewellyn Moxey from a script by Richard Matheson, the telefilm introduced us to struggling but determined newspaper writer Carl Kolchak, played […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE BIKERIDERS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/21/2024
THE BIKERIDERS movie poster | ©2024 Focus Features

Rating: R Stars: Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, Michael Shannon, Mike Faist, Boyd Holbrook, Norman Reedus, Damon Herriman, Beau Knapp, Emory Cohen, Karl Glusman, Toby Wallace Writer: Jeff Nichols, inspired by the nonfiction book THE BIKERIDERS by Danny Lyon Director: Jeff Nichols Distributor: Focus Features Release Date: June 21, 2024 THE BIKERIDERS is a period film about speed freaks: not drug addicts, but those who demand the maximum miles per hour from their lives and their motorcycles. In 1968, Danny Lyon brought forth THE BIKERIDERS, a compilation of interviews and black-and-white photographs of his time with the Chicago Outlaws […]Read On »


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Movie Review: FIREBRAND

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/14/2024
FIREBRAND movie poster | ©2024 Roadside Attractions/Vertical

Rating: R Stars: Alicia Vikander, Jude Law, Eddie Marsan, Simon Russell Beale, Sam Riley, Erin Doherty, Patsy Ferran, Junia Rees, Patrick Buckley Writers: Henrietta Ashworth & Jessica Ashworth, additional writing by Rosanne Flynn, based on the novel QUEEN’S GAMBIT by Elizabeth Fremantle Director: Karim Aïnouz Distributor: Roadside Attractions/Vertical Release Date: June 14, 2024 FIREBRAND is an opulent drama set in the last years of English King Henry VIII’s (Jude Law) court. Years ago, it might have been big-studio Oscar bait; even now, it could have been a miniseries. Based on Elizabeth Fremantle’s novel QUEEN’S GAMBIT (not to be confused with […]Read On »


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THE SHERWOOD ORACLE: Co-creator Mark Ryan on new card, deck and book box set – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/10/2024
THE SHERWOOD ORACLE | ©2024 Sterling Ethos

THE SHERWOOD ORACLE is a boxed set of book, cards and map. Co-created by Mark Ryan and John Matthews, with artwork by Anne Yvonne Gilbert, this is an oracle deck rather than a tarot deck, although there are similarities. Ryan has already co-created two highly popular tarot decks, THE WILDWOOD TAROT, also in collaboration with Matthews, with artwork by Will Worthington, and THE GREENWOOD TAROT, in collaboration with artist Chesca Potter. Additionally, Doncaster, England native Ryan is the writer and composer of a musical version of WUTHERING HEIGHTS and a former member of the British Special Forces. He was the […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE THREE MUSKETEERS – PART II: MILADY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/03/2024
THE THREE MUSKETEERS: PART II: MILADY movie poster | ©2024 Samuel Goldwyn Films/Pathé

Rating: Not Rated Stars: François Civil, Vincent Cassel, Romain Duris, Pio Marmaï, Eva Green, Louis Garrel, Vicky Krieps, Lyna Khoudri, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Eric Ruf, Marc Barbé, Patrick Mille, Julien Frison, Camille Rutherford Writers: Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière, based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas Director: Martin Bourboulon Distributor: Samuel Goldwyn Films/Pathé Release Date: April 19, 2024 Essentially picking up from the “to be continued” cliffhanger ending of 2023’s THE THREE MUSKETEERS – PART I: D’ARTAGNAN, THE THREE MUSKETEERS – PART II: MILADY starts with a title telling us the year is 1627. We get an onscreen written […]Read On »


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