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DEADLOCKED: HOW AMERICA SHAPED THE SUPREME COURT: Filmmaker Dawn Porter on new four-part Showtime series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/22/2023
DEADLOCKED key art | ©2023 Showtime

DEADLOCKED: HOW AMERICA SHAPED THE SUPREME COURT is a new four-part documentary series about the history of our highest court. It premieres on Showtime and Paramount+ on Friday, September 22, with new episodes available on subsequent Fridays. DEADLOCKED filmmaker Dawn Porter has won multiple awards and nominations for her previous documentaries, which include JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE, GIDEON’S ARMY, the miniseries BOBBY KENNEDY FOR PRESIDENT, the docuseries PHILLY D.A., and several episodes of PBS’s INDEPENDENT LENS. In a Zoom call with Assignment X, Porter talks about what DEADLOCKED shows us about the U.S. Supreme Court. ASSIGNMENT X: What made you […]Read On »


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Movie Review: A HAUNTING IN VENICE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/15/2023
A HAUNTING IN VENICE movie poster | ©2023 20th Century Studios

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Dornan, Tina Fey, Jude Hill, Ricardo Scamarcio, Camille Cottin, Kelly Reilly, Rowena Robinson, Emma Laird, Kyle Allen, Ali Khan Writer: Michael Green, based on the novel HALLOWE’EN PARTY by Agatha Christie Director: Kenneth Branagh Distributor: Twentieth Century Studios Release Date: September 15, 2023 A HAUNTING IN VENICE is the third Agatha Christie film adaptation directed by Kenneth Branagh, who also stars for the third time as Christie’s brilliant detective Hercule Poirot. Michael Green, the screenwriter of the first two, likewise returns. We’re in Venice, Italy, 1947. By now, Poirot is physically, psychologically […]Read On »


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Movie Review: STORAGE LOCKER

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/01/2023
STORAGE LOCKER movie poster | ©2023 Freestyle Digital Media

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Mike Gassaway, Bobbie Grace, Meredyth Fowler, Avery Mayo, David Treviño, Hannah Hufford, Skeeta Jenkins, Jeannie Carter-Cruz, Jennifer Gunderson, Fritz Reinig, Allen Danziger, Connie Green, Nora Hunter, Leanne Smithers, Brian K. Jammer, Sydney Reyna, Victor Hinojosa, Alec Willrodt Writer: Ray Spivey Director: Ray Spivey Distributor: Freestyle Digital Media Release Date: August 22, 2023 (digital) A storage locker is a thoroughly suitable setting for horror. The establishments are usually deserted, with confusing layouts, shady renters, and unknowable contents. STORAGE LOCKER is definitely a horror film. It is also partially set at a storage locker, though it doesn’t use […]Read On »


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JUSTIFIED: CITY PRIMEVAL: Executive Producers Michael Dinner, Peter Leonard and Chris Provenzano chat new limited series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/22/2023
JUSTIFIED: CITY PRIMEVAL Key Art | ©2023 FX

The eight-episode limited series JUSTIFIED: CITY PRIMEVAL is a continuation of the adventures of U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens. The character was first created in the writings of the late Elmore Leonard and then played by Timothy Olyphant in six acclaimed seasons of JUSTIFIED, which ran on FX from 2010 through 2015. JUSTIFIED: CITY PRIMEVAL is also on FX, with new episodes on Tuesdays that are available on FX on Hulu the following day. The limited series adds Raylan to the plot of Leonard’s novel CITY PRIMEVAL, about a very bad man, Clement Mansell (played here by Boyd Holbrook) running amok […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/11/2023
THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER movie poster | ©2023 Universal PIctures

Rating: R Stars: Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, Liam Cunningham, David Dastmalchian, Woody Norman, Chris Walley, Jon Jon Briones, Stefan Kapicic, Martin Furulund, Nikolai Nikolaeff, Javier Botet Writers: Bragi F. Schut Jr. and Zak Olkewicz, screen story by Bragi F. Schut Jr., based on the chapter “The Captain’s Log” in DRACULA by Bram Stoker Director: Andre Øvredal Distributor: Universal Pictures Release Date: August 11, 2023 There’s a spoiler in the movie’s title, and in its opening sequence, to say nothing of the source material in Bram Stoker’s novel DRACULA. It’s safe to say we go in knowing that THE LAST VOYAGE […]Read On »


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Movie Review: KING ON SCREEN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
KING ON SCREEN movie poster | ©2023 Darkstar Pictures

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Frank Darabont, Mick Garris, Taylor Hackford, Mike Flanagan, Scott Hicks, Tom Holland, Tom McLaughlin, Mikael Hafström, Mikael Salomon, Jeff Beesley, Vincenzo Natali, Josh Boone, Lewis Teague, Craig Baxley, Daniel Attias, David Carson, Fraser C. Heston, Fritz Kiersch, Greg Nicotero, John Harrison, Kevin Kölsch, Dennis Widmyer, Tod Williams, Zak Hilditch, Mark Lester, JP Scott, James Douglas Editors: Daphné Baiwir, Alex McKenzie, Sebastien Cruz Director: Daphné Baiwir Distributor: Darkstar Pictures Release Date: August 11, 2023 (theatrical), September 8, 2023 (VOD/Blu-ray) The “King” referenced in the title of KING ON SCREEN is prolific bestselling author Stephen King. The “screen” […]Read On »


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Movie Review: OPERATION NAPOLEON

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
OPERATION NAPOLEON movie poster | ©2023 Magnolia Pictures

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Vivian Ólafsdóttir, Jack Fox, Iain Glen, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Adesuwa Oni, Annette Badland, Atli Óskar Fjalarsson Writer: Marteinn Thorisson, based on the novel by Arnaldur Indriòason Director: Óskar Thór Axelsson Distributor: Magnolia Pictures/Magnet Releasing Release Date: August 11, 2023 OPERATION NAPOLEON technically fits into the Nordic noir genre. It is a thriller, set and partially shot in Iceland (some sequences were filmed in Germany), amidst lots of snow and ice, with dialogue that is about equally split between English and Icelandic. However, unlike a lot of its compatriots, OPERATION NAPOLEON has a relatively […]Read On »


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WARRIOR: Actor Chen Tang on new historical action series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/03/2023
WARRIOR key art | ©2023 Max

WARRIOR is now in its third season, streaming on Max, with new episodes dropping on Thursdays. (Seasons 1 and 2 are also available.) Based on an original idea by the late Bruce Lee, whose daughter Shannon is one of the executive producers, WARRIOR was developed by Jonathan Tropper, who also serves as showrunner. The series is set in the Chinese immigrant community in 1870s San Francisco, when gangs known as Tongs battled for control. Chen Tang plays Hong, a Tong soldier who is an exceptional fighter, recently brought over from China. Hong is an ally of Ah Sahm (series lead […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE GATES

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/27/2023
THE GATES movie poster | ©2023 101 Films/Trinity Creative Partnership

Rating: Not Rated Stars: John Rhys-Davies, Michael Yare, Elena Delia, Richard Brake, David Pearse, Brian Fortune, Peter Coonan, Claire J. Loy, Matthew O’Brien, Tristan Heanue, Graeme Coughlan Writers: Tim Reynolds & Stephen Hall, story by Tim Reynolds Director: Stephen Hall Distributor: 101 Films/Trinity Creative Partnership Release Date: June 27, 2023 (digital, VOD) THE GATES is only intermittently scary. However, with a tone somewhere between Hammer horror and MASTERPIECE THEATRE, it makes up in entertainment value what it may lack in fright. We’re in 1880s England, where creepy serial killer William Colcott (Richard Brake) is terrorizing a bound female victim, with […]Read On »


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Movie Review: FEAR THE INVISIBLE MAN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/23/2023
FEAR THE INVISIBLE MAN movie poster | @2023 101 Films International

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Mhairi Calvey, Mike Beckingham, Wayne Gordon, Grahame Fox, Demelza O’Sullivan, David Hayman, Emily Haigh Writer: Philip Daay, story by Monika Gergelova & Helena Gergelova, based on the novel by H.G. Wells Director: Paul Dudbridge Distributor: 101 Films International Release Date: June 13, 2023 (Digital, VOD, DVD) FEAR THE INVISIBLE MAN is the first adaptation of H.G. Wells’s novel in a good while to attempt fidelity to the source material. Directed by Paul Dudbridge from a screenplay by Phillip Daay, from a story by Monika Gergelova & Helena Gergelova, FEAR THE INVISIBLE MAN starts with an itinerant […]Read On »


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