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Interview: Composer Lesley Barber visits MANCHESTER BY THE SEA

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER 12/03/2016
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA soundtrack| ©2016 Milan Records

Flowing with melodic grace from classical to electronic music, Canadian-born composer Lesley Barber is often an inward traveler when it comes to her character portraits. Amongst her numerous, and eclectically-styled scores, Barber has played the music of a woman trying to break out of WHEN NIGHT FALLS, found the inner courage within the Hebraic rhythms of a Hasidic wife discovering that she has A PRICE ABOVE RUBIES, or discovering the intoxicating darkness within a potential girls school while suspensefully reading THE MOTH DIARIES. Given Lesley Barber’s unique way of playing relationships, perhaps her most rewarding, if too long apart collaboration is with writer-director Kenneth […]Read On »


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TV Review: SUPERNATURAL – Season 11 – “The Chitters”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF
Jensen Ackles in SUPERNATURAL - Season 11 - "The Chitters" | ©2016 The CW/Liane Hentscher

Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Lee Rumohr, Hugo Ateo, Kandyse McClure, Andy Maton Writer: Nancy Won, series created by Eric Kripke Director: Eduardo Sanchez Network: The CW, Wednesdays @ 9 PM Original Airdate: April 27, 2016 The SUPERNATURAL Season 11 episode “The Chitters” presents us with a relatively intriguing monster of the week. Meet the Bisaan, a “cicada-based” species that, like the locust, comes along infrequently but wreaks devastation when it does. There’s a nice little fakeout at the beginning of “The Chitters.” We’re on the outskirts of a small town in Colorado, where we meet 12-year-old Jesse (Valin Shinyei) […]Read On »


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Movie Review: FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/18/2016
FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM movie poster | ©2016 Warner Bros.

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Samantha Morton, Jon Voight, Carmen Ejogo, Colin Farrell Writer: J.K. Rowling Director: David Yates Distributor: Warner Bros. Release Date: November 18, 2016 FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM by Newt Scamander is, as everyone in the wizarding world knows, a key textbook at Hogwarts. Should you, dear reader, not be up on the minutiae of the wizarding world, FANTASTIC BEASTS was first introduced in author J.K. Rowling’s HARRY POTTER series as a book read at school by Harry and his classmates. Rowling then went on to […]Read On »


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TV Review: SUPERNATURAL – Season 12 – “Mamma Mia”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF 10/30/2016
Samantha Smith as Mary Winchester in SUPERNATURAL - Season 12 - "Mamma Mia" | © 2016 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved/Katie Yu

Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins, Mark A. Sheppard, Rick Springfield, Ruth Connell, Samantha Smith, Elizabeth Blackmore, Bronagh Waugh, Woody Jeffreys, Adam Fergus Writers: Brad Buckner & Eugenie Ross-Leming, series created by Eric Kripke Director: Thomas J. Wright Network: The CW, Thursdays @ 8 PM Original Airdate: October 20, 2016 One of the pleasures of the SUPERNATURAL Season 12 episode “Mamma Mia” is seeing that Samantha Smith, as Mary Winchester, mother of Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles), fits comfortably into the ensemble. The actress is likable, neither over the top nor stiff. Mary comes across as vulnerable […]Read On »


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TV Review: SUPERNATURAL – Season 11 – “Red Meat”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF
Jensen Ackles in SUPERNATURAL - Season 11 - "Red Meat" | ©2016 The CW/Bettina Strauss

Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Lisa Berry, Erin Way, Blair Power, Eileen Pedde, Toby Levins, Suki Kaiser Writers: Robert Berens & Andrew Dabb, series created by Eric Kripke Director: Nina Lopez-Corrado Network: The CW, Wednesdays @ 9 PM Original Airdate: March 30, 2016 First of all, congratulations to SUPERNATURAL for finally hiring a woman, Nina Lopez-Corrado, to direct an episode. More to the point, congratulations to Lopez-Corrado for demonstrating that it’s never too late in a show’s run to have some effective horror imagery. In the SUPERNATURAL Season 11 episode “Red Meat,” when a newly-made werewolf begins a brief reign […]Read On »


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WOLF CREEK: Lucy Fry – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/27/2016
Lucy Fry as Eve Thorogood in WOLF CREEK | © 2016 Pop TV

Actress Lucy Fry is hanging out with fellow performer Emily Hampshire at a party thrown for networks under the CBS umbrella, including Pop TV. Fry is on Pop’s new thriller series WOLF CREEK and Hampshire is on Pop’s returning comedy SCHITT’S CREEK. When Hampshire mentions that she’s heard Pop also runs episodes of DAWSON’S CREEK, there are some general “creek” jokes before the talk turns to work. WOLF CREEK, on Pop TV Friday nights, is based on the Australian horror franchise, about serial killer Mick Taylor (John Jarratt), who preys on travelers in the Outback. Fry, a native Australian, plays […]Read On »


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WOLF CREEK: Creator Greg McLean on horror mini-series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/14/2016
WOLF CREAK mini-series poster| ©2016 POP TV

When writer/director Greg McLean’s feature film WOLF CREEK premiered in 2005, it was too brutal even for some horror fans. McLean’s tale, based on some actual incidents, centers of on Mick Taylor (John Jarratt), a sadistic serial killer roaming the Australian Outback, beyond the reach of law enforcement. WOLF CREEK 2 debuted in 2013, with Mick once again torturing trapped tourists; one of Mick’s victims survives but is blamed for the killings and is confined to a mental hospital. Now Pop TV is bringing a WOLF CREEK six-part miniseries to television, starting Friday, October 14. McLean is the executive producer […]Read On »


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THE EXORCIST: Jeremy Slater talks new horror series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/07/2016
THE EXORCIST TV Series - Season 1 | ©2016 Fox

Fox Network’s new Friday-night series THE EXORCIST is based on William Peter Blatty’s best-selling novel, which was adapted into the hit 1973 feature film. In the TV version, we’re in present-day Chicago, where Angela Rance (Geena Davis) believes one of her daughters may be demonically possessed. Her priest, Father Tomas Ortega (Alfonso Hereira), finds evidence of the case from forty years ago (covered in the book and the film), and approaches exorcist Father Marcus Keane (Ben Daniels) for help. Executive producer Jeremy Slater, writer of THE LAZARUS EFFECT, developed THE EXORCIST for television. He talks about revisiting familiar demons during […]Read On »


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PHANTASM RAVAGER: Director David Hartman takes on The Tall Man – Exclusive Interview

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER
PHANTASM RAVAGER | ©2016 Well Go USA Entertainment

Where many long-surviving horror franchises are in the process of continually rebooting their characters with little sense of continuity or care, the PHANTASM series has stood out since 1979 for mostly using the same faces in front of and behind the camera. It’s a sense of familiarity, and family that has endeared a legion of “phans” to the series, giving them a personal sense of identification not only for the undead-battling brothers Mike and Jody (A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury) and their best bud Reggie “The Cream Man” (Reggie Bannister), but also has made us love the gravely humored Tall […]Read On »


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THE LAST PANTHERS: Producer Peter Carlton on six-part Hulu series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/27/2016
THE LAST PANTHERS | ©2016 Hulu

THE LAST PANTHERS, which originally aired on Sundance TV, is now available in its entirety on Hulu. The six-part series travels all over Europe as a British insurance investigator (Samantha Morton) and a Marseille police detective (Tahar Rahim) find themselves submerged in a complicated criminal underground. John Hurt also stars. Peter Carlton, the Englishman who produced THE LAST PANTHERS, speaks at a Q&A panel about the show. Afterwards, Carlton takes time for a one on one conversation about the series, his decades-spanning work on THIS IS ENGLAND, and how Brexit – Britain’s imminent departure from the European Union – may […]Read On »


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