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Movie Review: THE SECRET GARDEN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/07/2020
THE SECRET GARDEN poster | ©2020 STX Films

Rating: PG Stars: Daisy Egerikx, Colin Firth, Julie Walters, Edan Hayhurst, Amir Wilson, Isis Davis Writer: Jack Thorne, based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett Director: Marc Munden Distributor: STX Films Release Date: August 7, 2020 THE SECRET GARDEN is based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s 1911 novel. It has been adapted for the screen many times before. So what’s the 2020 version like? Director Marc Munden and screenwriter Jack Thorne have updated the action to 1947. As subtitles explain to us, it is the “eve of Partition,” when India and Pakistan are splitting into separate countries. Imaginative little Mary […]Read On »


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BLOOD: Creator Sophie Petzal and EP Jonathan Fisher on Season 2 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/27/2020
Adrian Dunbar in BLOOD - Season 1 Key Art | ©2020 Acorn TV

BLOOD now has all episodes of its first two seasons available on the cable and streaming service Acorn TV. The Irish-made BLOOD is a dark family mystery, touched off by the death of ailing matriarch Mary Hogan (Ingrid Craigie). Younger daughter Cat (Carolina Main), who long ago left the small County Meath town where her family still lives, returns and suspects her father Jim (Adrian Dunbar) of being involved in Mary’s demise. Jim and Mary’s older daughter Fiona (Grainne Keenan) is rigidly loyal to Jim. Cat and Fiona’s brother Michael (Diarmuid Noyes) doesn’t know what to think, but has problems […]Read On »


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STALKED BY MY HUSBAND’S EX: Actress Juliana Dever on new Lifetime thriller and CASTLE – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/23/2020
Juliana Dever in STALKED BY MY HUSBAND'S EX | ©2020 Reel One Entertainment

In the film STALKED BY MY HUSBAND’S EX, premiering Saturday, July 25 on Lifetime, Juliana Dever plays Nina, the stalker of the title. In the opening sequence, Nina is drunk. When her husband Ryan (Adam Huss) believes Nina is endangering their little girl, Nina bashes him over the head. Ryan survives and Nina goes to jail. Four years later, when Nina is released, Ryan is about to marry the upbeat Kristen (Alex McKenna). Kristen gets along great with ten-year-old Lisa (Joey Rae Blair), who has only vague memories of her real mother. Nina, infuriated, is determined to get her daughter […]Read On »


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MARVEL’S AGENTS OF SHIELD: Writer and executive producer Drew Z. Greenberg on the final season – Exclusive Interview – Part 1

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/21/2020
AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. - Season 7 Key Art | ©2020 ABC

MARVEL’S AGENTS OF SHIELD is now in its seventh and final season, Wednesday nights on ABC. The series seemed to have wrapped up conclusively at the end of Season 5, then got renewed for two more seasons. The result was that AGENTS OF SHIELD Seasons 6 and 7 were produced almost back to back, so that production on the show actually ended last summer, even though we’re only getting the ultimate run now. Drew Z. Greenberg joined AGENTS OF SHIELD in Season 2 as a writer/co-executive producer, and became an executive producer beginning with Season 6. Greenberg’s first staff writing […]Read On »


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Miniseries Review: DEADWATER FELL

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/16/2020
DEADWATER FELL Key Art | ©2020 Acorn TV

Stars: David Tennant, Cash Jumbo, Matthew McNulty, Anna Madeley, Maureen Beattie, Anneika Rose Writer: Daisy Coulam Director: Lynsey Miller Network (North America): Acorn TV Release Date: January 10, 2020 (U.K.); April 6, 2020 (North America) DEADWATER FELL premiered in the U.K. in January 2020, and is now available in North America on Acorn TV’s cable and streaming service. The four-episode miniseries, written by Daisy Coulam and directed by Lynsey Miller, is set in the present, in the charming-looking Scottish village of the title. Everybody knows everybody in Deadwater Fell, where modern amenities like cellphones exist in houses that open the […]Read On »


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SEAL TEAM: Actor John Savage on Season 3 and more – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/13/2020
John Savage as Emmet Quinn and AJ Buckley as Sonny Quinn in SEAL TEAM - Season 3 - "Drawdown" | ©2020 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. / Erik Voake

SEAL TEAM, renewed for a fourth season and now re-running its third season Wednesday nights on CBS, with all episodes are available for streaming on CBS All-Access, deals with members of an elite U.S. military group that travels to conflict zones around the globe. One member of the SEAL Team, Sonny Quinn (A.J. Buckley), acts out and is put on suspension. He returns home to the family ranch, where he butts heads with his father Emmet Quinn, played by John Savage in a four-episode arc. Savage, originally from New York, is a prolific actor who works constantly. IMDB currently lists […]Read On »


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Movie Review: JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/03/2020
JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE movie poster | ©2020 Magnolia Pictures

Stars: John Lewis Director: Dawn Porter Distributor: Magnolia Pictures Release Date: July 3, 2020 JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE is, as its title suggests, a biographical documentary about the Democratic Georgia congressman and civil rights activist who has served in the U.S. House since 1987. Director/producer Dawn Porter and her subject both exude cautious optimism in the face of current events. “Good trouble” is what Lewis urges people to get into, which he also refers to “necessary trouble.” This means standing up for one’s principles and being willing to face sometimes monumental consequences. Lewis has survived segregation, over forty arrests during […]Read On »


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SNOWPIERCER: Actress Alison Wright on her new TNT series – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/02/2020
Alison Wright in SNOWPIERCER - Season 1 | ©2020 TNT/Justina Mintz

TNT’s SNOWPIERCER is now in its first season on Sunday nights and renewed for a second. Adapted from the graphic novel and the Bong Joon-ho film of the same name, SNOWPIERCER concerns an enormous train that carries what’s left of humanity in a continuous race around an Earth beset by a new Ice Age. The train cars are divided by social class, with the powerful up front and the impoverished in the back. However, when a murder is committed, influential hospitality coordinator Melanie Cavill, played by Jennifer Connelly, brings detective Andre Layton, played by Daveed Diggs, from the rear of […]Read On »


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STARGIRL: Actor Neil Jackson on his superhero series and ABSENTIA – Exclusive Interview – Part 2

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/01/2020
Neil Jackson in ABSENTIA - Season 2 | ©2020 Amazon

In Part 2 of our exclusive interview with English actor Neil Jackson, he talks more about his work on The CW’s new Tuesday-night DC series STARGIRL, which is co-created by Geoff Johns and Greg Berlanti. Jackson plays the villainous Jordan Mahkent, aka Icicle. Jackson is also one of the leads the thriller series ABSENTIA, which premieres its third season on Amazon Prime on July 17 (the first two seasons are already available on the streaming service). Jackson plays Jack Byrne, a disgraced doctor. Jack’s sister Emily (Stana Katic) is an FBI agent who vanished for six years, causing her to […]Read On »


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Movie Review: YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/19/2020
YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT movie poster | ©2020 Universal Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Kevin Bacon, Amanda Seyfried, Avery Essex, Colin Bluemenau Writer: David Koepp, based on the novella by Daniel Kehlmann Director: David Koepp Distributor: Universal Pictures Release Date: June 19, 2020 YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT borrows from several other iconic horror books-into-film adaptations. They won’t be named here, as that would give the game away, and most viewers will make those associations for themselves. Still, it’s a nicely creepy haunted-house story that mostly strikes a balance between serving its premise and not belaboring it, though the climax leaves something to be desired. Theo Conroy (Kevin Bacon) would seem to […]Read On »


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