Movie Review: YESTERDAY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/28/2019
YESTERDAY movie poster | ©2019 Unviersal Pictures

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Himesh Patel, Lily James, Ed Sheeran, Meera Syal, Sanjeev Baskar, Joel Fry, Kate McKinnon Writer: Richard Curtis, story by Jack Barth & Richard Curtis Director: Danny Boyle Distributor: Universal Pictures Release Date: June 28, 2019 YESTERDAY is the kind of movie that will make some people want to get into a bar fight. Not because there’s a bar fight in it – there isn’t – but because this is a movie that can get a person into the kind of argument where voices are raised and punches may be thrown. As anybody who has seen the trailer […]Read On »


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TRUST: Anna Chancellor on new FX drama series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/27/2018
Anna Chancellor in TRUST - Mini-series | ©2018 FX

FX Networks’s Sunday-night drama series TRUST, concluding tonight, is a dramatization of real-life events in 1973. John Paul Getty III (Harris Dickinson), grandson of the extraordinarily wealthy J. Paul Getty (Donald Sutherland), tries to con some money out of the family. The plan goes south and the young man is kidnapped in Italy. His grandfather won’t pay the ransom. In addition to his odd view of family obligations, the senior Getty keeps not one, not two, but a whole group of mistresses on hand in his mansion. Anna Chancellor plays one of these women, Penelope Kittson. The English actress had […]Read On »


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iZOMBIE: Rahul Kohli on curing the zombie apocalypse – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/04/2015
Rahul Kohli in iZOMBIE - Season 1 | ©2015 The CW/Kharen Hill

In The CW’s iZOMBIE, now in its first season Tuesdays at 9 PM and renewed for a second, Rose McIver stars as morgue assistant Liv Moore. Liv is a zombie, though she has managed to conceal this fact from most people. However, Liv’s secret is known to her boss, Dr. Ravi Chakrabarti, played by Rahul Kohli. Far from being afraid of his coworker, Ravi is thrilled to have a chance to study the zombie phenomenon up close. He thinks it’s great that when Liv eats the brains of murder victims after they arrive at the morgue, she gets their memories, […]Read On »


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THE MISSING star James Nesbitt on the new Starz series and THE HOBBIT – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/22/2014
James Nesbitt in THE MISSING - Season 1 | ©2014 Starz

In Starz’s eight-part miniseries THE MISSING, Saturdays at 9 PM, James Nesbitt plays Tony Hughes, who in 2006 is happily married to Emily, played by Frances O’Connor, and loving father of eight-year-old Oliver (Oliver Hunt). In 2014, Tony is haunted and isolated, having spent the last eight years fruitlessly searching for his son, who vanished in an instant when the family was in a small town in France. Then Tony thinks he’s found a clue, and he is the epitome of an unstoppable force when it comes to finding out the truth of what happened. Nesbitt, originally from Northern Ireland, […]Read On »


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TV Review: Z NATION – Season 1 – “Puppies and Kitties” – Series Premiere

By RACHEL REITSLEFF 09/12/2014
Harold Perrineau as Hammond in Z NATION - Season 1 - "Puppies and Kitties" | ©2014 Syfy/Oliver Irwin

Stars: Harold Perrineau, DJ Qualls, Tom Everett Scott, Kellita Smith, Russell Hodgkinson, Michael Welch, Anastasia Baranova, Keith Allan, Pisay Pao, Nat Zang Writers: Jennifer Derwingson and Karl Schaefer Director: John Hyams Network: Syfy, Fridays @ 11 PM Original Airdate: September 12, 2014 If you don’t like zombies, this show is not for you. If you are a zombie aficionado and can debate the merits of the classic slow-moving zombies of genre-meister George Romero, THE WALKING DEAD and Max Brooks’ WORLD WAR Z novel vs. the running zombies of the Zack Snyder/James Gunn DAWN OF THE DEAD remake, Danny Boyle’s 28 […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Robert Carlyle spins ONCE UPON A TIME gold

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/08/2012
Robert Carlyle in ONCE UPON A TIME - Season 1 | ©2012 ABC/Kharen Hill

ABC’s freshman hit ONCE UPON A TIME, Sundays at 8 PM, is unlike anything else currently on television. Created by its show runners Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, ONCE posits that the curse of the Wicked Queen (Lana Parrilla) has deposited all of the inhabitants of Fairytale Land – Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin), Prince Charming (Josh Dallas), Jiminy Cricket (Raphael Sbarge), the Magic Mirror (Giancarlo Esposito) et al – in our world’s town of Storybrooke, Maine, a picturesque community where nothing ever changes. Due to the curse, the inhabitants have no memory of their former selves and don’t realize that […]Read On »


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Interview: Cliff Curtis goes CIA on MISSING

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/15/2012
Cliff Curtis in MISSING - Season 1 | ©2012 ABC/Bob D'Amico

A mother in search of her kidnapped son can be formidable. A mother in that situation, who also used to be a CIA field agent, can be the proverbial unstoppable force. Certainly, that’s the case with Ashley Judd’s MISSING character Rebecca Winstone, who has raised her son Michael (Nick Eversman) alone ever since the death of Nick’s father, Rebecca’s husband and fellow CIA agent Paul Winstone (Sean Bean, see in flashbacks throughout the series). Naturally, the CIA isn’t too thrilled with the idea of one of their own, albeit retired, deploying her Agency skills around the globe. European station chief […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: DO NOT DISTURB actor-director Eric Balfour

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/14/2011

DO NOT DISTURB, currently available on VOD, is the epitome of accessible independent filmmaking, both in production technique and in content. The film is an five-segment anthology set in a hotel room, with a connective through-line starring Diva Zappa as a maid. Each segment has a different director. Mali Elfman created the premise and serves as producer. She and some of the other filmmakers appear in the movie at various points. Perhaps the most prominent acting appearance by one of the filmmakers of DO NOT DISTURB is that of Eric Balfour. L.A. native Balfour, been a professional actor for most […]Read On »


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CD Review: 127 HOURS Original Soundtrack

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER 11/18/2010
© 2010 Interscope Records | 127 Hours Soundtrack

When it comes to grooving filmmakers, Danny Boyle just might be the most creative D.J.-cum-director of them all. Cutting his movies to the fierce energy, and hallucinatory rhythms of a rave with particularly good drugs, Boyle’s best, confrontational imagery has pulsated with often-improbable mix tapes of score and songs, creating any number of memorably crazy scenes. Scottish addicts did screwball crimes to Iggy Pop’s “Lust for Life” in TRAINSPOTTING, the religious strains of “Ave Maria” gave way to the rabid zombie guitar run of John Murphy’s score to 28 WEEKS LATER before that composer teamed with the electro group Orbital […]Read On »


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Movie Review: 127 HOURS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/05/2010
© 2010 Fox Searchlight | 127 HOURS movie poster

Chances are, you’ve heard of Aron Ralston. He’s the outdoor enthusiast who got pinned by a boulder in a freak accident and, after five days, had to cut off his own arm to escape. For those who can cope with a depiction of Ralston’s ordeal, 127 HOURS is a consistently gripping drama that puts us face to face with the question of what we would or even could do to save ourselves in a similar situation.


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