Movie Review: THE MENU

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/18/2022
THE MENU movie poster | ©2022 Searchlight Films

Rating: R Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Hong Chau, John Leguizamo, Janet McTeer, Paul Adelstein, Aimee Carrero, Judith Light, Reed Birney, Rob Yang, Arturo Castro, Mark St. Cyr, Christina Brucato Writers: Seth Reiss & Will Tracy Director: Mark Mylod Distributor: Searchlight Pictures Release Date: November 18, 2022 The first thing that people should know about THE MENU is that it is not about cannibalism. Well, really the first thing people should know about THE MENU is that it’s a very good movie. However, the advertising is such that people should be warned, or reassured, as the case may […]Read On »


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Movie Review: tick, tick … BOOM!

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/30/2021
TICK, TICK … BOOM! movie poster | ©2021 Netflix

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Andrew Garfield, Alexandra Shipp, Robin de Jesus, Vanessa Hudgens, Joshua Henry, Jonathan Marc Sherman, MJ Rodriguez, Ben Ross, Judith Light, Bradley Whitford Writer: Steven Levenson, based on the stage musical by Jonathan Larson Director: Lin-Manuel Miranda Distributor: Netflix Release Date: November 19, 2021 TICK, TICK … BOOM! the movie is based on the late Jonathan Larson’s stage musical TICK, TICK … BOOM!, which was about Jonathan Larson writing a musical. The movie can’t help having automatic added pathos by the fact of Larson’s death at the age of thirty-five, the night before his second produced musical, RENT, […]Read On »


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TRANSPARENT: Shakina Nayfack on the MUSICALE FINALE – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/16/2019
Shakina Nayfack in TRANSPARENT MUSICALE FINALE | ©2019 Amazon Studios

TRANSPARENT celebrates its ending by doing its fifth season as a single 100-minute musical movie, the TRANSPARENT MUSICALE FINALE, now available on Amazon Prime. Created by Jill Soloway, TRANSPARENT tells the story of the complicated Pfefferman family in Los Angeles, and the impact on everyone when the erstwhile patriarch, played by Jeffrey Tambor, comes out as transgender, now to be known as Maura. TRANSPARENT picked up Emmys and Golden Globes in multiple categories in its first four seasons, 2014-2017. It had been picked up for a fifth season when two people accused Tambor of sexual harassment. He has denied the […]Read On »


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TRANSPARENT: Creator Jill Soloway talks Season 2 of the Amazon series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/28/2015
TRANSPARENT Key Art - Season 2 | ©2015 Amazon

Amazon Studios’ TRANSPARENT premiered its second season in its entirely December 11. The show is nominated for multiple Golden Globes, including Best Television Series Comedy or Musical, Best Actor (Jeffrey Tambor) and Best Supporting Actress (Judith Light). The first season won Golden Globes for Best Comedy and for star Tambor, as well as Emmys for Tambor, and writing and directing Emmys for series creator/executive producer Jill Soloway. Soloway, whose previous credits include working on SIX FEET UNDER, UNITED STATES OF TARA and the documentary miniseries THIS IS ME, was inspired to create Tambor’s character, Maura (nee Mort) Pfefferman, by her […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview with DALLAS star Mitch Pileggi

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/12/2014
Mitch Pileggi stars on DALLAS | © 2014 Skip Bolen

Actor Mitch Pileggi has been in his share of TV classics. He spent nine seasons, and appeared in the two big-screen spin-offs, as FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner in THE X-FILES. He’s also had recurring roles on SUPERNATURAL, STARGATE: ATLANTIS and SONS OF ANARCHY, to name but a few of his TV gigs. Now Pileggi is a regular as the antagonistic Harris Ryland on TNT’s resurrection of DALLAS, Mondays at 9 PM. The show, now in its third season, is essentially a continuation of the series that ran on CBS from 1978 through 1991. Original stars Patrick Duffy as Bobby […]Read On »


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