WAYWARD PINES: Melissa Leo on the new Fox series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/09/2015
Melissa Leo in WAYWARD PINES - Season 1 | ©2015 Fox/James Minchin

Melissa Leo won a Supporting Actress Oscar for her work in THE FIGHTER as Alice Ward, the real-life mother of prize fighter Mickey Ward, played in the film by Mark Wahlberg. Alice is a tough customer, which describes many of the characters played by the New York-born Leo, including her Baltimore police detective in five seasons of HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREETS and her New Orleans flood survivor Toni Bernette in HBO’s TREME. “Tough” is perhaps the mildest way to refer to Leo’s Nurse Pam on Fox’s WAYWARD PINES, Thursdays at 9 PM. Adapted by Chad Hodge from the books […]Read On »


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OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN Highlights this week in Blu-ray, DVD and VOD Releases

By PETER BROWN 08/17/2013
OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN | (c) 2013 Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Your time is short. We know this. So in order to expedite your buying and Netflix decision making, we provide you with a list of the cool and not-so-cool titles coming out for movies, television and everything in-between. So put your feet up, grab some popcorn and check out this week’s selections. Movies: OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN – There were two films that came out during the summer that had to do with an attack on the White House and the president becoming a target of terrorism directly in the homeland. OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN was the first one with WHITE HOUSE […]Read On »


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Movie Review: WHITE HOUSE DOWN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/28/2013
WHITE HOUSE DOWN movie poster | ©2013 Sony Pictures

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx, Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Woods, Jason Clarke, Richard Jenkins, Joey King Writer: James Vanderbilt Director: Roland Emmerich Distributor: Columbia Pictures Release Date: June 27, 2013 It’s easy to like WHITE HOUSE DOWN, even as we acknowledge that it seems awfully unlikely. Granted, the U.S. government can be dysfunctional, but it doesn’t usually have the kinds of lapses that would lead to a cadre of mixed mercenaries and ideologues invading1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, armed with actual weapons rather than words. Part of the film deals with uncovering the question of who these people are and what […]Read On »


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