Movie Review: IMAGINARY

IMAGINARY movie poster | ©2024 Lionsgate/Blumhouse

Rating: PG-13 Stars: DeWanda Wise, Tom Payne, Taegen Burns, Pyper Braun, Veronica Falcón, Betty Buckley, Matthew Sato, Cecilia Leal Writers: Jeff Wadlow & Greg Erb & Jason Oremland Director: Jeff Wadlow Distributor: Lionsgate Release Date: March 8, 2024 IMAGINARY plays something like if ALICE IN WONDERLAND, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, and INSIDIOUS all got together and had a lively tea party that never went fully mad. That IMAGINARY has a PG-13 rating probably has something to do with its relative restraint, but so does the filmmakers’ evident desire to hit a specific set of notes. Children’s book author and […]Read On »


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PRODIGAL SON: Creators Chris Fedak and Sam Sklaver on Season 2 – Exclusive Interview

Frank Harts, Keiko Agena, Aurora Perrineau, Lou Diamond Phillips, Michael Sheen, Tom Payne, Bellamy Young and Halston Sage in PRODIGAL SON - Season 2 | ©2020 Fox/Mark Seliger

PRODIGAL SON, now in its second season Tuesday nights on Fox, is teasing a season-long arc. Malcolm Bright (Tom Payne) is still a profiler for the NYPD, and his father, serial killer Martin Whitly (Michael Sheen), is still confined to a psychiatric institution. But family dynamics are changing. At the end of Season 1, Malcolm’s society belle mother Jessica (Bellamy Young) had been dating wealthy Nicholas Endicott (Dermot Mulroney). Malcolm and his sister, TV reporter Ainsley (Halston Sage), discovered that Endicott was a murderer. When Endicott threatened the siblings, Ainsley lashed out and killed him – and now doesn’t remember […]Read On »


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PRODIGAL SON: Actor and director Lou Diamond Phillips on Season 2 – Exclusive Interview

Lou Diamond Phillips in PRODIGAL SON - Season 2 - "It's All in the Execution" | ©2020 Fox/Phil Caruso

PRODIGAL SON returns for the premiere of its second season on Tuesday, January 12, on Fox. The show stars Tom Payne as Malcolm Bright, who works as a consultant for a homicide department of the NYPD, headed up by Lou Diamond Phillips’s character, Lieutenant Gil Arroyo. Malcolm has unique insights into serial killers, since his incarcerated father, Dr. Martin Whitly (Michael Sheen), happens to be one. Season 1 ended with Malcolm’s sister, TV journalist Ainsley (Halston Sage), stabbing wealthy murderer Nicholas Endicott (Dermot Mulroney) to death in order to save herself and her brother. Before this happened, Gil had embarked […]Read On »


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PRODIGAL SON: Co-creator Chris Fedak on the rest of Season 1- Exclusive Interview

Tom Payne in PRODIGAL SON - Season 1 - "Like Father ..." | ©2020 Fox/Barbara Nitke

PRODIGAL SON returns for the final episodes of its first season beginning Monday, April 20. Incarcerated serial killer Martin Whitly (Michael Sheen) has told his son, former FBI profiler/current NYPD consultant Malcolm Bright (Tom Payne), that Sophie (Anna Ellinsfeld), “the girl in the box,” assumed to be one of Martin’s victims, was actually set free. Malcolm believes his father, but should he? And if Martin is telling the truth, what did happen to the young woman? And what is going to happen with the budding relationship between Malcolm’s mother/Martin’s ex-wife Jessica (Bellamy Young) and her possibly homicidal new beau (Dermot Mulroney)? […]Read On »


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PRODIGAL SON: Co-creator Sam Sklaver on the second half of Season 1 – Exclusive Interview

Tom Payne in PRODIGAL SON - Season 1 - "The Job" | ©2020 Fox/David Giesbrecht

Fox’s PRODIGAL SON returns for the back half of its first season on Monday, March 16. The series concerns NYPD consultant Malcolm Bright (Tom Payne), who excels at understanding the criminal mind, and his family: wealthy socialite mother Jessica (Bellamy Young), ambitious broadcast news reporter sister Ainsley (Halston Sage), and brilliant serial killer father Martin Whitly (Michael Sheen), who has been locked up – with privileges – in a psychiatric hospital for the past several decades. When PRODIGAL SON left off at its midseason break, Martin was in the hospital, recovering from being stabbed in the heart by Malcolm, who […]Read On »


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PRODIGAL SON: Former THE WALKING DEAD star Tom Payne talks new thriller series – Exclusive Interview

Tom Payne as Malcolm Bright in PRODIGAL SON - Season 1 | © 2019 Fox Media LLC/David Giesbrecht

In Fox’s Monday-night drama thriller PRODIGAL SON, Tom Payne plays the title character, Malcolm Bright. Malcolm is a profiler of murderers, hired as a consultant at the NYPD after he’s fired by the FBI. When PRODIGAL SON begins, Malcolm hasn’t spoken to his father, Martin Whitly (Michael Sheen), in ten years. This is because Martin, a brilliant doctor, has murdered at least twenty-three people (maybe more). Martin has been locked up at a psych hospital since Malcolm, as a child, called the police on his dad. But solving some cases and saving lives requires expertise that Martin is uniquely qualified […]Read On »


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PRODIGAL SON: Creators Chris Fedak and Sam Sklaver on new thriller series – Exclusive Interview

Frank Harts, Keiko Agena, Aurora Perrineau, Lou Diamond Phillips, Michael Sheen, Tom Payne, Bellamy Young and Halston Sage in PRODIGAL SON - Season 1 | ©2019 Fox Media LLC/Mark Seliger

Fox Network’s Monday-night thriller series PRODIGAL SON is the creation of executive producers/show runners Chris Fedak and Sam Sklaver. The title of PRODIGAL SON refers to NYPD homicide consultant, profiler Malcolm Bright (Tom Payne). Malcolm has a lot of deep-rooted psychological problems stemming from the fact that his father, Martin Whitly (Michael Sheen), is a prolific serial killer, now incarcerated in a mental institution. Malcolm’s problems get worse when he finds that the best way to solve cases is often to consult Dad. Adding to the level of difficulty are Malcolm’s horrified, wealthy mother Jessica (Bellamy Young) and his ambitious […]Read On »


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PRODIGAL SON: Lou Diamond Phillips talks about his new thriller series – Exclusive Interview

Diamond Phillips as Gil Martinez in PRODIGAL SON - Season 1 - "Q&A" | © 2019 Fox Media LLC/David Giesbrech

Fox’s PRODIGAL SON, in its first season on Monday nights, has just received a full-season pickup. Malcolm Bright (Tom Payne), a profiler consultant to an NYPD homicide task force, is the son of notorious, incarcerated serial killer Martin Whitley (Michael Sheen). Lou Diamond Phillips plays Malcolm’s boss, NYPD Lieutenant Gil Arroyo, who arrested Martin when Malcolm was a boy and has served as the young man’s surrogate father ever since. Phillips, born in Subic Bay in the Philippines, has played plenty of law enforcement characters, and pretty much every other type of character, in films and television over a career […]Read On »


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Exclusive Photos from THIS MEANS WAR Los Angeles Premiere

Reese Witherspoon at the Los Angeles Premiere of THIS MEANS WAR | ©20`12 Sue Schneider

Recently Twentieth Century Fox celebrated the Los Angeles Premiere of THIS MEANS WAR at the Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Chris Pine and Tom Hardy star as the world’s deadliest CIA operatives. They are inseparable partners and best friends until they both fall for the same woman (Reese Witherspoon). Seen walking the carpet were the stars of the film, which included: Reese Witherspoon, Tom Hardy, Chris Pine, Angela Bassett, Chelsea Handler, Abigail Spencer, John Paul Ruttan, Aleks Paunovic, Laura Vandervoort, McG (Director), Writers – Timothy Dowling and Simon Kinberg. Joining them were guests, which included: Kelly Sullivan, The Bella Twins […]Read On »


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