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Movie Review: BOY KILLS WORLD

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 04/25/2024
BOY KILLS WORLD movie poster | ©2024 Lionsgate

Rating: R Stars: Bill Skarsgård, Jessica Rothe, Famke Janssen, Michelle Dockery, Andrew Koji, Brett Gelman, Isaiah Mustafa, Yayan Ruhian, Sharlto Copley, Quinn Copeland, H. Jon Benjamin (voice) Writers: Tyler Burton Smith and Arend Remmers, story by Arend Remmers & Moritz Mohr Director: Moritz Mohr Distributor: Lionsgate/Roadside Attractions Release Date: April 26, 2024  To paraphrase an old saying, killing is easy, comedy is hard. BOY KILLS WORLD brings this to mind. As an action/revenge movie, it is structured well by screenwriters Tyler Burton Smith and Arend Remmers, working from a story by Remmers and director Moritz Mohr. It has some impressive […]Read On »


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Movie Review: BREATHE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
BREATHE movie poster | ©2024 Capstone Pictures/Warner Bros.

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Jennifer Hudson, Milla Jovovich, Quvenzhané Wallis, Sam Worthington, Common, Raúl Castillo Writer: Doug Simon Director: Stefon Bristol Distributor: Warner Bros./Capstone Pictures Release Date: April 26, 2024 (theatrical/digital) In BREATHE, it’s the year 2039 and, per onscreen titles the world has run out of oxygen, all plant life has died, and the planet is generally uninhabitable. In Brooklyn, New York, botanist Maya (Jennifer Hudson), her engineer/survivalist husband Darius (Common), and their fifteen-year-old daughter Zora (Quvenzhané Wallis), who is learning from both of them survive in an apartment. Thanks to Darius’s forethought (his survivalist side) and ingenuity (his engineering […]Read On »


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BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA: Executive producer Matt Ross gives the scoop on the fifth and final season – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 04/24/2024
BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA - Season 5 Key Art | ©2024 CBS

BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA is now in its fifth and final season on CBS Monday nights, with episodes thereafter available on Paramount+ and older seasons available on Max. The half-hour comedy charts the unlikely romance of American socks company owner Bob (Billy Gardell) and hospital nurse Abishola (Fọláké Olówófôyekù), a Nigerian immigrant. The series was created by Eddie Gorodetsky, Alan J. Higgins, Chuck Lorre, and Gina Yashere, an Englishwoman of Nigerian heritage, who also costars on BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA as Abishola’s best friend Kemi. When Warner Bros. Television hosts a BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA set visit for the Winter 2024 Television Critics […]Read On »


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YOUNG SHELDON: Actress Annie Potts on the final season of the BIG BANG THEORY spin-off – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 04/22/2024
Annie Potts as Meemaw and Zoe Perry as Mary in YOUNG SHELDON - SEASON 7 - "An Ankle Monitor and a Big Plastic Crap House" | ©2024 CBS / Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. / Bill Inoshita

Annie Potts is having a good spring. On the big screen, she costars in GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE as Janine Melnitz, the character she also played in the original GHOSTBUSTERS, GHOSTBUSTERS II and GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE. Meanwhile, on television, the Tennessee native portrays Meemaw, the freewheeling grandmother of the title character in CBS’s comedy YOUNG SHELDON, now in its seventh and final season on Thursday nights. Potts has been with YOUNG SHELDON since its inception in 2018 as a spinoff of THE BIG BANG THEORY. One of the leads for seven seasons of the influential comedy DESIGNING WOMEN. Potts was also a […]Read On »


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PARISH: Actor Skeet Ulrich on new AMC action series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 04/21/2024
PARISH - Season 1 key art | ©2024 AMC

PARISH, in its first season Sunday nights on AMC and AMC+, stars Giancarlo Esposito (who is also an executive producer on the show) as Gracian “Gray” Parish, a New Orleans upscale car service owner who is trying to stay on the straight and narrow. This becomes more difficult when he is contacted by his old pal Colin, played by Skeet Ulrich. Colin has just been released after a seventeen-year stretch in the brutal Angola Prison. He could have gotten his sentence reduced if he’d flipped on Gray, but Colin stayed loyal. Now Colin wants Gray to go back to being […]Read On »


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Movie Review: ABIGAIL

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 04/19/2024
ABIGAIL movie poster | ©2024 Universal Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Melissa Barrera, Dan Stevens, Alisha Weir, Kathryn Newton, William Catlett, Kevin Durand, Angus Cloud, Giancarlo Esposito Writers: Stephen Shields and Guy Busick Directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett Distributor: Universal Pictures Release Date: April 19, 2024 Since it’s in the trailers and the artwork, it probably doesn’t count as a spoiler to say that ABIGAIL is about a vampire ballerina who looks like a little girl (Alisha Weir). What we may not necessarily know from the trailers and the artwork is that ABIGAIL is very good bloody fun, with filmmakers who seem to achieve everything they’re attempting […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE | ©2024 Lionsgate

Rating: R Stars: Henry Cavill, Alan Ritchson, Alex Pettyfer, Eiza Gonzales, Babs Olusanmokun, Cary Elwes, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Henry Golding, Rory Kinnear, Freddie Fox, Danny Sapani Writers: Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson and Arash Amel and Guy Ritchie, based on the book THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE: HOW CHURCHILL’S SECRET WARRIORS SET EUROPE ABLAZE AND GAVE BIRTH TO MODERN BLACK OPS by Damien Lewis Director: Guy Ritchie Distributor: Lionsgate Release Date: April 19, 2024 If James Bond had adventures in World War II, and were more of a team player, what he got up to might look something like THE […]Read On »


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SAW: THE MUSICAL: Creator Cooper Jordan and writer Zoe Ann Jordan on the new musical stage parody – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
SAW: THE MUSICAL Key Art | ©2024 Saw the Musical parody LLC

Pop quiz. What’s the most unlikely movie to ever get turned into a stage musical? If you somehow guessed SAW, you may be right. As subject matter goes, the 2004 horror film, which has launched a franchise (SAW XI is due out later this year) as well as the careers of director James Wan and his co-writer Leigh Whannell, doesn’t seem a likely candidate for upbeat musical numbers. It has two men – Adam, played by writer Whannell, and Dr. Lawrence Gordon, played by Cary Elwes – chained up at opposite ends of an industrial bathroom, where the only means […]Read On »


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SECRETS OF THE OCTOPUS: The filmmakers and author talk about new docu series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
SECRETS OF THE OCTOPUS Key Art | ©2024 National Geographic

SECRETS OF THE OCTOPUS is a new three-part documentary series premiering Sunday, April 21, on the National Geographic Channel, and is thereafter available streaming on National Geographic Channel, Hulu, and Disney+. Executive-produced by James Cameron as part of his National Geographic Channel SECRETS OF documentary anthology, SECRETS OF THE OCTOPUS explores previously unknown behaviors by these intelligent ocean dwellers. Paul Rudd is the show’s narrator. During National Geographic Channel’s portion of the Winter 2024 Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour, Dr. Alex Schnell, executive producer Adam Geiger, and writer Sy Montgomery sit down together to talk about SECRETS OF THE […]Read On »


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SHOGUN: Co-creator Rachel Kondo discusses new mini-series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 04/16/2024
SHOGUN miniseries Key Art | ©2024 FX Networks

The miniseries SHŌGUN, now running Tuesday nights on FX and available for streaming on Hulu, is the second adaptation of James Clavell’s epic 1975 bestseller. The first adaptation was an NBC miniseries in 1980. All concern a power struggle in 1600s Japan that comes to involve an English ship’s navigator, who is folded into the retinue of shrewd Lord Toranaga. However, both the NBC edition and the book itself are primarily from the Western point of view. The new version is told more from the Japanese perspective. Executive producers (who are also married to one another) Rachel Kondo & Justin […]Read On »


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