Stephen Schaefer
Film Critic and Entertainment Writer at Boston Herald
Contributing Writer at Hartford Courant
Film critic, entertainment writer, movie mad
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bostonherald.com | Stephen Schaefer
At 62, Dean Devlin has scored as an actor, screenwriter, producer and showrunner but it’s his “The Librarian” series that seems to be immortal. “It’s been, really, one of the joys of my life,” Devlin confirmed in a video interview. “We did the original ‘Librarian’ movie at TNT just over 20 years ago, and then we did three movies that were remarkably successful.
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bostonherald.com | Stephen Schaefer
It was 50 years ago this summer that Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” terrorized moviegoers and became an instant classic. Filmed on Martha’s Vineyard and adapted from Peter Benchley’s bestseller about a man-eating shark targeting the (fictional) Amity Island beach, “Jaws” charts how police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider), marine biologist Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) and grizzled shark hunter Quint (Robert Shaw) risk all to destroy the relentless predator.
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bostonherald.com | Stephen Schaefer
Killing off Pedro Pascal’s Joel, “The Last of Us” star and key player, in the second episode of the second season of HBO’s hit series was, it turns out, just the start. As the seventh and season’s final episode of this popular post-apocalyptic series aired Sunday night, the show’s writing and directing co-creators Craig Mazin, 54, and Neil Druckmann, 46, showed they still know how to surprise with – spoiler alert! – a cliffhanger ending.
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bostonherald.com | Stephen Schaefer
From Wales comes Thursday’s “Death Valley,” BritBox’s latest comically inclined crime-solving duo. Naturally, they’re an engaging if slightly odd couple. John Chapel (Timothy Spall) is a retired actor, still admired (and recognized) as the star of “Caesar,” a detective series. He’s (unofficially) recruited by the young Welsh Detective Sergeant Janie Mallowan (Gwyneth Keyworth) who is gob-smacked to meet her favorite TV detective and sees that his on-the-job acting has made him a valuable cohort.
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bostonherald.com | Stephen Schaefer
In his new thriller “The Doorman,” (MCD, $27) bestselling author Chris Pavone (“The Expats,” “Two Nights in Lisbon”) dives into the dark heart of upper and lower class Manhattan where everyone has secrets, and death is just a kiss – or a bullet – away. The Bohemia, a legendary, luxurious Central Park West residence, is where a doorman is always on duty. Where bad things may be not around the corner but at the front door.
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