Stephen Schaefer
Film Critic and Entertainment Reporter at Boston Herald
Film critic, entertainment writer, movie mad
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bostonherald.com | Stephen Schaefer
Stephen Moyer remains best known in America for his magnetic vampire Bill Compton in HBO’s seven-season series “True Blood.”He returns Monday with AcornTV’s murder mysteries series “Art Detectives” as art-loving Detective Inspector Mick Palmer, partnered with Detective Constable Shazia Malik (Nina Singh). They’re the Heritage Crime Unit, solving murders linked to art and antiques – everything from forged paintings to Viking gold.
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bostonherald.com | Stephen Schaefer
For Taraji P. Henson, her epic performance as a woman facing the worst day of her life in “Tyler Perry’s Straw,” meant a relentless full speed ahead. The title “Straw” correctly refers to “the last straw” for Henson’s Janiyah Wiltkinson, a single mother with Job-like obstacles that begin with her medically challenged young daughter, sadistically cruel boss and imminent eviction for non-payment of rent. Add a road rage attack by an unhinged cop and a ticket for her expired license by another.
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bostonherald.com | Stephen Schaefer
Today’s spectacular, eye-popping documentary feature “Ocean with David Attenborough” only took 3-plus years, three directors, several ships, fearless divers, camera crews and the 99-year-old icon to tell an incredible but true story perfectly timed for its NatGeo premiere, the day before Sunday’s World Ocean Day celebrations.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonherald.com | Stephen Schaefer
There was a very special reason Stephen King attended last September’s Toronto world premiere of “The Life of Chuck,” the latest picture based on one of his stories that opens nationwide today. “He was one of the first people to see it,” recalled “Chuck” writer-director-producer and editor Mike Flanagan in a phone interview. “I’ve done a few Kings and I’m always terrified to show Steve because I know what happens if he doesn’t like an adaptation.
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bostonherald.com | Stephen Schaefer
Andrew Rannells has been winning positive attention as queer characters on stage, film and television. With Nick Kroll in Friday’s “I Don’t Understand You,” Rannells is in a decidedly different gay adventure. “At the beginning of the movie our characters are on this romantic 10th anniversary vacation in Rome,” Rannells, 46, explained in a Zoom interview. “So we walk around Rome and eat gelato.
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