Nearly twenty years have passed since the Guantanamo Bay detention camp first opened, thrusting this remote corner of Cuba into the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. Consigned to a legal gray zone by the US government, Gitmo became synonymous with indefinite detention and interrogation practices, which some have called a violation of basic human rights. It’s a sad legacy that still casts a shadow today, with the prison holding a small number of men despite promises by President Obama to close it. Into this controversy comes “I Am Gitmo,” shedding new light on the human costs of those clandestine policies through the story of one innocent man.
We meet Gamal Sadek, a schoolteacher living peacefully in Afghanistan with his family after a past fighting Soviet occupation. But in the post-9/11 dragnet, Sadek’s history and Muslim identity make him a target. On dubious evidence and a neighbor’s false report,...
We meet Gamal Sadek, a schoolteacher living peacefully in Afghanistan with his family after a past fighting Soviet occupation. But in the post-9/11 dragnet, Sadek’s history and Muslim identity make him a target. On dubious evidence and a neighbor’s false report,...
- 7/22/2024
- by Shahrbanoo Golmohamadi
- Gazettely
Melissa Joan Hart is back on Lifetime with the new movie The Bad Guardian. This thriller also stars La La Anthony and Eric Pierpoint. What happens when the person you trusted to care for your parent turns out to take advantage of them?
This is a cautionary tale that all fans of the network will want to tune in.
What Is Lifetime’s The Bad Guardian About?
In this latest Lifetime movie The Bad Guardian, a daughter fights to keep her father from being taken advantage of. What happens in this new movie? According to The Futon Critic, Jason, Leigh’s father, has a serious fall. As Leigh is out of town, the court has assigned the injured senior a guardian named Janet.
Initially, things seemed to go well. Janet appears to take good care of Jason. However, things take a turn for the worse.
“Janet is legally in charge...
This is a cautionary tale that all fans of the network will want to tune in.
What Is Lifetime’s The Bad Guardian About?
In this latest Lifetime movie The Bad Guardian, a daughter fights to keep her father from being taken advantage of. What happens in this new movie? According to The Futon Critic, Jason, Leigh’s father, has a serious fall. As Leigh is out of town, the court has assigned the injured senior a guardian named Janet.
Initially, things seemed to go well. Janet appears to take good care of Jason. However, things take a turn for the worse.
“Janet is legally in charge...
- 4/21/2024
- by Georgia Makitalo
- TV Shows Ace
Lifetime is wading into the guardianship debate by greenlighting a fictional movie with the working title The Bad Guardian.
Following the headlines and debate surrounding the guardianships of Wendy Williams and Britney Spears, the network has ordered a movie about a court-appointed guardianship gone wrong.
The Bad Guardian will star Melissa Joan Hart (Sabrina the Teenage Witch) and La La Anthony (La La’s Full Court Life) and “is inspired by countless true stories of individuals who have been put in the care of a guardian by the courts and raises the question — are these caretakers helpful or harmful?”
The official (and a bit spoiler-filled) description: The Bad Guardian is “about one woman’s fight to save her father from the clutches of a corrupt and greedy court-appointed guardian. When Leigh’s (Melissa Joan Hart) father Jason (Eric Pierpoint) suffers a fall while she’s out of town, the courts assign Jason a guardian,...
Following the headlines and debate surrounding the guardianships of Wendy Williams and Britney Spears, the network has ordered a movie about a court-appointed guardianship gone wrong.
The Bad Guardian will star Melissa Joan Hart (Sabrina the Teenage Witch) and La La Anthony (La La’s Full Court Life) and “is inspired by countless true stories of individuals who have been put in the care of a guardian by the courts and raises the question — are these caretakers helpful or harmful?”
The official (and a bit spoiler-filled) description: The Bad Guardian is “about one woman’s fight to save her father from the clutches of a corrupt and greedy court-appointed guardian. When Leigh’s (Melissa Joan Hart) father Jason (Eric Pierpoint) suffers a fall while she’s out of town, the courts assign Jason a guardian,...
- 3/1/2024
- by James Hibberd
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Gary Graham, the beloved film and television actor, has passed away at 73. Graham was a featured player in the Alien Nation franchise, a chameleon of numerous characters in the Star Trek universe, and motion pictures across multiple genres. His ex-wife, actress Susan Lavelle, announced his passing in a Facebook message. She did not provide a cause of death for the gifted actor.
“It is with deep profound sadness to say that Gary Graham, my ex husband, amazing actor and father of our beautiful only child together, Haylee Graham, has passed away today,” wrote Lavelle. “We are completely devastated especially our daughter Haley. His wife, Becky was by his side.”
Graham got his start performing in episodic television in the mid-1970s. With his signature mop of swooping brown hair, Graham appeared in shows like Eight Is Enough, Starsky and Hutch, Police Woman, and more. When the 1980s came about, Graham contributed to shows like CHiPs,...
“It is with deep profound sadness to say that Gary Graham, my ex husband, amazing actor and father of our beautiful only child together, Haylee Graham, has passed away today,” wrote Lavelle. “We are completely devastated especially our daughter Haley. His wife, Becky was by his side.”
Graham got his start performing in episodic television in the mid-1970s. With his signature mop of swooping brown hair, Graham appeared in shows like Eight Is Enough, Starsky and Hutch, Police Woman, and more. When the 1980s came about, Graham contributed to shows like CHiPs,...
- 1/23/2024
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Gary Graham, an actor who appeared in dozens of TV roles but will be best remembered for his place in the Alien Nation and Star Trek universes, has died. He was 73.
His death was announced by his ex-wife, actress Susan Lavelle, in a Facebook message posted shortly after 1 a.m. today. She did not provide a cause of death.
“It is with deep profound sadness to say that Gary Graham, my ex husband, amazing actor and father of our beautiful only child together, Haylee Graham, has passed away today,” wrote Lavelle, who met Graham when she was 20 and he was starring in Alien Nation. “We are completely devastated especially our daughter Haley. His wife, Becky was by his side.”
Born June 6, 1950, in Long Beach, CA, Graham began making appearances on episodic TV in the mid-1970s, including one-off roles in Eight Is Enough, Starsky and Hutch, Police Woman and The Incredible Hulk.
His death was announced by his ex-wife, actress Susan Lavelle, in a Facebook message posted shortly after 1 a.m. today. She did not provide a cause of death.
“It is with deep profound sadness to say that Gary Graham, my ex husband, amazing actor and father of our beautiful only child together, Haylee Graham, has passed away today,” wrote Lavelle, who met Graham when she was 20 and he was starring in Alien Nation. “We are completely devastated especially our daughter Haley. His wife, Becky was by his side.”
Born June 6, 1950, in Long Beach, CA, Graham began making appearances on episodic TV in the mid-1970s, including one-off roles in Eight Is Enough, Starsky and Hutch, Police Woman and The Incredible Hulk.
- 1/23/2024
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Gary Graham, who starred as the human detective who partners with an extraterrestrial newcomer to solve crimes on the Fox sci-fi television franchise Alien Nation, has died. He was 73.
Graham died Monday of cardiac arrest at a hospital in Spokane, Washington, his wife of nearly 25 years, Becky Graham, told The Hollywood Reporter.
In the Star Trek universe, Graham played the Ocampan community leader Tanis on Star Trek: Voyager in 1995; recurred as Ambassador Soval, a Vulcan ambassador to Earth, on Star Trek: Enterprise, from 2001-05; and portrayed the first officer Ragnar in Star Trek: Of Gods and Men (2007) and Star Trek: Renegades from 2015-17.
Graham also stood out as a sleazy dealer of porn films in the Paul Schrader thriller Hardcore (1979), starring George C. Scott, and he was the older brother of Tom Cruise’s character in Michael Chapman’s All the Right Moves (1983).
Graham starred as the L.A. detective...
Graham died Monday of cardiac arrest at a hospital in Spokane, Washington, his wife of nearly 25 years, Becky Graham, told The Hollywood Reporter.
In the Star Trek universe, Graham played the Ocampan community leader Tanis on Star Trek: Voyager in 1995; recurred as Ambassador Soval, a Vulcan ambassador to Earth, on Star Trek: Enterprise, from 2001-05; and portrayed the first officer Ragnar in Star Trek: Of Gods and Men (2007) and Star Trek: Renegades from 2015-17.
Graham also stood out as a sleazy dealer of porn films in the Paul Schrader thriller Hardcore (1979), starring George C. Scott, and he was the older brother of Tom Cruise’s character in Michael Chapman’s All the Right Moves (1983).
Graham starred as the L.A. detective...
- 1/23/2024
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Science fiction allows us to explore worlds of imagination and possibility, the bigger and the wilder the better. However, the line between smash hit and cult darling is hard to pinpoint, much less cross. The show that doesn't win this blindfolded coin toss is often doomed to go forgotten, its episode order cut short, and its effects budget cruelly slashed just in time to limp to a half-baked finale or worse, a cliffhanger.
It's a fate that often hits this genre harder than others because big concept science fiction shows can look like money pits to studios worried about their bottom line. Money makes it difficult for showrunners to realize their full vision, much less attract strong writers to help them on the way. Despite these hurdles, there are years of great science fiction lurking under an ocean filled with "Star Trek" yachts and waves of reality TV. Of course,...
It's a fate that often hits this genre harder than others because big concept science fiction shows can look like money pits to studios worried about their bottom line. Money makes it difficult for showrunners to realize their full vision, much less attract strong writers to help them on the way. Despite these hurdles, there are years of great science fiction lurking under an ocean filled with "Star Trek" yachts and waves of reality TV. Of course,...
- 11/8/2022
- by Margaret David
- Slash Film
Disney has decided hit the pause button on Fox’s remake of 1988’s science-fiction thriller “Alien Nation.”
Fox signed director Jeff Nichols in 2016 to write and direct the project. That deal was announced two days before Nichols’ “Loving” premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. Nichols was re-teaming with “Loving” producers Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Sarah Greene for the new “Alien Nation” movie.
The original “Alien Nation” was set in Los Angeles after 300,000 members of an enslaved alien race — the Newcomers — landed in the Mojave Desert. James Caan starred as a police officer partnered with an alien, played by Mandy Patinkin.
“Alien Nation,” produced by Gale Anne Hurd and Richard Kobritz, was a moderate success with a $25 million gross. Fox launched a spinoff TV series, starring Gary Graham and Eric Pierpoint, which ran for 22 episodes during the 1989-90 season before it was canceled.
The “Alien Nation” movie project is being put on...
Fox signed director Jeff Nichols in 2016 to write and direct the project. That deal was announced two days before Nichols’ “Loving” premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. Nichols was re-teaming with “Loving” producers Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Sarah Greene for the new “Alien Nation” movie.
The original “Alien Nation” was set in Los Angeles after 300,000 members of an enslaved alien race — the Newcomers — landed in the Mojave Desert. James Caan starred as a police officer partnered with an alien, played by Mandy Patinkin.
“Alien Nation,” produced by Gale Anne Hurd and Richard Kobritz, was a moderate success with a $25 million gross. Fox launched a spinoff TV series, starring Gary Graham and Eric Pierpoint, which ran for 22 episodes during the 1989-90 season before it was canceled.
The “Alien Nation” movie project is being put on...
- 6/28/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Alien Nation is making a comeback. Deadline reports Jeff Nichols is slated to direct an upcoming film adaptation of the cancelled Fox TV series.Based on the 1988 movie starring James Caan, the sci-fi drama followed a Lapd officer is paired with an alien new to Earth. The cast included Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, and Lauren Woodland. Fox cancelled the series in 1990 after only one season.Read More…...
- 9/13/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
The bad news is that "Parks and Recreation" has the night off Thursday (Feb. 9). NBC is running two episodes of "30 Rock" instead.
The good news is that when "Parks and Rec" returns next week, it will be with an episode that features the return of Leslie's (Amy Poehler) ex-boyfriend, Dave (Louis C.K.). From the looks of these pictures, though, the reunion not so much joyful as it is awkward.
As co-creator Mike Schur told us a little while back, Dave, now a cop in San Diego, returns to Pawnee for the Pawnee police chief's (Eric Pierpoint) retirement party. Dave and Leslie run into each other as Leslie is trying to get the chief's endorsement for her city council campaign.
Things are cordial enough that Leslie and Dave sit down to a meal together, but even here they don't look all that relaxed.
Perhaps that's because Leslie's new boyfriend, Ben (Adam Scott), is also there.
The good news is that when "Parks and Rec" returns next week, it will be with an episode that features the return of Leslie's (Amy Poehler) ex-boyfriend, Dave (Louis C.K.). From the looks of these pictures, though, the reunion not so much joyful as it is awkward.
As co-creator Mike Schur told us a little while back, Dave, now a cop in San Diego, returns to Pawnee for the Pawnee police chief's (Eric Pierpoint) retirement party. Dave and Leslie run into each other as Leslie is trying to get the chief's endorsement for her city council campaign.
Things are cordial enough that Leslie and Dave sit down to a meal together, but even here they don't look all that relaxed.
Perhaps that's because Leslie's new boyfriend, Ben (Adam Scott), is also there.
- 2/9/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Mike Schur and his fellow "Parks and Recreation" writers knew at the start of this season they were going to take Leslie (Amy Poehler) and Ben (Adam Scott) through some romantic travails.
They weren't as sure, however, about playing it out in such a concentrated way, where the last five episodes of the fall ("End of the World" through "Citizen Knope") focused heavily on their relationship.
"We knew we had this big Ben-Leslie arc to do, which is them breaking up at the beginning of the year and then getting back together," Schur tells Zap2it. "We had a debate about whether we should parse those episodes out slowly over the course of the season."
The show obviously went the opposite direction, but Schur admits he was nervous about the decision. "It was several stories in a row that kept dealing with a similar theme, but I just kept coming...
They weren't as sure, however, about playing it out in such a concentrated way, where the last five episodes of the fall ("End of the World" through "Citizen Knope") focused heavily on their relationship.
"We knew we had this big Ben-Leslie arc to do, which is them breaking up at the beginning of the year and then getting back together," Schur tells Zap2it. "We had a debate about whether we should parse those episodes out slowly over the course of the season."
The show obviously went the opposite direction, but Schur admits he was nervous about the decision. "It was several stories in a row that kept dealing with a similar theme, but I just kept coming...
- 1/9/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
You would think a few cheapie knock-offs or maybe a historical account of the tragedy of the Donner Party in the late 1800s, would fill up our video stores, but I personally can’t recall one. Donner Pass might fit the bill. The film is getting some rave reviews from people like the screenwriter of Captain America: The First Avenger.
Here’s the plot: “In 1846 a party of settlers became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and had to resort to cannibalism to survive. Some 150 years later a group of teens on a ski trip discover that the curse of the Donner Party still haunts those mountains when members of their group start turning up not only dead, but half-eaten. Nothing – and no one – is what it seems in this provocative dark thriller. And history doesn’t always stay in the past.”
Dread Central has the poster and press release...
Here’s the plot: “In 1846 a party of settlers became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and had to resort to cannibalism to survive. Some 150 years later a group of teens on a ski trip discover that the curse of the Donner Party still haunts those mountains when members of their group start turning up not only dead, but half-eaten. Nothing – and no one – is what it seems in this provocative dark thriller. And history doesn’t always stay in the past.”
Dread Central has the poster and press release...
- 7/19/2011
- by Jon Peters
- Killer Films
One flick we've been keeping our eyes on for a while now, Donner Pass, has finally reached completion, and we've got the early word and some brand new eye candy for you horror lovin' cats! Dig it!
From the Press Release: Arroyo Filmworks is proud to announce the completion of Donner Pass, the first feature film from Emmy award-winning director Elise Robertson. Susan Jackson (Cabin Fever), president of Turtles Crossing, has signed on as sales agent.
Featuring an ensemble cast of talented young actors alongside Hollywood veterans John Kassir (Jack the Giant Killer, Tales from the Crypt) and Eric Pierpoint (Transformers II, Holes), the story follows a group of teenagers who get snowed in near Lake Tahoe – the same spot where the Donner Party became snowbound and was forced to resort to cannibalism 150 years ago.
A legend persists that the Donner Party fell victim to an evil curse, a hunger...
From the Press Release: Arroyo Filmworks is proud to announce the completion of Donner Pass, the first feature film from Emmy award-winning director Elise Robertson. Susan Jackson (Cabin Fever), president of Turtles Crossing, has signed on as sales agent.
Featuring an ensemble cast of talented young actors alongside Hollywood veterans John Kassir (Jack the Giant Killer, Tales from the Crypt) and Eric Pierpoint (Transformers II, Holes), the story follows a group of teenagers who get snowed in near Lake Tahoe – the same spot where the Donner Party became snowbound and was forced to resort to cannibalism 150 years ago.
A legend persists that the Donner Party fell victim to an evil curse, a hunger...
- 7/19/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
It's Saturday, March 13, 2010, when Dread arrives to the snowy set of director Elise Robertson's horror feature Donner Pass. Penned by Scott Adams and executive produced by Mouncey Ferguson, who financed the film, the independent feature tells the story of an unlucky group of teens who, while on a ski trip in the mountains around Lake Tahoe, encounter George Donner, an entity with a taste for human flesh, and unfortunately for the group, it's for their own.
Setting foot into the remote mountain cabin that production has secured, and at present is being utilized as base-camp, I meet associate producer Duncan Ferguson, who fills us in on the status of Donner Pass, starring John (the voice of the Crypt Keeper) Kassir as 'Epstein', Adelaide (Power Rangers R.P.M.) Kane as 'Nicole', Desiree Hall as 'Kayley', and Antonio Trischitta as 'Brody', with the cast rounded out by up-and-comers Erik Stocklin...
Setting foot into the remote mountain cabin that production has secured, and at present is being utilized as base-camp, I meet associate producer Duncan Ferguson, who fills us in on the status of Donner Pass, starring John (the voice of the Crypt Keeper) Kassir as 'Epstein', Adelaide (Power Rangers R.P.M.) Kane as 'Nicole', Desiree Hall as 'Kayley', and Antonio Trischitta as 'Brody', with the cast rounded out by up-and-comers Erik Stocklin...
- 3/26/2010
- by SeanD.
- DreadCentral.com
Dread Central recently caught up with producer Jude S. Walko, who tipped us off to his upcoming horror feature Donner Pass, which is set to shoot in Los Angeles and its surrounding environs next month.
Directed by Elise Robertson from a script by Scott Adams, Donner Pass is set to star John (the voice of the Crypt Keeper) Kassir as ‘Epstein’, Adelaide (Power Rangers R.P.M.) Kane as ‘Nicole’, and Desiree Hall as ‘Kayley’, with the cast rounded out by up-and-comers Erik Stocklin and Colley Bailey and seasoned vets Thomas Kopache, Eric Pierpoint, Joel Stoffer, Russ Russo, and Kevin Kearns. Mouncey Ferguson III, who independently financed the film, serves as executive producer with Walko on board in the capacity of producer.
The story? “Over a long weekend,” Walko informed us of the flick’s narrative, “a group of angst-ridden teens are invited up to their friend's parents' remote cabin in Donner Pass,...
Directed by Elise Robertson from a script by Scott Adams, Donner Pass is set to star John (the voice of the Crypt Keeper) Kassir as ‘Epstein’, Adelaide (Power Rangers R.P.M.) Kane as ‘Nicole’, and Desiree Hall as ‘Kayley’, with the cast rounded out by up-and-comers Erik Stocklin and Colley Bailey and seasoned vets Thomas Kopache, Eric Pierpoint, Joel Stoffer, Russ Russo, and Kevin Kearns. Mouncey Ferguson III, who independently financed the film, serves as executive producer with Walko on board in the capacity of producer.
The story? “Over a long weekend,” Walko informed us of the flick’s narrative, “a group of angst-ridden teens are invited up to their friend's parents' remote cabin in Donner Pass,...
- 2/25/2010
- by SeanD.
- DreadCentral.com
The Sci-Fi Channel is in the process of developing a new version of Alien Nation, the 1988 sci-fi film-turned-television series. Veteran television producer and writer Tim Minear, whose credits include Dollhouse, Drive, Angel, Firefly and The X-Files, is writing the screenplay. Alien Nation centers on the partnership between a veteran cop and his alien detective partner, set against the larger tale of alien "newcomers" who move to Earth and attempt to assimilate into society. The film was directed by Graham Baker and starred James Caan, Mandy Patinkin and Terence Stamp. In 1989, 20th Century Fox TV adapted the movie for television, with Eric Pierpoint and Gary Graham in the lead roles. The show lasted just a single season but spawned a series of books. The show was revived in 1994 as a series of TV movies for Fox, starting with Alien Nation: Dark Horizon. Five more were ultimately aired; the last, Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy,...
- 7/1/2009
- by James Cook
- TheMovingPicture.net
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