Abe Friedtanzer

Abe Friedtanzer
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Abe Friedtanzer is a film and TV enthusiast who spent most of the past fifteen years in New York City. He has been the editor of MoviesWithAbe.com and TVwithAbe.com since 2007, and has been predicting the Oscars, Emmys, Golden Globes, and SAG Awards since he was allowed to stay up late enough to watch them. He has attended numerous film festivals including Sundance, Tribeca, and SXSW, and is a contributing writer for The Film Experience, Awards Radar, and AwardsWatch.
Abe Friedtanzer is a film and TV enthusiast who spent most of the past fifteen years in New York City. He has been the editor of MoviesWithAbe.com and TVwithAbe.com since 2007, and has been predicting the Oscars, Emmys, Golden Globes, and SAG Awards since he was allowed to stay up late enough to watch them. He has attended numerous film festivals including Sundance, Tribeca, and SXSW, and is a contributing writer for The Film Experience, Awards Radar, and AwardsWatch.

TV Review – ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ is More Star Wars Content That May Deliver for Some Audiences

Star Wars is inarguably one of the most successful franchises of all time. But it’s important to remember that, while most entries have been huge moneymakers, they haven’t always been well-received. Two years after the original trilogy was re-released theatrically in 1997, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace made its debut, telling the…

Exclusive Interview: Donald Elise Watkins, RJ Cyler, and Sebastian Chacon on the Genre-Bending ‘Emergency’

In the film Emergency, which made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival in January, three friends, Kunle (Donald Elise Watkins), Sean (RJ Cyler), and Carlos (Sebastian Chacon), set out to complete a legendary tour of their college party scene. Their night is thrown into chaos when they find a white girl passed out on…

Human Rights Watch Film Festival Film Review – Sundance Winning Film ‘Midwives’ Shines an Important Spotlight on Reproductive Justice

The debate around reproductive rights in the United States has intensified considerably in recent weeks as those who believe access to abortion should be available for those who need it have protested against the impending overturning of the landmark Roe v. Wade legislation. While that remains central within the United States, other countries have remarkably…

Exclusive Video Interview: Christopher Gorham on Taking on His First Legal Drama in Netflix’s ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. Author Michael Connelly’s famed defense attorney Mickey Haller makes the leap from the page to the small screen in Netflix’s new series The Lincoln Lawyer, the second project based on the novel following the 2011 film starring Matthew McConaughey. Manuel Garcia-Rulfo stars as Haller,…

TV Review – ‘The Essex Serpent’ is a Slow-Burn Period Mystery from Apple TV+

It’s often easier to believe that something magical or supernatural is responsible for an unimaginable feat than that humanity is capable of something people would rather think it wasn’t. This is true both for incredible accomplishments that require hard work and for horrific tragedies and evil that those guided by morality would see as impossible…

‘The Right Stuff’ and ‘Tremors’ Actor Fred Ward Dies at 79

Veteran actor Fred Ward, whose career begin with an Italian TV miniseries in 1973 and lasted more than forty years, has died at the age of 79, as confirmed by his publicist and reported by Variety. Born in San Diego in 1942, Ward served in the Air Force and worked as a lumberjack in Alaska…

TV Review – ‘Hacks’ Season 2 is Just as Fantastic and Funny as Ever

This may not be the best moment for comedy as an institution. The intersection of cancel culture and incidents like that infamous slap at the Oscars suggest that poking fun at everyone may not be in fashion, and that those used to surveying a broad range of targets for their material should think carefully about…

TV Review – ‘Tehran’ Season 2 Keeps the Action Going

When the Israeli series Tehran debuted its first episode on Apple TV+ two years ago, it felt like it would be hard to top the pacing and intrigue. An Israeli agent working undercover in Iran who nearly had her cover blown when an Israeli tourist recognized her from their time together in the army? That…

Exclusive Video Interview: Pablo Schreiber and Timothy Simons on Playing Devoted Husbands in Hulu’s ‘Candy’

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. In 1980, one seemingly happy and popular housewife, Candy Montgomery (Jessica Biel), committed a shocking crime. online pharmacy elavil over the counter with best prices today in the USA Hulu’s new event series Candy, which will unspool over the course of five consecutive nights…

TV Review – ‘The Staircase’ Dives into a Troubling True Crime Story

Television and cinema are full of stories of people who committed crimes and almost got away with them. There are far too many real-life cases that are intriguing, and often, disturbing, enough for someone to greenlight a project dramatizing them, allowing a new audience to experience the horrors and injustice that captivated viewers in real…