Features & entertainment writer/preexisiting condition. Film & TV. Reporter for 23 years. IG: kupamy. Drop me a line or a pitch at [email protected]
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I spent 14 months following high-risk and disabled people through the COVID-19 pandemic in New Jersey, from before vaccines to the lifting of the mask mandate, the delta surge and third doses.
Please hear them. nj.com/coronavirus/2021/08/i… #covid #highrisk #disabled #chronicillness
Jesse Eisenberg, Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti with Stephen Colbert after a screening of “The Debut” at @montclairfilm Festival. #TheDebut
Let's hear it for Brianna Brooks (Devin Kessler), the intrepid Star-Ledger reporter in "Crystal Lake." 🗞️ Sister of Levon Brooks (William Catlett), police chief of Crystal Lake who used to be a Newark cop.
The kind of mail I like to get! My story on “Crystal Lake” made the subscriber cover of @FANGORIA. If you’ve been bingeing the show, check the mag for my interviews w/ Linda Cardellini, who delivers a glorious performance as Pam Voorhees, & series creator Brad Caleb Kane 🔪🪓 🩸
The kind of mail I like to get! My story on “Crystal Lake” made the subscriber cover of @FANGORIA. If you’ve been bingeing the show, check the mag for my interviews w/ Linda Cardellini, who delivers a glorious performance as Pam Voorhees, & series creator Brad Caleb Kane 🔪🪓 🩸
Speaking of "Crystal Lake," if any NJ people are wondering if their town's in it, a few weeks ago I went through the many local spots they used (def not limited to Blairstown) w/ the show's location manager. They even built a whole Star-Ledger newsroom! njmonthly.com/articles/arts-…
George Clooney and Annette Bening filming "In Love" in Westfield, New Jersey today.
The film adapts Amy Bloom's 2022 memoir "In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss," which tells of her husband Brian Ameche's 2019 Alzheimer's diagnosis and assisted suicide at 66.
Photos: Bobby Bank
Speaking of Annette Bening, her daughter, Ella Beatty, also filmed in New Jersey for the Jersey-set thriller "Act One," which will be in theaters next year. My recent chat with director Sophia Takal: montclairlocal.news/2026/10/…
Stephen Colbert and Adam Driver after James Gray’s “Paper Tiger” at @montclairfilm Festival today 🐯🐅🎬 #PaperTiger
In "Act One," Ella Beatty is a 17-year-old New Jersey acting hopeful & Ari Graynor is an acting teacher whose boundary-crossing methods inspire cult-like devotion. I talked to Sophia Takal, who directed the wild psychosexual thriller montclairlocal.news/2026/10/… @MontclairFilm
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Director Michael Showalter topped the box office for the first time with "Verity."
"It's a vibe, it's kind of unhinged," Showalter tells me of the erotic psychological thriller. “I was just like, ‘I want to make a movie that feels provocative.'"
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It's always amazing how I can justify doing work in pretty much any condition — punishing migraine, blood sugar roller coaster, random dizziness included. But chronic illness is gonna chronic illness when you have to do something relatively simple, like go to the store.
Here are some scenes from the set of "Miami Vice '85," which started filming Monday in Wayne, New Jersey.
Austin Butler and Danny Ramirez play Miami detectives James "Sonny" Crockett and Eddie Rivera in the movie, due out in 2028. (Photos by Bobby Bank)
Director Michael Showalter topped the box office for the first time with "Verity."
"It's a vibe, it's kind of unhinged," Showalter tells me of the erotic psychological thriller. “I was just like, ‘I want to make a movie that feels provocative.'"
njmonthly.com/articles/jerse…