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The Rookie Season 7, Episode 3 sees the return of Jasmine Matthews as Rachel Hall alongside guest stars Bonnie Root and Richard Ellis. 

The Rookie's latest episode, "Out of Pocket," has several storylines to juggle as it continues its seventh season run on ABC. 

The police procedural drama sees Nolan making some drastic moves to protect his wife, Bailey, from her vengeance-seeking ex-husband while the rookies of the Mid-Wilshire precinct go rogue in an operation. 

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Exclusive: Emily Rios, Louis Ferreira, and Bonnie Root will star in the new independent horror-thriller feature film, Don’t Let Them Out.

Led by screenwriter Lila McLaughlin, who makes her directorial debut and penned the script, Don’t Let Them Out centers on a struggling woman who journeys to a property she has inherited in hopes of selling it to pay off her debts. But upon arriving to the property, the story takes a terrifying turn when the woman is lured into a desperate scavenger hunt down a perilous rabbit hole. The female-helmed film blends psychological twists with haunting horror elements in the vein of Hereditary and The Conjuring, adding in sinister themes of generational trauma woven into the storyline.

McLaughlin and Root are producing the project which is nearing completion at a desert film compound near Barstow,...

An upcoming independent horror film with Hereditary and The Conjuring vibes is creeping its way toward screens. Screenwriter Lila McLaughlin is stepping behind the camera for her directorial debut, shooting from a script she wrote that sounds bone-chilling in all the best ways. Joining McLaughlin for Don’t Let Them Out are Emily Rios, Louis Ferreira, and Bonnie Root as primary cast members.

According to Deadline‘s exclusive report, Don’t Let Them Out follows “a struggling woman who journeys to a property she has inherited in hopes of selling it to pay off her debts. But upon arriving to the property, the story takes a terrifying turn when the woman is lured into a desperate scavenger hunt down a perilous rabbit hole.”

McLaughlin and Root are teaming up to produce Don’t Let Them Out, which is soon to end production. Seasoned editor Eric Strand joins the team after...

Gravitas Ventures shares with Bloody an exclusive clip from The Movie, written and directed by Michael Mandell, and starring Bonnie Root and Jarrod Pistilli.

In the clip, a captive woman refuses to comply and is punished with the removal of one of her little piggies.

“Former child star Janet Gillespie is home alone one night when the doorbell rings and Walter, a delivery boy, shows up with a big package on a dolly. He recognizes her. Takes a selfie with her. Tells her he wrote a screenplay for her and even has it with him. Soon, Janet’s bound to the dolly and Walter’s shooting his movie right then and there in her house.

“Of course, Walter is no delivery boy at all. He’s a renegade filmmaker doing whatever it takes to get his movie in the can, which just so happens to be the worst movie of all time,...

Sometimes one person’s persistent pursuit of their dreams can ultimately turn into another person’s true nightmare. That’s certainly the case for actor Jarrod Pistilli and actress Bonnie Root’s characters of Walter and Janet in the new drama, ‘The Movie.’ Walter proves that he’ll do whatever it takes to achieve his goal of becoming a filmmaker, […]

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1979: General Hospital's Laura wanted a job at the disco.

1987: Lizzie demanded answers on Ryan's Hope.

1989: As the World Turns' Shannon lost her baby.

2007: One Life to Live's John arrive to arrest Lindsay."History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images."

― Anselm Kiefer

"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.

On this date in...

1970: Murial Williams returned to Another World as Lenore's (Judith Barcroft) mother, Helen Moore. Williams remained with the show until April 8, 1976.

1976: Rosemary Forsyth debuted as Laura Horton on Days of our Lives.

1977: On Another World, Mac (Douglass Watson) listened in through the intercom as...

1979: General Hospital's Laura wanted a job at the disco.

1987: Lizzie demanded answers on Ryan's Hope.

1989: As the World Turns' Shannon lost her baby.

2007: One Life to Live's John arrive to arrest Lindsay."The best prophet of the future is the past."

― Lord Byron

"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.

On this date in...

1970: Murial Williams returned to Another World as Lenore's (Judith Barcroft) mother, Helen Moore. Williams remained with the show until April 8, 1976.

1976: Rosemary Forsyth debuted as Laura Horton on Days of our Lives.

1977: On Another World, Mac (Douglass Watson) listened in through the intercom as Dave (David Ackroyd) told Pat (Beverly Penberthy) he had always been in love with Rachel.

Transparent‘s Melora Hardin has been cast in Paul Osborne's indie thriller Cruel Hearts. She joins Eddie Jemison (Oceans Eleven), Patrick Day (Favor), Alev Aydin (Lonely Boy) and Bonnie Root (Bones). Written and directed by Osborne, the film follows a young man who discovers that he’s been having an affair with a woman who is married to a notorious crime boss. In fear of what may transpire if caught, he makes a bold decision to confess his transgressions in hopes for…...

The short film Yellow Plastic Raygun directed by Alessandro Cima, which was featured on Bad Lit just a few weeks ago, has won the Best Experimental film award at the Downtown Film Fest Los Angeles that ran Sept. 8-12.

I believe this was the second year for the festival, which was created by the former organizers of the defunct Silver Lake Film Festival in an effort to help promote the formerly neglected, but now popular downtown neighborhood of L.A.

Yellow Plastic Raygun is a mix of found and original footage that creates a retro-futuristic tale of society crumbling. The film also ends with creative shots of the World Trade Center that Cima filmed himself several years ago prior to 9/11. You can watch the film on Bad Lit here.

Another winner of the Dffla include the Matt Harlock and Bill Thomas’ documentary American: The Bill Hicks Story, which also screened Australia twice recently,...

This review was written for the festival screening of Rails & Ties."

TELLURIDE, Colo. -- A tell-tale first feature by actress Alison Eastwood, "Rails & Ties" is a heartfelt but dramatically flat portrait of a couple grappling with one tragedy whose lives are profoundly affected by the outcome of another.

While nicely performed by Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden, with lovely cinematography by her father's favorite lensman, Tom Stern, the wispy picture chugs along earnestly without achieving the necessary emotional momentum that would bring it to a convincingly affecting destination.

After premiering at the Telluride Film Festival, the Warner Bros. Pictures release will be making further festival stops at Toronto and New York, where it will need to generate a little buzz if it has hopes of standing out among the fall season's serious-minded fare when it opens in limited engagements Oct. 26.

Bacon's Tom Stark is a fittingly named, emotionally detached career train engineer who's having difficulties coming to terms with the bleak prognosis that has just been given to his wife, Megan (Harden).

A breast cancer survivor, Megan Has been informed that the disease has metastasized to her bones, giving her mere months, weeks or even days to live.

Tom's way of coping has been to continue to immerse himself in his work, but when his train hits the car of a suicidal mother (Bonnie Root) and her young son (Miles Heizer), their remaining time together takes some unexpected turns.

Working from Micky Levy's one-dimensional script, Eastwood delicately lays down all the emotional track, as it were, but there's an overriding sameness to every scene. Even when that spark of hope comes into their lives, the film barely deviates from its hazily melancholic tone.

For their part, Harden and Bacon deliver understated if overly introspective performances. Although effectively occupying the personal spaces of their characters, when the turn of events call for deeper interaction, neither the script nor the direction gives them sufficient opportunity to do so.

On the opposite side of the camera, cinematographer Stern counterpoints the sadness with plenty of bright Southern California sunshine and quietly probing close-ups.

Unfortunately, the gentle acoustic score by Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens doesn't help much when it comes to lifting "Rails & Ties" out of that prevailing malaise.

RAILS & TIES

Warner Bros. Pictures

Credits:

Director: Alison Eastwood

Screenwriter: Micky Levy

Producers: Robert Lorenz, Peer Oppenheimer, Barrett Stuart

Director of photography: Tom Stern

Production designer: James J. Murakami

Music: Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens

Co-producer: Tim Moore

Costume designer: Deborah Hopper

Editor: Gary D. Roach

Cast:

Tom Stark: Kevin Bacon

Megan Stark: Marcia Gay Harden

Davey Danner: Miles Heizer

Renee: Marin Hinkle

Otis Higgs: Eugene Byrd

Laura Danner: Bonnie Root

Running time -- 108 minutes

MPAA rating: PG-13...

Opens Friday, October 26

TELLURIDE -- A tell-tale first feature by actress Alison Eastwood, “Rails & Ties” is a heartfelt but dramatically flat portrait of a couple grappling with one tragedy whose lives are profoundly affected by the outcome of another.

While nicely performed by Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden, with lovely cinematography by her father’s favorite lensman, Tom Stern, the whispy picture chugs along earnestly without achieving the necessary emotional momentum that would bring it to a convincingly affecting destination.

After premiering at Telluride, the Warner Bros. release will be making further festival stops at Toronto and New York, where it will need to generate a little buzz if it has hopes of standing out among the fall season’s serious-minded fare when it opens in limited engagements on Oct. 26.

Bacon’s Tom Stark is a fittingly-named, emotionally-detached career train engineer who’s having difficulties coming to terms with the bleak prognosis that has just been given to his wife, Megan (Harden).

A breast cancer survivor, Megan Has been informed that the disease has metasticized to her bones, giving her mere months, weeks or even days to live.

Tom’s way of coping has been to continue to immerse himself in his work, but when his train hits the car of a suicidal mother (Bonnie Root) and her young son (Miles Heizer), their remaining time together takes some unexpected turns.

Working from Micky Levy’s one-dimensional script, Eastwood delicately lays down all the emotional track, as it were, but there’s an overriding sameness to every scene.

Even when that spark of hope comes into their lives, the film barely deviates from its hazily melancholic tone.

For their part, Harden and Bacon deliver understated if overly introspective performances. Although effectively occupying the personal spaces of their characters, when the turn of events call for deeper interaction, neither the script nor the direction gives them sufficient opportunity to do so.

On the opposite side of the camera, cinematographer Stern counterpoints the sadness with plenty of bright Southern California sunshine and quietly probing close-ups.

Unfortunately the gentle acoustic score by Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens doesn’t help much when it comes to lifting “Rails & Ties” out of that prevailing malaise.

RAILS & TIES

Warner Bros.

Director: Alison Eastwood

Writer: Micky Levy

Producers: Robert Lorenz, Peer Oppenheimer, Barrett Stuart

Director of photography: Tom Stern

Production designer: James J. Murakami

Music: Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens

Co-producer: Tim Moore

Costume designer: Deborah Hopper

Editor: Gary D. Roach

Cast:

Tom Stark: Kevin Bacon

Megan Stark: Marcia Gay Harden

Davey Danner: Miles Heizer

Renee: Marin Hinkle

Otis Higgs: Eugene Byrd

Laura Danner: Bonnie Root

MPAA rating: PG-13, running time 108 minutes...