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Movie Review: THE WOMAN IN THE YARD

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 03/28/2025
THE WOMAN IN THE YARD movie poster | ©2025 Universal Pictures

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Danielle Deadwyler, Okwui Okpokwasili, Peyton Jackson, Estella Kahila, Russell Hornsby Writer: Sam Stefanak Director: Jaume Collet-Serra Distributor: Universal Pictures Release Date: March 28, 2025 Rowena Harris (Danielle Deadwyler) has been having trouble getting out of bed since the death of her husband David (Russell Hornsby) in a car accident several weeks earlier. Rowena came away with a broken leg and injuries requiring stitches, but the emotional wounds run much deeper. She’s having trouble being wholly there for her children, teen Taylor (Peyton Jackson) and little Annie (Estella Kahila), with unpaid bills and too little food in the […]Read On »


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Movie Review: CONTROL FREAK

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
CONTROL FREAK Key Art | ©2025 Hulu

Rating: TV-MA Stars: Kelly Marie Tran, Miles Robbins, Kieu Chinh, Toan Le, Callie Johnson, Sabrina Devi, Stanley White Jr., Phu Quoc Writer: Shal Ngo Director: Shal Ngo Distributor: Hulu Release Date: March 13, 2025 (streaming) Valerie “Vy” Nguyen (Kelly Marie Tran) is an extremely successful motivational speaker. She has used her own struggles with self-doubt and feelings of worthlessness to create an empire, explaining to others how she triumphed over this and how they can do the same. Valerie’s husband, producer Robbie (Miles Robbins), is supportive. Valerie’s assistant Crystal (Callie Johnson) likewise wants the best for her boss. But Valerie […]Read On »


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Movie Review: BLOODY AXE WOUND

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
BLOODY AXE WOUND movie poster | ©2025 RLJE Films/Shudder

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Sari Arambulo, Billy Burke, Molly Brown, Eddie Leavy, Margot Anderson-Song, Taylor Seupel, Angel Theory, Matt Hopkins, Jeffrey Dean Morgan Writer: Matthew John Lawrence Director: Matthew John Lawrence Distributor: RLJE Films/Shudder Release Date: December 27, 2024 (theatrical); March 21, 2025 (Shudder streaming) With apologies to Stephen Graham Jones, who wrote an unrelated novel with this title, I WAS A TEENAGE SLASHER would have been a more informative moniker for BLOODY AXE WOUND. The initial set-up for BLOODY AXE WOUND, which we’ll get to in a bit, suggests that the film is going to head in one direction, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: LOCKED

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 03/21/2025
LOCKED movie poster | ©2025 The Avenue

Rating: R Stars: Bill Skarsgård, Anthony Hopkins, Ashley Cartwright, Michael Eklund, Navid Charkhi Writer: Michael Arlen Ross, based on the film 4×4 by Mariano Cohn & Gastón Duprat Director: David Yarovesky Distributor: The Avenue Release Date: March 21, 2025 LOCKED is based on the 2019 Argentinian film 4×4. Without having seen the original, it’s not possible to say how tonally faithful LOCKED is to its inspiration, though both involve a thief trapped in a high-tech vehicle. However, genre fans may note certain similarities between LOCKED and the SAW franchise. Both involve a criminal who is ensnared by a master gamesman […]Read On »


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Movie Review: McVEIGH

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
MCVEIGH movie poster | ©2025 DECAL

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Alfie Allen, Brett Gelman, Ashley Benson, Anthony Carrigan, Tracy Letts Writers: Mike Ott and Alex Giolakis Director: Mike Ott Distributor: DECAL Release Date: March 21, 2025 There are certain films where it’s hard to guess the target audience. With McVEIGH, this is especially difficult, as the title suggests viewers will be familiar with Timothy McVeigh and his actions, but it plays out as a slow-burn thriller that seems like we won’t know where it’s going. This is topped off by the standard but absolutely baffling in this case end credits disclaimer: “The characters and events portrayed […]Read On »


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Movie Review: ASH

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
ASH movie poster | ©2025 IFC Films

Rating: R Stars: Eiza González, Aaron Paul, Iko Uwais, Kate Elliott, Beulah Koale, Flying Lotus Writer: Jonni Remmler Director: Flying Lotus Distributor: IFC Films/RLJE Films/Shudder Release Date: March 21, 2025 “Ash” is the colloquial name of Planet AOI-442. We’re on a scientific outpost established here, one of many set up throughout the galaxy in hopes of finding a new world suitable for humankind. We learn this gradually, as we wake up with extremely confused Riya (Eiza González), who is on the floor of her quarters. Riya is having horrifying visions of mutilated people. She has a wound on her forehead, […]Read On »


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THE IRRATIONAL: Series creator Arika Lisanne Mittman and actresses Maahra Hill and Travina Springer on Season 2 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 03/18/2025
THE IRRATIONAL Key Art - Season 2 | ©2025 NBCUniversal

THE IRRATIONAL, now in its second season Tuesday nights on NBC and streaming on Peacock, stars Jesse L. Martin as Dr. Alec Mercer. Although Alec’s main job is being a university professor, he often consults with law enforcement to help solve cases that require psychological expertise. THE IRRATIONAL creator/showrunner/executive producer Arika Lisanne Mittman based the series on Dan Ariely’s 2008 nonfiction book PREDICTIBLY IRRATIONAL: THE HIDDEN FORCES THAT SHAPE OUR DECISIONS. Mittman has also served as a writer/producer on series including DEXTER, TYRANT, ELEMENTARY, PARADISE LOST, TIMELESS and LA BREA. Two people near and dear to Alec are his younger […]Read On »


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Movie Review: BLACK BAG

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 03/14/2025
BLACK BAG movie poster | ©2025 Focus Features

Rating: R Stars: Michael Fassbender, Cate Blanchett, Tom Burke, Marisa Abela, Regé-Jean Page, Naomie Harris, Pierce Brosnan, Gustaf Skarsgård Writer: David Koepp Director: Steven Soderbergh Distributor: Focus Features Release Date: March 14, 2025 The title of BLACK BAG refers not to a physical object, but rather to the catch-all phrase spies use when there’s a topic they can’t discuss with each other. This can be an issue when spies are romantically involved with one another, such as devotedly married George Woodhouse (Michael Fassbender) and Kathryn St. Jean (Cate Blanchett). The two work in different departments at MI-6, the British equivalent […]Read On »


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GEORGE & MANDY’S FIRST MARRIAGE: Co-creator and executive producer Steven Molaro on new CBS series – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 03/11/2025
GEORGE AND MANDY'S FIRST MARRIAGE - Season 1 Key Art | ©2025 CBS

CBS’s comedy GEORGE & MANDY’S FIRST MARRIAGE, now on Thursday nights in its first season (with episodes then available on Paramount+ TV), is already renewed for Season 2. The show is a spinoff of CBS’s seven-season hit YOUNG SHELDON, which in turn was spun off from the twelve-season, massively successful THE BIG BANG THEORY. We first met Sheldon Cooper, as played by Jim Parsons, in THE BIG BANG THEORY as a physicist who is as brilliant as he is nerdy. In YOUNG SHELDON, Sheldon is played as a child genius by Iain Armitage. In this series, we get to know […]Read On »


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Docuseries: VANISHED: THE HEATHER ELVIS CASE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
VANISHED: THE HEATHER ELVIS CASE Key Art | ©2025 True Case Films

Rating: Not Rated Directors: Michael Bayer & Jeff Dean Distributor: True Case Films Release Date: March 10, 2025 (Apple TV+, Prime Video, Google Play, YouTube) Confession: this reviewer is not an expert in the field of true-crime documentaries, and is therefore not qualified to provide reliable testimony on how VANISHED: THE HEATHER ELVIS CASE compares to others in its genre. What can be stated is that VANISHED, a two-hour and forty-four-minute feature cut into three separate episodes for streaming, uses both interviews and re-enactments to explore what happened to Heather Elvis. Heather, a white toxicology student who worked as a […]Read On »


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