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Movie Review: BACKROOMS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 05/29/2026
BACKROOMS movie poster | ©2026 A24

Rating: R Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, Lukita Maxwell Writer: Will Soodik, based on the YouTube series by Kane Parsons Director: Kane Parsons Distributor: A24 Release Date: May 29, 2026 While it was made now (2025-2026), BACKROOMS is reminiscent of choose-your-own-interpretation science-fiction films that were most prevalent in the 1960s and 1970s. Splitting the difference, BACKROOMS is set in June 1990 in Santa Clara, California (just north of Los Angeles County). Then as now, it’s a relatively quiet area. The film starts as with video cam footage shot by an uneasy man. He’s making his way […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SPEED DEMON

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
SPEED DEMON movie poster | ©2026 Maverick Film/Complex Corp

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Katie Cassidy, William H. Macy, John Patrick Jordan, Allen McCullough, Sari Arambulo, Jeremy Matthew Feight, Sky Vaux Fuller, Noriko Sato, Michael John Improta, Sabrina Schlegel-Mejia Writer: Domenico Salvaggio Director: Jon Keeyes Distributor: Maverick Film/Complex Corp. Release Date: May 31, 2026 (theatrical, digital, VOD) SPEED DEMON has a title that epitomizes truth in advertising: it’s about a literal demon on a speeding out-of-control train. The opening, which is effectively eerie, has a little girl alone in her room. Her father at moments seems to be there with her, but he then blurs out and we see the […]Read On »


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Movie Review: PRESSURE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
PRESSURE movie poster | ©2026 Focus Features

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Andrew Scott, Brendan Fraser, Kerry Condon, Chris Messina, Damian Lewis, Tamsin Topolski Writers: David Haig and Anthony Maras, based on Haig’s stage play Director: Anthony Maras Distributor: Focus Features Release Date: May 29, 2026 The title of PRESSURE refers to multiple aspects of the film. There’s the psychological, emotional, professional, and temporal pressure all the characters are under. Then there’s the barometric pressure governing the weather, which threatens to wreak havoc with the planned attack on Hitler’s forces in Europe in June 1944. PRESSURE assumes that the audience knows – eighty-one-years-later spoiler alert – that the Allied […]Read On »


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TV Review: GREAT PERFORMANCES: STAGEBOUND

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 05/23/2026
Luke Evans featured on PBS' GREAT PERFORMANCES: STAGEBOUND | ©2025 PBS

Stars: Luke Evans Writer: Cody Williams Director: Cody Wiliams Network: PBS.org/gperf Premiere Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2026 GREAT PERFORMANCES showcases stage musicals, concerts, operas and dance productions that are worthy of the series’ title Friday nights on PBS, thereafter streaming on PBS.org/gperf. Next up is BROADWAY MUSICALS: A JEWISH LEGACY, premiering Friday, May 29. Now GREAT PERFORMANCES has expanded into doing shorter online pieces for its Webby-nominated series GREAT PERFORMANCES: STAGEBOUND, which streams on PBS.org/gperf, the PBS app, and PBS’s YouTube and Facebook channels. Episodes drop Tuesday nights/Wednesday mornings at midnight. The new season of STAGEBOUND currently includes MARLA MINDELL’S […]Read On »


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Movie Review: PASSENGER

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 05/22/2026
PASSENGER movie poster | ©2025 Paramount Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Jacob Scipio, Lou Llobell, Melissa Leo, Joseph Lopez Writers: Zachary Donohue & T.W. Burgess Director: André Øvredal Distributor: Paramount Release Date: May 22, 2026 The new PASSENGER – not to be confused with Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1975 THE PASSENGER, 2022’s THE PASSENGER (LA PASAJERA), or other previous films with similar titles – is crowd-pleasing horror, the kind that has the audience interacting enthusiastically (as opposed to derisively) with the screen. This is the result of a number of intelligent choices made by PASSENGER’s writers, Zachary Donohue & T.W. Burgess, and its director, André Øvredal. For starters, the movie’s […]Read On »


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Movie Review: I LOVE BOOSTERS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
I LOVE BOOSTERS movie poster | ©2025 Neon

Rating: R Stars: Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Poppy Liu, Demi Moore, Eiza González, LaKeith Stanfield, Will Poulter, Kerris Dorsey, Alan Z, Ming Sun, Rachel Walters Writer: Boots Riley Director: Boots Riley Distributor: Neon Release Date: May 22, 2026 While not connected narratively, writer/director Boots Riley’s new phantasmagoria I LOVE BOOSTERS feels like a thematic sequel to his 2018 feature debut SORRY TO BOTHER YOU. Both are set in Oakland, both focus on Black protagonists struggling to survive in a world dominated by capitalist forces, and both incorporate outrageous science-fiction/fantasy elements. But where SORRY TO BOTHER YOU had its […]Read On »


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ELSBETH: Actor Wendell Pierce gives the scoop on Season 3 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 05/20/2026
Wendell Pierce as Captain Wagner and Carrie Preston as Elsbeth Tascioni in ELSBETH - Season 3 - "Catch and Kill" | ©2026 CBS/Michael Parmelee

CBS’s ELSBETH is renewed for a fourth season, with Season 3’s finale airing Thursday, May 21, with all episodes then streaming on Paramount+. Created by Michelle King & Robert King, ELSBETH is a spinoff of THE GOOD WIFE and the GOOD FIGHT, centering on Elsbeth Tascioni, played by Carrie Preston. On the previous two series, Elsbeth was a recurring character, a quirky Chicago lawyer. Preston won a Guest Actress Emmy for THE GOOD WIFE. ELSBETH finds our protagonist in New York City, working with the NYPD. In theory, Elsbeth is there to oversee the Consent Decree, making sure that the […]Read On »


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MARSHALS: Actress Ash Santos on new YELLOWSTONE spin-off – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
Ash Santos as Andrea and Arielle Kebbel as Belle in MARSHALS - Season 1 | "On Thing Ice" | ©2025 CBS/Zack Dilgard

MARSHALS, the first broadcast spin-off of Paramount+’s YELLOWSTONE (which has multiple streaming spin-offs, including the new DUTTON RANCH), has proved a big hit for CBS in its first season on Sunday nights. Created by Spencer Hudnut & Taylor Sheridan (Sheridan co-created the original YELLOWSTONE with John Linson and is co-creator on all of the other YELLOWSTONE-verse shows), MARSHALS was renewed for a second season well ahead of its first-season finale, which airs May 24, and will thereafter be available with all previous episodes on demand and on Paramount+. MARSHALS has Luke Grimes reprising his YELLOWSTONE role as Kayce Dutton, whose […]Read On »


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SHERIFF COUNTRY: Star Morena Baccarin, creators and more on the hit FIRE COUNTRY spin-off – Profile

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
Morena Baccarin as Sheriff Mickey Fox in SHERIFF COUNTRY - Season 1 - "The Finest" | ©2026 CBS/Sergei Bachlakov

FIRE COUNTRY, now in its fourth season on CBS, renewed for a fifth, with all episodes streaming on Paramount Plus, is created by actor Max Thieriot & his fellow executive producers Tony Phelan & Joan Rater. In FIRE COUNTRY, Thieriot stars as Bode Leone, who goes from a volunteer firefighter as part of a prisoner work program in his small (fictional) rural town of Edgewater to a full-fledged member of the fire department upon his release. FIRE COUNTRY’s spin-off, SHERIFF COUNTRY, also created by Thieriot & Phelan & Rater, is one of CBS’s big hits of the 2025-2026 season. Renewed […]Read On »


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Movie Review: IS GOD IS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 05/17/2026
IS GOD IS movie poster | ©2026 Amazon/MGM/Orion

Rating: R Stars: Kara Young, Mallori Johnson, Xavier Mills, Justen Ross, Josiah Cross, Vivica A. Fox, Janelle Monáe, Mykelti Williamson, Erika Alexander, Sterling K. Brown Writer: Aleshea Harris, based on her play Director: Aleshea Harris Distributor: Amazon/MGM/Orion Release Date: May 15, 2026 In adapting her stage play IS GOD IS, writer/director Aleshea Harris can and does make the horrifying aspects of her story more visually visceral. Theatre can do a lot, including some things that film can’t, but close-ups of a burn-scarred face come off as more literal onscreen. Burn scars play a big role in IS GOD IS, which […]Read On »


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