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Movie Review: BEWARE BOIUNA

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 10/02/2026
BEWARE BOIÚNA movie poster | ©2026 Lionsgate

Rating: R Stars: Kiana Madeira, Jessica Rothe, Logan Marshall-Green, Will Close, Vincente Peña, Jaime Newball, Sergio Herrera, Jackson Bews Writer: Alan McElroy, story by Tony Giglio and Alan McElroy Director: Mike P. Nelson Distributor: Lionsgate Release Date: October 2, 2026 As giant snake movies go (are there enough to qualify as an actual genre, or are these still a subgenre?), BEWARE BOIÚNA is perfectly decent. Director Mike P. Nelson and writer Alan McElroy, working from a story by Tony Giglio and McElroy, avoid a lot of the traditional associated pitfalls. There are genuine scares, true reversals of expectation, we don’t […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE INFLUENCER PROJECT

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
THE INFLUENCER PROJECT movie poster | ©2026 Hades Films

Rating: R Stars: Chiara King, Mike Nybroe, Jazmine Summer, Luca Storm, Alexandre Willaume, Ronja Hauge Schierup, Eos Karlsson Writers: Lars Ap, Anders Jon, Mike Nybroe Director: Mike Nybroe Distributor: Hades Films Release Date: October 2, 2026 THE INFLUENCER PROJECT begins with the online information, “This film is influenced by real events.” This is hard to argue with: there really are influencers who can make a good living by being paid to promote brands, and these influencers sometimes attract unpleasant and even dangerous stalkers. For that matter, THE INFLUENCER PROJECT stars Chiara King as an Instagram/TikTok influencer named Chiara King, and […]Read On »


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Movie Review: PRIMETIME

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 09/25/2026
PRIMETIME movie poster | ©2026 A24

Rating: R Stars: Robert Pattinson, Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo, Matthew Maher, Phoebe Bridgers, Bokeem Woodbine, Alex Winter, Tony Revolori Writer: Ajon Singh, based on the article “Tonight on Dateline This Man Will Die” by Luke Dittrich Director: Lance Oppenheim Distributor: A24 Release Date: September 25, 2026 TO CATCH A PREDATOR was a real TV series, spun off from the news program DATELINE NBC. TO CATCH A PREDATOR ran on NBC 2004-2007 in (as the title tells us) primetime, opposite ABC’s LOST. Robert Pattinson stars as TO CATCH A PREDATOR’s host Chris Hansen. The real Hansen, a ten-time Emmy winner, is […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SUNNY DANCER

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
SUNNY DANCER movie poster | ©2026 Quiver Distribution

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Bella Ramsey, Daniel Quinn-Toye, Ruby Stokes, Earl Cave, Conrad Khan, Jasmine Elcock, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Louis Gaunt, Josie Walker, Jessica Gunning, James Norton, Neil Patrick Harris Writer: George Jaques Director: George Jaques Distributor: Quiver Distribution Release Date: September 18, 2026 Directed and written by George Jaques, SUNNY DANCER is a film pulling in two different directions – and it’s not comedy vs. drama, though that’s definitely here. Instead, on the one hand, we’ve got a sextet of adolescent protagonists who have cancer, insisting very credibly that they don’t want to be uplifted, admired, inspired or otherwise viewed […]Read On »


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Movie Review: NEVER AFTER DARK

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
NEVER AFTER DARK movie poster | ©2026 Magnolia Pictures

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Moeka Hoshi, Kurumi Inagaki, Kento Kaku, Mutsuo Yoshioka, Bokuzo Masana, Tae Kimura Writer: Dave Boyle Director: Dave Boyle Distributor: Magnolia Pictures Release Date: September 25, 2026 NEVER AFTER DARK (NEBÂ AFUTÂ DÂKU) is unusual for several reasons. The onscreen one is that it introduces a novel (at least to this reviewer) supernatural concept. It’s uncommon in a meta sense as it is written and directed by an American, filmmaker Dave Boyle, but set and shot in Japan, with an all-Japanese cast and Japanese-language dialogue (subtitled in English). Airi (Moeka Hoshi) is a young woman with abundant […]Read On »


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Movie Review: RESIDENT EVIL (2026)

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 09/18/2026
RESIDENT EVIL (2026) movie poster | ©2026 Sony/Columbia Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Austin Abrams, Zach Cherry, Kali Reis, Paul Walter Hauser Writers: Zach Cregger & Shay Hatten Director: Zach Cregger Distributor: Sony/Columbia Pictures Release Date: September 18, 2026 When a character in a horror movie pauses to take a better look, and the audience anxiously (as opposed to mockingly) tells him to keep moving, the filmmakers are clearly onto something. This is the case with RESIDENT EVIL. The first videogame in the RESIDENT EVIL franchise was released in 1996 and went on to spawn a franchise. The first live-action film based on the game, also titled RESIDENT EVIL, was […]Read On »


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Movie Review: BURNING (OT)

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
BURNING (OT) movie poster | ©2026 IndiePix

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Asanat Edigeeva, Omurbek Izrailov, Kalicha Seidalieva, Zhanilai Isakova, Askar Kachkynbaev, Ruslan Orozakunov Writers: Aizada Amangeldy & Dastan Madalbekov Director: Radik Eshimov Distributor: IndiePix Films Release Date: September 4, 2026 (IndiePix Unlimited on Prime Video); October 13, 2026 (DVD/VOD/digital)  Here’s something we in the West don’t see every day: a horror movie (or any kind of movie, for that matter) from Kyrgyzstan. Kyrgyzstan, officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is (per Wikipedia) a landlocked country in Central Asia that shares a border on one side with Kazakhstan and on another with China. Despite the proximity to China, the cultural […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SHAUN THE SHEEP: THE BEAST OF MOSSY BOTTOM

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
SHAUN THE SHEEP: THE BEAST OF MOSSY BOTTOM movie poster | ©2026 GKids

Rating: PG Stars (voices): Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes, Nina Sosanya Writers: Mark Burton & Giles Pilbrow, characters created by Nick Park Directors: Steve Cox & Matthew Walker Distributor: GKids Release Date: September 18, 2026 SHAUN THE SHEEP: THE BEAST OF MOSSY BOTTOM subscribes to the notion that mid-September is not too early to celebrate Halloween. Hence the film’s embrace of the holiday and its September 18 theatrical release date. However, it is manifestly safe for little ones. The movie playfully declares its intentions at the start, with shapes that look scary resolving into the harmless and comical Farmer, his devoted […]Read On »


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Movie Review: PRACTICAL MAGIC 2

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 09/09/2026
PRACTICAL MAGIC 2 movie poster | ©2026 Warner Bros.

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Joey King, Lee Pace, Maisie Williams, Xolo Maridueña, Solly McLeod, Dianne Wiest, Stockard Channing Writers: Akiva Goldsman and Georgia Pritchett and Kelly Marcel, based on the novel THE BOOK OF MAGIC by Alice Hoffman Director: Susanne Bier Distributor: Warner Bros. Release Date: September 9, 2026 The new movie PRACTICAL MAGIC 2 is a sequel to the 1998 film PRACTICAL MAGIC, which was adapted from Alice Hoffman’s 1995 novel of the same title. PRACTICAL MAGIC 2 is also adapted – by director Susanne Bier and screenwriters Akiva Goldsman and Georgia Pritchett and Kelly Marcel […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE UPRISING

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
THE UPRISING movie poster | ©2026 Focus Features

Rating: R Stars: Andrew Garfield, Jamie Bell, Stephen Dillane, Tom Hollander, Cosmo Jarvis, Thomasin McKenzie, Jonny Lee Miller, Woody Norman, Katherine Waterston, Sam Chapman Writer: Paul Greengrass Director: Paul Greengrass Distributor: Focus Features Release Date: September 10, 2026 For those wondering about the film’s veracity, the 1381 uprising of common folk in England (sometimes referred to as “the peasants’ uprising,” although the term “peasant” wasn’t coined until a century or two later) was a series of real events. Writer/director Paul Greengrass has dramatized this in THE UPRISING, which is mostly a rousing history lesson, with a little bit of Robin […]Read On »


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