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Movie Review: IMAGINARY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/08/2024
IMAGINARY movie poster | ©2024 Lionsgate/Blumhouse

Rating: PG-13 Stars: DeWanda Wise, Tom Payne, Taegen Burns, Pyper Braun, Veronica Falcón, Betty Buckley, Matthew Sato, Cecilia Leal Writers: Jeff Wadlow & Greg Erb & Jason Oremland Director: Jeff Wadlow Distributor: Lionsgate Release Date: March 8, 2024 IMAGINARY plays something like if ALICE IN WONDERLAND, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, and INSIDIOUS all got together and had a lively tea party that never went fully mad. That IMAGINARY has a PG-13 rating probably has something to do with its relative restraint, but so does the filmmakers’ evident desire to hit a specific set of notes. Children’s book author and […]Read On »


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Movie Review: NIGHT SHIFT

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
NIGHT SHIFT movie poster | ©2024 Quiver Distribution

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Phoebe Tonkin, Madison Hu, Patrick Fischler, Lauren Bowles, Christopher Denham, Lamorne Morris Writers: The China Brothers (Paul China & Ben China) Directors: The China Brothers (Paul China & Ben China) Distributor: Quiver Distribution Release Date: March 8, 2024 (theatrical, VOD) PSYCHO, VACANCY and many other movies have found ways to make barely-tenanted motels terrifying. NIGHT SHIFT joins the subgenre, and if it’s not a Hitchcockian classic, it’s still pretty effective. NIGHT SHIFT begins with an atmospheric shot of a car driving down a lonely road. The lights of a town twinkle in the distance, but we’ll […]Read On »


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Movie Review: T-BLOCKERS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/05/2024
T-BLOCKERS movie poster | ©2024 Dark Sky Pictures

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Lauren Last, Lewi Dawson, Toshiro Glenn, Lisa Fanto, Stanley Browning, Steven Thai Hoa, Brendan Cooney, Etcetera Etcetera Writers: Alice Maio Mackay & Ben Pahl Robinson Director: Alice Maio Mackay Distributor: Dark Star Pictures Release Date: March 5, 2024 (VOD, Digital) In terms of ambition and sheer craziness, one has to give it up to T-BLOCKERS. It’s kinda/sorta like this or that, but it’s also pretty much its own thing. Billed at the opening as “A transgender & queer film by Alice Maio Mackay” – Mackay directed and co-wrote the script with Ben Pahl Robinson – and […]Read On »


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Movie Review: DUNE: PART TWO

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/01/2024
DUNE: PART TWO movie poster | ©2024 Warner Bros./Legendary

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem, Austin Butler, Dave Bautista, Stellan Skarsgard, Charlotte Rampling, Christopher Walken, Florence Pugh, Josh Brolin Writers: Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, based on the novel by Frank Herbert Director: Denis Villeneuve Distributor: Warner Bros. Release Date: March 1, 2024 Director/co-screenwriter (with Jon Spaihts) Denis Villeneuve displays first-rate epic chops with DUNE: PART TWO. Frank Herbert’s sprawling 1965 novel has been adapted for film and television before, but it is widely believed that Villeneuve’s 2021 DUNE: PART ONE has been the most successful effort. Part of that success arguably lay in the […]Read On »


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THE ROOKIE: Actor Nathan Fillion gives the scoop on Season 6 – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/27/2024
Nathan Fillion in THE ROOKIE | ©2024 ABC/Nino Muñoz

On “The Hammer,” the second episode of THE ROOKIE’s sixth season, airing on ABC Tuesday, February 27, the series celebrates its hundredth episode. It is directed by series creator Alexi Hawley. Nathan Fillion’s character, LAPD Officer John Nolan, started THE ROOKIE as the oldest newcomer on the force. He’s now a training officer with a rookie of his own – Celina Suarez (Lisseth Chavez) – and a big group of LAPD colleagues who have become dear friends. In “The Hammer,” is supposed to marry firefighter Bailey Nune (Jenna Dewan). This being THE ROOKIE, and there actually being a cop superstition […]Read On »


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Movie Review: DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/23/2024
DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS | ©2024 Focus Features

Rating: R Stars: Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan, Beanie Feldstein, Colman Domingo, Bill Camp, Joey Slotnick, C.J. Wilson, Matt Damon, Pedro Pascal Writers: Ethan Coen & Tricia Cooke Director: Ethan Coen Distributor: Focus Features Release Date: February 23, 2024 DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS has the unmistakable cadence of a Coen Brothers movie, even though on this one, Ethan Coen is directing solo and co-wrote the script with Tricia Cooke, rather than sibling Joel, his usual collaborator. The film succeeds in being at once super-raunchy, somewhat sweet, occasionally very violent, and often so light that it threatens to float away. We begin in late […]Read On »


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Movie Review: CELLPHONE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
CELLPHONE movie poster | ©2024 Gravitas Ventures

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Whitney Rose Pynn, Justin Malik Jackson, Jared Noble, Isaac Versaw, Katherine Barber, Malcolm McDowell Writer: Rachel Sommer Director: Luke Sommer Distributor: Gravitas Ventures Release Date: February 13, 2024 (digital, VOD) CELLPHONE has great, creepy atmosphere and a secret weapon in the performance of Justin Malik Jackson. Jackson plays the very un-creepy (once we get to know him) Chris, a talkative fellow who’s got problems of his own, but is friendly toward new neighbor Wynne (Whitney Rose Pynn). We start by meeting a young couple in an isolated farmhouse. They are tensely checking their cellphones and affirm […]Read On »


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Movie Review: NO WAY UP

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/16/2024
NO WAY UP movie poster | ©2024 RLJE Films

Rating: R Stars: Sophie McIntosh, Will Attenborough, Jeremias Amoore, Manuel Pacific, Grace Nettle, Phyllis Logan, Colm Meaney, James Carroll Jordan Writer: Andy Mayson Director: Claudio Fäh Distributor: RLJE Films Release Date: February 16, 2024 NO WAY UP manages to put a respectably straight face on its multi-disaster movie premise. First, there’s the airplane crash catastrophe, as a notably rickety jet blows on engine and plummets into the Pacific as it heads from LAX to Cabo San Lucas. Then we get a variation on THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE. Yes, the plane does stay right-side up, but it gradually fills up with water […]Read On »


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Movie Review: MIDNIGHT PEEPSHOW

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
MIDNIGHT PEEPSHOW movie poster | ©2024 Dark Star Pictures

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Richard Cotton, Sarah Diamond, Mark Hampton, Roisin Browne, David Wayman, Ocean M. Harris, Miki Davis, Jack Fairbank, Jamie Bacon, Derek Nelson, Chiara D’Anna, Ryan Oliva, Bethan Walker, Zach Galligan (voice), Melanie Thompson Writers: Airell Anthony Hayles & Jake West and Andy Edwards, concept by Airell Anthony Hayles Directors: Ludovica Musumeci, Airell Anthony Hayles, Andy Edwards, Jake West Distributor: Dark Star Pictures Release Date: February 13, 2024 (digital, DVD)  MIDNIGHT PEEPSHOW is quasi-anthology horror, with segments bound together more firmly than is usually the case. It also successfully straddles the line between the supernatural and mundane cruelty, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: LISA FRANKENSTEIN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/09/2024
LISA FRANKENSTEIN movie poster | ©2024 Focus Features

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Kathryn Newton, Cole Sprouse, Liza Soberano, Henry Eikenberry, Bryce Romero, Carla Gugino, Joe Chrest Writer: Diablo Cody Director: Zelda Williams Distributor: Focus Features Release Date: February 9, 2024 Just in time for Valentine’s Day, director Zelda Williams and writer Diablo Cody deliver the new period rom zom com LISA FRANKENSTEIN. After a delightful shadow puppet opening credit sequence that details the tragedy of nineteenth-century gentleman Frankenstein (Cole Sprouse) – not a scientist here, just a lovelorn musician – we get to our live-action story. It’s the ‘80s. Lisa Swallows (Kathryn Newton) is a teen traumatized by the […]Read On »


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