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Movie Review: CRESCENT CITY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/16/2024
CRESCENT CITY movie poster | ©2024 Lionsgate

Rating: R Stars: Terrence Howard, Esai Morales, Nicky Whelan, Alec Baldwin, Reema Sampat, Madonna Akhtar Writer: Rich Ronat Director: RJ Collins Distributor: Lionsgate Release Date: August 16, 2024 (theatrical, digital, VOD) The title of CRESCENT CITY turns out to be like that of CHINATOWN – it’s not where the action is set, just the site of a significant event in the lives of several characters. (The film has nothing to do with either New Orleans or the fantasy book series with that name.) Instead, we are mostly in Little Rock, AR, where a serial killer is leaving mannequin heads next […]Read On »


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Movie Review: ROB PEACE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
ROB PEACE movie poster | ©2024 Republic Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Jay Will, Mary J. Blige, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Michael Kelly, Mare Winningham, Camila Cabello, Chance K. Smith, Jelani Dacres, Benjamin Papac, Marjorie Johnson Writer: Chiwetel Ejiofor, based on the book THE SHORT AND TRAGIC LIFE OF ROBERT PEACE by Jeff Hobbs Director: Chiwetel Ejiofor Distributor: Republic Pictures Release Date: August 16, 2024 ROB PEACE is an affecting drama, based on a true story, about a brilliant young man who is also a very compassionate, responsible human being. In other circumstances, this would result in a happy outcome for both him and society at large. The specifics […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SATRANIC PANIC

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
SATRANIC PANIC movie poster | ©2024 Dark Star Pictures

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Cassie Hamilton, Zarif, Lisa Fanto, Chris Asimos, Toshiro Glenn, Sebastien Grech Writers: Cassie Hamilton & Alice Maio Mackay & Ben Pahl Robinson Director: Alice Maio Mackay Distributor: Dark Star Pictures Release Date: August 13, 2024 (digital and VOD) There have certainly been plenty of influential transphobic horror movies in cinema history (PSYCHO and DRESSED TO KILL, anyone?). Young trans filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay (who has been making features since she was in her teens) does her part to even the score, thematically at least, with SATRANIC PANIC. Directing from the script she co-wrote with Cassie Hamilton […]Read On »


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Movie Review: BORDERLANDS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/09/2024
BORDERLANDS movie poster | ©2024 Lionsgate

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Edgar Ramírez, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu, Jack Black (voice), Janina Gavankar, Benjamin Byron Davis, Gina Gershon Writers: Eli Roth and Joe Crombie, screen story by Eli Roth, based on the videogame BORDERLANDS created by Gearbox Software, published by 2K Director: Eli Roth Distributor: Lionsgate Release Date: August 9, 2024 It seems hard to get adaptations of videogames right. It’s certainly not impossible – look no further back than THE LAST OF US – but they seem trickier to bring to film or TV than other types of source material. This […]Read On »


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Movie Review: CUCKOO

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
CUCKOO movie poster | ©2024 Neon

Rating: R Stars: Hunter Schafer, Dan Stevens, Jan Bluthardt, Márton Csókás, Jessica Henwick, Mila Lieu, Greta Fernández, Proschat Madani, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Konrad Singer, Kalin Morrow Writer: Tilman Singer Director: Tilman Singer Distributor: Neon Release Date: August 9, 2024 The film CUCKOO is well-titled. This isn’t an insult. Since many of the characters are demonstrably crazy, and it is plotted so densely that viewers may feel some madness themselves, a reference to insanity seems appropriate. The title also references the bird species with the unusual method of raising their young, although that analogy gets stretched to the breaking point. CUCKOO begins […]Read On »


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Movie Review: MICKEY HARDAWAY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
MICKEY HARDAWAY movie poster | ©2024 Indie Rights

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Rashad Hunter, Ashley Parchment, Stephen Cofield Jr., David Chattam, Dennis La White, Gayla Wilson, Samuel Whitehill, Sean Alexander James, Christopher M. Cook Writer: Marcellus Cox Director: Marcellus Cox Distributor: Indie Rights Release Date: August 9, 2024 (theatrical, Amazon Freevee) MICKEY HARDAWAY is an artful if uneven portrait of a young Black artist in Los Angeles. Writer/director Marcellus Cox has given his protagonist an unexpected trajectory. Mickey (Rashad Hunter) is born into a working-class family, but his problems are not with the lure of street life. He couldn’t care less about that. Instead, it’s the fact that […]Read On »


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Movie Review: TRAP

By CARL CORTEZ 08/03/2024
TRAP movie poster | ©2024 Warner Bros.

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Shyamalan, Hayley Mills, Alison Pill Writer-Director: M. Night Shyamalan Distributor: Warner Bros. Ever since writer-director M. Night Shyamalan broke out with his classic 1999 thriller THE SIXTH SENSE, he’s struggled to maintain the simplistic beauty of that Bruce Willis starrer. His subsequent films either leaned too heavy into a last act twist (that worked depending on the viewer – UNBREAKABLE, SIGNS) or were so pretentious the film was virtually unwatchable (THE HAPPENING anyone). Thankfully, the last decade has brought Shyamalan back to earth and has focused him. THE VISIT took him out […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE BEAST WITHIN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/02/2024
THE BEAST WITHIN movie poster | ©2024 Well Go USA Entertainment

Rating: R Stars: Kit Harington, Ashleigh Cummings, James Cosmo, Caolinn Springall Writers: Greer Taylor Ellison & Alexander J. Farrell Director: Alexander J. Farrell Distributor: Well Go USA Entertainment Release Date: July 26, 2024 THE BEAST WITHIN begins with the onscreen proverb, ““There are two wolves inside of us … they are always at war.” We then see a woman in old-time garb searching in the forest for “William.” This ends badly. Then we’re in the present, or thereabouts. An English family – Noah (Kit Harington), his wife Imogen (Ashleigh Cummings, of NOS4A2), their young daughter Willow (Caolinn Springall) and Imogen’s […]Read On »


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Movie Review: DOCTOR JEKYLL

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
DOCTOR JEKYLL movie poster | ©2024 Hammer

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Eddie Izzard, Scott Chambers, Robyn Cara, Morgan Watkins, Jonathan Hyde, Simon Callow, Lindsay Duncan Writer: Dan Kelly-Mulhern, based on the novella THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE by Robert Louis Stevenson Director: Joe Stephenson Distributor: Hammer Films Release Date: August 2, 2024 (theatrical and VOD) Since “Jekyll and Hyde” has long been an expression, there’s a plot twist we anticipate from the start in DOCTOR JEKYLL, the latest of many films (and TV shows and stage plays and musicals) based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND […]Read On »


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Movie Review: #AMFAD: ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DEAD

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
#AMFAD: ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DEAD movie poster | ©2024 Cineverse

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Jade Pettyjohn, Jennifer Ens, Ali Fumiko Whitney, Michaela Russell, Julian Haig, Justin Derickson, Cardi Wong. Jack Doupe-Smith, JoJo Siwa Writers: Josh Sims & Jessica Sarah Flaum, story by John Baldecchi, Jessica Sarah Flaum, Josh Sims Director: Marcus Dunstan Distributor: Cineverse Release Date: August 2, 2024 (theatrical, digital, VOD) #AMFAD: ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DEAD is one of those slashers that throws a few notable genre plots into a blender. Fortunately, the end result is pretty good in terms of what the filmmakers are going for, even if we do have to accept that most of the […]Read On »


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