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Movie Review: DESPICABLE ME 4

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 07/03/2024
DESPICABLE ME 4 movie poster | ©2024 Universal Pictures

Rating: PG Stars (voices): Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Patrick Coffin, Joey King, Will Ferrell, Sofia Vergara, Miranda Cosgrove, Dana Gaier, Madison Skyy Polan, Steve Coogan Writers: Mike White and Ken Daurio Director: Chris Renaud; co-director, Patrick Delage Distributor: Universal Pictures Release Date: July 3, 2024 The animated DESPICABLE ME franchise began with the 2010 original, and has subsequently brought forth DESPICABLE ME 2 (2013), DESPICABLE ME 3 (2017), two MINIONS spinoffs (2015 and 2022), plus assorted animated shorts, theme park rides, and more. Now there is DESPICABLE ME 4, which services multiple plotlines well enough. It’s amusing without being especially […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE MOOR

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
THE MOOR movie poster | ©2024 Bulldog Film Distribution

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Sophia La Porta, David Edward-Robinson, Elizabeth Dormer-Phillips, Mark Peachey, Vicki Hackett, Bernard Hill, Dexter Sol Ansill, Billie Suggett Writer: Paul Thomas Director: Chris Cronin Distributor: Bulldog Film Distribution Release Date: June 14, 2024 (UK theatrical); July 1, 2024 (UK digital) The Yorkshire moors in Northern England are plenty spooky-looking in broad daylight. They are vast, often mist-shrouded, containing ancient artifacts, and peat bogs that are like grassy quicksand. In other words, they are the perfect place for a ghost story like THE MOOR. In 1996 Yorkshire, young Claire (Billie Suggett) convinces her even younger friend Danny […]Read On »


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THE KILLER INSIDE: THE RUTH FINLEY STORY: Actors Teri Hatcher and Tahmoh Penikett on new Lifetime film | Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 06/29/2024
THE KILLER INSIDE: THE RUTH FINLEY STORY Key Art | ©2024 Lifetime Network

In 1946, then sixteen-year-old Ruth Smock was subjected to sexual assault that left her scarred both physically and psychologically. By 1977, Ruth was happily married to Ed Finley in Wichita, Kansas, when she was stalked and abducted. At the same time, the serial murderer BTK was active in the area, leading the police to wonder if the crimes were linked. What actually happened is the basis of THE KILLER INSIDE: THE RUTH FINLEY STORY, written by Katie Gruel and directed by Greg Beeman. The Lifetime telefilm, starring Teri Hatcher as Ruth and Tahmoh Penikett as Ed, premieres Saturday, June 29. […]Read On »


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Movie Review: A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 06/28/2024
A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE | ©2024 Paramount Pictures

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Lupita Nyong’o, Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff, Djimon Hounsou Writer: Michael Sarnoski, story by John Krasinski and Michael Sarnoski, based on characters created by Bryan Woods & Scott Beck Director: Michael Sarnoski Distributor: Paramount Pictures Release Date: June 28, 2024 Among the interesting aspects of A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE is that, by setting it in New York City rather than a rural community, it is naturally larger-scale than its predecessors, yet it feels more intimate. This is because, unlike 2018’s A QUIET PLACE and its sequel, 2021’s A QUIET PLACE PART II, A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE […]Read On »


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Movie Review: A SACRIFICE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
A SACRIFICE movie review | ©2024 Vertical

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Eric Bana, Sadie Sink, Sylvia Hoeks, Jonas Dassler, Sophie Rois, Stephan Kampwirth, Lara Feith Writer: Jordan Scott, based on the novel TOKYO by Nicholas Hogg Director: Jordan Scott Distributor: Vertical Release Date: June 28, 2024 A SACRIFICE has a promising enough start for a thriller. Ben Monroe (Eric Bana) is an American social psychologist in Berlin, researching a new book. His last bestseller was on the dangers of being isolated by loneliness; the work in progress is on the perils of false community. Ben’s colleague, university professor Max (Stephan Kampwirth), invites him to the site of […]Read On »


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DEVIL ON CAMPUS: THE LARRY RAY STORY: Director/actor Elisabeth Rohm and Billy Zane on new Lifetime film

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 06/23/2024
DEVIL ON CAMPUS: THE LARRY RAY STORY Key Art | ©2024 Lifetime Networks

Larry Ray, the father of a college student at Sarah Lawrence College, moved into his daughter’s dorm, presented himself as a life coach for her classmates, then began preying on them psychologically, physically and financially. The case was the subject of the 2023 documentary miniseries STOLEN YOUTH: INSIDE THE CULT AT SARAH LAWRENCE. Now, the true-life saga has been adapted as a Lifetime telefilm, DEVIL ON CAMPUS: THE LARRY RAY STORY. It premieres on Lifetime Sunday, June 23. Elisabeth Rohm directed DEVIL ON CAMPUS, which has a teleplay by Waneta Storms, as well serving as a producer and appearing in […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE BIKERIDERS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 06/21/2024
THE BIKERIDERS movie poster | ©2024 Focus Features

Rating: R Stars: Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, Michael Shannon, Mike Faist, Boyd Holbrook, Norman Reedus, Damon Herriman, Beau Knapp, Emory Cohen, Karl Glusman, Toby Wallace Writer: Jeff Nichols, inspired by the nonfiction book THE BIKERIDERS by Danny Lyon Director: Jeff Nichols Distributor: Focus Features Release Date: June 21, 2024 THE BIKERIDERS is a period film about speed freaks: not drug addicts, but those who demand the maximum miles per hour from their lives and their motorcycles. In 1968, Danny Lyon brought forth THE BIKERIDERS, a compilation of interviews and black-and-white photographs of his time with the Chicago Outlaws […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE EXORCISM

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
THE EXORCISM movie poster | ©2024 Vertical Entertainment/Miramax

Rating: R Stars: Russell Crowe, Ryan Simpkins, Sam Worthington, Chloe Bailey, Adam Goldberg, Adrian Pasdar, David Hyde Pierce Writers: M.A. Fortin & Joshua John Miller Director: Joshua John Miller Distributor: Vertical Entertainment/Miramax Release Date: June 21, 2024 THE EXORCISM has an opening sequence that makes us chuckle, then yelp. For most of its running time, it commendably walks the tightrope between filmmaking lore, meta commentary and straight-up horror. For those who may be understandably confused, THE EXORCISM stars Russell Crowe, but it is not connected legally, in plotline or in tone to that other recent Crowe vehicle, 2023’s THE POPE’S […]Read On »


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Movie Review: BLACKWATER LANE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
BLACKWATER LANE movie poster | ©2024 Lionsgate

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Minka Kelly, Maggie Grace, Dermot Mulroney, Alan Calton, Natalie Simpson, Judah Cousin, Kris Johnson Writer: Elizabeth Fowler, based on the novel THE BREAKDOWN by B.A. Paris Director: Jeff Celentano Distributor: Lionsgate Release Date: June 21, 2024 (theatrical/VOD) Based on B.A. Paris’s novel THE BREAKDOWN, BLACKWATER LANE has the odd distinction of being a thriller where viewers – at least, those acquainted with this subgenre – can guess what’s happening almost from the start. We begin with narration by Cass Anderson (Minka Kelly) about “what happened.” Cass and her husband Matthew (Dermot Mulroney) are half-American/half-English. They grew up […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THELMA

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
THELMA movie poster | ©2024 Magnolia Pictures

Rating: PG-13 Stars: June Squibb, Fred Hechinger, Richard Roundtree, Clark Gregg, Parker Posey, Malcolm McDowell Writer: Josh Margolin Director: Josh Margolin Distributor: Magnolia Pictures Release Date: June 21, 2024 Like a number of elderly Americans, ninety-three-year-old Thelma Post (June Squibb) falls for a costly telephone scam. Unlike most victims of this type of crime, Thelma is determined to do something about it. Thelma is a widow, living independently in L.A. County’s San Fernando Valley. We see from the outset that she is not very computer-savvy, as her twenty-something grandson Danny (Fred Hechinger) tries to instruct her in the finer points […]Read On »


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