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Movie Review: ALIEN: ROMULUS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 08/27/2024
ALIEN: ROMULUS movie poster | ©2024 20th Century Studios

Rating: R Stars: Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn, Aileen Wu, Daniel Betts Writers: Fede Alvarez & Rodo Sayagues, based on characters created by Dan O’Bannon & Ronald Shusett Director: Fede Alvarez Distributor: 20th Century Studios Release Date: August 16, 2024 ALIEN: ROMULUS is the best movie in the ALIEN franchise since ALIENS. This isn’t to say ALIEN: ROMULUS is in the same class as the 1986 ALIENS or the 1979 original ALIEN. That would be demanding too much of practically any movie. However, it starts by honoring the basics. Yes, there is a bit of […]Read On »


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HOTEL PORTOFINO: Creator and writer Matt Baker on Season 3 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 08/24/2024
HOTEL PORTOFINO creator Matt Baker | ©2024 Grainge Photography

In Season 3 of HOTEL PORTOFINO, airing Sunday nights on PBS, it is 1929. Fascism is rising in Europe and the stock market crash is looming. Both of these factors will impact Bella Ainsworth (Natascha McElhone) and her estranged husband Cecil (Mark Umbers), Britons who own the title establishment on Italy’s Amalfi Coast. Matt Baker, originally from Yorkshire, England, created HOTEL PORTOFINO and has written all the episodes. Baker was also the primary writer on the series BEFORE WE DIE, and done scripts for the series SUSPECT and PROFESSOR T, and the upcoming PATIENCE. He gets on a Zoom call […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE CROW (2024)

By RACHEL REITSLEFF | 08/23/2024
THE CROW movie poster | ©2024 Lionsgate

Stars: Bill Skarsgård, FKA twigs, Danny Huston, Sami Bouajila, Josette Simon, Laura Birn, Karel Dobrý, Jordan Bolger, Sebastian Orozco, Isabella Wei Writers: Zach Baylin and William Schneider, based on the comic book series and comic strip by James O’Barr Director: Rupert Sanders Distributor: Lionsgate Release Date: August 23, 2024 2024 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the release of the original film version of THE CROW, based on the comic book series and comic strip by James O’Barr. The 1994 feature has become iconic, with three other features in the franchise, along with a television and several videogame adaptations. One facet […]Read On »


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Movie Review: BLINK TWICE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
BLINK TWICE movie poster | movie poster | ©2024 Amazon MGM Studios

Rating: R Stars: Naomi Ackie, Channing Tatum, Alia Shawkat, Christian Slater, Adria Arjona, Simon Rex, Haley Joel Osment, Liz Caribel, Levon Hawke, Trew Mullen, Geena Davis, Kyle McLachlan, Chris Costa, Maria Elena Olivares Writers: Zoë Kravitz & E.T. Feigenbaum Director: Zoë Kravitz Distributor: Amazon MGM Studios Release Date: August 23, 2024 “Blink twice if I’m in danger,” Frida (Naomi Ackie) jokingly says to new acquaintance Rich (Kyle McLachlan), who obligingly blinks twice. Since most of us have seen the trailer, we know that Frida is kidding, but Rich is only pretending to be responding in kind. Here’s the set-up. Frida […]Read On »


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Movie Review: STRANGE DARLING

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
STRANGE DARLING | ©2024 Magenta Light Studios / Miramax

Rating: R Stars: Willa Fitzgerald, Kyle Gallner, Madisen Beatty, Bianca Santos, Steven Michael Quezada, Ed Begley Jr., Barbara Hershey Writer: JT Mollner Director: JT Mollner Distributor: Magenta Light Studios/Miramax Release Date: August 23, 2024 How to review STRANGE DARLING without spoilers? It seems fair enough to include the film’s opening, which informs us that it’s shot in 35mm (something of a rarity these days). This allows cinematographer Giovanni Ribisi (also one of STRANGE DARLING’s producers) to play with crisp black-and-white, saturated colors and even over-saturation, depending on the mood of the sequence. At the black-and-white start, we see a man […]Read On »


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Movie Review: PLACE OF BONES

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
PLACE OF BONES movie poster | ©2024 The Avenue

Rating: R Stars: Heather Graham, Tom Hopper, Corin Nemec, Brielle Robillard, Gatlin Griffith, Zachary Keller, Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone Writer: Richard Taylor Director: Audrey Cummings Distributor: The Avenue/Highland Film Group Release Date: August 23, 2024 PLACE OF BONES is, for the most part, a sturdy period Western, economically shot in and around a small mountain farmhouse and its outbuildings, with a few detours to surrounding trails. We get an overview of brown mountains sporting scrubby brushes. The widowed Pandora Meadows (Heather Graham) and her teen daughter Hester (Brielle Robillard) live out here in their flat-roofed stone farmhouse on their own, since […]Read On »


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REASONABLE DOUBT: Executive producer Larry Wilmore and stars talk about Season 2 of the Hulu series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
REASONABLE DOUBT - Season 2 Key Art | ©2024 Hulu

REASONABLE DOUBT begins its second season Thursday, August 22 on Hulu as part of the streaming network’s Onyx Collective. Created by Raamla Mohamed, REASONABLE DOUBT is part legal thriller and part relationship drama. Tone-wise, think SCANDAL, minus the Washington politics and spies. In fact, Mohamed was a writer/producer on that series, and SCANDAL star and producer Kerry Washington is one of Mohamed’s fellow REASONABLE DOUBT executive producers. REASONABLE DOUBT centers on Los Angeles top attorney Jax Stewart, played by Emayatzy Corinealdi. Jax is married to Lewis, played by McKinley Freeman. They have two young children together, Naima (Aderinsola Olabode) and […]Read On »


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THE ARK: Actors Stacey Read and Ryan Adams give the scoop on Season 2 of the Syfy series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 08/17/2024
Stacey Read as Alicia Nevins in THE ARK - Season 2 - "Failed Experiment" | ©2024 Syfy/Ark TV Holdings, Inc./Electric Entertainment

Now in its second season, Wednesday nights on Syfy, THE ARK takes its name from a spacecraft. Set 100 years from now, THE ARK, created by Dean Devlin, posits that Earth will become so uninhabitable that humanity is seeking refuge on other planets. To reach these promising new worlds, a fleet of Ark ships have been sent forth. However, Ark One has experienced a catastrophe mid-journey that kills all of the senior crew and most of the specialists aboard. The survivors have to step up to get the ship back in motion and to keep themselves and each other alive. […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SKINCARE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 08/16/2024
SKINCARE movie poster | ©2024 IFC Films

Rating: R Stars: Elizabeth Banks, Lewis Pullman, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Wendie Malick, Erik Palladino, John Billingsley, Ella Balinska, Luis Gerardo Mendéz, Nathan Fillion Writers: Sam Frelich & Deering Regan and Austin Peters Director: Austin Peters Distributor: IFC Films Release Date: August 16, 2024 SKINCARE begins with the onscreen statement, “This is a fictional story inspired by true events.” Those interested in SKINCARE’s factual basis can easily look it up online. The reality is almost as odd as the tale that unspools in this dramedy thriller. Elizabeth Banks stars as Hope Goldman, who has set up her Hope Goldman Skincare studio […]Read On »


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Movie Review: CRESCENT CITY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
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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