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Movie Review: ROB PEACE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 08/16/2024
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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HOTEL PORTOFINO: Actress Natascha McElhone on Season 3 of the PBS drama – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 08/14/2024
HOTEL PORTOFINO key art | ©2024 PBS

HOTEL PORTOFINO is now in its third season Sunday nights on PBS’s MASTERPIECE THEATRE. Created by Matt Baker, HOTEL PORTOFINO is set in 1920s Italy at the title establishment. The hotel is managed by Englishwoman Bella Ainsworth, played by Natascha McElhone, although it technically belongs to her husband Cecil (Mark Umbers). Bella and Cecil have been married for thirty years, have two living children and one deceased. Bella pours her heart and soul into the hotel; Cecil sees it only as a source of income. By Season 3, Bella would like nothing more than to get Cecil out of her […]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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DUCHESS: Actress-producer-writer Charlotte Kirk on new gangster action film – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
DUCHESS movie poster | ©2024 Saban Films

In the modern crime action thriller DUCHESS, arriving on digital and VOD on Friday, August 9, the title character works her way up from London pickpocket to international diamond smuggler and mob boss. Charlotte Kirk and wrote DUCHESS with director and her producing partner Neil Marshall. This is their third film together, after 2020’s THE RECKONING and 2022’s THE LAIR. Kirk also stars in all three productions. In DUCHESS, we meet Kirk’s character, real name Scarlett, as she is about to enact vengeance upon a foe. We then flash back to what has brought Scarlett to this moment. She and […]Read On »


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ALEX RIDER: Actress Sofia Helin and executive producer Eve Gutierrez on Season 3 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 08/06/2024
Sofia Helin is Julia Rothman in ALEX RIDER - Season 3 | ©2024 Amazon/Freevee

All three seasons of the British spy thriller series ALEX RIDER are now available in their entirety for streaming in the U.S. on Amazon Freevee. The series is also playing in the U.K., Germany, and multiple other countries. Based on the series of bestselling novels by Anthony Horowitz, ALEX RIDER follows the title character, played by Otto Farrant, an English teenager who discovers that his late uncle and his late father were both spies. The clandestine U.K. government group, the Department, that hired both men (and got them killed in the line of duty) enlists Alex to infiltrate a school […]Read On »


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CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION: Actors Kirsten Vangsness, Adam Rodriguez and Zack Gilford on the latest season – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 08/04/2024
CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION - Season 2 | ©2024 Paramount+

All episodes of CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION Season 2, aka CRIMINAL MINDS Season 17, are now streaming on Paramount Plus, along with Season 16/Season 1, and all fifteen seasons of the original CRIMINAL MINDS. The series has been picked up for (depending on how one views it) Season 18 or Season 3. CRIMINAL MINDS launched on CBS in 2005. It is a procedural drama involving the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, or BAU. These are the special agents who profile and track down serial killers. The series spent fifteen years on the CBS network. That run ended in February 2020, but CRIMINAL […]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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