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Movie Review: THE WATCHERS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 06/07/2024
THE WATCHERS movie poster | ©2024 New Line/Warner Bros.

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Dakota Fanning, Georgina Campbell, Olwen Fouéré, Oliver Finnegan, Alistair Brammer, John Lynch Writer: Ishana Night Shyamalan, based on the novel by A.M. Shine Director: Ishana Night Shyamalan Distributor: New Line/Warner Bros. Release Date: June 7, 2024 THE WATCHERS has its issues, like a desktop computer, supposedly from 2009, that looks like it’s from the early ‘90s, and an apartment that’s strangely empty when this isn’t a plot point. However, the biggest matter facing THE WATCHERS has nothing to do with the filmmaking prowess of writer/director Ishana Night Shyamalan in her feature debut, adapting A.M. Shine’s novel for […]Read On »


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CLIPPED: Executive producer Nina Jacobson and actress Cleopatra Coleman on new Clippers basketball miniseries – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 06/04/2024
CLIPPED Key Art | ©2024 FX Networks

Based on the ESPN 30 FOR 30 documentary podcast THE STERLING AFFAIRS, the six-part miniseries CLIPPED chronicles the 2013-2014 debacle surrounding the Clippers basketball team. This resulted in the Clippers’ then-owner being banned for life from the NBA. The first two episodes premiere on FX on Hulu on Tuesday, June 4, with subsequent episodes dropping on consecutive Tuesdays. Adapted for Hulu by Gina Welch, CLIPPED follows what happened when racist, adulterous, erratic realty mogul/lawyer/then-Clippers owner Donald Sterling (Ed O’Neill) hired Doc Rivers (Laurence Fishburne) to coach the team. At the same time, Sterling’s wife Shelly (Jacki Weaver) develops a rivalry […]Read On »


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CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION: Showrunner Erica Messer on Season 2 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 06/03/2024
CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION Season 2 Key Art | ©2024 Paramount+

Depending on how one reckons it, what’s launching on Paramount Plus on Thursday, June 6, is either Season 2 of CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION or Season 17 of CRIMINAL MINDS. The series, which launched in 2005, concerns the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, or BAU. These are the special agents who profile and track down serial killers. CRIMINAL MINDS spent fifteen years on CBS. That run ended in February 2020, but CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION began in November 2022 on Paramount Plus, with most of the cast and creative team from the network run still involved. Erica Messer has been a writer/producer on […]Read On »


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Movie Review: IN A VIOLENT NATURE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 05/31/2024
IN A VIOLENT NATURE movie poster | ©2024 IFC Films/Shudder

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Ry Barrett, Andrea Pavlovic, Cameron Love, Reece Presley, Liam Leone, Charlotte Creaghan, Lea Rose Sebastianis, Sam Roulston, Alexander Oliver, Timothy Paul McCarthy, Lauren Taylor Writer: Chris Nash Director: Chris Nash Distributor: IFC Films/Shudder Release Date: May 31, 2024 The horror genre has many subgenres. One of these is the slasher, which has its own collection of sub-subgenres. IN A VIOLENT NATURE seems aimed at those who can differentiate between, say, a HALLOWEEN film and a FRIDAY THE 13TH. The new movie definitely falls into the FRIDAY category. Instead of a summer camp, it’s an old mining […]Read On »


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Movie Review: WHAT YOU WISH FOR

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
WHAT YOU WISH FOR movie poster | ©2024 Magnet Releasing/Magnolia

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Nick Stahl, Tamsin Topolski, Randy Vasquez, Penelope Mitchell, Juan Carlos Messier, Brian Groh, Ariel Sierra, David Tominaga Writer: Nicholas Tomnay Director: Nicholas Tomnay Distributor: Magnet Releasing/Magnolia (theatrical/VOD) Release Date: May 31, 2024 WHAT YOU WISH FOR takes its title from the familiar phrase that begins with “Be careful.” In this instance, the person who ought to exercise more caution is Ryan Moseley (Nick Stahl). Ryan has come to South America (the country is unnamed, but the film mentions Bogota and was shot in Colombia) to visit his old friend Jack (Brian Groh). They were at culinary […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE HANGMAN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
THE HANGMAN movie poster | ©2024 Epic Pictures Dread

Rating: Not Rated Stars: LeJon Woods, Marcellus, Scott Callenberger, Kaitlyn Lundardi, Rob Cardazone, Jefferson Cox, Lindsey Dresbach, Daniel Martin Berkey, William Shuman, Laura Loftus, Richard Lunello, Ameerah Briggs Writers: LeJon Woods & Bruce Wemple Director: Bruce Wemple Distributor: Epic Pictures Dread Release Date: May 31, 2024 (theatrical); June 4, 2024 (VOD) THE HANGMAN opens with the following supertitle: “There are at least seven known gateways to Hell across the world. One of the sits in the mountains of West Virginia. The region has no name.” This is intriguing, but it’s not the set-up to the type of horror movie we […]Read On »


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Movie Review: FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 05/24/2024
FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA poster | ©2024 Warner Bros.

Rating: R Stars: Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke, Alyla Browne, John Howard, Angus Fraser, Charlee Fraser, George Shevtsov, Lachy Hulme Writers: George Miller & Nick Lathouris Director: George Miller Distributor: Warner Bros. Release Date: May 24, 2024 FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA is, as its title suggest, focuses on the multifaceted character previously played by Charlize Theron in 2015’s MAD MAX: FURY ROAD. As FURIOSA is a prequel rather than a sequel, the title character is portrayed as a young woman by Anya Taylor-Joy, and by Alyla Browne as a child. Franchise creator George Miller is back as director; […]Read On »


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Movie Review: WE GO ON

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
WE GO ON poster | ©2024 Lightyear Entertainment

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Annette O’Toole, Clark Freeman, John Glover, Giovanna Zacarías, Jay Dunn, Laura Heisler Writer: Andy Mitton, story by Andy Mitton & Jesse Holland Directors: Andy Mitton & Jesse Holland Distributors: Lightyear Entertainment Release Date: March 5, 2016 (theatrical); May 21, 2024 (remastered home video, digital) First released theatrically in 2016, WE GO ON is newly available in remastered form on home video and digital. Apart from what feels like a quaint reference to “the sniffles” as opposed to COVID, there’s nothing that seems especially dated about the film, and Los Angeles residents will appreciate its geographic veracity. […]Read On »


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ABBOTT ELEMENTARY: Executive producer and showrunner Justin Halpern on Season 3 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 05/20/2024
ABBOTT ELEMENTARY Season 3 Key Art | ©2024 ABC

ABC’s ABBOTT ELEMENTARY has its third season finale on Wednesday, May 22, with episodes available the next day on Hulu and Max. Fans should have no fear – the multi-Emmy Award-winning comedy has been renewed for a fourth season. Quinta Brunson created, executive produces, and stars as Janine Teagues in ABBOTT ELEMENTARY, which deals with the teachers, staff and students at a Philadelphia school. Justin Halpern, along with Patrick Schumacker, is an executive producer and showrunner on ABBOTT ELEMENTARY. Halpern previously co-created S#*! MY DAD SAYS and, with Schumacker, SURVIVING JACK and HARLEY QUINN, and was a writer/producer on COUGAR […]Read On »


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Movie Review: IF

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 05/17/2024
IF movie poster | ©2024 Paramount Pictures

Rating: PG Stars: Cailey Fleming, Ryan Reynolds, John Krasinski, Fiona Shaw, Alan Kim, Bobby Moynihan, Liza Colón-Zayas, Audrey Hoffman, Steve Carell (voice), Phoebe Waller-Bridge (voice), Louis Gossett Jr. (voice), Emily Blunt (voice), Matt Damon (voice), Maya Rudolph (voice), Jon Stewart (voice), Sam Rockwell (voice), Sebastian Maniscalco (voice), Christopher Meloni (voice), Awkwafina (voice) Writer: John Krasinski Director: John Krasinski Distributor: Paramount Pictures Release Date: May 17, 2024 One would have to be a Grinch of the highest order to object to the premise of IF, which is, broadly, that imagination makes everybody’s lives better. Written and directed by John Krasinski, the […]Read On »


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