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Movie Review: MAGPIE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 10/25/2024
MAGPIE movie poster | ©2024 Shout! Sudios

Rating: R Stars: Daisy Ridley, Shazad Latif, Matilda Lutz, Hiba Ahmed, Cherrelle Skeete, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Alistair Petrie Writer: Tom Bateman, based on an original idea by Daisy Ridley Director: Sam Yates Distributor: Shout! Studios Release Date: October 25, 2024 As MAGPIE begins, Anette (Daisy Ridley) is videotaping her little daughter Matilda’s (Hiba Ahmed) audition for a big-budget movie. Great news: Matilda gets the part. Momentarily, Matilda, Anette and Anette’s husband/Matilda’s dad Ben (Shazad Latif) couldn’t be happier. The family, plus baby boy Lucas, lives in a spacious modern house in the English countryside. Ben is a successful author. Anette would […]Read On »


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MATLOCK: Actor Jason Ritter talks about the reboot of the classic mystery series – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 10/19/2024
Jason Ritter in MATLOCK - Season 1 | ©2024 CBS/Art Streiber

CBS’s new iteration of MATLOCK had its premiere on Sunday, September 22, and is now settling into its regular timeslot on Thursdays, beginning October 17, with episodes subsequently available on Paramount Plus. The original MATLOCK ran for nine seasons, 1986-1995, starring Andy Griffith as wealthy, brilliant attorney Ben Matlock, who defends his clients by finding the real culprit. The new MATLOCK stars Kathy Bates as Madeline “Matty” Matlock, an older attorney who comes out of retirement and talks her way into an assistant gig at top-flight New York legal firm Jacobson & Moore. The other MATLOCK is verbally referred to […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SMILE 2

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 10/18/2024
SMILE 2 movie poster | ©2024 Paramount Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Naomi Scott, Rosemary DeWitt, Kyle Gallner, Dylan Gelula, Ray Nicholson, Lukas Gage, Peter Jacobson, Drew Barrymore, Raúl Castillo, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Iván Carlo Writer: Parker Finn, based on characters created by Parker Finn Director: Parker Finn Distributor: Paramount Pictures Release Date: October 18, 2024 SMILE 2 is a clear case of a sequel that’s superior to the original. Writer/director Parker Finn, back from the 2022 SMILE, not only avails himself of a bigger budget but also displays better storytelling and scare chops this time around. One of the big problems that the original SMILE had was that it […]Read On »


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Movie Review: BEEZEL

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
BEEZEL movie poster | ©2024 Epic Pictures / Dread

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Bob Gallagher, LeJon Woods, Caroline Quigley, Kimberly Salditt Poulin, Nicolas Robin, Victoria Fratz Fradkin Writers: Adam Fradkin & Victoria Fratz Fradkin Director: Adam Fradkin Distributor: Epic Pictures/Dread Release Date: September 20, 2024 (theatrical); September 24, 2024 (VOD) BEEZEL does something a bit different with the found footage format. While we do get a reasonable amount of camera p.o.v., the movie plays with different types of cameras and mediums (Super 8mm film, a variety of video formats) and has characters literally finding the footage. BEEZEL takes place in one location, a sprawling Massachusetts house with a large […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE LINE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
THE LINE movie poster | ©2024 Utopia

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Alex Wolff, Lewis Pullman, Halle Bailey, Austin Abrams, Bo Mitchell, Angus Cloud, Graham Patrick Martin, Will Ropp, Denise Richards, Cheri Oteri, Scoot McNairy, John Malkovich Writers: Alex Russek & Ethan Berger, story by Ethan Berger, Alex Russek, Zack Purdo Director: Ethan Berger Distributor: Utopia Release Date: October 18, 2024 THE LINE, set mostly in 2014, is a slow-burn but well-observed college frat drama. Director Ethan Berger and his co-screenwriter Alex Russek, working from a story they crafted with Zack Purdo, are uncommonly precise in showing how micro-aggressions and small power plays can spiral into disaster. Tom […]Read On »


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Movie Review: CADDO LAKE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
CADDO LAKE Key Art | ©2024 New Line Cinema / Max

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Dylan O’Brien, Eliza Scanlen, Diana Hopper, Caroline Falk, Sam Hennings, Eric Edward Lange, Lauren Ambrose Writers: Celine Held & Logan George Directors: Celine Held & Logan George Distributor: New Line Cinema/Max Release Date: October 10, 2024 (Max) There’s a chance that describing CADDO LAKE as a science-fiction/fantasy film will give prospective viewers the wrong idea. However, it’s just about impossible to explain what makes it part of that genre without giving the whole game away. Writers/directors Celine Held & Logan George bring us to the East Texas side of Caddo Lake, a bayou that extends into Louisiana […]Read On »


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ENGLISH TEACHER: Executive producers Paul Simms and Dave King on Season 1 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 10/12/2024
Brian Jordan Alvarez as Evan Marquez in ENGLISH TEACHER - Season 1 | ©2024 FX/Pari Dukovic

ENGLISH TEACHER has its first-season finale on FX on Monday, October 14. Following this, the episode will join the rest of the comedy’s first season streaming on Hulu. Series creator Brian Jordan Alvarez stars as Evan Marquez, a gay high school teacher in Austin, Texas, where unexpected controversies continually baffle staff and students alike. When ENGLISH TEACHER has a Q&A panel during FX’s portion of the summer Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour, one of the executive producers, Paul Simms, offers this observation: “A lot of what the show is about is the characters within the show talking about what […]Read On »


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Movie Review: TERRIFIER 3

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 10/10/2024
TERRIFIER 3 movie poster | ©2024 Cineverse

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Lauren LaVera, David Howard Thornton, Elliott Fullam, Sarah Voigt, Samantha Scaffidi, Chris Jericho, Antonella Rose, Margaret Anne Florence, Bryce Johnson, Alexa Blair, Mason Mecartea, Krsy Fox, Clint Howard, Jon Abrahams, Daniel Roebuck, Jason Patric Writer: Damien Leone Director: Damien Leone Distributor: Cineverse Release Date: October 11, 2024 TERRIFIER 3 provides two-for-one holiday horror. Arriving just in time for Halloween, it’s actually set during Christmas. Like its predecessors, 2016’s TERRIFIER and 2022’s TERRIFIER 2, TERRIFIER 3 is written and directed by Damien Leone. Actor David Howard Thornton is likewise back for his third round as Art the […]Read On »


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Movie Review: V/H/S/BEYOND

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
V/H/S/BEYOND movie poster | ©2024 Shudder

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Mitch Horowitz, Brian Baker, Sam Gorski, Niko Pueringer, Wren Weichman, Thom Hallum, Jolene Andersen, Vas Provatakis, Namrata Sheth, Sayandeep Sengupta, Rohan Joshi, Bobby Slaski, Hannah McBride, Libby Letlow, Alanah Pearce Writers: Jordan Downey (“Stork”), Kevin Stewart (“Stork”), based on artwork by Oleg Vdovenko, Virat Pal (“Dream Girl”), Evan Dickson (“Dream Girl”), Ben Turner (“Live and Let Dive”), Justin Martinez (“Live and Let Dive”), Christian Long (“Fur Babies”), Justin Long (“Fur Babies”), Mike Flanagan (“Stowaway”) Directors: Jay Cheel (“Abduction/Adduction”), Jordan Downey (“Stork”), Virat Pal (“Dream Girl”), Justin Martinez (“Live and Let Dive”), Christian Long (“Fur Babies”), Justin […]Read On »


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MOONFLOWER MURDERS: Actress Pippa Bennett-Warner on playing a 1950s detective’s assistant – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 10/09/2024
Daniel Mays, Pippa Bennett-Warner and Tim McMullan in MASTERPIECE: MOONFLOWER MURDERS | ©2024 PBS/ Eleventh Hour Films

In MOONFLOWER MURDERS, Sunday nights on PBS MASTERPIECE, actual retired English book editor Susan Ryeland (Lesley Manville) and fictional ‘50s master detective Atticus Pünd (Tim McMullan) are both back on the case. In the previous MAGPIE MURDERS, Susan had been the editor on all of the Atticus Pünd mystery novels. When the last book led to the murder of Atticus’s creator, unpleasant novelist Alan Conway (Conleth Hill), Susan wound up solving the crime. Surprisingly, Atticus began appearing to Susan and giving her oblique advice, at the same time he was busy solving the 1950s case that Alan had written for […]Read On »


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