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Movie Review: THE LEGEND OF LA LLORONA

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 01/11/2022
LEGEND OF LA LLORNA movie poster | ©2022 Saban Films

Rating: R Stars: Autumn Reeser, Antonio Cupo, Zamia Fandino, Edgar Wuotto, Angelica Lara, Nicolas Madrazo, Danny Trejo, Fernanda Aguilar Writer: Jose Prendes, story by Cameron Larson, Jose Prendes, Patricia Harris Seeley Director: Patricia Harris Seeley Distributor: Saban Films Release Date: January 7, 2022 (theatrical), January 11, 2022 (digital) THE LEGEND OF LA LLORONA is not to be confused with either 2019’s THE CURSE OF LA LLORONA (which is part of the COJURING-verse), or LA LLORONA (also 2019). How can you tell them apart? For one thing, LA LLORONA is set and made in Guatemala, and uses the horror genre and […]Read On »


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Movie Review: RUCKER

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 01/10/2022
RUCKER movie poster | ©2022 Giant Pictures

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Bobby C. King, Cheyenna Lee Writers: Amy Hesketh & Aaron Drane Director: Amy Hesketh Distributor: Giant Pictures Release Date: January 4, 2022 (VOD); February 4, 2022 (Blu-ray/DVD) RUCKER is a combination slasher/trucker/character study. Directed by Amy Hesketh and written by Hesketh & Aaron Drane, RUCKER has intriguing ambitions (once we can tell what they are), but it lacks the nuance to fully pull them off. After a brutal slasher opening, we find ourselves in the company of Leif Rucker (Bobby C. King). Rucker is a lifelong long-haul driver of a truck. He says he doesn’t like […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE KINDRED

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 01/07/2022
THE KINDRED movie poster | ©2022 Vertical Entertainment

Rating: Not Rated Stars: April Pearson, Blake Harrison, James Cosmo, Samantha Bond, Steve Oram, Robbie Gee, Jimmy Yuill, James Dreyfus, Patrick Bergin, Scarlet Annandale Writer: Christian J. Hearn Director: Jamie Patterson Distributor: Vertical Entertainment Release Date: January 7, 2022 THE KINDRED is not to be confused with 2020’s KINDRED, a mix-up made more likely since both are low-budget British horror movies. (It’s also not to be confused with the 1987 TV series THE KINDRED, which was about vampires.) The current THE KINDRED opens with a panicked young woman, Helen Tullet (April Pearson), fleeing a tall building. Once outside, she is […]Read On »


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WITH LOVE: Constance Marie talks about new series and rotoscope work on UNDONE – Exclusive Interview – Pt. 2

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 01/06/2022
Constance Marie in WITH LOVE | ©2022 Amazon

WITH LOVE, created by Gloria Calderón Kellett, is an Amazon Prime Video original series, now streaming. The show centers on the Diaz family of Portland, Oregon, and their adventures around significant holidays over the course of a year. Constance Marie plays Beatriz Diaz, in a seemingly stable marriage to her husband/restaurant partner Jorge (Benito Martinez), mother of two grown children, Lily (Emeraude Toubia) and Jorge Jr. (Mark Indelicato), and daughter of opinionated parents Marta (Renee Victor) and Luis (Pepe Serna). Despite her outward calm, Beatriz may be ready to make some big changes. In Part 2 of our exclusive interview, […]Read On »


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WITH LOVE: Constance Marie talks about her new dramedy – Exclusive Interview – Pt. 1

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
WITH LOVE Key Art | ©2022 Amazon

WITH LOVE, the new dramedy series on Amazon Prime Video, follows the Portland, Oregon-based Diaz family through five major holidays over a year. Created by Gloria Calderón Kellett (who was behind the ONE DAY AT A TIME reboot), we see adult Diaz siblings Lily (Emeraude Toubia) and Jorge Jr. (Mark Indelicato) navigate their love lives. Restauranteur dad Jorge Sr. (Benito Martinez) is content with everything the way it is. Constance Marie plays mom Beatriz, who is in the throes of an initially quiet but growing midlife crisis. Marie, originally from Los Angeles, began her performing career as a dancer. She […]Read On »


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WOMEN OF THE MOVEMENT: The scoop on the new ABC docudrama series – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 01/05/2022

WOMEN OF THE MOVEMENT is a limited anthology series on ABC, exploring women in the civil rights movement in the United States. The first season, airing on Thursdays beginning January 6 (with episodes available the next day on Hulu), dramatizes the events leading up to and following the 1955 hate-crime killing of fourteen-year-old Black youth Emmett Till. Till was lynched by racists who felt that the young man had been insufficiently deferential to a white woman store clerk. Till’s mother, Mamie Carthan Till-Mobley, tirelessly tried to get some measure of justice in the aftermath of her son’s murder. WOMEN OF […]Read On »


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YEAR IN REVIEW: THE 10 BEST MOVIES OF 2021

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 12/31/2021
SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME teaser poster | ©2021 Sony/Marvel

2021 was in many respects a nightmare year in real life, but it managed to deliver some really good movies. Here are my totally unscientific picks for the ten best. BELFAST. It’s a tough decision, but director/writer Kenneth Branagh’s ode to his childhood gets the edge, precisely because it could easily have been trite or average or, worst of all, boring. Instead, it’s informative and glorious and full of sorrow and joy. CYRANO. Directed by Joe Wright and adapted by Erica Schmidt from her stage musical (lyrics by Matt Berninger & Carin Besser, music by Aaron Dessner & Bryce Dessner), […]Read On »


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YELLOWJACKETS: Actor Steven Krueger gives the scoop on Season 1- Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 12/24/2021
Steven Krueger as Ben Scott in YELLOWJACKETS - Season 1- "Saints"| ©2021 Showtime/Brendan Meadows

YELLOWJACKETS has been picked up for a second season while its first season is running new episodes on Sunday nights on Showtime. Created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, YELLOWJACKETS explores the ordeal of a young women’s high school soccer team stranded after a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness. The action goes back and forth between the time that the survivors are forced to cope out in the wilds, and what happens twenty-five years later, when they are threatened by an unknown blackmailer. Steven Krueger plays team coach Ben Scott, who is on the plane with his team. He […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SING 2

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 12/22/2021
SING 2 movie poster | ©2021 Universal Pictures/Illumination

Rating: PG Stars (voices): Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Scarlett Johansson, Tori Kelly, Taron Egerton, Nick Kroll, Bobby Cannavale, Bono, Halsey, Pharrell Williams Writer: Garth Jennings Director: Garth Jennings Distributor: Universal Pictures/Illumination Release Date: December 22, 2021 SING 2 is a sequel to 2016’s animated musical SING. Like the first film, SING 2 is written and directed by Garth Jennings. Both take place in a world of anthropomorphic animals, and both are jukebox musicals, with songs taken from pop culture rather than being composed specifically for the film. In the original SING, Buster Moon (voiced by Matthew McConaughey), an ambitious koala […]Read On »


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Movie Review: ALPHA RIFT

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 12/21/2021
ALPHA RIFT movie poster | ©2021 Vertical Entertainment

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Lance Henriksen, Aaron Dalla Villa, Rachel Nielsen, Philip Williams, Graham Wolff, Chris Ullrich, Allyson Malandra, Chris James Boylan Writer: Dan Lantz Director: Dan Lantz Distributor: Vertical Entertainment Release Date: November 19, 2021 ALPHA RIFT has more ambition than budget. This creates some obvious challenges, but at the start, it has a certain charm. For a while, ALPHA RIFT plays like a combination of HIGHLANDER Extra-Lite and THE LAST STARFIGHTER. It opens with two men in medieval full-head helmets, one in a duster coat no less, engaging in a serious swordfight on a big-city street. They are tracked […]Read On »


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