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Movie Review: SLINGSHOT

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 08/30/2024
SLINGSHOT movie poster | ©2024 Bleecker Street

Rating: R Stars: Casey Affleck, Laurence Fishburne, Emily Beecham, Tomer Capone, David Morrissey, Nikolett Barabas (voice) Writers: R. Scott Adams and Nathan C. Parker, story by R. Scott Adams Director: Mikael Håfström Distributor: Bleecker Street Release Date: August 30, 2024 The title of SLINGSHOT does not refer to a physical object. Rather, it describes a maneuver that the manned spacecraft Odyssey 1 is intended to perform. The ship is meant to circle Jupiter to gain enough energy to reach its ultimate destination, Saturn’s moon Titan. SLINGSHOT has a brief opening in which a woman – we’ll learn this is Zoe […]Read On »


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Movie Review: HELL HOLE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
HELL HOLE movie poster | ©2024 Shudder

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Toby Poser, John Adams, Max Portman, Anders Hove, Marko Filipović, Olivera Peruničić, Aleksandar Trmčić, Petar Arsić, Bruno Veljanovski, Boris Lukman Writers: Lulu Adams & John Adams & Toby Poser Directors: Toby Poser & John Adams Distributor: Shudder Release Date: August 23, 2024 (Shudder) “Man is the warmest place to hide” was a slightly misleading tagline for 1982’s JOHN CARPENTER’S THE THING. The Thing wasn’t hiding inside people, it was replicating them. However, the slogan would be a perfectly apt way to promote HELL HOLE, a relatively low-budget but effective horror movie that has an uncommon take […]Read On »


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AMERICAN MASTERS: BLAKE EDWARDS: A LOVE STORY IN 24 FRAMES: The scoop on the new PBS documentary – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 08/27/2024
BLAKE EDWARDS - A LOVE STORY IN 24 FRAMES movie poster | ©2024 PBS

The feature documentary BLAKE EDWARDS: A LOVE STORY IN 24 FRAMES, premieres on PBS’s AMERICAN MASTERS on Tuesday, August 27. Directed by Danny Gold, the film explores the career and personal life of the celebrated filmmaker, who directed, produced, and/or wrote of co-wrote films spanning in genre from the 1962 drama DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES to the 1963 farce THE PINK PANTHER to the 1982 gender-bending musical VICTOR/VICTORIA. Edwards was born in 1922 and died in 2010. He was awarded an honorary Oscar in 2004 “in recognition of his extraordinary body of work,” and was Oscar-nominated for his VICTOR/VICTORIA […]Read On »


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Movie Review: ALIEN: ROMULUS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
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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