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Movie Review: STRANGE DARLING

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 08/23/2024
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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THE ARK: Actors Stacey Read and Ryan Adams give the scoop on Season 2 of the Syfy series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 08/17/2024
Stacey Read as Alicia Nevins in THE ARK - Season 2 - "Failed Experiment" | ©2024 Syfy/Ark TV Holdings, Inc./Electric Entertainment

Now in its second season, Wednesday nights on Syfy, THE ARK takes its name from a spacecraft. Set 100 years from now, THE ARK, created by Dean Devlin, posits that Earth will become so uninhabitable that humanity is seeking refuge on other planets. To reach these promising new worlds, a fleet of Ark ships have been sent forth. However, Ark One has experienced a catastrophe mid-journey that kills all of the senior crew and most of the specialists aboard. The survivors have to step up to get the ship back in motion and to keep themselves and each other alive. […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SKINCARE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 08/16/2024
SKINCARE movie poster | ©2024 IFC Films

Rating: R Stars: Elizabeth Banks, Lewis Pullman, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Wendie Malick, Erik Palladino, John Billingsley, Ella Balinska, Luis Gerardo Mendéz, Nathan Fillion Writers: Sam Frelich & Deering Regan and Austin Peters Director: Austin Peters Distributor: IFC Films Release Date: August 16, 2024 SKINCARE begins with the onscreen statement, “This is a fictional story inspired by true events.” Those interested in SKINCARE’s factual basis can easily look it up online. The reality is almost as odd as the tale that unspools in this dramedy thriller. Elizabeth Banks stars as Hope Goldman, who has set up her Hope Goldman Skincare studio […]Read On »


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Movie Review: CRESCENT CITY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
CRESCENT CITY movie poster | ©2024 Lionsgate

Rating: R Stars: Terrence Howard, Esai Morales, Nicky Whelan, Alec Baldwin, Reema Sampat, Madonna Akhtar Writer: Rich Ronat Director: RJ Collins Distributor: Lionsgate Release Date: August 16, 2024 (theatrical, digital, VOD) The title of CRESCENT CITY turns out to be like that of CHINATOWN – it’s not where the action is set, just the site of a significant event in the lives of several characters. (The film has nothing to do with either New Orleans or the fantasy book series with that name.) Instead, we are mostly in Little Rock, AR, where a serial killer is leaving mannequin heads next […]Read On »


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Movie Review: ROB PEACE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
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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