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Movie Review: CUCKOO

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 08/09/2024
CUCKOO movie poster | ©2024 Neon

Rating: R Stars: Hunter Schafer, Dan Stevens, Jan Bluthardt, Márton Csókás, Jessica Henwick, Mila Lieu, Greta Fernández, Proschat Madani, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Konrad Singer, Kalin Morrow Writer: Tilman Singer Director: Tilman Singer Distributor: Neon Release Date: August 9, 2024 The film CUCKOO is well-titled. This isn’t an insult. Since many of the characters are demonstrably crazy, and it is plotted so densely that viewers may feel some madness themselves, a reference to insanity seems appropriate. The title also references the bird species with the unusual method of raising their young, although that analogy gets stretched to the breaking point. CUCKOO begins […]Read On »


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Movie Review: MICKEY HARDAWAY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
MICKEY HARDAWAY movie poster | ©2024 Indie Rights

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Rashad Hunter, Ashley Parchment, Stephen Cofield Jr., David Chattam, Dennis La White, Gayla Wilson, Samuel Whitehill, Sean Alexander James, Christopher M. Cook Writer: Marcellus Cox Director: Marcellus Cox Distributor: Indie Rights Release Date: August 9, 2024 (theatrical, Amazon Freevee) MICKEY HARDAWAY is an artful if uneven portrait of a young Black artist in Los Angeles. Writer/director Marcellus Cox has given his protagonist an unexpected trajectory. Mickey (Rashad Hunter) is born into a working-class family, but his problems are not with the lure of street life. He couldn’t care less about that. Instead, it’s the fact that […]Read On »


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DUCHESS: Actress-producer-writer Charlotte Kirk on new gangster action film – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
DUCHESS movie poster | ©2024 Saban Films

In the modern crime action thriller DUCHESS, arriving on digital and VOD on Friday, August 9, the title character works her way up from London pickpocket to international diamond smuggler and mob boss. Charlotte Kirk and wrote DUCHESS with director and her producing partner Neil Marshall. This is their third film together, after 2020’s THE RECKONING and 2022’s THE LAIR. Kirk also stars in all three productions. In DUCHESS, we meet Kirk’s character, real name Scarlett, as she is about to enact vengeance upon a foe. We then flash back to what has brought Scarlett to this moment. She and […]Read On »


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ALEX RIDER: Actress Sofia Helin and executive producer Eve Gutierrez on Season 3 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 08/06/2024
Sofia Helin is Julia Rothman in ALEX RIDER - Season 3 | ©2024 Amazon/Freevee

All three seasons of the British spy thriller series ALEX RIDER are now available in their entirety for streaming in the U.S. on Amazon Freevee. The series is also playing in the U.K., Germany, and multiple other countries. Based on the series of bestselling novels by Anthony Horowitz, ALEX RIDER follows the title character, played by Otto Farrant, an English teenager who discovers that his late uncle and his late father were both spies. The clandestine U.K. government group, the Department, that hired both men (and got them killed in the line of duty) enlists Alex to infiltrate a school […]Read On »


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CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION: Actors Kirsten Vangsness, Adam Rodriguez and Zack Gilford on the latest season – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 08/04/2024
CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION - Season 2 | ©2024 Paramount+

All episodes of CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION Season 2, aka CRIMINAL MINDS Season 17, are now streaming on Paramount Plus, along with Season 16/Season 1, and all fifteen seasons of the original CRIMINAL MINDS. The series has been picked up for (depending on how one views it) Season 18 or Season 3. CRIMINAL MINDS launched on CBS in 2005. It is a procedural drama involving the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, or BAU. These are the special agents who profile and track down serial killers. The series spent fifteen years on the CBS network. That run ended in February 2020, but CRIMINAL […]Read On »


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Movie Review: TRAP

By CARL CORTEZ | 08/03/2024
TRAP movie poster | ©2024 Warner Bros.

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Shyamalan, Hayley Mills, Alison Pill Writer-Director: M. Night Shyamalan Distributor: Warner Bros. Ever since writer-director M. Night Shyamalan broke out with his classic 1999 thriller THE SIXTH SENSE, he’s struggled to maintain the simplistic beauty of that Bruce Willis starrer. His subsequent films either leaned too heavy into a last act twist (that worked depending on the viewer – UNBREAKABLE, SIGNS) or were so pretentious the film was virtually unwatchable (THE HAPPENING anyone). Thankfully, the last decade has brought Shyamalan back to earth and has focused him. THE VISIT took him out […]Read On »


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QUEENS: Composer Morgan Kibby and photographer Jen Guyton on new nature series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 08/02/2024
A male euglossa orchid bee approaches a Coryanthes orchid iN QUEENS | ©2024 National Geographic for Disney/Oscar Dewhurst

QUEENS, the seven-part documentary series about animal matriarchs, is now streaming in its entirety on both National Geographic and Disney+. Narrated by Angela Bassett, each episode focuses on different kinds of species in different environments. QUEENS is also primarily made by women filmmakers. Morgan Kibby composed the score for all the episodes. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE photographer captured still images related to the “African Queens” episode, which focuses on lions and hyenas. Guyton and Kibby sit down for a joint interview arranged by National Geographic during their portion of the Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour, and then join their QUEENS […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE BEAST WITHIN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
THE BEAST WITHIN movie poster | ©2024 Well Go USA Entertainment

Rating: R Stars: Kit Harington, Ashleigh Cummings, James Cosmo, Caolinn Springall Writers: Greer Taylor Ellison & Alexander J. Farrell Director: Alexander J. Farrell Distributor: Well Go USA Entertainment Release Date: July 26, 2024 THE BEAST WITHIN begins with the onscreen proverb, ““There are two wolves inside of us … they are always at war.” We then see a woman in old-time garb searching in the forest for “William.” This ends badly. Then we’re in the present, or thereabouts. An English family – Noah (Kit Harington), his wife Imogen (Ashleigh Cummings, of NOS4A2), their young daughter Willow (Caolinn Springall) and Imogen’s […]Read On »


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Movie Review: DOCTOR JEKYLL

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
DOCTOR JEKYLL movie poster | ©2024 Hammer

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Eddie Izzard, Scott Chambers, Robyn Cara, Morgan Watkins, Jonathan Hyde, Simon Callow, Lindsay Duncan Writer: Dan Kelly-Mulhern, based on the novella THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE by Robert Louis Stevenson Director: Joe Stephenson Distributor: Hammer Films Release Date: August 2, 2024 (theatrical and VOD) Since “Jekyll and Hyde” has long been an expression, there’s a plot twist we anticipate from the start in DOCTOR JEKYLL, the latest of many films (and TV shows and stage plays and musicals) based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND […]Read On »


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Movie Review: #AMFAD: ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DEAD

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
#AMFAD: ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DEAD movie poster | ©2024 Cineverse

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Jade Pettyjohn, Jennifer Ens, Ali Fumiko Whitney, Michaela Russell, Julian Haig, Justin Derickson, Cardi Wong. Jack Doupe-Smith, JoJo Siwa Writers: Josh Sims & Jessica Sarah Flaum, story by John Baldecchi, Jessica Sarah Flaum, Josh Sims Director: Marcus Dunstan Distributor: Cineverse Release Date: August 2, 2024 (theatrical, digital, VOD) #AMFAD: ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DEAD is one of those slashers that throws a few notable genre plots into a blender. Fortunately, the end result is pretty good in terms of what the filmmakers are going for, even if we do have to accept that most of the […]Read On »


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