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Movie Review: TIGER STRIPES

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/14/2024
TIGER STRIPES Poster | ©2024 Dark Star Pictures/Netflix

Rating: TV-14 Stars: Zafreen Zairizal, Deena Ezral, Piqa, Jun Loiong, Khairunazwan Rodzy, Shaheizy Sam, Fatimah Abu Bakar, Bella Rahim Writer: Amanda Nell Eu Director: Amanda Nell Eu Distributor: Dark Star Pictures/Netflix Release Date: June 14, 2024 (theatrical); July 9, 2024 (VOD) TIGER STRIPES won the Cannes Film Festival Critics’ Week Grand Prize Award. It can best be described as consistently engaging and agreeably weird. Horror as a metaphor for the start of adolescence is nothing new, but director/writer Amanda Nell Eu still makes TIGER STRIPES feel fresh. She is helped in this by a setting that will be new to […]Read On »


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Movie Review: IF

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/17/2024
IF movie poster | ©2024 Paramount Pictures

Rating: PG Stars: Cailey Fleming, Ryan Reynolds, John Krasinski, Fiona Shaw, Alan Kim, Bobby Moynihan, Liza Colón-Zayas, Audrey Hoffman, Steve Carell (voice), Phoebe Waller-Bridge (voice), Louis Gossett Jr. (voice), Emily Blunt (voice), Matt Damon (voice), Maya Rudolph (voice), Jon Stewart (voice), Sam Rockwell (voice), Sebastian Maniscalco (voice), Christopher Meloni (voice), Awkwafina (voice) Writer: John Krasinski Director: John Krasinski Distributor: Paramount Pictures Release Date: May 17, 2024 One would have to be a Grinch of the highest order to object to the premise of IF, which is, broadly, that imagination makes everybody’s lives better. Written and directed by John Krasinski, the […]Read On »


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RESIDENT ALIEN: Actor Corey Reynolds on Season 3 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/03/2024
Corey Reynolds as Sheriff Mike Thompson in in RESIDENT ALIEN - Season 3 - "Homecoming" | ©2024 Syfy/James Dittiger

RESIDENT ALIEN has its Season 3 finale on Wednesday, April 3, on USA and Syfy, and streams on Peacock. Previous seasons are available on Netflix. In the science-fiction comedy series, adapted by Chris Sheridan from the Dark Horse Comics, an extraterrestrial has assumed the identity of Dr. Harry Vanderspiegle (Alan Tudyk) in the small town of Patience, Colorado. Corey Reynolds plays Patience’s sheriff, “Big Mike” Thompson. This isn’t Reynolds’s first series regular role as a representative of law enforcement. From 2005 through 2012, he played LAPD Detective David Gabriel on THE CLOSER, which earned him three SAG nominations. Reynolds, who […]Read On »


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Movie Review: GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/29/2024
GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE movie poster | ©2024 Warner Bros.

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Dan Stevens, Kaylee Hottle Writers: Terry Rossio and Simon Barrett and Jeremy Slater, story by Terry Rossio & Adam Wingard & Simon Barrett Director: Adam Wingard Distributor: Warner Bros. Release Date: March 29, 2024 Although both of the main characters have their origins in film rather than printed matter, GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE feels more like an old-school mainstream comic book than most movie releases from Marvel or DC. The good guys are very good, the bad guys are very bad, warnings on computer systems frequently have double exclamation points, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: DUNE: PART TWO

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/01/2024
DUNE: PART TWO movie poster | ©2024 Warner Bros./Legendary

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem, Austin Butler, Dave Bautista, Stellan Skarsgard, Charlotte Rampling, Christopher Walken, Florence Pugh, Josh Brolin Writers: Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, based on the novel by Frank Herbert Director: Denis Villeneuve Distributor: Warner Bros. Release Date: March 1, 2024 Director/co-screenwriter (with Jon Spaihts) Denis Villeneuve displays first-rate epic chops with DUNE: PART TWO. Frank Herbert’s sprawling 1965 novel has been adapted for film and television before, but it is widely believed that Villeneuve’s 2021 DUNE: PART ONE has been the most successful effort. Part of that success arguably lay in the […]Read On »


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Movie Review: DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/23/2024
DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS | ©2024 Focus Features

Rating: R Stars: Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan, Beanie Feldstein, Colman Domingo, Bill Camp, Joey Slotnick, C.J. Wilson, Matt Damon, Pedro Pascal Writers: Ethan Coen & Tricia Cooke Director: Ethan Coen Distributor: Focus Features Release Date: February 23, 2024 DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS has the unmistakable cadence of a Coen Brothers movie, even though on this one, Ethan Coen is directing solo and co-wrote the script with Tricia Cooke, rather than sibling Joel, his usual collaborator. The film succeeds in being at once super-raunchy, somewhat sweet, occasionally very violent, and often so light that it threatens to float away. We begin in late […]Read On »


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Movie Review: CELLPHONE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
CELLPHONE movie poster | ©2024 Gravitas Ventures

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Whitney Rose Pynn, Justin Malik Jackson, Jared Noble, Isaac Versaw, Katherine Barber, Malcolm McDowell Writer: Rachel Sommer Director: Luke Sommer Distributor: Gravitas Ventures Release Date: February 13, 2024 (digital, VOD) CELLPHONE has great, creepy atmosphere and a secret weapon in the performance of Justin Malik Jackson. Jackson plays the very un-creepy (once we get to know him) Chris, a talkative fellow who’s got problems of his own, but is friendly toward new neighbor Wynne (Whitney Rose Pynn). We start by meeting a young couple in an isolated farmhouse. They are tensely checking their cellphones and affirm […]Read On »


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Movie Review: NO WAY UP

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/16/2024
NO WAY UP movie poster | ©2024 RLJE Films

Rating: R Stars: Sophie McIntosh, Will Attenborough, Jeremias Amoore, Manuel Pacific, Grace Nettle, Phyllis Logan, Colm Meaney, James Carroll Jordan Writer: Andy Mayson Director: Claudio Fäh Distributor: RLJE Films Release Date: February 16, 2024 NO WAY UP manages to put a respectably straight face on its multi-disaster movie premise. First, there’s the airplane crash catastrophe, as a notably rickety jet blows on engine and plummets into the Pacific as it heads from LAX to Cabo San Lucas. Then we get a variation on THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE. Yes, the plane does stay right-side up, but it gradually fills up with water […]Read On »


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Movie Review: MIDNIGHT PEEPSHOW

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
MIDNIGHT PEEPSHOW movie poster | ©2024 Dark Star Pictures

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Richard Cotton, Sarah Diamond, Mark Hampton, Roisin Browne, David Wayman, Ocean M. Harris, Miki Davis, Jack Fairbank, Jamie Bacon, Derek Nelson, Chiara D’Anna, Ryan Oliva, Bethan Walker, Zach Galligan (voice), Melanie Thompson Writers: Airell Anthony Hayles & Jake West and Andy Edwards, concept by Airell Anthony Hayles Directors: Ludovica Musumeci, Airell Anthony Hayles, Andy Edwards, Jake West Distributor: Dark Star Pictures Release Date: February 13, 2024 (digital, DVD)  MIDNIGHT PEEPSHOW is quasi-anthology horror, with segments bound together more firmly than is usually the case. It also successfully straddles the line between the supernatural and mundane cruelty, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: LISA FRANKENSTEIN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/09/2024
LISA FRANKENSTEIN movie poster | ©2024 Focus Features

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Kathryn Newton, Cole Sprouse, Liza Soberano, Henry Eikenberry, Bryce Romero, Carla Gugino, Joe Chrest Writer: Diablo Cody Director: Zelda Williams Distributor: Focus Features Release Date: February 9, 2024 Just in time for Valentine’s Day, director Zelda Williams and writer Diablo Cody deliver the new period rom zom com LISA FRANKENSTEIN. After a delightful shadow puppet opening credit sequence that details the tragedy of nineteenth-century gentleman Frankenstein (Cole Sprouse) – not a scientist here, just a lovelorn musician – we get to our live-action story. It’s the ‘80s. Lisa Swallows (Kathryn Newton) is a teen traumatized by the […]Read On »


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