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Movie Review: THE HOPEWELL HAUNTING

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/13/2023
THE HOPEWELL HAUNTING movie poster | ©2023 Dark Sky Films

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Ted Ferguson, Tim Morton, Audra Todd, Rich Williams, Jennifer Feldspausch, Erin Strange, Tom Morton, Cody Clark, Stacey Gillespie Writer: Dane Sears Director: Dane Sears Distributor: Dark Sky Films Release Date: June 13, 2023 (VOD, digital) According to the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, Kentucky pastor Walter Howell gave an interview to paranormal investigator Simon Coots in 1953. The interview concerned an incident in September 1934, when Howell spent the night trying to debunk rumors of a haunted house, only to emerge convinced that the haunting was real. In 2007, Dane Sears directed and co-wrote a short, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: DALILAND

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/09/2023
DALILAND movie poster | ©2023 Magnolia Pictures

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Ben Kingsley, Barbara Sukowa, Christopher Briney, Rupert Graves, Alexander Beyer, Andreja Pejic, Suki Waterhouse, Ezra Miller, Avital Lvova, Mark McKenna, Zachary Nachbar-Seckel Writer: John C. Walsh Director: Mary Harron Distributor: Magnolia Pictures Release Date: June 9, 2023 Most of DALILAND is set in 1974, and the film has a very ‘70s pop feel. It’s glossy, fun to look at, and full of gossip, but also short on substance. This is not quite what we’d expect from a movie about the famous surrealist painter Salvador Dalí, played here by Ben Kingsley. A prologue and epilogue is set […]Read On »


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Movie Review: BROOKLYN 45

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
BROOKLYN 45 key art | ©2023 Shudder

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Anne Ramsay, Ron E. Rains, Jeremy Holm, Larry Fessenden, Ezra Buzzington, Kristina Klebe Writer: Ted Geoghegan Director: Ted Geoghegan Distributor: Shudder/AMC+ Release Date: June 9, 2023 Much of BROOKLYN 45 rolls out as though it could be a stage play. Most of it occurs on a single albeit large set. It also has what is more a theatrical than a film convention, a group of middle-aged friends coming together for what’s meant to be a friendly social gathering that becomes an exploration of ethics, duty, responsibility, guilt, and a lot more. But then there’s the supernatural […]Read On »


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Movie Review: BLUE JEAN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
BLUE JEAN movie poster | ©2023 Magnolia Pictures

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Rosy McEwen, Kerrie Hayes, Lucy Halliday Writer: Georgia Oakley Director: Georgia Oakley Distributor: Magnolia Pictures Release Date: June 9, 2023 BLUE JEAN is set in 1988 Newcastle, England. Margaret Thatcher is the British Prime Minister, and building walls in this largely working-class city are painted with slogans about making sure that children are being taught “traditional values.” So, it’s thirty-five years ago, but some issues remain sadly resonant. Jean Newman (Rosy McEwen) is a teacher and sports coach at a secondary school (that’s high school for us U.S. folks). She is in her late twenties or […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE ANGRY BLACK GIRL AND HER MONSTER

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
THE ANGRY BLACK GIRL movie poster | ©2023 RLJE Films

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Laya DeLeon Hayes, Denzel Whitaker, Chad L. Coleman, Reilly Brooke Stith, Keith Holliday, Amani Summer, Edem Atsu-Swanzy, Ellis Hobbs IV, Dale Cordice Jr., Jeremy DeCarlos, Beth Felice, Tracie Frank Writer: Bomani J. Story Director: Bomani J. Story Distributor: RLJE Films/Shudder/Allblk Release Date: June 9, 2023 (theatrical); June 23, 2023 (digital) There is a lot of mostly good metaphor in THE ANGRY BLACK GIRL AND HER MONSTER. It also works as a fairly straight Frankenstein tale. The main question here might be with the title. Our protagonist, Vicaria (Laya DeLeon Hayes) is indeed angry, but so is […]Read On »


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SAM NOW: Filmmaker Reed Harness discusses his family documentary mystery – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/02/2023
SAM NOW Key Art | | ©2023 PBS

SAM NOW is a multi-award-winning documentary that has its television premiere Monday, May 8, on INDEPENDENT LENS on PBS. Filmmaker Reed Harkness began making short films featuring his younger half-brother Sam Harkness when Sam was eleven. These shorts often featured Sam as the character the Blue Panther. Sam’s mother mother Jois (pronounced Joyce) had divorced Reed and Sam’s father Randy Harkness and remarried. When Sam was fourteen, Jois disappeared. But SAM NOW is not a true crime story. Reed and Sam Harkness set out on a road trip to find Jois when Sam was seventeen. What they found shows family, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/17/2023
ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA movie poster | ©2023 Marvel/Walt Disney

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Jonathan Majors, Kathryn Newton, Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer, Katey M. O’Brian, William Jackson Harper, Corey Stoll Writer: Jeff Loveness, based on characters created by Stan Lee & Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby Director: Peyton Reed Distributor: Walt Disney/Marvel Release Date: February 17, 2023 From his first introduction in 2015’s ANT-MAN, Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) has always been one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s sunnier characters. Scott is a good-hearted former thief who got into the superhero life accidentally by coming into possession of a suit that allowed him to become tiny, or huge […]Read On »


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Movie Review: TOP GUN: MAVERICK

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/27/2022
TOP GUN: MAVERICK movie poster | ©2022 Paramount Pictures

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Monica Barbaro, Lewis Pullman, Val Kilmer, Glen Powell Writers: Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie, story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks, based on characters created by Jim Cash & Jack Epps Jr. Director: Joseph Kosinski Distributor: Paramount Pictures Release Date: May 27, 2022 TOP GUN: MAVERICK is a tough movie to evaluate in terms of quality. Exactly how one reacts to it will depend greatly on the affection, or lack thereof, that one has for the original 1986 TOP GUN. With TOP GUN: MAVERICK, we […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE INNOCENTS (DE USKYLDIGE)

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/13/2022
THE INNOCENTS movie poster | ©2022 IFC Midnight

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Rakel Lenora Fløttum, Alva Brynsmo Ramstad, Sam Ashrad, Mina Yasmin Bremseth Asheim, Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Morten Svartveit, Kadra Yusuf, Lisa Tønne Writer: Eskil Vogt Director: Eskil Vogt Distributor: IFC Midnight Release Date: May 13, 2022 THE INNOCENTS (DE USKYLDIGE) plays something like a Stephen King story with different cultural sensibilities. Given the fact that most of the protagonists are nine years old, it immediately has more darkness than we’d imagine an American version might. It also has some social peculiarities that someone more knowledgeable than this reviewer will have to deduce whether these are typically Norwegian […]Read On »


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Movie Review: DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/06/2022
DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS | ©2022 Marvel

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen, Xochitl Gomez, Benedict Wong, Rachel McAdams, Chiwetel Ejiofor Writer: Michael Waldron, based on the Marvel Comics Director: Sam Raimi Distributor: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Release Date: May 6, 2022 DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS has a slightly misleading title. We certainly have Doctor Stephen Strange, the powerful sorcerer portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch. He is most definitely running through the multiverse (that’s multiple universes, for latecomers to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, aka the MCU). But while we see quite a few of the multiverses in flashes, and spend more time in […]Read On »


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