Movie Review: MAXXXINE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/05/2024
MAXXXINE movie poster | ©2024 A24

Rating: R Stars: Mia Goth, Elizabeth Debicki, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Uli Latukefu, Giancarlo Esposito, Chloe Farnworth, Halsey, Kevin Bacon, Lily Collins, Simon Prast Writer: Ti West Director: Ti West Distributor: A24 Release Date: July 5, 2024 MAXXXINE, not counting its flashbacks and flash-forwards, is set in 1985. However, it feels more like a ‘70s indie, with its mix of very tough female protagonist, soft porn (meant to be hard porn where we don’t see all the details), detective story, and horror. It’s a completely fun blend, and star Mia Goth commits two hundred and twenty percent to everything she’s […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SING 2

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/22/2021
SING 2 movie poster | ©2021 Universal Pictures/Illumination

Rating: PG Stars (voices): Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Scarlett Johansson, Tori Kelly, Taron Egerton, Nick Kroll, Bobby Cannavale, Bono, Halsey, Pharrell Williams Writer: Garth Jennings Director: Garth Jennings Distributor: Universal Pictures/Illumination Release Date: December 22, 2021 SING 2 is a sequel to 2016’s animated musical SING. Like the first film, SING 2 is written and directed by Garth Jennings. Both take place in a world of anthropomorphic animals, and both are jukebox musicals, with songs taken from pop culture rather than being composed specifically for the film. In the original SING, Buster Moon (voiced by Matthew McConaughey), an ambitious koala […]Read On »


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HOMECOMING: Co-creator Micah Bloomberg on Season 2 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/25/2020
HOMECOMING Key Art | ©2020 Amazon

HOMECOMING, now in its second season, is based on a podcast created by Eli Horowitz and Micah Bloomberg. Horowitz and Bloomberg developed their 2016 audio production as a television drama, which premiered on Amazon in 2018. The debut season was nominated for Golden Globes for Best Drama, Best Performance by an Actress (Julia Roberts) in a Television Series Drama, and Best Performance by an Actor (Stephen James) in a Television Series Drama. The first season of HOMECOMING starred Roberts (one of the series’ executive producers) as Heidi Bergman, who worked as a social worker at the Homecoming Transitional Support Center, […]Read On »


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VINYL: Ray Romano on his change of pace role – interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/18/2016
Ray Ramano as Zak Yankovich in VINYL | © 2016 HBO

HBO’s VINYL, which has its first-season finale Sunday April 17, and is renewed for next year, deals with the rock music scene in New York of the 1970s. Between two of the executive producers, Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese (who directed the premiere episode), a lot of knowledge about the milieu, the era and the environment has gone into this tale of struggling record mogul Richie Finestra, portrayed by Bobby Cannavale. Ray Romano, known for starring in the half-hour comedy EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND, the hour-long dramedy MEN OF A CERTAIN AGE and his stand-up work, has a change-of-pace role on […]Read On »


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Movie Review: ANT-MAN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/17/2015
Ant-Man | © 2015 Disney

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stoll, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Pena, Tip “T.I.” Harris, Wood Harris, Judy Greer, David Dastmalian, Abby Ryder Fortsom Writers: Edgar Wright & Joe Cornish and Adam McKay & Paul Rudd, story by Edgar Wright & Joe Cornish, based on the comic books created by Stan Lee & Larry Lieber & Joe Kirby Director: Peyton Reed Distributor: Disney Release Date: July 17, 2015 Although it is unmistakably from the Marvel stable, ANT-MAN is sometimes reminiscent of films from another of distributor Disney’s partners, Pixar. With its cheerful sense of goofiness and acute […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SPY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/06/2015
SPY movie poster | ©2015 20th Century Fox

Rating: R Stars: Melissa McCarthy, Jason Statham, Rose Byrne, Miranda Hart, Peter Serafinowicz, Bobby Cannavale, Allison Janney, Jude Law, Morena Baccarin Writer: Paul Feig Director: Paul Feig Distributor: 20th Century Fox Release Date: June 5, 2015 SPY is a rarity, a send-up of the James Bond genre that actually works. Part of its success is that star Melissa McCarthy actually seems like someone who could both be totally taken for granted and entirely capable, part of it works because the script by director Paul Feig has a lot of good jokes that are timed well and part of it is […]Read On »


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Movie Review: LOVELACE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/10/2013
LOVELACE movie poster | ©2013 Radius TWC

Rating: R Stars: Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Hank Azaria, Wes Bentley, Adam Brody, Bobby Cannavale, James Franco, Debi Mazar, Chris Noth, Robert Patrick, Eric Roberts, Chloe Sevigny, Sharon Stone, Juno Temple Writer: Andy Bellin, inspired by the life story of Linda Marchiano Directors: Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman Distributor: Radius TWC Release Date: August 9, 2013 DEEP THROAT is a movie that everyone of a certain age, and many younger people, have heard of, whether they’ve actually seen it, not seen it or would rather die than see it. Its star Linda Goreman, who went by the screen name of […]Read On »


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