Movie Review: WOLF MAN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/17/2025
WOLF MAN movie poster | ©2025 Universal Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Christopher Abbott, Julia Garner, Matilda Firth, Sam Jaeger, Zac Chandler Writers: Leigh Whannell & Corbett Tuck Director: Leigh Whannell Distributor: Universal Pictures Release Date: January 17, 2025 With their reluctant monster protagonists, werewolf stories are an obvious source of emotion and metaphor, as well as straight-out horror. Director Leigh Whannell and his co-writer, the late Corbett Tuck (the film is dedicated to his memory), attempt to bring enormous heart and introspection to their take on lycanthropy in WOLF MAN. We can see how their approach is meant to work, and our awareness of the tactics involved may […]Read On »


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THE AMERICANS: Showrunners Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields Talk Season 3 – exclusive interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/08/2015
Keri Russell stars as Elizabeth Jennings in THE AMERICANS | © 2015 Patrick Harbron/FX

In Season 3 of THE AMERICANS, FX Wednesdays at 10 PM, it’s still the early 1980s. Teenager Paige Jennings (Holly Taylor), who has spent her entire life feeling that her parents are far too secretive, has just confronted them. Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth (Keri Russell) finally tell their older child the truth – that they’re KGB agents who’ve been in the U.S. to get operation since before Paige was born. Younger child Henry (Kiedrich Sellati) is simply lonely. Paige thinks this is the biggest bombshell that her parents could have dropped, but she doesn’t know the half of it. […]Read On »


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Movie Review: WE ARE WHAT WE ARE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/29/2013
WE ARE WHAT WE ARE movie poster | ©2013 Entertainment One

Rating: R Stars: Bill Sage, Ambyr Childers, Julia Garner, Jack Gore, Kassie DePaiva, Kelly McGillis, Wyatt Russell, Michael Parks Writers: Nick Dimici & Jim Mickle, based on SOMOS LO QUE HAY, written and directed by Jorge Michel Grau Director: Jim Mickle Distributor: Entertainment One Release Date: September 27, 2013 Families that keep to themselves tend to draw social suspicion, and are therefore a staple of horror movies, with the original TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE still the prime example of the form. However, what if there was nothing outwardly strange about the family at all, with their reticence assumed to be simply […]Read On »


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