Movie Review: ASPHALT CITY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/29/2024
ASPHALT CITY movie poster | ©2024 Roadside Attractions

Rating: R Stars: Sean Penn, Tye Sheridan, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Raquel Nave, Kali Reis, Michael C. Pitt, Katherine Waterston, Mike Tyson Writers: Ryan King and Ben Mac Brown Director: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire Distributor: Roadside Attractions/Vertical Entertainment Release Date: March 29, 2024 ASPHALT CITY opens with chaos, as paramedics arrive to deal with what turns out to be a shooting in the Manhattan subway system. Ollie Cross (Tye Sheridan) is new to the job. He is riding with paramedic veteran Gene Rutkovsky (Sean Penn). They are on the night shift. Rutkovsky is tough but a good teacher, and can usually keep his cool […]Read On »


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Movie Review: BABYLON

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/23/2022
BABYLON Movie Poster | ©2022 Paramount Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, Jean Smart Writer: Damien Chazelle Director: Damien Chazelle Distributor: Paramount Pictures Release Date: December 23, 2022 BABYLON has some extraordinary spectacle at several intervals, and ends with a gorgeous montage chronicling the technological and narrative joys of movies, from their inception through the near-present. In between, over a three-hour-and-eight-minute running time, director/writer Damien Chazelle tries to cover too much and winds up stretching a lot of his ideas too thin. As BABYLON begins, it’s the Roaring ‘20s, and no beasts are louder than those prowling the upper reaches of Hollywood. Manny […]Read On »


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Movie Review: FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/15/2022
FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE | ©2022 Warner Bros.

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, Mads Mikkelsen, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Jessica Williams, Richard Coyle, William Nadylam, Ezra Miller, Callum Turner, Victoria Yeates, Katherine Waterston Writers: J.K. Rowling & Steve Kloves, based on characters created by J.K. Rowling Director: David Yates Distributor: Warner Bros. Release Date: April 15, 2022 FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE is the third entry in the FANTASTIC BEASTS series, which is a prequel series to the HARRY POTTER franchise. This is all a mighty, mighty Warner Bros. property, and THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE is reputedly the third in what is to be a […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE CURRENT WAR: DIRECTOR’S CUT

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/25/2019
THE CURRENT WAR - DIRECTOR'S CUT Movie Poster | ©2019 101 Studios

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon, Nicholas Hoult, Katherine Waterston, Tom Holland, Matthew Macfadyen, Tuppence Middleton Writer: Michael Mitnick Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Distributor: 101 Studios Release Date: October 25, 2019 Two things should be made clear about the title of THE CURRENT WAR: DIRECTOR’S CUT. The first is that it does not refer to a present-day conflict, military or other. Instead, it alludes to the war over actual electrical current, fought in the last decades of the nineteenth century between the inventors Thomas Edison (played here by Benedict Cumberbatch) and George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon), with some input from Nikola […]Read On »


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Movie Review: FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/16/2018
FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD movie poster | ©2018 Warner Bros.

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Jude Law, Johnny Depp, Zoe Kravitz, Callum Turner Writer: J.K. Rowling, based on characters created by J.K. Rowling Director: David Yates Distributor: Warner Bros. Release Date: November 16, 2018 FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD is set in 1927, one year after the events of its immediate predecessor, FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM, which was released two years ago. Both films are set in what is now to be known as WIZARDING WORLD, aka the HARRY POTTER universe. Got all that? Good, because FANTASTIC BEASTS: […]Read On »


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Movie Review: ALIEN COVENANT

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/19/2017
ALIEN COVENANT poster | ©2017 20th Century Fox

Rating: R Stars: Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Demian Bichir, Carmen Ejogo, Jussie Smollett, Callie Hernandez, Amy Seimetz Writers: John Logan and Dante Harper, story by Jack Paglen and Michael Green, based on characters created by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett Director: Ridley Scott Distributor: 20th Century Fox Release Date: May 19, 2017 Ask any prospective audience member what genre they expect ALIEN COVENANT to belong to and the answers will be horror, space horror, monster movie or some variation thereof. ALIEN COVENANT broadly fits these parameters – it has aliens of various shapes and sizes that […]Read On »


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Movie Review: FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/18/2016
FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM movie poster | ©2016 Warner Bros.

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Samantha Morton, Jon Voight, Carmen Ejogo, Colin Farrell Writer: J.K. Rowling Director: David Yates Distributor: Warner Bros. Release Date: November 18, 2016 FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM by Newt Scamander is, as everyone in the wizarding world knows, a key textbook at Hogwarts. Should you, dear reader, not be up on the minutiae of the wizarding world, FANTASTIC BEASTS was first introduced in author J.K. Rowling’s HARRY POTTER series as a book read at school by Harry and his classmates. Rowling then went on to […]Read On »


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Movie Review: INHERENT VICE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/12/2014
INHERENT VICE movie poster | ©2014 Warner Bros.

Rating: R Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Katherine Waterston, Martin Short, Owen Wilson, Jena Malone, Benicio Del Toro, Reese Witherspoon, Joanna Newsom, Eric Roberts, Michael Kenneth Williams, Martin Donovan, Sasha Pieterse, Hong Chau, Jordan Christian Hearn, Jeannie Berlin Writer: Paul Thomas Anderson, based on Thomas Pynchon’s novel Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Distributor: Warner Bros. Release Date: December 12, 2014 Although novelist Thomas Pynchon is a legendary American writer who has so far brought forth eight novels and numerous short stories (in addition to a lot of technical writing), INHERENT VICE is the first of his works to make it to […]Read On »


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