Movie Review: DOCTOR JEKYLL

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/02/2024
DOCTOR JEKYLL movie poster | ©2024 Hammer

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Eddie Izzard, Scott Chambers, Robyn Cara, Morgan Watkins, Jonathan Hyde, Simon Callow, Lindsay Duncan Writer: Dan Kelly-Mulhern, based on the novella THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE by Robert Louis Stevenson Director: Joe Stephenson Distributor: Hammer Films Release Date: August 2, 2024 (theatrical and VOD) Since “Jekyll and Hyde” has long been an expression, there’s a plot twist we anticipate from the start in DOCTOR JEKYLL, the latest of many films (and TV shows and stage plays and musicals) based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND […]Read On »


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Movie Review: LITTLE JOE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/06/2019
LITTLE JOE movie poster | ©2019 Magnolia Pictures

Rating: Unrated Stars: Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox, Kit Connor, Lindsay Duncan Writers: Jessica Hausner and Geraldine Bajard Director: Jessica Hausner Distributor: Magnolia Pictures Release Date: December 6, 2019 LITTLE JOE, from its logline, sounds like it’s going to be a science-bound riff on LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. In the loosest sense, it is, in that it’s about a plant that wants to take over the world by influencing humans. LITTLE JOE winds up more closely resembling INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, with people beginning to act not quite like themselves. Under Jessica Hausner’s direction, LITTLE JOE is never […]Read On »


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Movie Review: ABOUT TIME

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/01/2013
ABOUT TIME movie poster | ©2013 Universal Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Lydia Wilson, Lindsay Duncan, Tom Hollander Writer: Richard Curtis Director: Richard Curtis Distributor: Universal Release Date: November 1, 2013 There are moments – long stretches, even – when ABOUT TIME seems as though it’s perhaps too pleasant for its own good. It’s always agreeable and amusing – except when for its effective moments of melancholy and there are the trials and travails of dealing with life and love and time travel, but mostly, it’s a movie that urges us to live as though every day is worth experiencing twice, which is […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: THE HOLLOW CROWN reworks Shakespeare for four new PBS films

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/20/2013
Rory Kinnear in GREAT PERFORMANCES: THE HOLLOW CROWN - RICHARD II | ©2013 PBS/BBC

THE HOLLOW CROWN, on PBS’ GREAT PERFORMANCES beginning Friday September 20 at 9 PM and continuing for three Fridays thereafter, consists of four new films of William Shakespeare’s histories HENRY II, starring Ben Whishaw in the title role, and HENRY IV PART I, HENRY IV PART II and HENRY V, starring Jeremy Irons as Henry IV and Tom Hiddleston as Prince Hal/Henry V, with Simon Russell Beale as Falstaff. Other notable cast members include David Bradley (Walder Frey on GAME OF THRONES), Lindsay Duncan, David Morrissey (the Governor on THE WALKING DEAD), James Purefoy (of THE FOLLOWING), Patrick Stewart, David […]Read On »


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