Movie Review: THE DAMNED

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/03/2025
THE DAMNED movie poster | ©2025 Vertical Entertainment

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Odessa Young, Joe Cole, Siobhan Finneran, Rory McCann, Turlough Convery, Lewis Gribben, Francis Magee, Mícheál Óg Lane Writer: Jamie Hannigan, story by Thordur Palsson Director: Thordur Palsson Distributor: Vertical Entertainment Release Date: January 3, 2025 THE DAMNED is period Scandinavian folk horror that succeeds in being eerie and suspenseful throughout, right up until its “Wait, what?” last scene. We are at a remote fishing station in nineteenth-century Iceland (THE DAMNED was shot in Iceland and Ireland). Eva (Odessa Young) talks about the hardship here, although Magnus, her late husband, said this was a place of opportunity. […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE GIANT

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/13/2020
THE GIANT movie poster | ©2020 Vertical

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Odessa Young, Ben Schnetzer, Jack Kilmer, Madelyn Cline, Danny Ramirez, P.J. Marshall Writer: David Raboy Director: David Raboy Distributor: Vertical Release Date: November 13, 2020 THE GIANT turns out to be a lot like its main character, Charlotte Williams (Odessa Young). Charlotte is beautiful, distracted, depressed, and has a hard time separating reality from dreams. Likewise, THE GIANT writer/director David Raboy has a distinctive visual style that smears light deliberately through the frame from onscreen sources to often striking effect, with trees that gleam and relentless cicadas on the soundtrack. He’s also very deft with audible […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SHIRLEY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/05/2020
SHIRLEY movie poster | ©2020 Neon

Rating: R Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Michael Stuhlbarg, Odessa Young, Logan Lerman Writer: Sarah Gubbins, based on the novel by Susan Scarf Merrell Director: Josephine Decker Distributor: Neon Release Date: June 5, 2020 SHIRLEY is one of those movies where the title character turns out to be a supporting player, albeit in this case quite a forceful one. Based on Susan Scarf Merrell’s 2015 novel, SHIRLEY deals with real-life writer Shirley Jackson, who authored THE LOTTERY and THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE, to name two of her more influential works. Director Josephine Decker and screenwriter Sarah Gubbins introduce us to Shirley […]Read On »


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