Movie Review: SALTBURN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/17/2023
SALTBURN movie poster | ©2023 MGM

Rating: R Stars: Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Archie Madekwe, Alison Oliver, Richard E. Grant, Rosamund Pike, Carey Mulligan, Ewan Mitchell, Paul Rhys Writer: Emerald Fennell Director: Emerald Fennell Distributor: MGM/Amazon Studios Release Date: November 17, 2023 SALTBURN is reminiscent of – oh, dear, can’t say that, might give the game away. So, how to describe it? Writer/director Emerald Fennell has crafted a very English thriller, full of issues of class, identity, and sexual desire, that is impressively perverse. This perversity is partly in the personalities of its characters, and markedly in their erotic proclivities. (This reviewer isn’t sure she’s ever […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE SPINE OF NIGHT

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/28/2021
THE SPINE OF THE NIGHT movie poster | ©2021 RLJE Films

Rating: Not Rated Stars (voices): Richard E. Grant, Lucy Lawless, Patton Oswalt, Betty Gabriel, Malcolm Mills, Jordan Douglas Smith, Tom Lipinski, Nina Lisandrello, Abby Savage, Patrick Breen, Larry Fessenden, Maggie Lakis, Rob McClure, Joe Manganello Writers: Philip Gelatt & Morgan Galen King Directors: Philip Gelatt & Morgan Galen King Distributor: RLJE Films Release Date: October 29, 2021; Shudder, March 24, 2022 THE SPINE OF NIGHT is one of those movies that starts slow, but somehow increases in power as it goes. It’s an ambitious animated myth that presents a series of thematically-tied stories, including a creation legend. We see a […]Read On »


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TV Review: GAME OF THRONES – Season 6 – “Blood of My Blood”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF 06/04/2016
GAMES OF THRONES - Season 6 teaser poster | ©2016 HBO

Stars: Lena Headey, Nicolaj Coster-Waldau, Emilia Clarke, Maisie Williams, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Natalie Dormer, Jonathan Pryce, John Bradley, Michel Huisman, Tom Wlaschiha, Dan-Charles Chapman, David Bradley, Joseph Mawle, Hannah Murray, Ellie Kendrick, Faye Marsay, Richard E. Grant, Essie Davis, Diana Rigg, Tobias Menzies, Samantha Spiro, Freddie Stroma, Rebecca Benson Writer:.Bryan Cogman, series created by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, based on George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” Director: Jack Bender Network: HBO, Sundays @ 9 PM Original Airdate: May 29, 2016 In the GAME OF THRONES episode “Blood of My Blood,” Sam (John Bradley) definitively moves forward, Arya […]Read On »


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TV Review: GAME OF THRONES – Season 6 – “The Door”

By RACHEL REITSLEFF 05/25/2016
Jon Snow and Sansa Stark are reunited in GAME OF THRONES | © 2016 HBO

Stars: Peter Dinklage, Emilia Clarke, Kit Harington, Liam Cunningham, Carice Van Houten, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Conleth Hill, Alfie Allen, Iwan Rheon, Gwendoline Christie, Daniel Portman, Aiden Gillen, Ben Crompton, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jacob Anderson, Kristofer Hivju, Iain Glen, Michel Huisman, Gemma Whelan, Tom Wlaschiha, Ellie Kendrick, Kristian Nairn, Richard E. Grant, Essie Davis, Pilou Asbaek, Kae Alexander, Ania Bukstein, Vladimir “Furdo” Furdik Writers: David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, series created by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss, based on George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” Director: Jack Bender Network: HBO, Sundays @ 9 PM Original Airdate: […]Read On »


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TV Review: DOCTOR WHO Christmas Special – Series 7 – “The Snowmen”

By DON E. PETERSON 12/25/2012
Jenna-Louise Coleman and Matt Smith in DOCTOR WHO - Series 7 - "The Snowmen" | ©2012 BBC/BBC Worldwide/Adrian Rogers

Stars: Matt Smith, Jenna-Louise Coleman, Richard E. Grant, Dan Starkey, Catrin Stewart, Neve McIntosh, Tom Ward, Liz White, Joseph Darcey-Aiden, Ellie Darcey-Aiden, Sir Ian McKellen, Juliet Cadzow, Jim Conway, Cameron Strefford, Annabelle Dowler, Ben Addis, Daniel Hyde, Sophie Miller-Sheen  Writer: Steven Moffat Director:   Saul Metzstein Network: BBC America, airs Saturday night  Original Telecast: December 25, 2012 In this year’s DOCTOR WHO Christmas special, “The Snowmen,” the Doctor (Matt Smith) has more or less retired to Victorian London and just wants to be left alone. Friends like Vastra (Neve McIntosh), Jenny (Catrin Stewart), and Strax (Dan Starkey) try to draw out […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE IRON LADY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/31/2011
THE IRON LADY movie poster | ©2011 The Weinstein Company

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Olivia Colman, Harry Lloyd, Alexandra Roach, Iain Glen, Anthony Head, Richard E. Grant Writer: Abi Morgan Director: Phyllida Lloyd Distributor: The Weinstein Company Release Date: December 30, 2011 There are a number of reasons to see THE IRON LADY. Foremost, as one might expect, is Meryl Streep’s phenomenal performance as Margaret Thatcher, both at the peak of her power and in her later dementia. Streep doesn’t do an impersonation of the well-known public figure. Instead, she makes internal sense of every action shown here, whether she is cajoling the shade of her husband […]Read On »


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