Movie Review: THE RETURN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 12/06/2024
THE RETURN movie poster | ©2024 Bleecker Street

Rating: R Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Charlie Plummer, Marwan Kenzani, Claudio Santamaria, Angela Molina Writers: John Collee, Edward Bond, Uberto Pasolini, based on THE ODYSSEY by Homer Director: Uberto Pasolini Distributor: Bleecker Street Release Date: December 6, 2024 THE RETURN is a dramatization of part of one of the oldest known narratives in Western culture, THE ODYSSEY by Homer, written in the eighth or seventh century BC (per Wikipedia). This is the story of Odysseus (played here by Ralph Fiennes), King of Ithaca, and his ten-year journey back home after being on the winning side of the Trojan War, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE BOY NEXT DOOR

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/24/2015
THE BOY NEXT DOOR movie poster | ©2015 Universal Pictures

Back in the day, there were a lot more “woman in jeopardy” medium-budget thrillers and far fewer people questioned their underlying messages (unless the movies were made by someone like Alfred Hitchcock, in which case they were generally considered to be in some other genre). In 2015, though, when Jennifer Lopez stars in THE BOY NEXT DOOR, it’s hard not to have questions about exactly what’s being said here, especially when an end tag informs us that the story is based on real events. Lopez plays high school English teacher Claire Peterson, separated from her husband Garrett (John Corbett) for […]Read On »


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