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Movie Review: CHUM

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 06/05/2026
CHUM movie poster | ©2026 IFC

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Alice Eve, Eric Michael Cole, Elle Haymond, Sarah Siadat, Johnny Gaffney, Lisa Yaro, Jim Klock, Vince Jolivette, Stephen Oliver Writers: Jonathan Zuck and Joe Leone, story by Dick Grunert and Ryan R. Johnson and James Kondelik Director: Jonathan Zuck Distributor: IFC Release Date: June 5, 2026 CHUM is the latest entry in the shark-obsessed-psycho-with-a-boat subgenre. It also meshes, perhaps coincidentally, with the 2024 sharks-but-no-psycho-ruin-a-Mediterranean-destination-wedding SOMETHING IN THE WATER. Our narrator is Roy (Jim Klock) who, in the opening sequence, loses his wife to an enormous Great White in the sea off Malta. He begins by saying […]Read On »


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Movie Review: CAROLINA CAROLINE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
CAROLINA_CAROLINE_©_2026_MagnoliaPictures

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Samara Weaving, Kyle Gallner, Jon Gries, Kyra Sedgwick Writer: William Thomas Dean IV Director: Adam Carter Rehmeier Distributor: Magnolia Pictures Release Date: June 5, 2026 CAROLINA CAROLINE begins by showing us things went very wrong somewhere as we meet a young woman, whose name we’ll learn is Caroline (Samara Weaving), wearing a black wig and sunglasses, walking unsteadily out of a nondescript motel to vomit in the parking lot. When a pickup truck pulls up, Caroline stands, pulls a gun, carjacks the driver (without shooting him), steals the vehicle and drives off. She removes the black […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE SUMMONING

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
THE SUMMONING | ©2026 Brainstorm Media

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Valeria San Martin, Justina Ceballos, Daniela Flombaum, Augustín Olcese, Nannu Spannauss, Aaron Burt, Xochitl Gomez, Lorelei Olivia Mote, Gigi Zumbado, Carmela Zumbado, Julia Vera, Paige Bourne, Peter Berwick, Sara Canning, Adam Lolacher, Andrew Roy Drury, Mark Kandborg Writers: Camilo Zaffora, Brandon Piskonik, Felipe Vargas, Vee Saieh, Corey Benson Powers, Brian Sepanzyk, concept by Michael Kraetzer Directors: Sergio Gonzalez, Brandon Piskorik, Felipe Vargas, Corey Benson Powers, Brian Sepanzyk Distributor: Brainstorm Media Release Date: June 5, 2026 (VOD) THE SUMMONING is a horror anthology with a wraparound story that involves invoking a spirit via a mirror (a la […]Read On »


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SEVEN SNIPERS: Actors Radha Mitchell and Ioan Gruffudd on new action thriller – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
Radha Mitchell in SEVEN SNIPERS | ©2026 Monster Pictures Studios

In the new film SEVEN SNIPERS, opening Friday June 5, Radha Mitchell stars as former elite sniper Kris Hendricks, code-named Voodoo Child when she was on active duty. Kris is now retired from the military, raising her rebellious teen daughter Anja (Annabel Wolfe) on their small farm in rural Queensland, Australia. But when Kris has reason to believe that an old adversary known as the Dragon (Tim Roth) is coming for her, she calls in a favor from her old squad. Like Kris, most of them are no longer serving, but their bonds are strong enough for them to show […]Read On »


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Movie Review: BACKROOMS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 05/29/2026
BACKROOMS movie poster | ©2026 A24

Rating: R Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, Lukita Maxwell Writer: Will Soodik, based on the YouTube series by Kane Parsons Director: Kane Parsons Distributor: A24 Release Date: May 29, 2026 While it was made now (2025-2026), BACKROOMS is reminiscent of choose-your-own-interpretation science-fiction films that were most prevalent in the 1960s and 1970s. Splitting the difference, BACKROOMS is set in June 1990 in Santa Clara, California (just north of Los Angeles County). Then as now, it’s a relatively quiet area. The film starts as with video cam footage shot by an uneasy man. He’s making his way […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SPEED DEMON

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
SPEED DEMON movie poster | ©2026 Maverick Film/Complex Corp

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Katie Cassidy, William H. Macy, John Patrick Jordan, Allen McCullough, Sari Arambulo, Jeremy Matthew Feight, Sky Vaux Fuller, Noriko Sato, Michael John Improta, Sabrina Schlegel-Mejia Writer: Domenico Salvaggio Director: Jon Keeyes Distributor: Maverick Film/Complex Corp. Release Date: May 31, 2026 (theatrical, digital, VOD) SPEED DEMON has a title that epitomizes truth in advertising: it’s about a literal demon on a speeding out-of-control train. The opening, which is effectively eerie, has a little girl alone in her room. Her father at moments seems to be there with her, but he then blurs out and we see the […]Read On »


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Movie Review: PRESSURE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
PRESSURE movie poster | ©2026 Focus Features

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Andrew Scott, Brendan Fraser, Kerry Condon, Chris Messina, Damian Lewis, Tamsin Topolski Writers: David Haig and Anthony Maras, based on Haig’s stage play Director: Anthony Maras Distributor: Focus Features Release Date: May 29, 2026 The title of PRESSURE refers to multiple aspects of the film. There’s the psychological, emotional, professional, and temporal pressure all the characters are under. Then there’s the barometric pressure governing the weather, which threatens to wreak havoc with the planned attack on Hitler’s forces in Europe in June 1944. PRESSURE assumes that the audience knows – eighty-one-years-later spoiler alert – that the Allied […]Read On »


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TV Review: GREAT PERFORMANCES: STAGEBOUND

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 05/23/2026
Luke Evans featured on PBS' GREAT PERFORMANCES: STAGEBOUND | ©2025 PBS

Stars: Luke Evans Writer: Cody Williams Director: Cody Wiliams Network: PBS.org/gperf Premiere Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2026 GREAT PERFORMANCES showcases stage musicals, concerts, operas and dance productions that are worthy of the series’ title Friday nights on PBS, thereafter streaming on PBS.org/gperf. Next up is BROADWAY MUSICALS: A JEWISH LEGACY, premiering Friday, May 29. Now GREAT PERFORMANCES has expanded into doing shorter online pieces for its Webby-nominated series GREAT PERFORMANCES: STAGEBOUND, which streams on PBS.org/gperf, the PBS app, and PBS’s YouTube and Facebook channels. Episodes drop Tuesday nights/Wednesday mornings at midnight. The new season of STAGEBOUND currently includes MARLA MINDELL’S […]Read On »


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Movie Review: PASSENGER

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 05/22/2026
PASSENGER movie poster | ©2025 Paramount Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Jacob Scipio, Lou Llobell, Melissa Leo, Joseph Lopez Writers: Zachary Donohue & T.W. Burgess Director: André Øvredal Distributor: Paramount Release Date: May 22, 2026 The new PASSENGER – not to be confused with Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1975 THE PASSENGER, 2022’s THE PASSENGER (LA PASAJERA), or other previous films with similar titles – is crowd-pleasing horror, the kind that has the audience interacting enthusiastically (as opposed to derisively) with the screen. This is the result of a number of intelligent choices made by PASSENGER’s writers, Zachary Donohue & T.W. Burgess, and its director, André Øvredal. For starters, the movie’s […]Read On »


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Movie Review: I LOVE BOOSTERS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
I LOVE BOOSTERS movie poster | ©2025 Neon

Rating: R Stars: Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Poppy Liu, Demi Moore, Eiza González, LaKeith Stanfield, Will Poulter, Kerris Dorsey, Alan Z, Ming Sun, Rachel Walters Writer: Boots Riley Director: Boots Riley Distributor: Neon Release Date: May 22, 2026 While not connected narratively, writer/director Boots Riley’s new phantasmagoria I LOVE BOOSTERS feels like a thematic sequel to his 2018 feature debut SORRY TO BOTHER YOU. Both are set in Oakland, both focus on Black protagonists struggling to survive in a world dominated by capitalist forces, and both incorporate outrageous science-fiction/fantasy elements. But where SORRY TO BOTHER YOU had its […]Read On »


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