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Movie Review: YOUR HOST

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 11/02/2025
YOUR HOST movie poster | ©2025 RNF Productions

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Jackie Earle Haley, Ella-Rae Smith, Jamie Flatters, David Angland, Joelle Ray, Tom Claxton Writer: Joey Miller Director: DW Medoff Distributor: RNF Productions Release Date: October 14, 2025 (VOD) YOUR HOST concerns a torture game show, videotaped by the Host (Jackie Earle Haley). Since what seems to be happening at the outset is in fact the substance of the movie, it’s not too spoilery to say that the Host is doing this for his own reasons and that it’s not supernatural. We see “winner” Jake (Tom Claxton), shackled and bloodied, get shot after the Host breaks his […]Read On »


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Movie Review: ANNIVERSARY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 10/31/2025
ANNIVERSARY movie poster | ©2025 Lionsgate

Rating: R Stars: Diane Lane, Kyle Chandler, Madeline Brewer, Zoey Deutch, Phoebe Dynevor, Mckenna Grace, Daryl McCormack, Dylan O’Brien, Selda Kaya, Sky Yang, Flavia Watson Writer: Lori Rosene-Gambino, story by Jan Komasa and Lori Rosene-Gambino Director: Jan Komasa Distributor: Lionsgate/Roadside Attractions Release Date: October 29, 2025 (theatrical) No one is going to confuse ANNIVERSARY with a movie made after the 2024 election. Few would argue that the U.S. has remained the same since then, but it hasn’t changed in exactly the way ANNIVERSARY anticipates. Scripted by Lori Rosene-Gambino from a story she co-wrote with director Jan Komasa, ANNIVERSARY shows political […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SELF-HELP

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
SELF-HELP movie poster | ©2025 Cineverse

Rating: R Stars: Landry Bennett, Madison Lintz, Amy Hargreaves, Jake Weber, Erik Bloomquist, Carol Cadby, Blaque Fowler, Adam Weppler, Marlee Eaton Writers: Erik Bloomquist & Carson Bloomquist Director: Erik Bloomquist Distributor: Cineverse Release Date: October 31, 2025 SELF-HELP is a refreshingly odd psychological thriller that has elements of true-crime shows but is considerably weirder than most. Directed by Erik Bloomquist and written by the helmer and his brother Carson, SELF-HELP starts with a startling incident in which little Olivia (Marlee Eaton) sneaks away from her birthday party to see where her mother Rebecca (Amy Hargreaves) has gone. The upshot is […]Read On »


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MARLEE MATLIN: NOT ALONE ANYMORE: Filmmaker Shoshannah Stern on new documentary – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 10/27/2025
MARLEE MATLIN: NOT ALONE ANYMORE key art | ©2025 PBS

When Marlee Matlin won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in 1986’s CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD, she became the first Deaf person to receive an Oscar for acting. Before and since, Matlin has had an extraordinary career as a performer, producer and author. Now director/producer Shoshannah Stern has made a documentary, MARLEE MATLIN: NOT ALONE ANYMORE, for PBS’s AMERICAN MASTERS. The documentary premiered on October 14 and is now available on all PBS streaming platforms. Stern is a Deaf actress and series creator. A native Californian, Stern has been in films including […]Read On »


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MIDDLEHOOD: Creator-director-Executive Producer Michele Palermo on new dramedy series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
Michele Palermo of MIDDLEHOOD | ©2025 WerdGerL

MIDDLEHOOD is a half-hour dramedy series focused on Lisa Giordano-Navarro (Elena Wohl) and her family. The title has multiple meanings. Lisa is age fifty, thus in the middle of her life. She’s also in the middle of a variety of personal crises and is literally in the middle of the road for a few episodes as she travels by car from Nevada with her parents to meet up with her brothers and their kin in Los Angeles for the holidays. Patience is tested, secrets are spilled, laughter ensues. The series is available to stream on Prime Video, YouTube and, as […]Read On »


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MURDER BEFORE EVENSONG: Actress Amanda Redman on new British mystery series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
MURDER BEFORE EVENSONG - Season 1 Key Art | ©2025 Acorn TV

English actor Amanda Redman has been in a significant amount of British film and TV crime thrillers, including SEXY BEAST, FOR QUEEN & COUNTRY, EL C.I.D., BECK, THE SIGHT, SUSPICION, HONEST, NEW TRICKS, THE TRIALS OF JIMMY ROSE, and ON THE EDGE. While Redman has also performed in a large number of other types of material, including an adaptation of Charles Dickens’s LITTLE DORRIT, the pregnancy comedy BUMPS and the news drama SCOOP, is she considered a crime genre icon? Redman laughs at the question. “I don’t think so.” Would she say she’s at least a genre name? Is that […]Read On »


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THE LAST FRONTIER – Interviews with the co-creator and cast on new Apple series

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
THE LAST FRONTIER - Season 1 - Key Art | ©2025 Apple+

The title of Apple TV’s new series THE LAST FRONTIER refers to a remote, snow-covered region of Alaska, where a government prisoner transport plane has crashed. This was no accident: the disaster was engineered by detainee Levi Hartman, played by Dominic Cooper. Rounding up Hartman and other crash survivors is the responsibility of local U.S. Marshal Frank Remnick, played by Jason Clarke. His mission becomes much more complicated with the arrival of secretive C.I.A. operative Sidney Scofield, played by Haley Bennett, to say nothing of what happens when Remnick’s wife Sarah, played by Simone Kessell, and son Luke (Tait Blum), […]Read On »


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Movie Review: QUEENS OF THE DEAD

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 10/26/2025
QUEENS OF THE DEAD movie poster | ©2025 IFC/Shudder

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Katy O’Brian, Jaquel Spivey. Quincy Dunn-Baker, Margaret Cho, Riki Lindhome, Tomás Matos, Thomas “Nina West” Levitt, Jack Haven, Cheyenne Jackson, Dominique Jackson, Shaunette Renée Wilson, Becca Blackwell, Eve Lindley, Karan Brar, Tom Savini, Julie J Writers: Tina Romero & Erin Judge Director: Tina Romero Distributor: IFC/Shudder Release Date: October 24, 2025 (theatrical) When your personal father is also the acknowledged father of the zombie genre, that would seem to confer certain rights and responsibilities. Tina Romero, daughter of George A. Romero, seems to take these seriously even though she mixes humor into her feature directing debut, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SCURRY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
SCURRY movie poster | ©2025 Signature Entertainment

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Jamie Costa, Emalia, Indianna Sparke, Brooke Marsden, Jet Tranter, Geoff Imrie Writer: Tom Evans Director: Luke Sparke Distributor: Signature Entertainment Release Date: October 3, 2025 (VOD) SCURRY takes place in real time. It is also made to look like it’s shot in one continuous take, although viewers familiar with how these things are done will notice those helpful optical swerves into black walls and the like. SCURRY begins mid-catastrophe, as the upper floor of an office building shudders while workers try to flee and at least one is grabbed and bloodily killed by something we don’t […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SHELBY OAKS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 10/24/2025
SHELBY OAKS movie poster | ©2025 Neon

Rating: R Stars: Camille Sullivan, Sarah Durn, Brendan Sexton III, Charlie Talbert, Robin Bartlett, Caisey Cole, Anthony Baldasare, Eric Francis Melaragni, Michael Beach, Keith David, Emily Bennett, Derek Mears Writer: Chris Stuckmann, story by Samantha Elizabeth & Chris Stuckmann Director: Chris Stuckmann Distributor: Neon Release Date: October 24, 2025 SHELBY OAKS derives part of the power for its early sections by being unpredictable. Writer/director Chris Stuckmann, who developed the story with Samantha Elizabeth, keeps us guessing who we should be afraid for and what we should be afraid of. By the time Stuckmann and the film zero in on a […]Read On »


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