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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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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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Movie Review: IS GOD IS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/17/2026
IS GOD IS movie poster | ©2026 Amazon/MGM/Orion

Rating: R Stars: Kara Young, Mallori Johnson, Xavier Mills, Justen Ross, Josiah Cross, Vivica A. Fox, Janelle Monáe, Mykelti Williamson, Erika Alexander, Sterling K. Brown Writer: Aleshea Harris, based on her play Director: Aleshea Harris Distributor: Amazon/MGM/Orion Release Date: May 15, 2026 In adapting her stage play IS GOD IS, writer/director Aleshea Harris can and does make the horrifying aspects of her story more visually visceral. Theatre can do a lot, including some things that film can’t, but close-ups of a burn-scarred face come off as more literal onscreen. Burn scars play a big role in IS GOD IS, which […]Read On »


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Movie Review: OBSESSION

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/15/2026
OBSESSION movie poster | ©2026 Focus Features

Rating: R Stars: Michael Johnston, Inde Navarrette, Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless, Andy Richter, Haley Fitzgerald, Darin Toonder Writer: Curry Barker Director: Curry Barker Distributor: Focus Features Release Date: May 15, 2026 There are whole supernatural subgenres of fantasy (lighter) and horror (darker) about wishes. The stories predate movies and TV, going back to Greek/Roman/Asian mythology. Whether the intention is to make us laugh, cry, and/or scream, what these tales generally have in common is the message that one should be careful and restrained in making wishes, as these wishes can, and generally do, have unintended consequences. This is the case […]Read On »


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Movie Review: LIFEHACK

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
LIFEHACK movie poster | ©2026 Iconic Events Releasing/Triple Media Film

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Georgie Farmer, Yasmin Finney, James Scholz, Roman Hayek-Green, Jessica Reynolds, Charlie Creed-Miles Writers: Ronan Corrigan & Hope Elliott Kemp Director: Ronan Corrigan Distributor: Iconic Events Releasing/Triple Media Film Release Date: May 15, 2026 LIFEHACK is a movie that quickly makes you question your own life choices. These won’t be so much about morality, love or employment as they are about, “Does anything I do online make anybody likely to hack me?” Technically a heist thriller, LIFEHACK belongs to the “screens” subgenre, in which all the action is shown on some type of screen, such as computers, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: AFFECTION

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/08/2026
AFFECTION movie poster | ©2026 Brainstorm Media

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Jessica Rothe, Joseph Cross, Julianna Layne Writer: BT Meza Director: BT Meza Distributor: Brainstorm Media Release Date: May 8, 2026  AFFECTION is an odd title for this tale. While it is about a number of topics and emotions, fondness isn’t one of them. Obsession, definitely. Love, possibly. The kind of general warm fellow feelings associated with “affection”? No. There have been a lot of movies lately in which characters – mostly women – are grappling with false identities and/or false memories imposed upon them, mostly by men. Let us stipulate that the protagonist (Jessica Rothe) in […]Read On »


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Movie Review: ITCH!

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
ITCH! Movie Poster | ©2026 Trinity Content Partners/Seven Tales

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Jay Kang, Olivia Kang, Monica De Oliveira, Steven Alonte, Mia Ventura Lucas, Patrick Michael Valley, Douglas Stirling, Ximena Uribe Writer: Bari Kang Director: Bari Kang Distributor: Trinity Content Partners/Seven Tales Release Date: April 21, 2026 (VOD, U.S./U.K.) Despite the exclamation point in its title and the playfulness of having the look of a “scratchy” print at the start and finish, ITCH! is absolutely not a comedy. It is and isn’t technically a zombie movie, in that people are lethal before death, a la the 28 … LATER franchise. Here, victims of a disease of unknown origin […]Read On »


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