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Movie Review: MAGIC MIKE XXL

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/01/2015
MAGIC MIKE XXL poster | ©2015 Warner Bros.

Rating: R Stars: Channing Tatum, Joe Manganiello, Matt Bomer, Adam Rodriguez, Kevin Nash, Gabriel Iglesias, Donald Glover, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Amber Heard, Andie MacDowell, Elizabeth Banks Writer: Reid Carolin, based on characters created by Reid Carolin Director: Gregory Jacobs Distributor: Warner Bros. Release Date: July 1, 2015 MAGIC MIKE XXL is an example of a sequel that improves on the original. In 2012’s MAGIC MIKE, we met the title character (Channing Tatum) and his cohorts at a Miami male strip club. The film registered as one of the least hysterical stories ever told about people who remove their clothes for a […]Read On »


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Movie/VOD Review: PERNICIOUS

By PETER BROWN 06/23/2015
PERNICIOUS | © 2015 Benetone Films

Rating: NR Cast: Ciara Hanna, Emily O’Brien, Jackie Moore, Russell Geoffrey Banks, Bryon Gibson Writer: James Cullen Bressack Director: James Cullen Bressack Distributor: Benetone Films Release Date: June 19. 2015 You are no doubt aware of the little blue kids that have graced that good and bad from the likes of THE GRUDGE/JU-ON movies. Maybe you have had an ass-load of them as the result of numerous parodies of blue kids in the SCARY MOVIE franchise. Maybe you are fed up with this horror trope of little blue kids being the main antagonist in horror movies. But are you ready […]Read On »


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Movie Review: INSIDE OUT

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/19/2015
INSIDE OUT | © 2015 Disney/Pixar

Rating: PG Stars (voices): Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Richard Kind, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling, Kaitlyn Dias, Diane Lane, Kyle MacLachlan Writers: Meg LeFauve & Josh Cooley and Pete Docter, story by Pete Docter & Ronaldo Del Carmen Director: Pete Docter, co-director Ronaldo Del Carmen Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Release Date: June 19, 2015 INSIDE OUT is not the first story to imagine that the components of the human mind have personalities of their own, but it is perhaps the most charming and touching. Positing that everyone has a mental control room populated by an individual version of Joy, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: JURASSIC WORLD

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/14/2015
JURASSIC WORLD poster | ©2015 Universal Pictures

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Vincent D’Onofrio, Ty Simkins, Nick Robinson, Irrfan Khan, Jake Johnson, Omar Sy, BD Wong, Judy Greer Writers: Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver and Colin Trevorrow & Derek Connolly, story by Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver, based on characters created by Michael Crichton Director: Colin Trevorrow Distributor: Universal Release Date: June 12, 2015 There is a fair amount that is right with JURASSIC WORLD, starting with the excellent rendering of its main attraction, the dinosaurs. Animatronic and digital technology have both come a long way since the original 1993 JURASSIC PARK, which at […]Read On »


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Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Download Review: LET US PREY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/07/2015
LET US PREY movie poster | ©2015 Dark Sky Films

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Liam Cunningham, Pollyanna McIntosh, Bryan Larkin, Hanna Stanbridge, Douglas Russell, Niall Greig Fulton, Jonathan Watson, Brian Vernel, James McCreadie Writers: Fiona Watson & David Cairns Director: Brian O’Malley Distributor: Dark Sky Films Release Date: May 26, 2015 LET US PREY takes place in a Scottish city so bleak and barren and empty at night that it comes as something of a surprise to find that the film is set in our world as opposed to, say, Purgatory. The story unspools over five hours, starting when PC Rachel Heggie (Pollyanna McIntosh) wakes up, gets out of bed […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SPY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/06/2015
SPY movie poster | ©2015 20th Century Fox

Rating: R Stars: Melissa McCarthy, Jason Statham, Rose Byrne, Miranda Hart, Peter Serafinowicz, Bobby Cannavale, Allison Janney, Jude Law, Morena Baccarin Writer: Paul Feig Director: Paul Feig Distributor: 20th Century Fox Release Date: June 5, 2015 SPY is a rarity, a send-up of the James Bond genre that actually works. Part of its success is that star Melissa McCarthy actually seems like someone who could both be totally taken for granted and entirely capable, part of it works because the script by director Paul Feig has a lot of good jokes that are timed well and part of it is […]Read On »


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Blu-ray Review: John Carpenter’s ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK Collector’s Edition

By CARL CORTEZ 06/02/2015
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK Blu-ray | ©2015 Shout! Factory

Stars: Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes, Season Hubley, Harry Dean Stanton, Adrienne Barbeau Writers: John Carpenter & Nick Castle Director: John Carpenter Distributor: Shout! Factory Suggested Retail Price: $29.93 As most of John Carpenter’s film output has been getting its just deserved Blu-ray remastered treatment over the last couple of years, one of the long-awaited hold-outs has been ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK. This 1981 gem is an action picture opus on a shoestring presenting for the first time one of the most underrated action icons from the 1980s – Snake Plisskin (played with apathetic […]Read On »


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Movie Review: ALOHA

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/29/2015
ALOHA movie poster | ©2015 Sony Pictures

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams, Bill Murray, John Krasinski, Danny McBride, Alec Baldwin, Bill Camp, Jaeden Lieberher, Danielle Rose Russell, Dennis “Bumpy” Kanahele Writer: Cameron Crowe Director: Cameron Crowe Distributor: Columbia Pictures/Sony Release Date: May 29, 2015 There are some really wonderful things in writer/director Cameron Crowe’s ALOHA that are balanced out by some things that are mundane or even baffling (why, if it is important to the story that a character named Allison Ng is one-quarter Hawaiian, cast an actress who looks four-quarters Nordic? If you want to use her, great, just say she grew […]Read On »


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Blu-ray and DVD Reviews for the Week of May 26, 2015

By PETER BROWN 05/26/2015
ISLAND OF DEATH | © 2015 Arrow Video

Your time is short. We know this. So in order to expedite your buying and Netflix decision making, we provide you with a list of the cool and not-so-cool titles coming out for movies, television and everything in-between. So put your feet up, grab some popcorn and check out this week’s selections. Movies: ISLAND OF DEATH – If you are a fan of the Eurotrash/Eurosleaze movie genre, ISLAND OF DEATH may be a familiar title to you. Namely because it has the honor of being one of the first movies to ever get placed on England’s “video nasties” list. If […]Read On »


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Movie Review: POLTERGEIST

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 05/25/2015
POLTERGEIST (2015) | ©2015 20th Century Fox/MGM

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt, Saxon Charbino, Kyle Catlett, Kennedi Clements, Jane Adams, Jared Harris, Susan Heyward, Nicholas Braun Writer: David Lindsay-Abaire, story by Steven Spielberg Director: Gil Kenan Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Release Date: May 22, 2015 In 1982, POLTERGEIST was largely deemed to be scary as hell. A haunted house tale with extra oomph, it incited everything front nightmares to (in especially impressionable viewers) strange TV viewing habits. The film spawned two sequels, a non sequitur TV series, and now, thirty-three years later, it has an official remake. Despite the fact that POLTERGEIST hardly needs a […]Read On »


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