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Movie Review: WHISPER OF THE WITCH (ZAKLYATE. SHYOPOT VEDM)

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 08/23/2025
WHISPER OF THE WITCH movie poster | ©2025 Well Go USA

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Artur Beschastnyy, Maryana Spivak, Sofya Shidlovskaya, Igor Grabuzov, Sergey Safronov, Valeria Kot, Ilya Vinogorsky, Kirill Rusin Writers: Dmitriy Zhigalov, Uliana Zakrevskya, Sergey Kaluzhanov Director: Serik Beyseu Distributor: Well Go USA Release Date: August 19, 2025 (digital, Blu-ray, DVD) WHISPER OF THE WITCH (ZAKLYATE. SHYOPOT VEDM) is an unusual item, even before we get to its intricate storyline. The film was made in Russia. In addition to being dubbed into American-accented English, writing on refrigerator magnets and on police morgue documents is also in English. Without knowing if two different versions of WHISPER OF THE WITCH were […]Read On »


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Movie Review: TRUST

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
TRUST movie poster | ©2025 Republic Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Sophie Turner, Rhys Coiro, Billy Campbell, Peter Mensah, Forrest Goodluck, Gianni Paolo, Renata Vaca, Katey Sagal Writer: Gigi Levangie Director: Carlson Young Distributor: Republic Pictures Release Date: August 22, 2025 Lauren Lane (Sophie Turner) has been acting since childhood on a family sitcom that has lasted through to the present. Now Lauren is pregnant, a data breach has made this known to the world, and she wants to avoid both the press and the father-to-be. Faithful assistant Grace has what seems to be the perfect solution – a getaway at an isolated Air B&B cabin in the […]Read On »


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Movie Review: RELAY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
RELAY movie poster | ©2025 Bleecker Street

Rating: R Stars: Riz Ahmed, Lily James, Sam Worthington, Willa Fitzgerald, Jared Abramson, Pun Bandhu, Eisa Davis, Matthew Maher, Victor Garber Writer: Justin Piasecki Director: David Mackenzie Distributor: Bleecker Street Release Date: August 22, 2025 RELAY features a device that was much more common in pre-Internet days but is still around now. Known as a TTY machine, it is used primarily by deaf people to communicate with others. If the TTY callers are both deaf, they both use the TTY. However, if one of the callers is hearing but doesn’t understand sign language and/or does not have access to a […]Read On »


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Movie Review: WE’RE NOT SAFE HERE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
WE'RE NOT SAFE HERE | ©2025 Saban Films

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Sharmita Bhattacharya, Hayley McFarland, Caisey Cole, Margaret Wuerz, Arthur Higbee Writer: Solomon Gray Director: Solomon Gray Distributor: Saban Films Release Date: August 22, 2025 (theatrical, digital, VOD) WE’RE NOT SAFE HERE begins with a wheezing tied-up figure in a chair, with a bloody pillowcase over their head. Someone approaches with a sharp object and utters a shocking line of dialogue. Writer/director Solomon Gray gets our attention immediately with this opening and thereafter holds it steadily throughout. Scares are frequent; unease is constant. We then meet schoolteachers Neeta (Sharmita Bhattacharya) and Sarah (Caisey Cole). Together, they wonder about […]Read On »


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Movie Review: RESET

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
RESET movie poster | ©2025 Uncork'd Entertainment

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Adam Holley, Caitlin Westfall, Lorelai Brown, Tim O’Hearn, Reese Ravencraft, Brendan Curtin Writer: Michael Yammine Director: Michael Yammine Distributor: Uncork’d Entertainment Release Date: August 12, 2025 (digital, VOD) There is the quality of a science-fiction short story to RESET, which brings together a number of different concepts interacting with each other to create an intricate if possibly overly dense whole. The title of RESET refers to a temporal phenomenon that has been happening to unfortunate farmer Lucas (Adam Holley) ever since his nine-year-old daughter Eden (Lorelai Brown) was abducted by aliens. The aliens have done something […]Read On »


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Movie Review: HONEY DON’T!

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
HONEY DON'AT movie poster | ©2025 Focus Features

Rating: R Stars: Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Evans, Lera Abova, Jacnier, Gabby Beans, Talia Ryder, Charlie Day, Kristen Connolly, Josh Pafchek, Billy Eichner Writers: Ethan Coen & Tricia Cooke Director: Ethan Coen Distributor: Focus Features Release Date: August 22, 2025 HONEY DON’T! takes its title from the 1957 Carl Perkins song, and then bestows it (replacing the “T” with an “ahue”) on protagonist Honey Donahue (Margaret Qualley). Honey is a private eye working the mean streets of Bakersfield, California, and surrounding areas. She investigates mostly cheating spouses, though she’s apt to chase away clients with advice to just patch […]Read On »


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Movie Review: EDEN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 08/22/2025
EDEN movie poster | ©2025 Vertical

Rating: R Stars: Jude Law, Ana de Armas, Vanessa Kirby, Daniel Bruhl, Sydney Sweeney, Jonathan Tittle, Toby Wallace, Felix Kammerer, Richard Roxburgh Writer: Noah Pink, story by Noah Pink & Ron Howard Director: Ron Howard Distributor: Vertical Entertainment Release Date: August 22, 2025 A fair amount of research – possibly as much as that done by the filmmakers – seems required to gauge the verisimilitude of EDEN. On one hand, not only is the film based on historical events, but there is closing footage of the real people involved. On the other hand, the movie concludes with the standard disclaimer […]Read On »


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Movie Review: NOBODY 2

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 08/15/2025
NOBODY 2 movie poster | ©2025 Universal

Rating: R Stars: Bob Odenkirk, Connie Nielsen, Christopher Lloyd, Sharon Stone, Gage Munroe, Paisley Cadorath, RZA, John Ortiz, Colin Hanks, Colin Salmon Writers: Derek Kohlstad and Aaron Rabin, story by Derek Kohlstad, based on characters created by Derek Kohlstad Director: Timo Tjahjanto Distributor: Universal Release Date: August 15, 2025 In 2021’s NOBODY, Bob Odenkirk starred as Hutch Mansell who, beneath his meek, loving family man exterior, has an endless reservoir of well-trained violent rage. Hutch, his family and his reservoir are all back in NOBODY 2, as is the NOBODY plot structure. In the first film, we learn that Hutch […]Read On »


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Movie Review: WITCHBOARD

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
WITCHBOARD movie poster | ©2025 TheAvenue/Atlas Distribution

Rating: R Stars: Madison Iseman, Aaron Dominguez, Melanie Jarnson, Jamie Campbell Bower, Antonia Desplat, Charlie Tahan, David La Haye, Elisha Herbert, Renee Herbert, Chiara ForsattiWriters: Chuck Russell and Greg McKay, inspired by the screenplay WITCHBOARD by Kevin Tenney Director: Chuck Russell Distributor: The Avenue/Atlas Distribution Release Date: August 15, 2025 The original 1986 WITCHBOARD, written and directed by Kevin Tenney, was a horror movie that centered around a Ouija board and eventual spiritual possession. WITCHBOARD was followed by 1992’s WITCHBOARD 2 and 1995’s WITCHBOARD III: THE POSSESSION. Now we’ve got a new WITCHBOARD, in more ways than one. In 2014, […]Read On »


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LEVERAGE: REDEMPTION: Actress, director and executive producer Beth Riesgraf and actress Aleyse Shannon on Season 3 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 08/14/2025
LEVERAGE: REDEMPTION SEASON 3 key art | ©2025 Prime / Electric Entertainment

In Season 3 of LEVERAGE: REDEMPTION, now streaming in its entirety (as are previous seasons) on Prime Video, Beth Riesgraf’s master thief Parker undergoes something of an existential crisis. As she becomes closer to her teammates, who come together to con bad guys and help honest people who’ve been harmed, is Parker internalizing a more empathetic moral code? Or is she deep down as feral as she was when we met her back in the original LEVERAGE? Aleyse Shannon’s character, tech whiz Breanna Casey, is less conflicted about herself, but she’s still going through changes in Season 3. Both performers […]Read On »


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