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Movie Review: MAULER

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 05/30/2025
MAULER movie poster | © 2025 One Tree Entertainment

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Kate Noel, Sebastian Betancur, Skyy Perdomo, Sarah Silverson, Jayden Stith, Michael Sullivan, Lamarr Mattison, Nathan Cuevas, Spencer Frankenberger, Liz Cuevas, Adam Arabshahi, Tanya Champoux, Breck Cuddy Writer: Terence Bernie Hines Director: Terence Bernie Hines Distributor: One Tree Entertainment Release Date: May 20, 2025 (digital, VOD) It’s hard to know quite what to make of MAULER. The low-budget horror comedy is self-referential enough to name-check most of its cinematic influences, but it seldom gets either really funny or scary. On the plus side, writer/director Terence Bernie Hines keeps things genuinely unpredictable, with a couple of actual surprises. […]Read On »


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Movie Review: TIM TRAVERS & THE TIME TRAVELERS PARADOX

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
TIM TRAVERS & THE TIME TRAVELERS PARADOX movie poster | ©2025 Disrupt Entertainment

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Samuel Dunning, Felicia Day, Joel McHale, Danny Trejo, Keith David. Simson Snead Writer: Stimson Snead Director: Stimson Snead Distributor: Disrupt Entertainment Release Date: May 30, 2025 TIM TRAVERS & THE TIME TRAVELERS PARADOX treads a fine line. On the one hand, its heated and heady debates about the nature of time travel and the universe itself are discussions that the viewer can’t actually join. On the other hand, Tim Travers (Samuel Dunning) is presented as a snobbish jerk. We’re not sure if we want to spend time with even one of him, much less all the […]Read On »


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Movie Review: TO LIVE AND DIE AND LIVE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
TO LIVE AND DIE AND LIVE | ©2025 Cinema Street

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Amin Joseph, Skye P. Marshall, Omari Hardwick, Cory Hardrict, Maryam Basir, Dana Gourrier, Travina Spencer, Ismail Abdul-Aziz, Jeryl Prescott, Roger Guenveur Smith Writer: Qasim Bashir Director: Qasim Bashir Distributor: CinemaStreet Pictures Release Date: May 30, 2025 Dramas about troubled filmmakers are probably not the favorite genre of most filmgoers (and perhaps even filmmakers themselves). TO LIVE AND DIE AND LIVE is broadly in this category, but since the protagonist, Muhammad Abdullah (Amin Joseph), spends most of his time dealing with other issues, that aspect is in the background. We meet Muhammad as he arrives at the […]Read On »


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PEE-WEE AS HIMSELF: Filmmaker Matt Wolf on his two part HBO film – Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 05/24/2025
PEE-WEE AS HIMSELF movie poster | ©2025 HBO

Pee-wee Herman was a character so beloved that people often confused him with his creator/portrayer, the late Paul Reubens (1952-2023). Pee-Wee is an exuberant childlike persona who can be selfish and bratty, but is unafraid of being bold and encountering the odd and the weird. Reubens first developed Pee-Wee when he was part of the Groundlings improvisational troupe in the 1970s, then centered a stage show around the character. In 1985, he wrote and starred in the feature film PEE-WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE, which gave a major launch to not only Reubens’s career, but that of the movie’s director, Tim Burton. […]Read On »


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Movie Review: MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – THE FINAL RECKONING

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 05/23/2025
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE: THE FINAL RECKONING movie poster | ©2025 Paramount Pictures

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Greg Tarzan Davis, Angela Bassett, Henry Czerny, Janet McTeer, Holt McCallany, Nick Offerman, Shea Whigham, Hannah Waddingham, Tramell Tillman, Rolf Saxon, Lucy Tulugarjuk, Charles Parnell, Mark Gatiss Writers: Christopher McQuarrie & Erik Jendresen, based on the TV series created by Bruce Geller Director: Christopher McQuarrie Distributor: Paramount Pictures Release Date: May 23, 2025 Given that 2023’s most recent entry of this franchise was entitled MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING PART ONE, we might reasonably expect the new film to be MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE NEW BOY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
THE NEW BOY movie poster | ©2025 Vertical Entertainment

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Cate Blanchett, Aswan Reid, Deborah Mailman, Wayne Blair Writer: Warwick Thornton Director: Warwick Thornton Distributor: Vertical Entertainment Release Date: May 23, 2025 THE NEW BOY is an odd film. On the one hand, it is filled with quiet and sincere wonder, delight and sorrow. It is a story of culture clash among individuals who don’t fit entirely into the worlds they come from, with a bit of magic. It is also convincingly measured in its depiction of life in an isolated Catholic orphanage in Australia during WWII and physically handsome to boot. On the other hand, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: FINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 05/16/2025
FINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES movie poster | ©2025 New Line Cinema

Rating: R Stars: Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Teo Briones, Richard Harmon, Owen Patrick Joyner, Anna Lore, Brec Bessinger, Tony Todd, Gabrielle Rose, Tinpo Lee, Rya Kihlstedt, Alex Zahara, Max Lloyd-Jones Writers: Guy Busick & Lori Evans Taylor, story by Jon Watts and Guy Busick & Lori Evans Taylor, based on characters created by Jeffrey Reddick Directors: Adam Stein & Zach Lipovsky Distributor: New Line Cinema Release Date: May 16, 2025 FINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES is the seventh installment in the franchise, begun in 2000, about people cursed to die in incredibly complicated accidents. This is one of the better editions, adding to […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE SEVERED SUN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
THE SEVERED SUN movie poster | ©2025 Dark Sky Films

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Emma Appleton, Toby Stephens, Jodhi May, Lewis Gribben, Barney Harris, Oliver Maltman, Flora Lambert, Eoin Slattery, Zachary Tanner, James Swanton Writer: Dean Puckett Director: Dean Puckett Distributor: Dark Sky Films Release Date: May 16, 2025 Director/writer Dean Puckett creates such a potent sense of atmosphere throughout THE SEVERED SUN that we keep waiting for it to become more than it does. At the outset, a young woman – we will shortly discover this is Margaret, called Magpie (Emma Appleton) – narrates a brief fable about how the lonely moon created the sun as a lover, leaving […]Read On »


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GROSSE POINTE GARDEN SOCIETY: Actor Jocko Sims on the NBC dramedy – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
Jocko Sims as Tucker in GROSSE POINT GARDEN SOCIETY - Season 1 - "Companion" | ©2025 NBC/Tina Rowden

GROSSE POINTE GARDEN SOCIETY wraps up its first season on NBC Friday, May 16, with all episodes then available for streaming on Peacock. In the title town, four members of the volunteer garden society find themselves bound together by covering up a murder and initially burying the corpse under the flower beds. The quartet consists of expert real estate agent Catherine (Aja Naomi King), rich dilettante Birdie (Melissa Fumero), landscaper/car restorer Brett (Ben Rappaport), and high school teacher Alice (AnnaSophia Robb). The episodes in the dramedy, created by Jenna Bans & Bill Krebs, move forward and backward within the period […]Read On »


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Movie Review: LILLY

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
LILLY movie poster | ©2025 Blue Harbor Entertainment

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Patricia Clarkson, John Benjamin Hickey, Thomas Sadoski, Will Pullen, Deirdre Lovejoy, Josh McDermitt, Bethany Anne Lind, Keith Brooks, Paul Teal, Amy Parrish, Rhoda Griffis, Judd Lorman, Robert Praigo, Darin Toonder Writers: Rachel Feldman and Adam Prince, based on the life of Lilly Ledbetter and GRACE AND GRIT by Lilly Ledbetter and Lanier Scott Isom Director: Rachel Feldman Distributor: Blue Harbor Entertainment Release Date: May 9, 2025 The full title of the Fair Pay Act is the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. How there came to be a Fair Pay Act, and why Ledbetter’s name is on it, […]Read On »


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