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Movie Review: CALL OF THE VOID

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 04/18/2025
CALL OF THE VOID movie poster | ©2025 Night Hawks Entertainment/One Tree Entertainment

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Caitlin Carver, Mina Sundwall, Richard Ellis, Christian Antidormi, Ethan Herisse, Ted Barton Writer: James B. Cox Director: James B. Cox Distributor: Night Hawks Entertainment/One Tree Entertainment Release Date: April 15, 2025 (digital) CALL OF THE VOID is one of those movies that invites a salute simply for its existence. Made on a low budget in the mountains of San Bernardino, California, it is well-acted, well-photographed, and has some great traditional American folk music. It doesn’t even do anything preposterous. At the outset, we see what appears to be an elemental void swirling around a black hole. […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE UGLY STEPSISTER (DEN STYGGE STESOSTEREN)

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
THE UGLY STEPSISTER (DEN STYGGE STESOSTEREN) | ©2025 IFC Films/Shudder

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Lea Myren, Ane Dahl Torp, Thea Sofie Loch Næss, Flo Fagerli, Isac Calmroth, Malte Gårdener, Ralph Carlsson, Cecilia Forss, Katarzyna Hermann, Adam Lundgren Writer: Emilie Blichfeldt Director: Emilie Blichfeldt Distributor: IFC Films/Shudder Release Date: April 18, 2025 THE UGLY STEPSISTER (DEN STYGGE STESØSTEREN) is an intriguing dark fairytale, seen from the point of view of one of Cinderella’s famed relatives-by-marriage. While there is plenty of body horror, and Shudder is listed as a co-distributor, the movie is not conventionally scary. Directed and written by Emilie Blichfeldt, THE UGLY STEPSISTER is mostly simply dark period comedy/social commentary, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: IT FEEDS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
IT FEEDS movie poster | © 2025 Falling Forward Films

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Ashley Greene, Ellie O’Brien, Juno Rinaldi, Mark Taylor, Julian Richings, Shawn Ashmore, Brooklyn Marshall, Shayelin Martin, Dov Tiefenbach Writer: Chad Archibald Director: Chad Archibald Distributor: Falling Forward Films Release Date: April 18, 2025 (theatrical and digital) We meet Cynthia Winstone (Ashley Greene) in the middle of what seems to be a nightmare. We’re in an empty schoolroom, with menacing words printed on the blackboard and papers and books tossed around haphazardly. However, it turns out Cynthia is at work – inside the mind of her client Larry (Dov Tiefenbach). Now an adult, Larry is still suffering […]Read On »


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NCIS: ORIGINS: Actor Kyle Schmid on Season 1 of the CBS prequel series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 04/17/2025
Kyle Schmid as Mike Franks in NCIS: ORIGINS - Season 1 - "Vivo o Muerto" | ©2025 CBS/Robert Voets

NCIS: ORIGINS is a prequel series to CBS’s long-running (twenty-two seasons and renewed for a twenty-third) NCIS. Both shows air on CBS Monday nights and are thereafter available for streaming on Paramount+. NCIS is the acronym for Naval Criminal Investigative Service, the department of the U.S. Navy that deals with, as its name suggests, investigating crimes involving that branch of the military. Created by showrunners Gloria Lucita Monreal & David J. North, NCIS: ORIGINS, is now in its first season and renewed for a second. It deals with the early career of Leroy Jethro Gibbs, played in ORIGINS by Austin […]Read On »


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Movie Review: DROP

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 04/11/2025
DROP movie poster | ©2025 Universal

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Meghann Fahy, Brendan Sklenar, Violett Beane, Jacob Robinson, Reed Diamond, Gabrielle Ryan, Sarah McCormack, Jeffery Self, Ed Weeks, Ben Pelletier, Michael Shea Writers: Jillian Jacobs & Chris Roach Director: Christopher Landon Distributor: Universal Release Date: April 11, 2025 The title of DROP refers to a short text message. It also probably refers to the vertiginous setting of an upscale high-rise-topping restaurant, where much of the action takes place. DROP begins with a nasty bang. A woman (Meghann Fahy) is being brutally beaten, kicked, and threatened with a gun by a hysterical man (Michael Shea). We learn more […]Read On »


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Movie Review: WILLIAM TELL

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
WILLIAM TELL movie poster | ©2025 Samuel Goldwyn Films

Rating: R Stars: Claes Bang, Connor Swindells, Golshifteh Farahani, Tobias Jowett, Jonah Hauer-King, Emily Beecham, Ellie Bamber, Ben Kingsley, Jonathan Pryce, Jake Dunn, Billy Postlethwaite, Rafe Spall Writer: Nick Hamm, based on the play WILHELM TELL by Friedrich Schiller Director: Nick Hamm Distributor: Samuel Goldwyn Films Release Date: April 4, 2025 William Tell, for those unfamiliar with the legend, is the Swiss equivalent of Robin Hood, or perhaps Moses. Although a possibly invented figure, Tell is credited with paving the way for Swiss independence and the foundation of Switzerland as a nation. In a voiceover, Tell (Claes Bang) informs us, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: WARFARE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
WARFARE movie poster | ©2025 A24

Rating: R Stars: D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Joseph Quinn, Aaron Mackenzie, Alex Brockdorff, Finn Bennett, Evan Holtzman, Michael Gandolfini, Joe Macaulay, Laurie Duncan, Jake Lampert, Aaron Deakins, Henrique Zaga, Kit Connor, Noah Centineo, Taylor John Smith, Adain Bradley, Charles Melton, Tom Dunne, Rayhan Ali, Heider Ali, Sima Pollitt, Nathan Altai, Aso Sherabayani, Amira Dutton, Donya Hussen, Inbal Amram Writers: Ray Mendoza & Alex Garland Directors: Ray Mendoza & Alex Garland Distributor: A24 Release Date: April 11, 2025 The phrase describing war as “long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror” is said to date back to […]Read On »


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LAW & ORDER: Actor Mehcad Brooks on the twenty-fourth season – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 04/07/2025
Mehcad Brooks as Detective Jalen Shaw in LAW & ORDER - Season 24 - "A Price to Pay" | ©2025 NBC/Virginia Sherwood

Mehcad Brooks has played all sorts of characters in his acting career, from a bespelled small-town Louisiana man in TRUE BLOOD to mysterious cul-de-sac dweller Matthew Applewhite on DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES to a pro football player in the TV series version of NECESSARY ROUGHNESS to legendary D.C. Comics newspaperman in six seasons of SUPERGIRL to one of Earth’s greatest heroes in the 2021 feature MORTAL KOMBAT. For the past three seasons, Brooks, originally from Texas, has played NYPD homicide detective Jalen Shaw on NBC’s long-running procedural LAW & ORDER. The series is now in its twenty-fourth season Thursday nights and streaming […]Read On »


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GROSSE POINTE GARDEN SOCIETY: Actor Matthew Davis on the NBC dramedy – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
Matthew Davis as Joel in GROSSE POINT GARDEN SOCIETY | ©2025 NBC / Sally Montana

Created by Jenna Bans & Bill Krebs, the new dramedy GROSSE POINTE GARDEN SOCIETY jumps back and forth in time to reveal how four volunteers of the title organization – wealthy Birdie (Melissa Fumero), real estate agent Catherine (Aja Naomi King), landscaper Brett (Ben Rappaport), and high school teacher Alice (AnnaSophia Robb) – wind up having to bury a body together in the dead of night. The series moves from Sundays to Fridays on NBC beginning April 4, with episodes thereafter available on Peacock. Matthew Davis plays Grosse Pointe sheriff Joel, who knew Birdie back in high school. Joel married […]Read On »


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Movie Review: A MINECRAFT MOVIE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 04/04/2025
A MINECRAFT MOVIE | ©2025 Warner Bros. / Legendary

Rating: PG Stars: Jack Black, Jason Momoa, Danielle Brooks, Emma Myers, Sebastian Hansen, Kate McKinnon (voice) Writers: Chris Bowman & Hubbel Palmer and Neil Widener & Gavin James and Chris Galletta, story by Allison Schroeder and Chris Bowman & Hubbel Palmer, based on the video game created by Markus “Notch” Persson Director: Jared Hess Distributor: Warner Bros. Release Date: April 4, 2025 Per Wikipedia, MINECRAFT is the most popular video game in the world. Even if Wikipedia is wrong (it happens) about it being Number One, MINECRAFT is certainly right up there. It was therefore inevitable that a movie be […]Read On »


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