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Movie Review: SOMNIUM

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 08/29/2025
SOMNIUM movie poster | ©2025 Yellow Veil Pictures

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Chloë Levine, Will Peltz, Peter Vack, Clarissa Thibeaux, Grace Van Dien, Gillian White, Kio Cyr, Bries Vannon, Emily Mei, Billy Kottkamp, Draya Michele, Johnathon Schaech Writer: Racheal Cain Director: Racheal Cain Distributor: Yellow Veil Pictures Release Date: August 29, 2025 (theatrical), September 9, 2025 (VOD) Sometimes it’s hard for a movie to effectively cover and combine all of its disparate topics. This is the case with SOMNIUM, which presents us with three intertwined plotlines: one is a science-fiction/horror thriller, one is a trying-to-make-it-in-Hollywood tale, and one is a retrospective look at lost love. We meet Gemma […]Read On »


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Movie Review: FLESH OF THE UNFORGIVEN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
FLESH OF THE UNFORGIVEN movie poster | ©2025 Primal Motion Pictures

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Debbie Rochon, Joe Hollow, August Kyss, Adriana Uchishiba, John E. McLenachan, Rachel Stone, Marilyn Desade/Madcox, Dave Andexler, Laszlo Szijarto, Joannie Fournier, Anik Rompre Writer: Joe Hollow Director: Joe Hollow Distributor: Primal Motion Pictures Release Date: July 22, 2025 (digital, VOD) While there were others, filmmaker Clive Barker’s 1987 HELLRAISER popularized the concept of pairing otherworldly demonic entities with more human S&M/B&D imagery and activities. A recent entry in the sincerest form of HELLRAISER flattery is FLESH OF THE UNFORGIVEN, which features an entity known as the Death Dealer. Onscreen and in voiceover, we are informed that […]Read On »


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UNFORGOTTEN: Actor Sanjeev Bhaskar on playing Detective Inspector Khan on long-running series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN | 08/23/2025
UNFORGOTTEN - Season 6 | ©2025 PBS Masterpiece

The award-winning British police drama UNFORGOTTEN has its American sixth-season premiere on PBS MASTERPIECE Sunday, August 24, with episodes available for streaming on all PBS platforms, including Prime Video. The show, created by Chris Lang and originating on ITV, has already been renewed for a seventh season. Each season of UNFORGOTTEN deals with a single murder case investigated by a squad of London police detectives. Sanjeev Bhaskar has been on UNFORGOTTEN since the beginning as Detective Inspector (DI) Sunil “Sunny” Khan, who worked with Detective Chief Inspector (DCI) Cassandra “Cassie” Stuart (Nicola Walker) in Seasons 1 through 4, and with […]Read On »


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PRIMITIVE WAR: Actress Tricia Helfer on new Vietnam dinosaur movie – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
Tricia Helfer | ©2025 Manfred Baumann

In PRIMITIVE WAR, which opens in theatres Thursday, August 21, it’s 1968 and the Viet Nam War is at full blast. The U.S. Army’s Vulture Squad reconnaissance unit is sent in search of a missing Green Beret platoon. In an isolated jungle valley, the squad finds – living dinosaurs. APOCALYPSE NOW, meet JURASSIC PARK (or THE VALLEY OF GWANGI, or Skull Island). Based on the novel by Ethan Pettus, PRIMITIVE WAR is directed by Luke Sparke, who wrote the screenplay with Pettus. Tricia Helfer is one of the stars of PRIMITIVE WAR. Her character is not a member of Vulture […]Read On »


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Movie Review: CUSTOM

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
CUSTOM movie poster | ©2025 The Movie Partnership

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Abigail Hardingham, Rowan Polonski, Brad Moore, Samantha Steel, Jon M. Chandler Writer: Tiago Teixeira Director: Tiago Teixeira Distributor: The Movie Partnership Release Date: August 19, 2025 (VOD, digital) The title of CUSTOM has two meanings here. The first is commercial, as in made to order. The second refers to ritual. Young working-class English couple Harriet (Abigail Hardingham) and Jasper (Rowan Polonski) are expanding their professional horizons. She’s a photographer, he’s a videographer, and they met in an arts collective. However, their income has left something to be desired, so – using the stage names Flower and […]Read On »


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

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN |
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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