Movie Review: KILLING FAITH

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/03/2025
KILLING FAITH movie poster | ©2025 Shout! Studios

Rating: R Stars: Guy Pearce, DeWanda Wise, Jack Alcott, Bill Pullman, Emily Ford, Raoul Max Trujillo, Jamie Neumann, Joanna Cassidy Writer: Ned Crowley, story by Ned Crowley & David Martin Director: Ned Crowley Distributor: Shout Studios Release Date: October 3, 2025 KILLING FAITH is set in the American West of 1849. A woman’s voiceover tells us of a cross-species plague that has killed humans and animals alike. The region is just beginning to recover, but in one small town, the citizens are terrified of a silent little white girl (Emily Ford). This is because the child’s touch transmits the plague, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE SHROUDS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/18/2025
THE SHROUDS movie poster | ©2025 Janus Films/Sideshow

Rating: R Stars: Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce, Sandrine Holt, Jennifer Dale, Elizabeth Saunders Writer: David Cronenberg Director: David Cronenberg Distributor: Sideshow/Janus Films Release Date: April 18, 2025 Director/writer David Cronenberg has made his share of mainstream prestige cinema, including M. BUTTERFLY, A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, and EASTERN PROMISES. However, when people use the adjective “Cronenbergian,” they are usually thinking of the filmmaker’s tales of eccentric scientists, bodily metamorphosis and conspiracy scenarios. A few of his more notable adventures in this vein include SCANNERS, VIDEODROME, and THE FLY. The latest addition to the latter category is THE SHROUDS. Vincent […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SUNRISE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/19/2024
SUNRISE movie poster | ©2023 Lionsgate

Rating: R Stars: Alex Pettyfer, Guy Pearce, Crystal Yu, William Gao. Olwen Fouéré, Kurt Yaeger, Lalor Roddy, Riley Chung, Chike Chan Writer: Ronan Blaney Director: Andrew Baird Distributor: Lionsgate Release Date: January 19, 2024 In SUNRISE, opening title cards inform us of a demon in the Pacific Northwest that used to get ritual animal sacrifices from the First Nations. The demon could bestow eternal life when it chose. Eventually, humans were sacrificed. Settlers called the demon the Red Coat. The demon gets its power from blood. We see what appears to be someone in a red cloak feeding on a […]Read On »


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A SPY AMONG FRIENDS: Actress Anna Maxwell Martin on fact-based espionage series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/10/2023
Anna Maxwell Martin in A SPY AMONG FRIENDS | ©2023 MGM+

A SPY AMONG FRIENDS, the six-part British miniseries premiering Sunday, March 12, on MGM+ (formerly Epix), is based Ben Macintyre’s nonfiction book A SPY AMONG FRIENDS: KIM PHILBY AND THE GREAT BETRAYAL. Harold Adrian Russell “Kim” Philby, as real-life espionage buffs know, was a high-ranking officer in British Intelligence’s MI-6 division (their equivalent of the CIA) during and after World War II. In 1963, it was revealed that Philby was spying for the Russians, causing him to flee to Moscow. Philby’s friend and fellow MI-6 agent Nicholas Elliott was sent to get a full confession while they were both in […]Read On »


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Movie Review: BLOODSHOT

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/13/2020
BLOODSHOT movie poster | ©2020 Sony Pictures

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Vin Diesel, Eiza Gonzalez, Guy Pearce, Lamorne Morris, San Heughan, Toby Kebbell, Siddharth Dhananjay, Talulah Riley Writers: Jeff Wadlow and Eric Heisserer, story by Jeff Wadlow, based on the comics by Kevin VanHook & Bob Layton & Don Perlin Director: Dave Wilson Distributor: Sony/Columbia Release Date: March 13, 2020 BLOODSHOT is based on a comic book series by Kevin VanHook & Bob Layton & Don Perlin. At first glance, it looks like one of those Dolph Lundgren or Jean-Claude Van Damme techno sci-fi flicks that got a temporal update and a financial upgrade. While this isn’t an […]Read On »


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WHEN WE RISE: Dustin Lance Black talks the civil rights miniseries – interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/27/2017
Guy Pierce as Cleve Jones in WHEN WE RISE | © 2017 ABC/Image Group LA

WHEN WE RISE is a four-part miniseries, written by Dustin Lance Black, about the gay, lesbian and transgender civil rights movement from 1971 through the present. The ABC presentation, which also examines feminism and racial civil rights, begins Monday, February 27, skips a night and then continues Wednesday-Friday, March 1-3. Black earned an Oscar for his original screenplay for MILK, the 2008 feature film about the late San Francisco city supervisor and gay rights activist Harvey Milk. WHEN WE RISE similarly dramatizes the lives of real people. We see some of them in both their youth and as older adults. […]Read On »


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Movie Review: EQUALS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/16/2016
EQUALS | © 2016 A24/DirecTV

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Nicholas Hoult, Kristen Stewart, Jacki Weaver, Guy Pearce, David Selby, Bel Powley Writer: Nate Parker, story by Drake Doremus Director: Drake Doremus Distributor: A24/DirecTV Release Date (theatrical, DirecTV): July 15, 2016 In a number of ways, EQUALS resembles quite a few screen adaptations of young adult dystopian science fiction novels. In a future where people are born after having been subjected to neonatal injections designed to inhibit their emotions, Silas (Nicholas Hoult) and Nia (Kristen Stewart) fall in love. So what makes EQUALS different? For starters, it’s not an adaptation, nor is it aimed at the YA […]Read On »


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Movie Review: LAWLESS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/30/2012
LAWLESS movie poster | ©2012 The Weinstein Company

Rating: R Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Mia Wasikowska, Dane DeHaan,, Guy Pearce, Gary Oldman Writer: Nick Cave, based on the book THE WETTEST COUNTY IN THE WORLD by Matt Bondurant Director: John Hillcoat Distributor: Weinstein Co. Release Date: August 29, 2012 Once upon a time, movies about moonshine-whisky makers were much more common than they are these days. Enter LAWLESS, which has the feel of a slightly tall tale while still being respectably dramatic and action-filled. We’re in Franklin County,Virginia, a rural place where Prohibition exists as something that is mainly the problem of city […]Read On »


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Movie Review: PROMETHEUS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/10/2012
PROMETHEUS movie poster | ©2012 20th Century Fox

Rating: R Stars: Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Guy Pearce, Logan Marshall-Green, Sean Harris, Rafe Spall Writers: Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof Director: Ridley Scott Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Release Date: June 8, 2012 Prior to PROMETHEUS, director Ridley Scott has, in his prolific career, made only two other science fiction films. However, those two films were ALIEN and BLADE RUNNER. It’s hard to imagine what current science fiction (and, in the case of ALIEN, creature horror) films would look like without those two seminal features in the canon, except to say that things would be different. […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SEEKING JUSTICE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/17/2012
SEEKING JUSTICE movie poster | ©2012 Anchor Bay Films

Rating: R Stars: Nicolas Cage, January Jones, Guy Pearce, Jennifer Carpenter, IronE Singtleton, Harold Perrineau, Xander Berkeley Writer: Robert Tannen, story by Todd Hickey and Robert Tannen Director: Roger Donaldson Distributor: Anchor Bay Films Release Date: March 16, 2012 SEEKING JUSTICE is a somewhat gonzo mixture of THE STAR CHAMBER, PAY IT FORWARD and any number of movies about a good man who gets himself into a bad situation. Of course, we can see that Nicolas Cage’s Will Gerard is making a big mistake long before he does. Still, thanks to some nifty action sequences staged by director Roger Donaldson, […]Read On »


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