Movie Review: THE LIZZIE BORDEN GAME

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/01/2025
THE LIZZIE BORDEN GAME movie poster | ©2025 Breaking Glass Pictures

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Airisa Durand, Jason Brooks, Naomi, Charlie Dae, Steve Larkin, Chynna Shurts, Laura Ellen Wilson Writer: Calvin Morie McCarthy Director: Calvin Morie McCarthy Distributor: Breaking Glass Pictures Release Date: August 1, 2025 (digital) THE LIZZIE BORDEN GAME is a riff on the BLOODY MARY/CANDYMAN-style invocation of a spirit, achieved by chanting into a mirror. In this case, the familiar rhyme about Lizzie Borden, accused and then acquitted of killing her father and stepmother with an axe, provides the ritual words. After two young sisters unfortunately play the game and get the exact result you’d expect, three months […]Read On »


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Movie Review: TOGETHER

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/30/2025
TOGETHER movie poster | ©2025 Neon

Rating: R Stars: Dave Franco, Alison Brie, Damon Herriman Writer: Michael Shanks Director: Michael Shanks Distributor: Neon Release Date: July 30, 2025 What do we need out of a committed relationship and what are we willing to give up to get it? These questions are often asked in films (and television and plays and books and songs and articles and so on), but they are usually not posed as they are in TOGETHER. Written and directed by Australian filmmaker Michael Shanks (not to be confused with the STARGATE SG-1 actor of the same name), TOGETHER starts with a search for […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE HOME

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/25/2025
THE HOME movie poster | ©2025 Lionsgate

Rating: R Stars: Pete Davidson, John Glover, Bruce Altman, Mary Beth Peil, Jessica Hecht, Victor Williams, Mugga, Ethan Phillips, Adam Cantor, Matthew Miniero, Jagger Nelson, Marilee Talkington Writers: James DeMonaco & Adam Cantor Director: James DeMonaco Distributor: Roadside Attractions/Lionsgate/Miramax Release Date: July 25, 2025 Writer/director James DeMonaco is probably best known for creating THE PURGE franchise. While his new film THE HOME, co-written with Adam Cantor, is significantly different in many ways, it shares with THE PURGE a certain philosophy about how privilege can easily lead to predation. We meet Luke (Matthew Miniero) and his eleven-year-old brother Max (Jagger Nelson) […]Read On »


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Movie Review: ET TU

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
ET TU movie poster | ©2025 Buffalo 8 Productions

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Lou Diamond Phillips, Malcolm McDowell, Antwone Barnes, Isabella Blake-Thomas, Rachel Alig, Brennan Keel Cook, Jaclyn Mofid, Trevor James, Timothy Patrick Cavanaugh Writer: Max Tzannes Director: Max Tzannes Distributor: Buffalo 8 Productions Release Date: July 25, 2025 (VOD) ET TU is a very dark theatrical horror comedy that succeeds in large part because writer/director Max Tzannes and his leading man Lou Diamond Phillips understand the value of quiet exasperation. While the film revolves around Shakespeare, this is not THEATER OF BLOOD – although there winds up being quite a lot of blood in the theatre. Phillips plays […]Read On »


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Movie Review: HOUSE ON EDEN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
HOUSE ON EDEN movie poster | ©2025 RLJE Films

Rating: R Stars: Kris Collins, Celina Myers, Jason-Christopher Mayer, Barb Thomas Writer: Kris Collins Director: Kris Collins Distributor: RLJE Films/Shudder Release Date: July 25, 2025 THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT was released approximately twenty-six years ago. Since then, there have been many (to put it mildly) other films inspired by or, indeed, imitative of its style and/or substance. HOUSE ON EDEN is one of the latest to follow in BLAIR’s ultra-low-budget, faux documentary footsteps. The irony here is that writer/director Kris Collins has come up with a fundamental mythology that’s intriguing but might have been better served by a regular narrative […]Read On »


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Movie Review: ICK

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/24/2025
ICK movie poster | ©2025 CAA Media Finance

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Brandon Routh, Malina Weissman, Mena Suvari, Jeff Fahey, Harrison Cone, Debra Wilson, Taia Sophia, Peter Wong, Zeke Jones, Diya Rao, Aaron Valentine, Jack Seaver McDonald Writers: Samuel Laskey & Joseph Kahn & Dan Koontz Director: Joseph Kahn Distributor: CAA Media Finance Release Date: July 24, 2025 ICK has a premise that is great in itself, and is also a great metaphor for so many real-world things: a phenomenon that seems like merely an odd nuisance spreads so gradually that people accept it as a fact of life until it reaches its next stage and becomes a […]Read On »


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Movie Review: I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (2025)

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/18/2025
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (2025) Movie Poster | ©2025 Sony/Columbia/Screen Gems

Rating: R Stars: Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King, Tyriq Withers, Sarah Pidgeon, Billy Campbell, Freddie Prinze Jr., Jennifer Love Hewitt, Gabriette Bechtel, Austin Nichols, Joshua Orpin, Georgia Flood, Nick Farnell, Nick Hardcastle Writers: Jennifer Kaytin Robinson & Sam Lansky, story by Leah McKendrick & Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, based on characters created by Lois Duncan Director: Jennifer Kaytin Robinson Distributor: Sony/Columbia/Screen Gems Release Date: July 18, 2025 I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER started out as a YA novel by Lois Duncan, first published in 1973. It was adapted as an R-rated teen slasher in 1997, followed by […]Read On »


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Movie Review: ABRAHAM’S BOYS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 07/11/2025
ABRAHAM'S BOYS movie poster | ©2025 IFC

Rating: R Stars: Titus Welliver, Jocelin Donahue, Brady Hepner, Judah Mackey, Aurora Perrineau, Jonathan Howard, Fayna Sanchez, Corteon Moore Writer: Natasha Kermani, based on the short story by Joe Hill Director: Natasha Kermani Distributor: IFC Films/RLJE Films/Shudder Release Date: July 11, 2025 ABRAHAM’S BOYS is a slow burn tale of period what’s-going-on-here horror. Directed and scripted by Natasha Kermani from the short story by Joe Hill (one of the film’s producers) ABRAHAM’S BOYS begins with a 1895 quote from the journal of Dr. Abraham Van Helsing, stating that he sees vampirism as both a medical disease and an existential evil. […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SWEET RELIEF

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/27/2025
SWEET RELIEF movie poster | ©2025 Art Brut Films

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Alisa Leigh, B.R. Yeager, Adam Michael Kozak, Lucie Rosenfeld, Jocelyn Lopez, Catie Dupont, Erica Pinto, Daniel James Cashman, Gianni Passiglia, Cooper B. Handy, Joey Ogden, Jimmy Laine, Jane Karakula, Paul Lazar Writer: Nick Verdi Director: Nick Verdi Distributor: Art Brut Films Release Date: June 27, 2025 (theatrical, Eventive VOD) SWEET RELIEF takes its title from an online murder challenge game. While it’s not exactly what happened in real life with “Slender Man,” it’s in that general vicinity: an invented online supernatural myth that spreads and encourages harm. Hannah (Lucie Rosenfeld) enlists her besties, Lily (Jocelyn Lopez) […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE SOUND

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
THE SOUND movie poster | ©2025 Blue Harbor Entertainment

Rating: R Stars: Marc Hills, Nicholas Baroudi, Rachel Finninger, Jolene Kay, Gabe Greenspan, Christina Kirkman, Michael Chen, Christian Howard, Elise Greene, Wayne Charles Baker, William Fichtner, Scott Bennett, Adrian Ballinger, Jocelyn Hudon, David Clennon, Kyle Gass Writer: Brendan Devane Director: Brendan Devane Distributor: Blue Harbor Entertainment Release Date: June 27, 2025 (theatrical, VOD) It doesn’t take long for one aspect of THE SOUND to become plain: writer/director Brendan Devane really loves climbing. It’s evident in his impressive framing of shots of characters going up and down tall, sheer rock faces, in their war stories, and in the way they don’t […]Read On »


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