Movie Review: SHAMAN

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/08/2025
SHAMAN movie poster | ©2025 Well Go USA Entertainment

Rating: R Stars: Sara Canning, Daniel Gillies, Jett Klyne, Humberto Morales, Alejandro Fajardo, Mercy Lema, Segundo Fuérez Writer: Daniel Negret Director: Antonio Negret Distributor: Well Go USA Entertainment Release Date: August 8, 2025 Set and shot in Ecuador, SHAMAN pits Catholicism against indigenous religion. Married American missionaries Candice (Sara Canning) and Joel Williams (Daniel Gillies) have moved with their young son Elliot (Jett Klyne) to a small Ecuadoran village. They are involved here in teaching, putting up buildings and helping grow crops. Along with Father Meyer (Alejandro Fajardo), Candice and Joel are also active in proselytizing and converting the locals. […]Read On »


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Movie Review: DIE’CED: RELOADED

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
DIE'CED: RELOADED | ©2025 Dread/Epic Pictures

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Eden Campbell, Jason Brooks, Christine Rose Allen, John Karyus, Nigel Vonas, Collin Fischer Writer: Jeremy Rudd, additional scenes written by Wil Radcliffe, story by Jeremy Rudd Director: Jeremy Rudd Distributor: Dread/Epic Pictures Release Date: August 8, 2025 DIE’CED: RELOADED is a remake/expansion of the 2023 fifty-minute film DIE’CED. The new release is half an hour longer than the original, with mostly the same cast and creative team. We’re in ‘80s Seattle. At a psychiatric hospital, Dr. Graves (John Karyus) is examining the file on Benjamin (Jason Brooks), an especially violent inmate who killed his parents in […]Read On »


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Movie Review: BIRTHRITE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
BIRTHRITE movie poster | ©2025 Brainstorm Media

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Alice Kremelberg, Juani Feliz, Jennifer LaFleur, Henny Russell, Owen Campbell, Michael Chernus Writers: Patch Darragh & Erin Gann Director: Ross Partridge Distributor: Brainstorm Media Release Date: August 8, 2025 (theatrical, VOD) BIRTHRITE has a satisfyingly creepy atmosphere, but the way it doles out its mythology is problematic, as is its character logic. The film begins with a small fire in the woods at night. A cloaked figure wearing horns hands something to another hooded person, who runs away with the gift. Then it’s daylight. Wren Collins (Alice Kremelberg) is astonished to learn that not only did […]Read On »


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Movie Review: WEAPONS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
WEAPONS movie poster | ©2025 Warner Bros.

Rating: R Stars: Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Amy Madigan, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Benedict Wong, Cary Christopher, Toby Huss, Whitmer Thomas, Clayton Ferris, Callie Schuttera, Justin Long Writer: Zach Cregger Director: Zach Cregger Distributor: Warner Bros./New Line Cinema Release Date: August 8, 2025 WEAPONS has a climactic sequence so striking, so perfect in its contemporary fairytale horror, that we wonder if writer/director Zach Cregger didn’t start with this and build backwards. As it is, Cregger presents us with a major what’s-going-on-here mystery at the outset, which is revealed in segments, each devoted to a different character’s point of view. An […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE A-FRAME

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/01/2025
THE A-FRAME movie poster | ©2025 Dark Star Pictures

Rating: Not Rated Stars: Johnny Whitworth, Dana Namerode, Nik Dodani, Laketa Caston, Phillip Andre Botello, Larissa White, J. Barrett Cooper Writer: Calvin Lee Reeder Director: Calvin Lee Reeder Distributor: Dark Star Pictures Release Date: July 25, 2025 (theatrical), August 5, 2025 (digital) How do you make curing cancer play as sinister? Writer/director Calvin Lee Reeder handily accomplishes this in THE A-FRAME. Donna Walker is a young pianist who has been diagnosed with cancer in one hand. Her doctor (J. Barnett Cooper) wants to amputate as soon as possible to prevent the cancer’s spread, but Donna is desperately searching for alternatives, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE LIZZIE BORDEN GAME

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
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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