Movie Review: THE ROSES

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/29/2025
THE ROSES movie poster | ©2025 Searchlight Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Olivia Colman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kate McKinnon, Andy Samberg, Ncuti Gatwa, Sunita Mani, Zoë Chao, Jamie Demetriou, Delaney Quinn, Ollie Robinson, Hala Finley, Wells Rappaport, Allison Janney, Belinda Bromilow Writer: Tony McNamara, based on the novel THE WAR OF THE ROSES by Warren Adler Director: Jay Roach Distributor: Searchlight Pictures Release Date: August 29, 2025 Many romantic comedies are undone when the audience can’t believe that the main characters genuinely love each other. While not technically a romcom – it’s officially a dark comedy – THE ROSES suffers from an unusual opposite problem, which is that we never […]Read On »


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Movie Review: MATERIALISTS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 06/06/2025
THE MATERIALISTS movie poster | ©2025 A24

Rating: R Stars: Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, Pedro Pascal, Zoe Winters, Marin Ireland Writer: Celine Song Director: Celine Song Distributor: A24 Release Date: June 13, 2025 A lot of romantic comedies give the whole genre a bad name (at least in the opinion of some people) by throwing together two people who are so awful to each other at the start that we wouldn’t want to get into an elevator, much less a relationship, with either one. Not so MATERIALISTS, which presents us with three delightful leads, who treat one another in ways that make us root for something to […]Read On »


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SAY MY NAME: Director Jay Stern talks about his quirky romantic comedy – Exclusive Interview

By RACHEL REITSLEFF 06/13/2019
Director Jay Stern on the set of SAY MY NAME | ©2019 Electric Entertainment/Huw John, Cardiff

The quirky, dark-ish rom-com SAY MY NAME (opening Friday nationwide) takes place on a small island off the coast of Wales. Here, a visiting American woman, played by Lisa Brenner (also one of the film’s producers), gets together with a depressed local man, played by Nick Blood, for what both will imagine will be a one-night stand. Things take a turn – and then many more turns – when their hotel room is invaded by a couple of thieves. Jay Stern directed the Electric Entertainment production from a script by Deborah Frances-White. Stern’s previous work includes the features THE CHANGELING, […]Read On »


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SAY MY NAME: Lisa Brenner chats about her new romantic comedy – Exclusive Interview

By RACHEL REITSLEFF 06/12/2019
SAY MY NAME movie poster | ©2019 Electric Entertainment

In SAY MY NAME (opening Friday), Lisa Brenner plays a woman with a very complicated personal history (and multiple names to go with it). She finds herself in an equally complicated situation when she visits an island off the Welsh coast and attempts a one-night stand with downtrodden local piano tuner Statton (Nick Blood). She’s offended when he can’t remember the name she gave him, but before she can storm out, a pair of thieves burst into the rented hotel room. Brenner, who is also a producer on SAY MY NAME, previously produced the feature CHATTER. As an actor, Brenner’s […]Read On »


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Movie Review: ABOUT TIME

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/01/2013
ABOUT TIME movie poster | ©2013 Universal Pictures

Rating: R Stars: Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Lydia Wilson, Lindsay Duncan, Tom Hollander Writer: Richard Curtis Director: Richard Curtis Distributor: Universal Release Date: November 1, 2013 There are moments – long stretches, even – when ABOUT TIME seems as though it’s perhaps too pleasant for its own good. It’s always agreeable and amusing – except when for its effective moments of melancholy and there are the trials and travails of dealing with life and love and time travel, but mostly, it’s a movie that urges us to live as though every day is worth experiencing twice, which is […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THIS MEANS WAR

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/18/2012
THIS MEANS WAR movie poster | ©2012 20th Century Fox

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine, Tom Hardy, Til Schweiger, Chelsea Handler Writers: Timothy Dowling and Simon Kinberg, story by Timothy Dowling and Marcus Gautesen Director: McG Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Release Date: February 17, 2012 In THIS MEANS WAR, two top-level CIA agents, partners at work and best friends in life, find that they have fallen for the same woman. This turns into a rivalry in which the two men deploy all sorts of surveillance (our tax dollars at work!) in the hopes of getting information that will put them in the lead when it comes to said […]Read On »


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127 HOURS One of the Highlights in This Week’s DVD/Blu-ray Round-up

By PETER BROWN 03/02/2011
127 HOURS | © 2011 Fox Home Entertainment

Your time is short. We know this. So in order to expedite your buying and Netflix decision making, we provide you with a list of the cool and not-so-cool titles coming out for movies, television and everything in-between. So put your feet up, grab some popcorn and check out this week’s selections. Movies: 127 HOURS – Regardless of what you thought about James Franco’s either aloof or disinterested or high character he played during the Oscars on Sunday night, there’s no denying the man can act – whether it’s on GENERAL HOSPITAL or in this Oscar-nominated film based on true […]Read On »


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