The Wintering Grounds Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Director Jeff Springer presents The Wintering Grounds, a short documentary film about a seasonal kayaking community that sprung up since urban whitewater rapids were restored on the Chattahoochee River in Columbus, Georgia. For most of the year, world-class freestyle kayakers…
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The Puppetman Review: A Muddled Dance of Horror and Clichés
Brandon Christensen‘s The Puppetman attempts to unravel the twisted tale of a convicted killer and his alleged possession by an evil force, but it fumbles the opportunity, ultimately succumbing to clichés and a muddled narrative. While the premise holds promise,…
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Back to the Drive-In Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Award This! 2023 Nominee! available on Prime Video. Perhaps the only good thing that has come from the pandemic is that people are rediscovering what makes a drive-in a unique way to enjoy movies. It’s about as close as one…
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Desperation Road Featured, Reviews Film Threat
NOW IN THEATERS AND VOD! In her directorial debut, Nadine Crocker takes on adapting Michael Farris Smith’s southern-noir novel, Desperation Road. Our tale follows its two leads trying to start a new life in a “rough and tumble” Mississippi town…
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Bienvenidos a Los Angeles Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Bienvenidos a Los Angeles is a short film from director-writer Lisa Cole that tells the story of one night in the life of Imani (Destiny Faith Nelson), a Nigerian single mother living in Los Angeles. She makes a fateful decision…
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Survive the Field Featured, Reviews Film Threat
AWARD THIS! 2023 INDIE SCI-FI NOMINEE! Emerson Moore’s horror, Escape the Field, turns an average cornfield into a maze of death. Can you figure out its mystery before it’s too late? Our tale opens in a small clearing in the…
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Killers of the Flower Moon Review
Killers of the Flower Moon revolves around the Osage Nation murders in the early 20th century. A more conventional film would focus on Jesse Plemons as Tom White, a BOI agent sent to investigate the case. Actually, the Osage murders…
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‘Annika’ Season 2 Review — A Fresh Take on the Police Procedural
At some point, I lost track of all the police procedurals on television. From Law & Order to FBI, it seems like just about every possible branch of law enforcement has been covered to some extent, with varying degrees of…
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Call Me Mule Featured, Reviews Film Threat
For John Sears, known as Mule, home is wherever his feet are because he is a nomad who travels with three mules fighting for the right to walk and roam freely in the United States. In Call Me Mule, documentary…
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The Man in the White Van Featured, Reviews Film Threat
NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! As the title implies, there’s a serial killer on the loose in Warren Skeels and Legion M’s latest slasher/horror, The Man in the White Van. It’s the early 70s in Florida, and a young…
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It Be an Evil Moon Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Written and directed by Ben Etchells, It Be an Evil Moon is a savage, darkly comic fable. A riff on the classic “hubris of man” trope, which encapsulates most stories concerning mad or discredited scientists, the comedic horror film is a character…
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Lost In Memory Featured, Reviews Film Threat
In the sci-fi short Lost in Memory, writer-director Hindole H-Shihan contemplates the function of memory and technology, opening with a close-up of a computer chip lodged in somebody’s neck. That somebody is revealed to be Raphael (Ishtvan Nekrasov), a dejected…
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