Luther: Never Too Much Review
Dawn Porter’s Luther: Never Too Much is a force to be reckoned with. While it won’t pioneer the art form of documentaries, it brought me joy and pain, as it will likely do with anyone, regardless of their relationship with…
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Escape Featured, Reviews Film Threat
The big doll house of post-exploitation cinema just got bigger with an excellent new wing in the survival revenge thriller Escape, written and directed by prolific British filmmaker Howard J. Ford. A ship is coming into a port with an…
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Clint Eastwood’s Morally Ambiguous Courtroom Drama Asks Us To Doubt
I love morally ambiguous movies. They offer a lot to think about regarding what we’d do if we were in the main character’s situation, and open the door for debates on the issues they present. That’s essentially Juror #2. It’s…
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It Fails To Carving Out Its Own Niche
With its ambitious mix of science fiction and slasher horror, Time Cut aims to deliver a thrilling, time-bending twist on the traditional slasher genre. Directed by Hannah MacPherson and co-written by MacPherson and Michael Kennedy, this film stars Madison Bailey…
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‘Fire Country’ Season 3 Episode 3 Recap
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Fire Country Season 3 Episode 3. It's Bode's (Max Thieriot) first day in cadet training for the Edgewood Rescue Crew on Fire Country Season 3, so naturally, it can't start without a…
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Give Melissa Barrera Her Oscar
Caroline Lindy’s Your Monster is a refreshingly unique anti-romantic comedy-horror that stands out by blending human vulnerability with a quirky supernatural twist. Building upon her 2019 short film of the same name, Lindy crafts a story that doesn’t shy away…
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Desert Angel Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Vincent DeLuca’s Desert Angel follows the founder of Desert Angels, a volunteer group that rescues migrants crossing the Mexican border to the United States. Rafael Larraenza Hernandez immigrated to Southern California with his family after the 1985 Mexico City earthquake.…
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‘The Day of the Jackal’ Review
Adapting the 1971 Frederick Forsyth novel of the same name, Fred Zinnemann's 1973 thriller The Day of the Jackal follows a far-right plot to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle in 1963, utilizing an assassin who goes by the codename…
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Tom Hanks & Robin Wright’s Onscreen Reunion Is An Ugly, Disingenuous Disaster
It’s a struggle to watch actors I know are good starring in a film that clearly isn’t. Such is the case with Robert Zemeckis’ Here. It’s an hour and 45 minutes of Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Paul Bettany and more…
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A Failed Attempt At Halloween Horror
In Carved, director Justin Harding attempts to deliver a horror-comedy experience that blends Halloween spookiness with a historical twist. The film centers on a group of survivors trapped in a vintage reenactment village where, on Halloween night, a sentient, vengeful…
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‘Like Water for Chocolate’ Review
HBO's most recent Spanish-language series, Like Water for Chocolate, lives under two great shadows. The first one is, of course, Laura Esquivel's seminal novel, a classic of Hispanic literature and one of the two finest examples of Mexican magical realism…
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‘Chasing Chasing Amy’ Review – A Look Back at Kevin Smith’s Film Has Plenty for Non-Fans Too
Could the 1997 romantic comedy Chasing Amy be made today? Depending on who you ask, you'll probably get many different answers. Directed by Kevin Smith and functioning as a loose continuation of Clerks and Mallrats, Chasing Amy sees lovestruck comic…
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