Category: Reviews
'Can I Get a Witness?' Review – A Sci-Fi Fable With the Environment on Its Mind
'Can I Get a Witness?' Review – A Sci-Fi Fable With the Environment on Its Mind

The notion that humanity would be better off if there were just less of us isn't a new one, and science-fiction has been toying with that notion at least as far back as William F. Nolan and George Clayton's novel…

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‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,’ ‘Rebel Ridge,’ and This Week’s Best New Releases, Reviewed and Ranked
‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,’ ‘Rebel Ridge,’ and This Week’s Best New Releases, Reviewed and Ranked

It’s a week of ghosts, ghouls, corrupt cops, and terrifying in-laws. That’s right — we’ve got reviews of everything from the new A24 horrorThe Front Room to Netflix’s thriller Rebel Ridge to Tim Burton sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice to one of…

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Help Is… On The Way? Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Help Is… On The Way? Featured, Reviews Film Threat

Your mental health is truly your most important meal of the day, as succinctly shown in the head-turning short film Help Is… On The Way?, written and directed by Jason A. White. Parker (Andrew Key) has a head full of…

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When Theme Parks Go Horribly Wrong Review
When Theme Parks Go Horribly Wrong Review

As I starred in this show personally I have omitted my section from the review to provide an unbiased overview of the rest of the programme. Theme Parks Go Horribly Wrong aired on Channel 5 this past weekend as this…

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Character-Driven Comedy Gets Too Wrapped Up In Its Own Chaos
Character-Driven Comedy Gets Too Wrapped Up In Its Own Chaos

I’ll Be Right There could have been an overly-Hollywoodified, cheesy movie. The first 20 minutes of the film enticed and concerned me. While well told, the film had all the elements that are typically exploited for overstated melodrama — a…

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A Swiss Folk Hero Gets The ’90s Throwback Epic Treatment [TIFF]
A Swiss Folk Hero Gets The ’90s Throwback Epic Treatment [TIFF]

TORONTO – The more you consider Nick Hamm’s “William Tell,” a gala world premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, the more you realize how utterly wild it is. Set in 1307, it centers on a legendary archer, the…

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‘The Luckiest Man in America’ Review
‘The Luckiest Man in America’ Review

In 1984, Michael Larson appeared on the game show Press Your Luck, where he broke records with a $110,237 payday. Larson didn’t cheat, but rather, he learned the patterns of the game and used them to his advantage. What was…

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‘Wise Guy’ Review – David Chase Doesn’t Hold Back in Revisiting ‘The Sopranos’
‘Wise Guy’ Review – David Chase Doesn’t Hold Back in Revisiting ‘The Sopranos’

It's hard to believe it, but it's been twenty-five years since The Sopranos debuted in 1999 on HBO. For six seasons, millions of fans spent their Sunday nights with Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) and company before going to work the…

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Elsa Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Elsa Featured, Reviews Film Threat

FLICKER’S RHODE ISLAND INTERNATIONAL 2024 FILM FESTIVAL! Elsa, a short film directed by Rebecca King and Lizzie Nunnery, offers a unique perspective on World War II. Nina Yndis portrays the titular character, a Norwegian woman navigating life under Nazi occupation.…

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Halloween Horror Nights Maze Review (HHN33)
Halloween Horror Nights Maze Review (HHN33)

HHN33 is here and it was my first ever Halloween Horror Nights experience, it was nothing short of spectacular but which mazes were the best? Here are our favourites out of the Halloween Horror nights mazes!  From epic scare zones…

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An Improved Sequel Engineered To Antagonize Joker Fans [Venice]
An Improved Sequel Engineered To Antagonize Joker Fans [Venice]

When Joker premiered here in Venice in 2019, one of the prevailing narratives was that the movie could be dangerous. The film's embrace of Arthur Fleck's perspective, the thinking went, might inspire disgruntled young men to commit acts of real-life…

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Alex Ross Perry’s Tribute To Cult Indie Rock Group Demolishes Musician Biopic Conventions [Venice]
Alex Ross Perry’s Tribute To Cult Indie Rock Group Demolishes Musician Biopic Conventions [Venice]

There are meta-movies, and then there’s Alex Ross Perry’s “Pavements.” This biography of the iconic ‘90s alt-rock group Pavement cannot even contain its self-reflexivity and inventive ambition to just the medium of cinema. Perry builds a mammoth monument to his…

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