Category: Reviews
Padawan Outpost Qui-Gon Jinn Lightsaber Review
Padawan Outpost Qui-Gon Jinn Lightsaber Review

Summary The Qui-Gon Jinn Combat Saber from UK seller Padawan Outpost is a must-have for Star Wars fans. The saber's Proffie soundboard version with its Neopixel blade offers customizable sound options and incredibly vibrant colors. Unmatched realism in design and…

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Aisha Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Aisha Featured, Reviews Film Threat

Writer-director Frank Berry’s Aisha demands not only attention but patience. The drama was not created to instruct the masses on the global humanitarian crisis or to reproduce the struggle of the marginalized for catharsis. It will not satisfy the expectation…

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The Girl in the Trunk Featured, Reviews Film Threat
The Girl in the Trunk Featured, Reviews Film Threat

Reading Murray Leeder’s outstanding book The Horror Film: A Critical Introduction, the author speculates on the dividing line between horror and crime films. The two are more similar than not: both feature a “final girl,” and several plot points are…

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Welcome Space Brothers Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Welcome Space Brothers Featured, Reviews Film Threat

If I didn’t know Jodi Wille’s film, Welcome Space Brothers, was a documentary, I’d swear it was a WTF, insane, sci-fi tale of weirdness. Let’s get into it. Welcome Space Brothers takes me not too far down the highway to…

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Liz Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Liz Featured, Reviews Film Threat

We fall down, and we get up again. In Alec Brown’s short film Liz, we see that getting up again is easier said than done. Alexandra Renzo plays the titular Liz. She is a woman trying to get back on…

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Not Even Diane Keaton & Kathy Bates’ Talents Can Elevate This Confused Comedy
Not Even Diane Keaton & Kathy Bates’ Talents Can Elevate This Confused Comedy

Summary The chemistry between the cast shines, and Josh Peck is especially great. Summer Camp's comedy falls flat, lacking depth and laughs. Unnecessary side characters detract from main story. Summer Camp is a comedy about three childhood friends who attempt…

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Tacoma Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Tacoma Featured, Reviews Film Threat

Tacoma is writer and director Jigeesh Magar’s sophomore effort and his first film in over a decade. It bills itself as a thriller, though in reality, it is far more of a drama. Knowing this before watching is crucial, as…

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Viggo Mortensen Fails To Craft A Truly Ambitious Feminist Western
Viggo Mortensen Fails To Craft A Truly Ambitious Feminist Western

Summary Viggo Mortensen's intentions for a feminist Western fall short due to a lack of authentic genre reinvention. The film's highlights include Mortensen and Krieps' chemistry on-screen despite a lackluster script. Vicky Krieps shines as the saving grace with a…

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Documentary About An Indigenous Tribe Is An Ecological Parable [Cannes]
Documentary About An Indigenous Tribe Is An Ecological Parable [Cannes]

The indigenous Yanomami tribe living in the Amazon rainforest on the border between Brazil and Venezuela is dwindling. Only 35,000 remain. They live extraordinary lives that some might classify as primitive, as they exist primarily without any modern technology. They…

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Guy Friends Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Guy Friends Featured, Reviews Film Threat

Guy Friends, written and directed by Jonathan Smith, may sound like a romantic comedy, albeit one with a somewhat absurd premise. While it is true that this is a comedy, and romance is involved to some degree, it’s not a…

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An Engrossing Portrait Of A Norm-Shattering Photographer [Cannes]
An Engrossing Portrait Of A Norm-Shattering Photographer [Cannes]

Ernest Cole, the first Black freelance photographer in South Africa, is known today for his contribution to documenting the Apartheid in the 1960s and racial attitudes in America in the 1970s. Born in 1940, he grew up in segregated South…

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The Menu Part 2 Serves Up Grotesque Twists & Delicious Character Dynamics
The Menu Part 2 Serves Up Grotesque Twists & Delicious Character Dynamics

Summary What You Wish For has a well-executed, grotesque premise that comments on the nature of the upper class. Nick Stahl and Tamsin Topolski, as well as the rest of the cast, portray incredibly tense group dynamics. What You Wish…

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