Night Shift Featured, Reviews Film Threat
NOW ON VOD! If movies like The Shining have you hankering for a hunk of haunted hotels, you will want to check out the strong, sinister feature debut Night Shift, written and directed by brothers Benjamin China and Paul China.…
Read more
Challengers Review: Game, Set, Match! Zendaya For The Win
From filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, Challengers stars Zendaya as Tashi Duncan, a former tennis prodigy turned coach and a force of nature who makes no apologies for her game on and off the court. Married to a champion on a losing…
Read more
It’s All RAW In “RUSLAAN”: A Thrilling Story with Poor Casting
Action At It’s Best: Presenting Aayush Sharma as RAW agent RuslaanRuslaan (Aayush Sharma) was orphaned at a young age. His terrorist father (Nawab Shah) was killed in a shootout by the police and during the same shootout, his mother was…
Read more
The Shadow of a King Featured, Reviews Film Threat
The Old Testament is a vast and remarkable history, showcasing numerous battles of the nation of Israel and the incredible miracles of God that have been immortalized in films. In their series, The Shadow of a King, Daniel Cole and…
Read more
Downtown Owl Review: A Respectable Effort From Rabe And Linklater
Downtown Owl, the debut film from the duo Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater, ventures into the delicate balancing act of comedy and drama against the stark backdrop of a small North Dakota town. Based on the 2008 novel by Chuck…
Read more
I Am Gitmo Featured, Reviews Film Threat
For what appears to be a micro-budget movie, I am Gitmo does a great deal with its two-hour-plus running time. The story globe trots from a quiet Afghan village to Bagram, then on to Guantanamo Bay, and it does this…
Read more
Who Is Stan Smith? Featured, Reviews Film Threat
COMING TO THEATERS! You better get your Adidas on to run to the theater to catch Who Is Stan Smith?, a pop-culture jamboree of a documentary directed by Danny Lee. It starts in the world of contemporary sneaker culture with the…
Read more
Another Day in America Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Director-writer Emilio Mauro astutely summarizes the cultural challenges in our society in his tense drama Another Day in America. Inspired by an actual event, the dark narrative follows disparate characters through a corporate workday at an incredibly dysfunctional office. There’s…
Read more
Boy Kills World Featured, Reviews Film Threat
NOW IN THEATERS! Bloody action movies are almost a dime a dozen, and the fifty I see each year often blur together. Director Moritz Mohr’s Boy Kills World slows the pace and offers more than blood, guts, and over-the-top violence; well,…
Read more
They Fought Back Featured, Reviews Film Threat
There was a common misconception in the United States of America while I was growing up. That misconception was that Jews were total victims and went like lambs to the slaughter to the showers in the concentration camps. I grew…
Read more
Grandma Bruce Featured, Reviews Film Threat
Generational conflict comes to a head in Brooke Stern Sebold’s short film, Grandma Bruce. Of course, the other side is clearly wrong…which side, again? It’s a big day for Brooke (Laura Chirinos) and Sofia (Fernanda Urrejola), as Brooke is about…
Read more
Humane Review: An Undercooked Horror Outing
Humane, a film blending the harrowing depths of horror with the emotive stirrings of family drama, arrives with a weighty premise tucked beneath its belt. Directed by Caitlin Cronenberg in what marks her debut in the arena of feature filmmaking,…
Read more